Example sentences of "and [vb base] [adv prt] [art] [noun sg] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 Potential buyers , who have a pre-sale preview of all stock on offer , then watch the screen on sale day and pick up the phone to make a bid .
2 Wind the bobbin with 24-turns of 18s.w.g. enamelled wire , keeping it neatly in layers ( there are about 1½ layers involved ) and bring out the wire ends down through the bobbin slots in the positions shown in Fig. 8 .
3 Turn off the water , drain down and bale out the cistern to give it a good clean .
4 The rejected text gave the parties until Monday to resolve the dispute , failing which the government would take full powers for the railways in Transcaucasia , and send in the army to guard bridges and tunnels , and ensure the safety of rail workers .
5 But most of the English fleet had been on Parliament 's side during the Civil War , and in 1650 the Republic decided it was strong enough to impose an embargo on trade and send out an expedition to make Virginia and the West Indian islands acknowledge its authority .
6 Jump the gap and make your way down the steps and platforms to another ladder , pick up another crate to your left and climb down the ladder , kill the workman and run right ( out of the building ) , get on the lift and jump into the little room ( this contains a couple of records ) , get the crate and climb up the ladder to kill the last workman , get on the lift to your left and go to the top , jump onto the platform , and the next , and the next , until you reach the furthest one where there 's an extra life .
7 They have two guinea pigs now and we also all go out and look around the countryside to find interesting nature things .
8 You can become resigned to the monotony of captivity and give up the struggle to maintain your own interests and identity .
9 The fact is that I did n't — do n't want you to make such a sacrifice and give up the zoo work you like so much . ’
10 And slow down a bit did n't he ?
11 Attach a ‘ bandage ’ to the arm and drape over the sarcophagus to look as if it is unravelling .
12 Turn to page 183 and fill in the couple to reach us no later than December 22 .
13 If you 'd like to be considered for selection , answer the following five questions clearly and concisely ( please type double-spaced on A4 paper ) and fill in the entry form below .
14 If I was of a mind to stop washing and shaving and go live in a bus and drive around the country shitting in farmers ' fields and killing their sheep and being hassled by the pigs and pilloried by the Daily Star and generally being ‘ free ’ , this is the record I would choose to do it to .
15 The vehicles that make up a cruise missile flight will emerge regularly from their base and drive around the countryside to practise .
16 Cut just below a leaf joint , and trim off the bottom leaves together with the stipules ( the small scalelike growths at the base of each leafstalk ) .
17 Then you strode in , as the new maths teacher , and you would set the problems on the board and stride around the class getting us all to co-operate in sharing the problems .
18 The birds are hungry and gather round the corpse to eat it .
19 ‘ We have now to build on the satisfaction our clients have expressed with our service and move up a gear to create delight in their view of us . ’
20 Perhaps you have spoken the truth , but , waiting in vain , your friends may well think you dead , and carry out an attack to avenge you .
21 Once the Tunnel opens — or maybe just before it does and before the French realize what 's going on and think up a way to stop it — he 'll sell them for maybe a thousand times what he 's paying for them now . ’
22 To eliminate these defects we must remove the reference to inference and tighten up the relation specified between the false beliefs and the true justified ones which are not to count as knowledge .
23 Clubs attempting to sack the professional and take over the shop to earn revenue can expect no support from those in the business .
24 It is known that when a non-polar substance — that is , one which does not ionize like salts , acids and alkalis into positive and negative components — is dissolved in water , or a water/alcohol mixture , the water polymers surround the molecules of the dissolved material , and take up a shape known as the solvation cage , which is dependent on the shape of the starting material , but which also gives the least strain on the hydrogen bonds connecting the water molecules ( Figure 9 ) .
25 He realised how much he longed to wear that splendid sober regalia and take up a whip to drive a team of four horses .
26 It would be helpful to state this clearly at the highest level and work out a strategy to match the vision .
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