Example sentences of "and [verb] [adv] the [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then she dried her tears and read aloud the epigraph Orwell had chosen for Homage to Catalonia to make sure her voice would not betray her . |
| 2 | He turned from Bristol without regret and entered again the West Somerset landscape of coast and hills over which , very soon , he would become a persistent and delighted explorer . |
| 3 | That may be too sudden a verdict , but if such tours are to continue and flourish then the background planning must be much more evenly balanced . |
| 4 | Telford drove piles in behind the lock walls and bolted together the iron plates to make the lock both stable and watertight . |
| 5 | If you did n't do so when using the configuration file for the database creation , you should now update the header for the configuration file adding a new modification record with a development code , and scan both the configuration file and the package module until you get no errors . |
| 6 | Maybe it would have been easier if Luke had shouted and let loose the anger Fran could sense seething inside him , but he did n't . |
| 7 | Bolt Head , the gangster who financed and masterminded both the Robocranker project and the computer generated hologram , meets the Robocranker after his defeat and offers him a new body in return for operating one of his machines … |
| 8 | Erm we 're linking with the relevant staff association , erm just some general er points about how we identify and evaluate erm and put together the training plan , And and settling once and for all about the national recognized qualification . |
| 9 | Arthur had eaten large helpings of scampi and steak-and-kidney pudding , refrained from the damson pie as a gesture , and taken his mind off the others ' plates by saying that they would do the film if he and Fred were allowed to write it , direct it , find the props , and put together the sound track . |
| 10 | Mrs Oliver is walking the dog , Alfred has washed and tidied away the tea things while keeping an eye on the shop from the adjoining neat and spotlessly clean flat . |
| 11 | Until Ronnie 's death , as a result of his injuries at the start of the race — I was among the first at the scene and recall vividly the exsanguine look on Ronnie 's face and the mangle of his legs — they were separated by a mere 13 points : the final margin between them , because Mario scored no further points that season . |
| 12 | She had to take all her clothes off and wear just the chiffon tunic with the white satin ribbons criss-crossed between her breasts ( which , she observed with interest , seemed to have grown and the nipples to have got rather darker . ) |
| 13 | The East Merthyr Scheme is the largest area of land reclamation and includes both the Incline Top and Great White Tip sites . |
| 14 | The easiest method for punching a card for jacquard is to forget the background rows to start with , and punch only the pattern rows . |
| 15 | The ability to do that — to create and articulate and constantly reinforce an awareness of the values that drive the learning process and bond together the learning community — is the ability to turn a curriculum into education . |
| 16 | All three were exhausted , and two , the older two , would crash out and try and sleep away the jet lag , and the Greek ethnic could shout all afternoon and all night into the telephone for his bags . |
| 17 | Firing shots in the air they descended on the station and carted away the metal ballot boxes , substituting three of their own . |
| 18 | Sister Annunciata caught the priest 's eye and held up a packet of tea , but he shook his head and pulled aside the blackout curtain at the foot of the circular staircase . |
| 19 | The miners used rock drills and compressed air to drive through hard rock and the level had a hydraulic engine , worked by water from the dam at Sun Hush , which had such a head of water that it developed up to fifty horsepower and worked both the water pumps to drain the deep levels and the winding gear . |
| 20 | At Montmartre , I was disappointed by the Sacré Cœur , and I dared , privately , to categorise it as vulgar ; but , of course , I was quite unused to Second Empire Romanesque , and knew only the filigree stonework of English Gothic , and now the glorious tracery and the flying buttresses of Nôtre Dame . |
| 21 | For you must know that I had a twin brother , as beautiful as the day , and gentle as a fawn , and wholesome as new bread and butter , whose company pleased me so much , as mine also pleased him , that we swore an oath never to marry but to live forever peacefully in the castle , and hunt and play together the livelong day . |
| 22 | Later on in their career , musicians may decide to form their own publishing company and to seek only the administration services of a large corporate publisher . |
| 23 | Never give anyone a blank cheque : If you have to pay for something , but do n't know the price , write not more than x pounds ( in words ) , and leave only the figure space blank . |
| 24 | ‘ Shush , Conrad , ’ Lee said disapprovingly , and cleared away the soup dishes . |
| 25 | Press gently to squeeze out a star of icing , stop the pressure , and pull away the nozzle tip so that the icing star forms to a point and breaks off . |
| 26 | Each rig crew comprises a driver , Who drives the vehicle on land , a pilot , Who operates it when it becomes a ‘ boat ’ on the water , and the youngest member , a crewman , who operates the hydraulic ramp controls and does all the deck jobs . |
| 27 | Then I took some smaller bombs and planted them inside some of the rabbit holes , stamping down the roofs of the tunnel entrances so that they caved in and left only the straw fuses sticking out . |
| 28 | Class II : Class 2 modems are a little smarter and have much the fax protocol implemented in hardware inside the modem thus relieving the comms software of some of the chores . |
| 29 | It was amazing that , after Reaney had broken his leg in '70 and missed both the Cup Final and the trip to Mexico ( as well as the famous end-of-season run in ) , Cooper broke his leg two years later ( at Stoke I think ) and missed the ‘ 72 Cup Final . |
| 30 | After 7–8 hours , carefully remove the tape and pare away the glue bead with a modeller ‘ s scalpel . |