Example sentences of "[vb -s] and [vb -s] [adv] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This exercises and tones up the muscles to the side of your tummy , helping not only to improve your waistline but also to flatten your tummy . |
| 2 | The retailer selects the items he wants and fills in the form as outlined above . |
| 3 | The problem , therefore , is not Understanding Media ( the title of McLuhan 's great if somewhat misconceived book ) but Understanding Global Capitalism , the system that produces and reproduces both the message and the media that incessantly transmit it . |
| 4 | ‘ Sorry — I ca n't stop ! ’ she cries and lets out the clutch . |
| 5 | It was submitted that an owner can not turn his back on his property because when he purchases and takes on the responsibility of letting , he knows the property will in the course of time deteriorate . |
| 6 | The floor scissors exercise is an all-rounder which stretches and tones up the abdomen and the whole of the lower body . |
| 7 | She sighs and picks up the envelope again . |
| 8 | When the Davy Lamp is taken into air that contains more than 5 per cent of firedamp , or if the air passing the lamp is suddenly contaminated to that extent , the air inside the lamp explodes and puts out the light but the mesh prevents the explosion being transmitted to the air outside the lamp Thus although the miner is put in the dark he is alive to tell the tale . |
| 9 | ‘ Joy riding ’ is in fact nothing more than common theft and anyone who takes and drives away a car without the owner 's permission is simply a criminal . |
| 10 | In Example 84 the melody essentially rises and falls over an octave , but by introducing upward and downward leaps of thirds and sixths the scale pattern is completely broken up : |
| 11 | That is why the prayer of the Church as such , the Eucharistic meal which expresses and celebrates joyfully the community of the Church and the ultimate unity of humankind is the sacrament of bodily suffering , of the sacrificial death of Christ at our hands . |
| 12 | Sampling lists , that is , a record which identifies and sets out the population from which a sample is to be drawn , may not always completely enumerate the population from which the sample is to be drawn , the list may follow some peculiar sequence , sections of the population may be difficult to contact or refuse to co-operate , and so on . |
| 13 | From here he escapes and leaps down a cliff onto a beach . |
| 14 | We 're walking past this telly shop when Marie suddenly stops and goes back a couple of steps . |