Example sentences of "and [verb] the [noun] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hope here is that each will reinforce the other , and make the school experience less of a bewildering succession of totally disparate experiences . |
| 2 | The latest product is called FAXgrabber — which operates only in Windows — and offers the ability to take any incoming fax and convert it into text which can then be edited and inserted in other applications . |
| 3 | Paddy Ashdown went on the now familiar walkabout and braved the scrum to canvass more support . |
| 4 | He had mentioned to them the possibility of a deal and even the likelihood of profit , and proposed that one of the laundress 's sons come with a ladder and pick the tree clean this autumn , before the mulberries matured to that soft ripeness that threatened any laundry hanging near . |
| 5 | And given the conditions obtaining this posed an almost insuperable problem , since ‘ the rebirth of industry is itself dependent on the flow of vital resources into towns , the absolute necessity for this influx at any price . ’ |
| 6 | Due to a crowded hard disk on my Compaq LTE 286/40 , I decided to back up some of my files ( using the switch/S for subdirectories ) onto 3.5-inch floppies , and delete the directories to create more space . |
| 7 | Each sector director looks at his business on a national level , ignoring regional boundaries , and has the power to deploy all his resources to the best commercial advantage . |
| 8 | Conning a few pounds from Mr Yarrow and walking the streets held little appeal . |
| 9 | Money was needed to build the factories and provide the machinery to exploit these resources to the fullest extent . |
| 10 | This trial began in February 1986 and ended some 17 months later , when the trial judge acceded to a submission that the evidence for the prosecution had raised no case to answer , and directed the jury to acquit all the defendants . |
| 11 | You just relax and let the machines do all your exercises for you . |
| 12 | She just wanted to dash out of the house and let the rain cool some of the thoughts flying around in her mind . |
| 13 | She must call him in the morning , give him all the names she had found , and let the police handle any investigation . |
| 14 | The unkind but graphic association of names with feet and noses and twittering conversation was enough to bring both to mind , and allowed the registrar to greet each student by name , even after a long interval . |
| 15 | It shifted the political spotlight from blundering Mr Major and allowed the Tories to claim that Labour are just as divided as them . |
| 16 | Blue here corresponds to 1.6 mm , and shows the cloud tops much as we see them at optical wavelengths . |
| 17 | A person 's individual cocktail of microflora oxidises and modifies the pheromone to produce that person 's ‘ scent fingerprint ’ . ’ |
| 18 | Second , it may identify problems in the research proposal and save the researcher repeating another 's mistakes . |
| 19 | She heaved herself out and opened the trunk to display several large paper bags full of groceries . |
| 20 | He emphasized that the laws opened up to Jews the possibility of their separate existence within Germany in all spheres of life , and renewed the command forbidding all ‘ individual actions ’ against Jews . |
| 21 | " Parent help allows for more reading aloud time and liberates the teacher to do more diagnostic work . " |
| 22 | He has been on the Opposition Front Bench for long enough to have seen and understood the redevelopment work that is currently being undertaken in Londonderry and which is being carried out in the county towns throughout the length and breadth of Northern Ireland . |
| 23 | Showing Out and Pass The Mic yield some surprisingly good dancers and singers , but the choice of Pass The Mic winner suggests that breast size is the judges ' main criterion . |
| 24 | Because the courts have held that appropriation does not occur instantaneously they have been able to expand and contract the term to catch those who are " manifestly guilty " . |
| 25 | You could either go and try and control the people to get more work out of them , which you would do , but the other option is to say , well , I recognise that my plan was optimistic , let's change the assumptions in the plan and you 're going to improve , therefore , your planning . |
| 26 | Your letter of 27 Feb. , informing me that the current account was overdrawn and charging the Club to rectify this , was the last straw . |
| 27 | Regulations laid down in 1865 made life significantly easier for the bulk of the press , reducing pre-publication censorship and committing the authorities to refer most alleged offences to the courts . |
| 28 | Responsibilities here include : encouraging contact between the school and its community ; receiving reports from the headteacher and education authority ; and having the right to raise any matter for consideration by the headteacher or education authority . |
| 29 | The aim , therefore , was both to create new centres of national capitalism and to neutralize the capacity to obstruct this process of the three dominant powers of backward Europe — the Tsars , the Habsburg emperors , and the monarchs of Prussia ( the three were interlocked in the tripartite division of Poland ) . |
| 30 | In a simple case of the sale of registered land ( such as transfer of whole ) it 's common now to assume that your draft will be acceptable without alteration , and therefore to type the top copy on an engrossment print , and to invite the buyer to use this as the engrossment . |