Example sentences of "and [verb] [to-vb] [adv prt] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Easily Accessible : Bosham is where , according to legend , King Cnut tried and failed to turn back the sea and the village is depicted on the Bayeux Tapestry . |
| 2 | It will take a fair amount of skill and cajoling to pick up the pieces . ’ |
| 3 | In the first year of the war Havelock Wilson repeatedly stressed the cooperation which had existed between the German merchant marine and the NSFU , cast doubt on stories of German atrocities and sought to play down the extremes of anti-German hysteria which had broken out . |
| 4 | In the end he had relented , and agreed to take up the career she had chosen for him . |
| 5 | Nirvana Inc battened down the hatches and made to ride out the storm . |
| 6 | One member of the party is selected as the defendant : he is told the outline of an alibi defence and has to fill in the details impromptu under questioning . |
| 7 | Since I started as an engineer , and have ended as a biologist , I am struck by the similarities between the two ways of thinking , although there is the difference that an engineer starts with a function to be performed , and designs a structure to perform it , whereas a biologist often starts with a structure , and has to work out the function it is performing . |
| 8 | We have just had an extension completed and want to dry out the walls quickly so that we can use the room . |
| 9 | I want to go through the process of what we really have to do and consider to build up the story . |
| 10 | But nowadays there 's more elbow room and less cigar smoke — and the shrewder restaurateurs have set out to replace their lost business regulars by constructing lunch menus that are brief , light and designed to show off the chef 's talents rather than the customer 's credit rating ; it 's hard to believe that anyone can produce a good meal so cheaply . |
| 11 | I did n't intend to eavesdrop , I thought he 'd gone and forgotten to pull back the curtains . |
| 12 | Choosing the right time and place to bring up the subject of safer sex is important . |
| 13 | Judy knew Brown Owl would be very cross if she saw Mandy on the other side of the fence — but she did n't have time to worry very long about that , for in a minute or two a loud , frightened scream shrilled from Mandy , who had stepped forward and bent to pick up the ball resting on the bright-green surface of the ground — and found herself up to her knees in treacherous , clinging slime . |
| 14 | As soon as she stopped struggling and stood motionless he let her go and bent to pick up the shoes she 'd dropped . |
| 15 | He stood up , stretched and bent to pick up the tray . |
| 16 | The antics of the children as they scrambled and tried to pick up the coins were one of the highlights of the day . |
| 17 | It was a task she devoted herself to while Ted with a most ungentlemanly violence of language put the car into reverse and tried to back up the lane . |
| 18 | Sometimes , when she had been to a romantic film , or had been kissed good-night by Pogo , she had sat on the edge of her bed , staring at that dark , handsome , boy 's face and tried to conjure up the memory of his living presence . |
| 19 | A policeman has been jailed for thirty months after he attacked a motorist and tried to cover up the offence . |
| 20 | I sat and stared at the paper in front of me and tried to blank out the present and get back into my story — forward , that is , into my invented future , and out of the world of queries and vague apprehensions . |
| 21 | Then I was taken back home to my mother 's and tried to build up the relationship again . |
| 22 | Linda opened the front door for the milk , and stooped to pick up the bottles . |
| 23 | They had an excellent position , but for the fact that there was an army between them and home , and with England at their backs , and bitterly conscious of their recent attentions , they could not afford to sit still and wait to wear out the enemy . |
| 24 | The huge man whose belly flowed over his belt and seemed to cascade down the front of his trousers pointed with the cane . |
| 25 | Only thus could he step outside of the present situation and hope to puzzle out the riddle of Zephro Carnelian — even while being forced to react predictably … |
| 26 | ‘ Dio mio , ’ he growled , and he leaned back against the wall , folded his arms across his chest , and prepared to wait out the boredom of the long moments ahead . |
| 27 | Julia cleared the glasses from round the room and prepared to set out the coffee on the drum table beside the chief armchair . |
| 28 | Of the soft woods pine is good , and larch as well if you in a hurry for a blaze and prepared to roll back the hearth-rug in preparation for the spectacular fusillade . |
| 29 | Sawney raised his claymore in both hands and prepared to bring down the hilt . |
| 30 | With coal supplies fast dwindling , Truman acted : the Federal government took over the mines and prepared to bring in the army to run the railroads . |