Example sentences of "and [art] [noun] [verb] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I announced his name at Reception , and the girl rang up the guy and said , ‘ Your taxi 's here … . ’ |
| 2 | He said nothing to his wife , but at the next new moon got into his boat and let the wind carry him eastwards until he reached the windswept isle of Bujan , where the grass grows green and the grapes hang on the wild vines . |
| 3 | I shifted into second , and the Discovery stormed up the slope with a roar of V8 power , only to slither to a halt halfway up , its front wheels sliding sideways on a sheet of ice and threatening the worst off-road fate of all — to be stuck across a slope . |
| 4 | The water is contained in a clear plastic tank and the steam comes down the thick tubes from the tank to the iron . |
| 5 | The stick and the fist backed up the array of legal powers . |
| 6 | The lock snapped and the detective levered up the bottom section . |
| 7 | ‘ Barmen all over the world acquired a fair percentage of my money , ’ Jimmy regrets ‘ And the rest went down the plughole with various business ventures . ’ |
| 8 | We were in London for rehearsals at the Globe , and the actors put on the new play for the first time on the 29th of June , 1613 . |
| 9 | What they did was the nurses and the doctors took over the ward . |
| 10 | It also includes the skills of using books , such as using the contents and the index to track down the topics required . |
| 11 | Wings appear externally for the first time and the insect takes on the appearance of an adult . |
| 12 | The droughts make the chiggers unbearable and the floods bring out the rattlesnakes and copperheads … ’ |
| 13 | And the officers took over the house . |
| 14 | Woman and the man went up the garden |
| 15 | The people choose the government and the government carries out the policies on which it fought the election and controls the Commons and civil service . |
| 16 | so you could pull it up and down and the effects went out the bottom of the tube , the tube came up like that and it came over , and like that and then the shade would be like that and then you could swing it round |
| 17 | And the stuff ripping out the front . |
| 18 | and er he saw the , he was with Trigger he says , he says keep calm , drinking calm , were in here my son , right , and er its the bit where he 's leaning on the bar and the bloke lifts up the bar and he just folds like a tonne of bricks sideways |
| 19 | When old Mother Jacobsen had unlimited time at her disposal and the opportunity to take up the strands from where she had laid them down the previous day or week , she embroidered her stories with meticulous and colourful detail . |
| 20 | The headlights of the taxi-van behind us flashed as it hit bumps in the road and the interior lit up the faces of the men in the van with me . |
| 21 | Will Bryan Robson , Roy Aitken and the boys come down the catwalk in gathered sleeves , button-down collars , funny geometric patches of colour , or even power-dressing shoulder pads ? |
| 22 | Sometimes he turned to talk to Grace , and the candlelight lit up the big brown eyes in his kind , old face . |
| 23 | This time , something like a Christian front emerged , albeit temporarily , and the campaign took on the character of a crusade , the so-called Crusade of Varna , under the blessing of Pope Eugenius IV . |
| 24 | She was extremely grateful and the course saw out the war in this fashion the camp never materialising . |
| 25 | Kathleen had never been one for jewellery and the amethyst picked up the heather mauve of Isabel 's new dress and even , she thought , gave something of a fresh nuance to her mist-blue eyes . |
| 26 | Nutty practised the crawl in her bath and the water dripped down the light cord in the dining-room below and collected in the glass bowl-shaped shade . |
| 27 | If his employer 's scheme has ‘ contracted out ’ , they must pay you half his guaranteed minimum pension , and the state makes up the difference . |
| 28 | It lays its eggs on nettle leaves and the caterpillars feed off the nettles until they form chrysalises . |
| 29 | Hopefully much will be computerised like the FAA 's at present , where the form and the ECG go down the phone line to America . |
| 30 | Usually the shop sells the goods , a finance company pays the shop , and the buyer pays back the finance house , usually in month instalments up to two-and-a-half years ; interest rate fixed at start . |