Example sentences of "and [vb -s] [adv prt] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It takes them long enough to cut a way through to the chimney of the air shaft , sawing through the rhodie branches and tearing away the brambles and other undergrowth ; then they lever off the iron grating over the shaft without any difficulty , and one of the younger cops , in an overall and a hard hat , wraps the rope around himself — proper climbing rope they had in the back of one of the Range Rovers — and abseils down into the darkness . |
| 2 | It works with standard audio input devices like microphones , disks and cassette tapes , and plays back on a variety of devices . |
| 3 | A hole saw looks like a hacksaw blade curled into a circle and fits on to a twist drill ( typically 6mm ) and can be used with an electric drill . |
| 4 | An administrative culture — which is concerned with rules , roles , authority and fits in with the concept of a role culture . |
| 5 | The system is flexible and fits in with the user 's way of working . |
| 6 | When the transistor came along , we thought that with valves and relays out of the way , electronics would never ( well , hardly ever ) break down . |
| 7 | First , do we really accept that a man in the act of undressing suddenly decides halfway through that he will hang himself and goes up to the garret without his boots on to carry out the terrible act ? |
| 8 | The Parks tournament at Calderstones Park , which starts on July 19 and goes on for a week , will have the added bonus of the Dunlop tennis roadshow , with Castle and other leading coaches topping the bill . |
| 9 | And it goes out in a blaze of colour — a spectacular firework display which starts at 6.45pm and goes on into the night . |
| 10 | He turns his back and goes over to the chest of drawers , his brown bottom wiggling at Mark . |
| 11 | She takes out this dark red dress with these big white dots and goes over to the mirror . |
| 12 | She lifts her eyebrows at me and then stands up and goes over to the sink . |
| 13 | I stay at home and my partner — for I 'm not a wife — puts on a suit and goes out of the door to work . |
| 14 | One boy is chosen and goes out of the room . |
| 15 | Recruited for a tricky mission , he pinions a German plane under his own , crashes into a dam , floods a German base and goes out in a blaze of glory , having saved the British fleet from likely destruction . |
| 16 | Skipper has his breakfast and goes out in the field and I go home and am ready to start work at 10.30am — one of the benefits of being a freelance is that the person who rings up at 10.31am does n't realise that you are wearing jodhpurs and have dirty fingernails ! |
| 17 | Everyone comes in and goes out by the front . " |
| 18 | and goes out like a lamb |
| 19 | Howard escapes from the hospital and goes back to the scene of the robbery where everything is strangely familiar . |
| 20 | She loses interest and goes back to the television . |
| 21 | She turns and goes back to the house . |
| 22 | Chris , tall , lithe and manly , strips off and goes in for a swim in his panda-briefs . |
| 23 | Roy , 37 , even leaves Janette in the dead of night and goes down to the bar hoping to catch a glimpse of his beloved spirit . |
| 24 | After a further mile towards Chapel-le-Dale , a track turns off the road to the left and goes down to the beck in the valley bottom , arriving at a section roofed by a natural arch of considerable length . |
| 25 | Cross the road and take path going north-north-east which then bears left to Stoke Ridge and goes down to the bend in the road at Stoke Pero . |
| 26 | Clint says he has been sitting on the story of Unforgiven for 15 years waiting to grow into the part but denies that this could be the last time he saddles up and rides off into the sunset . |
| 27 | The ship is due to sail that day : on shore with the captain at a prize-fight , he overhears a plot to kidnap a certain American lady visiting Los Xicales with her brother , and rides out on a bicycle to warn them but also expecting that this will be the moment foretold for that second meeting . |
| 28 | Like Flynn before him , Fonda can not stay in the town he has tamed and rides out at the fade-out into the desert . |
| 29 | He knows it , and drives off into the night licking his dollar lips . |
| 30 | He removes his parka , wrapping it around the muzzle of his Sturm-Ruger , and sits back on the step of the lectern . |