Example sentences of "and [vb base] [adv prt] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Knit two rows and bind off for a round neck or cast off for a V-neck . |
| 2 | It occurred to her that most people , her former self included , would not walk away from an attack by a homicidal transvestite and sit down to a healthy breakfast . |
| 3 | If they are unusually anxious or irritated , they may find the noise just too much to deal with and stalk off in a feline sulk rather than squat down for a good meal . |
| 4 | To set your foundation and eliminate any shine , pat loose powder lightly all over your face and dust off with a big brush . |
| 5 | Maybe Bunny could learn to moonlight on a mainframe somewhere and tap in to a whole new reference work of nubile young ladies . |
| 6 | This will differ according to the richness of the environment provided by the home and the wider community , but all children live and grow up in a print-rich world full of writing and people who write . |
| 7 | So you are forced to swing east again and stumble down through a dense birch forest until you reach the wire bridge , and retrace your steps back along the tourist path . |
| 8 | Mr Hodge remembered the seas had been very rough as the crew attempted to rescue the couple , who had been surprised and cut off by a fast moving tide at Huntcliff . |
| 9 | The Sergeant galloped past a man and cut back with a savage slash of his sword . |
| 10 | For this reason , a Christian marriage is a like an opened door , through which we see new visions , and walk out into a vast panorama we never knew existed . |
| 11 | Not only that , but one imagines such huts to be found in the very heart of the wilderness , where one can not ascend a peak and walk out in a single day , and must take shelter for the night . |
| 12 | A dolphin school will often divide up into subgroups while searching for food , which separate and spread out over a wide area of sea , still diving synchronously — evidence that they are probably in some form of acoustic contact . |
| 13 | But then they had seen a number of man-things leap from the line of vehicles in front of the blazing building , and spread out in a loose line . |
| 14 | Daisy had brought her sketch pad , but found it difficult to capture the action and hold on to a straining Ethel . |
| 15 | If you stir enough of them together and stand back for a few hundred million years , the result is likely to be a chemical entity capable of reproducing itself — one of the fundamental differences between living and nonliving material . |
| 16 | All these things make their own contribution and add up in a complex way . |
| 17 | Sometimes he 'd get more hyped up and ride along on a snaking king-boogie , or work out a streak of magical stop-time sleaze like ‘ Boom Boom ’ ( first recorded in ‘ 61 ) . |
| 18 | Later child psychologists have noted how older children find and hang on to a favoured object such as a rag . |
| 19 | And look out for a new Spanish star , Jésus Montoya , who showed so brilliantly in the Vuelta d'Espana in May . |
| 20 | Leave the summit walking south and look out for a shallow gully leading towards a steep grass slope beside a burn and on to Glenlicht House . |
| 21 | Where they used to rely on incessant effects , now they are n't afraid to leave gaps and swoon around in a beautiful noise of their own making . |
| 22 | SHOULD Selkirk fail to make the grade and drop out for a fourth spell in Division II , they will at least on this occasion descend with honour . |
| 23 | A weeping standard achieves a different form by having not a bush type but a rambler budded into the top of the stem , from where the long flexible rambler stems hang and drape down like a floral curtain . |
| 24 | Wrap around the bus and secure on with a dampened paint brush or a little royal icing . |
| 25 | Finally , if liked , wrap the ribbon around the edge of the cake drum and secure on with a little glue . |
| 26 | Finally , wrap the ribbon around the cake drum and secure on with a little glue or royal icing . |
| 27 | There was no time to raise it and draw back for a stabbing blow . |
| 28 | Colour another 225g 18oz ) of the marzipan green , and roll out into a long wide strip . |
| 29 | Colour a little piece of fondant brown and roll out to a small strip . |
| 30 | Take about three-quarters of the fondant ( about 675g/1½lb ) and roll out to a large area . |