Example sentences of "[vb base] and [verb] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | L lived some two miles from the burgled premises and during the morning of June 4 , police officers saw bin liners and a cardboard box being carried out of L's home and put into a car . |
| 2 | On these occasions you may be offered a job on the spot , so it is very important to have a good understanding of what you want and need from a job before you go . |
| 3 | We grow and develop as a result of those interactions . |
| 4 | I swallow and speak in a tremor . |
| 5 | BLOCKED : Cut and mounted in a block of wood , these are convenient but do not last well . |
| 6 | I really like my new jacket and hat and scarf , and when we stop and chat with a couple of people from the house , they say how smart I look . |
| 7 | Casually stop and look in a shop window and see whether your suspect keeps walking or stops as well . |
| 8 | I stop and think for a moment — shocked by my act of sadism . |
| 9 | Cover and chill in a refrigerator for 30 minutes . |
| 10 | The valley is watered by the River Dee which rises high on Blea Moor and is precocious in infancy , playing hide and seek behind a screen of trees , often disappearing in fissures of its limestone bed and emerging to daylight lower downstream . |
| 11 | I sit and fidget like a child . |
| 12 | ANIMALS suffer and die for a plethora of reasons ; many are arguably trivial . |
| 13 | People sometimes find that their housing requirements change and seek after a period to move on to different kinds of residence , particularly into flats of their own . |
| 14 | First is a low-key step of gathering intelligence and planting seeds — just finding out where people stand and leaving behind a germ of the idea to let it blossom . |
| 15 | Watch and hear with a child 's senses . |
| 16 | Watch and hear with a child 's senses . |
| 17 | Examine and agree on a job description first and a contract of employment which you are satisfied with and understand . |
| 18 | Thinly slice and drop into a bowl of water and lemon juice to prevent discoloration . |
| 19 | The famed croaking is more likely to be heard in such tanks , as it 's at its most audible when males meet and display as a threat to other intruding males — or during the mating season as the male pursues the female . |
| 20 | And therefore grumbling couples complain in cars on their way to Harley Street from the Home Counties and beg one another not to let them drink too much : therefore Esther and Alix meet and laugh on a street corner a few hundred yards away : therefore stepchildren muster and stepparents-in-law assemble : therefore Liz Headleand 's mother sits alone , ever alone untelephoned , distant , incomprehending , incomprehended , remote , mad , long mad , imprisoned , secret , silent , silenced , listening to the silence of her house . |
| 21 | Taste it , savour it — do n't simply chew and swallow , chew and swallow like a robot , hardly even knowing what you are eating . |
| 22 | Also , I produce and operate in a place and time-zone that colleges , institutions and so on do n't . |
| 23 | In a poignant soliloquy , watching smoke curl into the sky like an ethereal question mark , he exclaims , ‘ Ah , human beings — they tremble and worry like a leaf in the storm because they know and because they do n't know . ’ |
| 24 | They swoop and scream to a halt in a narrow street alive and garish with neon signs over narrow dark doorways . |
| 25 | And what they do , I 'm going to try and show you on this doll in a minute , the hips are abducted which means they 're brought right up against the chest and then they 're pulled round and they 're rotated in the socket and you feel and listen for a click |
| 26 | And as well as learning the job of teaching , they are learning its culture as well : how it is ‘ acceptable ’ and ‘ normal ’ to act , think , feel and talk as a teacher . |
| 27 | NeTpower machines are meant to look , feel and smell like a PC . |
| 28 | You try and get into a factory , it 's just all Indians ’ ( Cochrane and Billig , 1984 ) . |
| 29 | Is try and make up a mountain that 's misty , so she looked at the map and began to climb down . |
| 30 | Without drawing it , try and talk about a square . |