Example sentences of "and [verb] [adv] the [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Azmaveth did not argue but knelt down on the floor by the bed and laid out the silk square in front of her . |
| 2 | I had woken up as the ferry was docking , feeling bad-breathed and half drunk , and had walked off the ramp , shown my passport at customs and asked where the police station was . |
| 3 | Shildon said he believed that , too , and asked how the police inquiry was going . |
| 4 | Bending and whipping up the wicker basket full of odd garments , Aggie nodded hastily towards the girl , saying , ‘ Ta , lass . |
| 5 | The South-West , who beat London last year , have made a total of three changes , choosing the Plymouth wing Steve Walklin instead of Peter Blackett of Bath , and bringing in the Bath lock Nigel Redman in place of his club-mate John Morrison . |
| 6 | I climb out and pick up the wood arrow , |
| 7 | ‘ OK , Ellis , take out the tray and bring on the sex maniac . ’ |
| 8 | You can click on an empty space on the desktop and bring up the Task Manager . |
| 9 | I had to think of her seeing the copy of my cock on Monday , I had to think of her first thinking , ‘ Golly , what a nut ’ , and then finding she had to stare uncontrollably at the specific image of my cock , boyoing , had to file that image away in a secret file folder where she filed away all my asterisk memos , and that some night working late , she 'd reach her long arms down to that drawer and bring out the asterisk file and go through the pages , asterisk after asterisk , until she found my cock . |
| 10 | Light the Christmas candle and bring in the nativity scene , with perhaps everyone sharing in setting it up . |
| 11 | The artist would reproduce that grid onto a studio canvas in a proportionately larger scale , using it as a sequence of reference points by which to plot and paint up the landscape configuration exactly to the Design drawing . |
| 12 | The information carried by an amplitude-modulated signal ( see section 5.9 ) is recovered by rectifying it and filtering out the carrier wave to leave the amplitude-modulating wave . |
| 13 | Uncle Albert made the drinks and got out the biscuit tin . |
| 14 | That the gulf existed was something she had known all along , so what she had overheard and the realisation it brought with it should n't be causing tears to prick behind her eyes as she opened the cupboard in the study that adjoined Faye and Bill 's bedroom , and got out the testing kit she had come for . |
| 15 | As he turned on the hot-water tap and got out the dish detergent , Hank abandoned the idea of going back to his garage . |
| 16 | This is the spin-out 's second of three products for compressing , encrypting and speeding up the Unix file system . |
| 17 | Mr Guest insisted his company was dedicated to improving safety and speeding up the traffic flow but said there was no need for new measures to result in a loss of custom . |
| 18 | As Alcuin looked back from the high days of his own collaboration with Charlemagne , which also involved his many pupils who became bishops and abbots , he obviously saw a model of this relationship at the York of his younger days , when Eadbert ruled Northumbria while his brother Egbert was archbishop of York and built up the cathedral library . |
| 19 | Trim the fabric away inside the scallops , cutting close to the stitching line and notching out the seam allowance round the curves ( fig. 37 ) . |
| 20 | That may be too sudden a verdict , but if such tours are to continue and flourish then the background planning must be much more evenly balanced . |
| 21 | ‘ I 'm one of those people who can eat and drink what I like and not put on weight , so I had to do it by weight training and build up the muscle weight , ’ he adds . |
| 22 | When a new Manager took over the Transport Department in 1933 , he was keen to modernise the Promenade and Fleetwood tramway and build up the bus system . |
| 23 | This feature encourages water that finds its way aboard over the weatherside to slip round behind the after coaming and exit over the lee quarter . |
| 24 | He ceased to be secretary in 1876 , but remained a syndic and helped both the London Society for the Extension of University Education and the Oxford committee to begin extension work . |
| 25 | Instead of pulling over onto the hard shoulder , opening the car bonnet and putting more oil in the engine , you take a hammer and bash out the oil warning light . |
| 26 | The CNAA made ‘ a tacit political bargain with the DES … for the CNAA to have had a dagger in its hand and kill off the government scheme would not have done ’ . |
| 27 | If you did n't do so when using the configuration file for the database creation , you should now update the header for the configuration file adding a new modification record with a development code , and scan both the configuration file and the package module until you get no errors . |
| 28 | Sometimes a single boulder bounds and clatters down the scree pile , echoing loudly , sometimes a larger mass breaks away , sometimes the scree itself shifts and readjusts itself in a prolonged rattling clatter — a noise rather like the sea swashing back over pebbles . |
| 29 | ‘ What have we here ? ’ their father asked , leaning down and picking up the paper bag . |
| 30 | ‘ Having ignored the demand side and played up the supply side , Niskanen has unbalanced his theory ’ ( Jackson 1982 , p. 132 ) . |