Example sentences of "and [verb] [pron] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He took her chin between finger and thumb , turning her face and drowning her in the warm amber light of his eyes . |
| 2 | ‘ The native habit of tethering horses and hobbling them in the full glare of a torrid sun ( with a temperature of perhaps 120 degrees F. in the shade ) destroys the strongest constitution and often kills them out-right … |
| 3 | The cause of British nurses and nursing itself in the 1980s has been championed most consistently by Trevor Clay . |
| 4 | Alexandra took the long pins out of her hat and laid them in the red glass tray on her dressing-table . |
| 5 | For those who wish to escape the hustle and bustle and lose themselves in the peaceful Nottinghamshire countryside , the working farms of the Nottinghamshire Farm Tourism Group offer a taste of the rural tradition . |
| 6 | The operation of the wheel is unusual , being a variation on the overshot type in which water falls on to the top of the wheel and turns it in the same direction as the water 's flow . |
| 7 | Bursting a good big dam , or even just letting it overflow , is almost as satisfying as planning and building it in the first place . |
| 8 | Linguists belonging to the Prague School by and large conflate the two structures and combine them in the same description . |
| 9 | " We 're going to carry the yew berries home in our mouths and eat them in the great burrow . |
| 10 | If Alison Watt , poor little sausage , had measured the Queen Mum from ear to ear , and got everything in the right place in the same picture , people would probably tell her she was a genius . |
| 11 | She took off everything that could identify her , and stowed it in the bottom layer of her jewellery box . |
| 12 | " Forasmuch as it hath pleased Almighty God of his goodness to give you safe deliverance , and to preserve you in the great danger of childbirth ; you shall therefore give hearty thanks unto God … " |
| 13 | When turning a corner into the next aisle of the shop , do n't tamely walk round behind the trolley and push it in the new direction . |
| 14 | His political ideals included the concept of arbitration as a substitute for war in the settlement of national disputes , and involved him in the jingoistic disputes of 1877 . |
| 15 | And send it in the pre-paid envelope |
| 16 | And send it in the pre-paid envelope . |
| 17 | For example polymethyl methacrylate ( Perspex , Plexiglas ) may be moulded to any desired shape by warming it to temperatures little over 100°C and cooling it in the deformed state . |
| 18 | By separating the glycerides from more readily available fats and assembling them in the required proportions it was possible to match the physical properties of cocoa butter . |
| 19 | He felt for Thomas 's hand and wrung it in the momentary blindness after the torch was quenched against the rock . |
| 20 | It looked round for an ally , and found one in the old hereditary enemy , Austria-Hungary . |
| 21 | The sixteenth-century writers who condemned depopulation looked for a depopulator , and found him in the enclosing landlord , who found that stock , -rearing was more profitable than corn-growing . |
| 22 | And it was here , after the house-warming party which began with hours of few arrivals and long silences , that she and Hugh had finished what was left of the Carafino and found themselves in the narrow bed in the basement where this dramatically argumentative child had been conceived . |
| 23 | Jim Crow laws dictated that we all sit up in the coloured balcony , so we followed Earl up the stairs of the separate entrance , located to the right of the box office , and found ourselves in the highest tier of the auditorium . |
| 24 | He won East Bristol in 1900 and retained it in the general elections of 1906 and 1910 . |
| 25 | Instead of joining the press of bodies that jammed up the aisle towards the crush bar , he took my arm once again and drew me in the opposite direction . |
| 26 | The letter expressed the CPSU 's ‘ deep anxiety for the fate of socialism in Poland ’ , regretted that the necessary measures had not been taken against domestic anti-Soviet and anti-socialist forces , and called upon the Polish party to ‘ reverse the course of events and channel them in the right direction ’ . |
| 27 | They bound Guthlac ‘ in all his limbs … and brought him to the black fen , and threw and sank him in the muddy waters ’ . |
| 28 | Largely instrumental , it 's like warm soapy water , soothing and enveloping you in the last bath of the day . |
| 29 | The new edition of the Oxford Placement Tests now gives you everything you need to test your students , mark their papers , and place them in the right class with accuracy and efficiency . |
| 30 | Date it and place it in the safe keeping of a bank manager or a solicitor ( although these professionals often do n't like doing this , as it is a lot of trouble ) . |