Example sentences of "and [verb] [pers pn] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Remove the dough from the bowl and knead it on a floured board until smooth , about 5 minutes . |
| 2 | In the early 1970s an organization was established to govern karate on a world scale and to promote it as a new and fascinating sport . |
| 3 | Humility is to orient our lives towards God , so that we understand and obey him in a greater and greater sense . |
| 4 | and change them to a bigger size |
| 5 | If you produce an invoice , and on reading it onscreen discover that you have entered £350 instead of £250 , almost every Windows user will expect to drop a text cursor over the offending 3 and change it to a 2 . |
| 6 | You can do more than play games : you can add them , multiply them , and develop them to a remarkable depth . |
| 7 | UCLA 's head of the Art department , Henry T. Hopkins , is taking over the directorship , and he plans to show special exhibitions in the building and develop it as a cultural centre for ‘ lectures , symposia , dance , film and poetry readings ’ . |
| 8 | ( Some pocket calculators will do this ; otherwise one obtains a random integer of 5 or 6 digits from a random number table and precedes it with a decimal point . ) |
| 9 | The Levellers articulated this awareness , and channelled it into a coherent set of democratic political demands . |
| 10 | Then they peeled back the bedcovers and laid him on a crisp sheet , covering him from the waist down with another sheet . |
| 11 | He took her protesting hand , and laid it on a thick roll of tablecloths between their bodies . |
| 12 | Based in the UK , MAP is an ecumenical organisation that aims to increase media awareness , to encourage critical dialogue with media practitioners and to recognise the underlying values in the media and evaluate them from a Christian viewpoint . |
| 13 | They form a component of some social stratification systems simply because members of those systems select certain characteristics and evaluate them in a particular way . |
| 14 | Seeing the latter in one-dimensional terms , and characterising it as a weak version of the more prestigious intellectual analogues used ( design as weak art or weak science ) , such models never explored design — cognitive activity from its own standpoint or in respect of its own efficacy . |
| 15 | I stood up , took Flavia 's hand and led her into a little room . |
| 16 | He untied Dobbs and led her into a large dark shed . |
| 17 | The girl swung round as a silent invitation to follow , and led them past a tangled bunch of bicycles and a wall of political posters to hopeless causes . |
| 18 | A young man in an immaculate dark blue suit took over from the young woman who had met them at the elevator and led them into a vast room , furnished with antiques . |
| 19 | Someone grabbed his arm , and led him to a waiting horse on which he galloped away leaving behind his winnings . |
| 20 | Sylvie wrapped her hand round Thomas 's arm and led him towards a far corner . |
| 21 | The man took off his spectacles and wiped them on a snowy white handkerchief . |
| 22 | A man dragged her into an alleyway , and attacked her in a nearby churchyard . |
| 23 | Having had the good fortune to fall in with Gabriel outside Cat 's Coffee Shop as she was on her way home , he had seized his chance and asked her for an early supper . |
| 24 | So with this going on we found our company would get on better if I had collateral so I wrote to this boy and asked him for a million and put it in a trust fund that I would get after his death , and we that way so okay . |
| 25 | And when you 've made your choice , we 'll deliver your new machine and connect it to a suitable service point — completely free of charge and within 24 hours . |
| 26 | She feels full of it and moulds it into a glowing ball deep within . |
| 27 | If they do not pay , he will take the land back and sell it to a rich friend . |
| 28 | Because to see someone is to see them as a human being and to see them as a human being is to acknowledge them as such . |
| 29 | Jimmy had the gun in his hands now , and levelled it with a cool and grim purpose at Rohmer . |
| 30 | Three things I 've always wanted to do : go to Machu Picchu , put my foot in Lake Titicaca and make it with an oriental chick . |