Example sentences of "[noun pl] and [verb] [to-vb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everybody knew the tram drivers and used to hop on the front of the car up to the nearest point of the station and then jump off , and the superintendent was on the car and saw him getting on . |
| 2 | Material devastation was on a spectacular scale , in addition to episodes such as the tale of 300 babies taken out of hospital incubators and left to die on the ground . |
| 3 | The girls , coaxed from the cars and persuaded to sit on the bottom row of the stand , were heaped with the players ' coats and scarves and warned not to fidget . |
| 4 | Spencer ignored Emily 's words and continued to gaze at the girl who had paused near the doorway . |
| 5 | He clenched his teeth , pulled back his shoulders and began to stride up the road . |
| 6 | The porter fell to his knees and began to scrabble at the soft soil next to the wooden scaffold pole . |
| 7 | Carefully , almost lovingly , he pulled the instrument across his knees and began to pluck at the strings with a plectrum fashioned from tortoise-shell . |
| 8 | The question , light , whispered , had barely left her lips and seemed to tremble in the air between them , when with a swift unexpected movement , just as she lifted her hand to touch his face , he caught her wrist . |
| 9 | She licked her very dry lips and refused to succumb to the temptation of another drink . |
| 10 | ‘ For Pete 's sake ! ’ he muttered moodily , and shoved his hands in his pockets and went to stare into the empty fireplace . |
| 11 | However , if you pursue the associations and begin to delve into the latent content , what you often find is that those day 's residues , which are specific to that day , as Theresa was saying , relate to more general erm situations , or indeed to things that actually happened in the past which that particular aspect of that particular day might remind you of . |
| 12 | Assuming this to reflect common-sense rationality , it follows that there are three types of sanctions which prey on the minds of thoughtful officials contemplating the commission of corporate crime : ( i ) legal sanctions , and especially ‘ will I be sent to prison ? ’ ; ( ii ) occupational sanctions and especially ‘ will my job be lost or my promotional chances endangered ? ’ ; ( iii ) social sanctions — ‘ will I be rejected by family , friends , and acquaintances and required to resign from the country club ? ’ |
| 13 | She sprang to her feet and went to look in the mirror in the hall . |
| 14 | If you are aiming to go back for a landing , only stay long enough in that thermal to get properly centred before moving off again down to 1500 feet and starting to look for the next bit of lift . |
| 15 | He told her that , like Liza , he was an only child , that his father owned a garage , that he had already started to follow in his footsteps and hoped to continue in the motor trade as soon as the war was over . |
| 16 | Miguel slipped off his casual shoes and began to pull on the black cuban-heeled boots he picked up from the floor . |
| 17 | Ariel clasps Roukoubé and runs towards the sea ; the shadows conceal her , she hears the shot , but then she splashes into the shoals and turns to run along the tideline to keep her bearings in the dark . |
| 18 | Madeleine picked up a pair of pinking shears and began to slice through the material . |
| 19 | Then Philippa kicked off her sandals and started to pad around the room in bare feet . |
| 20 | Sampras will finish the year in 81st place , Courier a more respectable 24th , but in doubles they have eclipsed their more renowned contemporaries and deserved to qualify for the Masters when Ken Flach and Robert Seguso were forced to withdraw at the last minute . |
| 21 | Re-emerging from the tunnel , Jim and Louise had been gripped firmly by their necks and forced to advance through the trees in silence . |
| 22 | We are made to share his view , and with it his plans and hopes to gain at the expense of good . |
| 23 | ‘ He was n't , but I told him that Sean 'n' Michael was havin' hard times and had to draw in the reins a bit . |
| 24 | Next on the curriculum come talking , acting , building , blowing party squeakers and pretending to choke in the back of the car . |
| 25 | The LC is aimed at users that need to work away from their desktop but still need to access their applications and want to get into the corporate network . |
| 26 | Then she sat at her bureau and put her hands to her flaming cheeks and tried to think about the hens , the sea , the possibility of buying a pig , something , anything , rather than the likelihood of not being painted by Michael Swinton . |
| 27 | A scale of 1 — 5 is a good compromise between difficulty in making judgements and failing to differentiate between the importance of factors . |
| 28 | Laura 's stare left the corpse , travelled through several unfocused planes and came to rest upon the ceiling . |
| 29 | Distant creaks and groans echoed eerily along dark corridors and seemed to expand into the circular chamber . |
| 30 | Divergers were the opposite : liberal , imaginative , slightly rebellious , with low IQ scores , good on open-ended questions and inclining to specialize in the arts . |