Example sentences of "[vb base] and [verb] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The family are beginning to bubble again and we stop and chat happily to the old couple . |
| 2 | We 've had a bring and buy today at the club . |
| 3 | And when he 's fishing close inshore , watching the signals from his huer on the cliff path and ordering his boats to cast their nets to enclose the shoals of silvery fish that dart and move just beneath the surface , you look down from two hundred feet and you think to yourself , perhaps , perhaps … |
| 4 | She stretches out a hand and strokes my backside , but I stand and move away from the bed , dropping a wad of screwed-up tissue on the worn carpet . |
| 5 | We live , act , move , are temporarily satisfied , enjoy and suffer principally for the satisfaction of desire . |
| 6 | Can the child or children of the prospective family accept and relate meaningfully to the black child ? |
| 7 | The theme of lateness is developed here , of an existence which was once vibrant , as in summer , now mellow and dwindling away to the barren emptiness of winter . |
| 8 | The players include three guitarists , Bill Frisell , Vernon Reid and Robert Quine , who rage and soar far over the gutters of grunge-making ‘ Nightmare ’ , among many other things , one of the guitar albums of the year . |
| 9 | The older surfers like Manetta and the younger Badlands faces meet and surf together at the less well-known spots on the local coastline . |
| 10 | Gabriel saw bullets sparkle and flash all around the F2B ; and then a longer streak from the British observer 's rearfiring gun . |
| 11 | They heard the car start at the third try and roar jerkily up the track behind the boathouse , leaving a faint cloud of blue smoke drifting around the corner . |
| 12 | That 's why I try and stay away from the throttle in the middle of the corner when you 've got max pressure on the tyres . |
| 13 | Drain and mix carefully with the vegetables . |
| 14 | Drain and mash well with the butter . |
| 15 | And he sent them to Bethlehem and said , ‘ Go and search diligently for the young child ; and when ye have found him , bring me word again , that I may come and worship him also . ’ |
| 16 | In rural areas , they live and work closer to the eco-system ; they can understand its limitations and can safeguard its future by practicing sustainable agriculture and forestry . |
| 17 | The only sunlight she sees filters into the tiny courtyard of the apartment block where 10 families live and pray together in the cellar . |
| 18 | Most of these smaller cats live and hunt largely in the trees , taking anything from insects and mice to small monkeys . |
| 19 | Casters are the better of the two for the reason that they sink and remain still on the bottom until they are eaten . |
| 20 | Think and think again of the number of different rooms , the multitude of different beds , the mirrors , the endless dark stairways , the duplicated obscenities , the handfuls of folded pound notes , the sordid exchanges in doorways or park benches , the varied postures of so many unclean and degraded females spreadeagling themselves for lucre , the bodily smells , the cheap perfumes , the wasted seed , the anxieties about disease , the fears of recognition and the intolerable pressure of guilt that would inevitably descend like a black mantle over even the most vulgar and sensual head . |
| 21 | Of the six local children cast and trained especially for the production , eight-year-old Eve Macdonald makes a cute Gretl . |