Example sentences of "and [verb] [adv prt] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cut in a tee at this point , and connect up the new runs . |
| 2 | ‘ Your lot are slinging up tower-block hotels all round the coast and stamping out the olive groves . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Heavenly bodies taunted me , encircling the crucible , performing their daily stunts of scorching and freezing , and bringing about the oddest sights . |
| 5 | ‘ Then come with me and pick up the latest reports . |
| 6 | When you have finished — it might take five minutes or five hours — look through your notes and pick out the central themes . |
| 7 | Hence they throw into relief and bring out the significant aspects of the phenomenon in question . |
| 8 | Lacking axes or crampons we 'd kicked steps up the snowy approach gully the afternoon before and checked out the devious ladders and chains forming the descent from the summit . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'm going to shower , ’ Ruth told him , getting to her feet and gathering up the dirty glasses which littered th table-top . |
| 10 | The presence of ice withdraws water in vapour form from distal cells , concentrating their solutions and building up the extra-cellular crystals . |
| 11 | If it does , it will hunch its back and push out the other eggs . |
| 12 | See one of Shakespeare 's plays performed at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre , stroll by the River , and browse around the delightful shops . |
| 13 | Do n't be concerned with the feeling that nothing is " sinking in " but do try and seek out the main points . |
| 14 | Turn seed-heads upside down and tap out the tiny seeds on to white paper , so they are clearly visible . |
| 15 | Or , in Sainsbury-ad speak : Take one chunk of human and peel off the outer layers . |
| 16 | Forsooth , my lord , quoth 1 , your sheep that were wont to be so meek and tame and so small eaters , now , I hear say , be become so great devourers and so wild , that they eat up and swallow down the very men themselves . |
| 17 | Every other station has , you even have advertising on radio , why ca n't you have it now on B B C One and Two and cut down the eighty pounds ? |
| 18 | Place these over the red icing and cut out the various sides . |
| 19 | The blame fell on pollution ; not the clouds of smoke and occasional waves of sulphur dioxide which were known to drift up from the industrial valleys of the Ruhr and kill off the sensitive firs , but the more insidious long-term changes implied by acid rain . |
| 20 | Richard had already been remarked as the kind of small boy enchanted by small girls and deaf to the ridicule of his peers on the matter ; on this occasion he watched Victoria twist her curls around her fingers in motionless fascination for ten minutes , then followed her for the rest of the afternoon , fetching drinks and finding seats , carrying her favourite blue rabbit when she dropped it and picking out the choicest pieces of bread and butter for her at tea . |
| 21 | A look is created , forgotten and then reinvented years later as it hits a dead end and digs up the tried-and-tested looks of yesteryear . |
| 22 | A few carefully placed lamps will provide atmosphere and show off the surrounding plants . |
| 23 | Today , five hundred million years after those jawless armour-laden creatures began to wag their tails and blunder over the muddy bottoms of the ancient seas , the fish have evolved into some 30,000 different species . |
| 24 | The overhead lights swoop and dive over the white lines , completely out of control . |
| 25 | Swiftly and with the minimum of noise , they laid the small table with heavy silver tableware and spread out the various dishes . |
| 26 | Last century , most materials for the chemicals industry were derived from coal tar , made by heating coal to high temperatures in the absence of air and distilling out the volatile products . |
| 27 | It was still convenient to hold that the Labour Party relied on a " left " Party " which will stand between the Communist Party and the Labour Party and hold back the British workers from following the revolutionary policy of the Communist International " . |
| 28 | Last summer HP decided to proliferate its SoftBench framework source code beyond CASE and stripped out the CASE-specific utilities , getting down to a core communications technology known as the Broadcast Message Server which can coordinate messages among different software applications in a common environment . |
| 29 | ‘ In uncertain conditions it sometimes resulted in roads being gritted unnecessarily , and turning out the gritting teams costs £3,000 a time . |
| 30 | You suggest that Detroit should ‘ join its suburban neighbours in a regional government that does away with redundancies and evens out the huge inequities in school financing and municipal services ’ ( May 8th ) . |