Example sentences of "and [verb] [adv prt] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 When we get up , the weight of our bodies compresses these discs and squeezes out the extra fluid .
2 A computer chip checks voltage levels within the battery , and slows down the recharging process if this increases too rapidly , thereby , according to Innovations , avoiding the danger of explosive gases building up .
3 Improv provides business an professional users with a unique set of capabilities for dynamic viewing and analysis , and , for building spreadsheets that can be easily reused , modified and shared over a long lifecycle .
4 I saw the barrels begin to spin and that 's when I snatched up Barry and whipped out the trusty Smith and West Wittering .
5 The new law increases fines for shopworkers found guilty of selling cigarettes to children to £2,500 and tightens up the previous legislation in a number of other ways .
6 Hastings , who has played only 40 minutes on the tour , increased speculation that all was not well when he declined a round of golf today significant as the Watsonians star is a golf fanatic and plays off a seven handicap .
7 It was the legacy of the previous form of uneven development based in the sectoral spatial division of labour ( high levels of unemployment from previously dominant sectors which had overwhelmingly employed men ) which provided the conditions ( regional policy grants , a ‘ green ’ , female labour force anxious for paid employment ) which attracted in this new form of economic activity and laid down a new form of uneven development .
8 The big moment came : she opened her hand and laid down the burdened flower by Maman 's plate .
9 She opened the door and gazed down a splendid vista of reception rooms that opened out one into the next , which Buzz had learned was typical of grand French houses .
10 Which Nick 's chewed up and spat out a Hula Hoop with water added .
11 FORTY-FIVE people were killed last night when an excursion coach careered off a Spanish motorway and plunged down a steep embankment .
12 I do n't remember him doing much digging in the garden but in my memory he is always mowing the lawn and fussing over a particular type of grass which evaded the blades and sprang back upright after the mower had passed over it .
13 They file into the office and sit round the long oak table , slightly in awe of Vic , serious men in chain-store suits , with pens and pencils sticking out of their breast pockets .
14 The eternal westerly swell rolled lazily across our wake and wiped out the last trace of our intrusion .
15 You ask for a chair and four telephone directories and rig up an impromptu table near the only plug — and ask all your prospective clients to turn their heads around .
16 Cut in a tee at this point , and connect up the new runs .
17 Although he has had his feet under the desk only since January , he has been preparing for the job since last summer by meeting researchers and officials , visiting institutes abroad and drawing up an initial draft of his plans .
18 ‘ Your lot are slinging up tower-block hotels all round the coast and stamping out the olive groves .
19 Although there was a break in the snowfall , the wind still blew fiercely from the north , moaning round the house and whipping up the fallen snow so that it skimmed across the fields like fine powder , piling up in deep drifts where its progress was interrupted by hedgerows .
20 PREMIER John Major yesterday assured the Chancellor his job was safe and ruled out a festive Cabinet shake-up .
21 Then I returned to the tinker camp and sought out the same woman .
22 This allowed us to line the side curtains in striped fabric and make up a flat roof instead of a gathered one .
23 Clear away topsoil and make up a simple formwork of timber supported by pegs set on the outside .
24 Erm so do you feel that in the years that you 've worked here are women just as important in the factory and make up a large part of the workforce now as they , as they 've ever done ?
25 When the children arrive you give them each a balloon and make up a convenient number of teams .
26 When cheques are cashed a transfer is automatically made from the deposit account to meet the payment and make up the current account to £20 .
27 These two lie close together , and make up an equilateral triangle with Zeta Puppis and Lambda Velorum .
28 It was typical of the thoroughness of his approach that he immediately decided to visit sixteen gaols in nearby counties so that he could gauge the extent of the evil , look for alternative solutions and make out a proper case for reform .
29 This project unites a joint team of British and French economists and lawyers from the Universities of Sussex and Grenoble to review the existing evidence in a dispassionate collaborative manner to try to develop a common view and to carry out a limited number of new investigations in areas of particular sensitivity .
30 At the girls ' establishment where she had been sent at huge expense to learn music and French and to carry out the ornate disciplines conceived by the headmistress — including communal teeth-washing in the gardens , winter and summer , and then communal gargling into the rosebeds , which the headmistress regarded as a form of manure-spreading — the pain was put down to growing too fast .
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