Example sentences of "and [vb base] [pers pn] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | David Hunt from Downing Street told Lascelles that Ramsey had been known to stop in a procession , send for a pair of trousers to replace the wrong ones which he had put on by mistake , and change them in the middle of the aisle . |
| 2 | She whimpers as I twist a little harder and drag her to the cloakroom , to keep out of Merchant 's way . |
| 3 | She heard a muttered curse , she saw a shadow across the french window at the end of the room , she felt someone catch her round the waist and drag her to the ground . |
| 4 | The water was rising all the time , and we had to seal him inside a waterproof bag and drag him through the sump . ’ |
| 5 | Instead of highlighting the first cell with the formula in it , and the rest of the row or column , then accessing the edit menu and copying right or down , all you do is use that little cross in the bottom right hand corner of the cell border , and drag it across the range you want the formula copied to — Excel is clever enough to decide whether you want to copy or fill , and copies the formula through the range of cells — making the necessary alterations to cell references as it goes . |
| 6 | First , take the legs and heave them up and over ; then grab the body by the arms or legs and drag it to the edge … no , that would n't be practicable , that way the killer would be moving backwards and be the first to fall . |
| 7 | The BTEC HND courses consistently and successfully attract students of a more practical than academic inclination , and develop them to the stage where their natural pragmatic talents have been enhanced with a rigorous regime of integrated business skills . |
| 8 | If you work out how much you would have spent in the bar , clubbing or eating out over the weekend and subtract it from the cost of the trip it all seems cheaper than ever . |
| 9 | You can isolate a section of the design and repeat it within the grid area , or make repeats of the whole design . |
| 10 | Then when he 'd softened him up he would take him up to the sale and introduce him to the dealer he was touting for — on commission , of course . |
| 11 | There is also a chance that Mediterranean customers could recognise the calibre of the Scottish product and favour it above the competition on quality grounds . |
| 12 | So be able to produce er a press release of some description , or some information , that is reasonably literate , then , and it 's reasonable pertinent to the area that they 're th associated with , then they may lift a good deal of it , perhaps not all of it , and plop it into the newspaper . |
| 13 | go and take them to France and sell them to the French |
| 14 | At one time we kept pigs and used to feed them up with the waste food and sell them in the market . |
| 15 | In the absence of transactions costs and the option premium this series of contracts would permit the investor to buy the shares at 220p from the writer and sell them in the market for 237p thus gaining a gross profit of 17p per share . |
| 16 | First of all , he could borrow dollars from the Fritz Bank and sell them in the spot market for DMs . |
| 17 | Pop down to the beach and sell it to the pedlar ? ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Put all the waste paper through a shredder and sell it in the college shop as bedding for rabbits and guinea pigs . ’ |
| 19 | She had ten minutes to get out of this jam , park and make it to the office . |
| 20 | Trust you , Dwight , to pick a winner , and pick him before the rest of us have heard of him ! |
| 21 | ‘ Tack up Red Flag , Seashell , Parky and Joe and bring them into the school , ’ she ordered , and the little girls fled away , while Miss Bedwelty gave her new pupils another of her withering stares . |
| 22 | Pot up a hew clumps and bring them into the kitchen . |
| 23 | Hours in the swamp and when they were going all thick and heavy there , he used to go round about October , just for that one day , and shoot as much as he could , and bring them into the mansion . |
| 24 | As with the Cel Editor , you may import a number of different image file types to form your background , and may , indeed , find that you prefer to work on backgrounds in another package altogether , and bring them into the Background Editor only to convert them to the Device Independent Bitmap ( DIB ) format that is native to the package . |
| 25 | Find Gilleis and Adam for me , and bring them to the chapel . |
| 26 | And on the eighth day she shall take two turtledoves or two young pigeons and bring them to the priest , to the door of the tent of meeting . |
| 27 | The plan was to rescue a coach load of Bosnian children from the fighting in the former Yugoslavia and bring them to the safety of England . |
| 28 | ‘ The initial plan was to put companies together and bring them to the market . ’ |
| 29 | The four system units will be organised around products — mainframe computers , mid-range , self-service terminal systems and application software , and is intended significantly to cut the time it takes for products to get to market — the aim is to cut in half the time it takes to develop products and bring them to the market . |
| 30 | He eventually let go of me and I had to go the bottom of the baths and bring him to the surface , take him to the side and get him breathing again , and I was considered a failure for that . |