Example sentences of "and [verb] [verb] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 Therefore , should we not use our strength and influence to try to organise throughout the west a Marshall plan , similar to the one after the second world war , to strengthen the hands of those who are doing their utmost to stave off anything approximating to anarchy ?
2 They paly the role of a chemical filter , modifying the incoming melt by storing and mixing magmas before eruption , and allowing melts to interact with the chamber walls .
3 Fault-tolerant systems manufacturer Stratus Computer Inc will join the exodus out of the Intel Corp 80860 RISC camp after one more iteration and has decided to switch to the Hewlett-Packard Co Precision Architecture RISC .
4 In some ways Alison seems very cool about her condition and has remained detached from the experiences she is describing .
5 ‘ Women 's Lib ’ has matured and has become incorporated into the language and into the superficial behaviour of most self-respecting liberal socialists .
6 This has always added to the clergy 's spiritual authority and status , and has tended to merge with the authority claimed by the clergy in matters of faith and morals , with the high clergy deciding what constitutes matters of faith and morals .
7 Compare this to the golfer in diagram B. He has not taken such a positive approach to the same tee-shot , and has failed to stand behind the ball-to-target line before addressing the ball .
8 British television was created with this idea in its heart , and has continued to develop over the last fifty years with these ideals firmly at the forefront .
9 The four other men at the table with him sensed his panic and stopped talking to look at the newcomer .
10 Many respondents , especially those answering ‘ no ’ , interpreted question 1 by focusing on the traditional model of sole practice , and appear to have answered on the assumption that support for any enforced modification of the present model would give rise to a negative response .
11 Lee felt jealous , lumpy , and tried to let go of the feeling as she arranged the flowers in the kitchen .
12 Fell in love with the Duke of Athens ’ sweet little widow , and tried to get rid of the Patriarch of Constantinople when he would n't let him divorce his first wife .
13 In September 1977 , my girlfriend Lynn and I eloped and tried to get married at the Ali-Shavers bout .
14 Miss Downey , who now lives in a Los Angeles suburb , has already talked to architects and plans to start building in the spring .
15 He accused her of crying wolf and prepared to go riding on the Sandringham estate .
16 Catching sight of her , the boy Charles — see him now ! — wants To follow his father 's model : he asks , he begs for a keen horse , Urgently demands weapons , quiver and swift arrows , And craves to go chasing after the doe , just as his father himself would do .
17 Olivine and plagioclase continue to crystallize in the upper layer until critical concentrations are again reached and another pulse of sedimentation occurs .
18 However , the Khmers Rouges rejected the call , and vowed to continue fighting until the final Vietnamese had left Cambodia .
19 When you are helping the patient to wash , you should try to follow the same sequence as the nurse , and remember to keep describing to the patient everything that is happening .
20 The Ibos in Nigeria and the Bamilike in Cameroun are both groups who in the 1950s and 1960s respectively made a bid for predominant national power ; they failed , and continue to feel excluded from the political mainstream of their countries .
21 Apart from being sick and having to keep going to the loo I loved being pregnant .
22 We haggle over the prices and try to avoid looking at the piles of fruit and salad vegetables on every stall .
23 And try to avoid travelling in the rush hour … there 's nothing worse than the combination of a traffic jam and a screaming baby , believe me !
24 Several girls had been badly beaten and threatened by these men and forced to return to return to the streets for fear of their lives . ’
25 You will see we have brought forward the first meeting to 23rd September — to help you get in the mood and inspired to start teaching at the beginning of the new term .
26 Sarah pushed and thrust to get rid of the burden she had carried for nine long months , and she screamed until Maggie forced gin down her throat to quieten her .
27 What with hauling carpets in and out , cleaning the wallpaper with a loose dough — a trick Sally-Anne found oddly satisfying , if messy — washing every curtain , sheet , blanket , cushion-cover , piece of crockery , floorboard , door and window-frame , ceiling — you name it , Sally-Ann cleaned it — by Sunday she felt quite stunned and had gone to sleep during the rector 's sermon , only to be prodded awake by Matey , to a smiling Dr Neil 's amusement .
28 Within a short space of time , the laboratory had ceased to be involved in the launch vehicles , themselves ( so making ‘ Jet Propulsion ’ a highly anomalous title ) , and had become connected to the newly-formed NASA empire .
29 Mr. Morgan was a friend of the first defendant and had become acquainted with the deceased through the first defendant .
30 Charles 's Navy had fought very well against the Dutch in the 1660s until the money ran out , and had kept going in the 1670s satisfactorily enough .
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