Example sentences of "and [vb -s] [pers pn] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | An Elf war fleet led by Tyrion defeats the Norse in a huge sea battle and drives them away from the coast of Ulthuan . |
| 2 | He grips my arms and dumps me back on the pew . |
| 3 | After a while he opens his case , takes out a glass vial and holds it up to the light . |
| 4 | A teenage girl gets on the bus , then , as if she 's just remembered , takes out a comic story magazine and holds it out of the window . |
| 5 | I turn away so I ca n't look at her , but she leans over and looks me straight in the face . |
| 6 | The child finds the same letters on the eight cubes and places them correctly in the tray underneath the card . |
| 7 | We are standing in that kitchen where I 've shared her meals and laughter , and she finishes drying the glass and places it carefully on the table . |
| 8 | The victim-to-be purchases , or is given , the W.N.B. and places it unsuspectingly in the top pocket of his or her jacket , with the humorous head protruding . |
| 9 | ‘ He seems to hold David Howell , who 's still owed three weeks ' money , particularly responsible and wants him out of the club . |
| 10 | Nicky Henderson 's Wont Be Gone Long ( 2.20 ) has top weight but is not badly treated considering he beat Lockwood Prince by 15 lengths at Chepstow last May and meets him here on the same terms . |
| 11 | Nicky Henderson 's Wont Be Gone Long ( 2.20 ) has top weight but is not badly treated considering he beat Lockwood Prince by 15 lengths at Chepstow last May and meets him here on the same terms . |
| 12 | This vaporizes a droplet of ink and forces it out of the nozzle in the printhead and onto the paper . |
| 13 | Crilly cups my face in his hands , strokes my hair and kisses me long upon the lips . |
| 14 | Before waiting for an answer she takes me by the hand and leads me on to the dance floor . |
| 15 | One Saturday evening she takes Howard by the arm and leads him away from the crowd round the pool and the bar , out of everyone 's earshot . |
| 16 | She skips and twists among them , sniffing their hind-quarters , until at last she finds the two she seeks , her own young , and leads them away to the shade of a bush and there lets them suckle . |
| 17 | This view is pervasive amongst ordinary members of the RUC and leads us directly to the issue of how Northern Ireland 's divisions affect policemen and women , which the following chapters begin to address . |
| 18 | Though there appears to be no evidence to support Husameddin " s assertion that Molla Fenari actually went in company with Karamanoglu Mehmed Bey , the fact that the former dedicated his commentary on the to the latter and praises him fulsomely in the preface suggests a close connection between the two and is a further indication that it was during Karamanoglu Mehmed Bey 's rule ( 1402–19 , 1421–3 ) that Molla Fenari 's sojourn in Karaman occurred . |
| 19 | In every generation , REPRODUCTION takes the genes that are supplied to it by the previous generation , and hands them on to the next generation but with minor random errors — mutations . |
| 20 | But Chris Avery , of stockbrokers Smith New Court , said : ‘ It is a tangible , positive step forward and takes us well down the path of Al Yamamah two becoming a reality rather than a hope for bonanza . ’ |
| 21 | There is something free , reckless , vaguely counter-cultural about it ; it ignores the voice of prudence and takes us back to the days of our youth when we defied authority by taking it up . |
| 22 | Jacob 's demand for a blessing is only what we would expect , and yet it prepares us for the turning point in the story , which follows immediately afterwards , and takes us back into the clearer air of the larger narrative . |
| 23 | The Bill gives protection with one hand and takes it away with the other . |
| 24 | N — New Option This avoids the use of further index pages and takes you directly to the Option prompt , so that you can enter the number of the option you require . |
| 25 | N — New Option This avoids the use of further index pages and takes you directly to the option prompt , so that you can enter the 3 digit number of the option you require . |
| 26 | It makes a change and gets you out of the house . ’ |
| 27 | Tommy picks up the Magnum and fires it twice at the stereo , one bullet in each cassette deck . |
| 28 | A rotating mechanism traps the hair and plucks it out by the root . |
| 29 | Leasing is a system whereby a financial institution purchases a piece of equipment and leases it back to the company , which then has the use of equipment it has not had to purchase . |
| 30 | Ormanroyd and he 's got round Laws and pulls it back into the danger area but the cross defended well . |