Example sentences of "[adv] and [verb] [pron] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were hauled alongside and manoeuvred one at a time to a position where they could be hauled aboard , encumbered by their diving equipment . |
| 2 | Thank you very much and thank you for a very well . |
| 3 | To order , please complete the coupon below and send it with a UK cheque/PO ( not cash ) to : Esquire Hip-flask Offer , Offer Number 5 and/or Esquire Binoculars Offer , Offer Number 6 , PO Box 6 , Kettering , Northants NN15 5JW . |
| 4 | Complete the coupon below and send it with a cheque/postal order made payable to Gardeners ' World Soakerhose Offer . |
| 5 | He clipped the sheets together and put them into an envelope . |
| 6 | He had what seemed to me a great genius for — how can I put it ? — drawing the orchestra together and controlling it as a single expressive instrument . |
| 7 | But in the UK more than 90 per cent of all aluminium cans are still thrown away — collect yours together and take them to a scrap-metal dealer . |
| 8 | What he had n't counted on was the tunnel effect of putting five together and pointing them into a wind that came more or less straight from the Urals after turning left over Norway . |
| 9 | I got my part of the control lines together and carried them in a loop round to the kite . |
| 10 | While the concept of enriching teaching through the use of various and varied media , was clearly sound , there was no technology available to draw the ingredients of multimedia together and unify them with a single , practical teaching resource . |
| 11 | Then he clipped the pages together and slipped them into a file . |
| 12 | He looked as though a cannonball had hit him amidships and left him with a hollow chest and a permanent arch in his back . |
| 13 | ‘ He will hear a tune on a programme and go away and play it on a keyboard . |
| 14 | ‘ We know that , Mr Vigo , ’ he said , wrenching his eyes away and fixing them on an eggshell thin service , made to contain jasmine tea . |
| 15 | She thought again of the clever pastry-cook who baked her man to her liking , and of La Carmellina , who lost her true love when he climbed a cherry tree into the clouds and found himself in the lair of the sorceress Zenaida — Zenaida , who had been robbed of sleep by the curse of another fairy , and had stolen Carmellina 's love away and changed him into a songbird . |
| 16 | Breeders can increase production by taking an egg away and putting it in an incubator to hatch . |
| 17 | Still trembling , she got out finally and wrapped herself in a huge towel and padded into the kitchen to put the kettle on . |
| 18 | I was bleeding from a laceration on my scalp and was so drunk that I had no recollection of what had happened ; a Sergeant quizzed me closely and seeing that I was incapable of speech , took me downstairs and put me into an ambulance . |
| 19 | The Prime Minister will brandish his meaningless majority after the Division tonight and claim it as a mandate for Maastricht . |
| 20 | As he leapt to the attack again , he uttered a hoarse , nerve-shattering scream , the purpose of which was to startle his opponent momentarily and distract him for a fatal fraction of time . |
| 21 | We talked of all we would do when he was strong enough , and I put everything else out of mind and concentrated on being positive and cheerful myself , which was not always easy but I was determined to behave normally and to treat him as a convalescent and not as a sick man . |
| 22 | He returned shortly and ushered them into an airy office , overlooking the Grand Union Canal . |
| 23 | A man pulled him backwards and pushed him against a wall . |
| 24 | Redefine the problem in terms of a challenge , ask them to take two steps backwards and treat it as an experiment . |
| 25 | However , it might be useful to admit the document as an aid to interpretation and publish it ( with appropriate amendments ) along with the Act or even to re-work it more fundamentally and present it as a formal preamble . |
| 26 | No they would buy it somewhere and sell it at a profit you see . |
| 27 | go in a hall somewhere and have it for a day . |
| 28 | The former steel boss recalls that he was able to assimilate the theoretical aspects of senior management very quickly and implement them in an almost academic fashion . |
| 29 | The figure turned stiffly and fixed them in a sightless gaze . |
| 30 | It is hoped that readers will feel able to draw on the ideas presented to develop the work further and to apply it to a wider range of contexts . |