Example sentences of "and [verb] [verb] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 61 | In short , they are seriously at risk of committing further offences and becoming trapped in the revolving door of custody . |
| 62 | Skinner ( 1948 ) states that " verbal behaviour is emitted behaviour which is reinforced by a listener and develops according to the same principles as other operant behaviour . |
| 63 | The extra costs are thought to run into tens of millions of pounds and appear to lie behind the imminent departure of Ron Dunn , managing director of GEC-Ferranti in Edinburgh , and a small number of other senior managers . |
| 64 | The plan therefore built on the proposals put forward in 1937 by Sir Charles Bressey and Sir Edwin Lutyens for London 's traffic , and proposed to add to the two already partly-built outer ring roads ( the North and South Orbital and the North and South Circular ) with two corresponding inner rings — ‘ the fast traffic ring-road an |
| 65 | With the full backs pushing up , and wallace/Ndlove moving around the front line … looking for balls down the channel/getting crosses in , and at the same time one of them looking for Deane flicks etc . |
| 66 | The electricity generated in this new hydro-electric scheme will be sold to the National Grid ; power to service the site and to provide floodlighting for the spectacular gorge and falls will also be produced by what will be one of the largest electricity-generating waterwheels in Europe . |
| 67 | She twisted herself and tried to see through the buckled plate again . |
| 68 | He squirmed uncomfortably on the damp stone , and tried to look on the bright side . |
| 69 | She pushed her inner chaos to the back of her mind and tried to concentrate on the coming day . |
| 70 | Geoff has always been a born fighter and wants to succeed alongside the great names in golf . |
| 71 | Distant creaks and groans echoed eerily along dark corridors and seemed to expand into the circular chamber . |
| 72 | This would include a sum , if necessary , for any board and lodging provided for the substitute housekeeper . |
| 73 | Our company is exchanging greetings with the young soldiers when suddenly a white car refuses to stop at the next checkpoint up the street — braking only slightly and seeking to swerve past the two soldiers . |
| 74 | Perhaps it all has to do with being unworldly and prepared to believe in the little people at the end of the garden . |
| 75 | Eight riders galloped from cover and came thudding across the cleared land towards the settlement . |
| 76 | ‘ Punishment enough , I think , ’ he said softly , as his hands traced a deliberately sensuous path over the clinging wetness of her shirt and came to rest for the briefest of moments on the raised outline of her breasts . |
| 77 | Then he kicked and came to rest against the far wall . |
| 78 | Prior to naming the polymer , the CRU is oriented and named according to the established principles or organic nomenclature for naming bivalent and multivalent groups . |
| 79 | Although he never grew much above 5′5″ , Bremner was always in the thick of disputes and played according to the old motto , when the going gets tough , the tough get going . |
| 80 | When he turned his head to look at Turakina she gave a gasp of annoyance and let go of the half-plaited queue . |
| 81 | And er they have got it now to a state of what I would imagine almost perfection , and that is that every man , woman and child of the population of those two countries er has got adequate protection and even a woman er who wishes to go out and do shopping in the contaminated er environment has the possibility of , of suiting up and putting a special er cover on the pram of her child and actually pushing this child with a special ventilator out . |
| 82 | She could see Stephen , his back to her , placing food on the barbecue , and smoke curling into the clear air . |
| 83 | But many do n't return and become hooked on the overseas lifestyle ! |
| 84 | ‘ Oh , you must wait for coffee , ’ said Bob , sobering and turning to signal to the young waiter . |
| 85 | This enabled the party to put across its message more efficiently and effectively than would otherwise have been the case , and helped compensate for the other serious communications difficulties within the country . |
| 86 | The pass came , I had plenty of time and shaped to kick to the near touch-line . |
| 87 | I am a former management employee of Dorman Long 's Bridge and Constructional Works , Middlesbrough , who actually built this bridge and recall talking in the 1930s to men who had worked on it . |
| 88 | Then an appendix , a disc list , gives every known issue and reissue according to the same numbering , a sensible practice . |
| 89 | Lack of space in which to build laterally resulted in this characteristic Edinburgh townscape of early tower blocks , often with additional lower floors invisible from the street , clinging to the cliffs and reached through narrow wynds , vennels and closes overshadowed by the dark flanks of buildings stained by the smoke of those ‘ Auld Reekie ’ years . |
| 90 | I have a feeling they were working rigidly to Wilko 's plans for this game , and attempting to get round the 3 defenders in the middle of there defence by getting the ball wide . |