Example sentences of "and [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the US ( with the UK in tow ) shaped up for war with Iraq and steamed off to the Gulf to protect their own interests , saying that they were doing so on behalf of the whole world . |
| 2 | Not only was she a founder of Playschool , and responsible for commissioning Postman Pat , Bertha the Big Machine and Charlie Chalk for the BBC ; but when Playschool came under threat she formed her own independent production company to make — and sell back to the BBC — a modern replacement for it : the current Playdays ( first known as Playbus ) . |
| 3 | While it was charming I was not at all happy there so I gave up the grandiose life and moved over to the Peel Street YMCA . |
| 4 | So they collected their actors and actresses , a film crew of twelve and their livestock and moved off to the Utah desert to begin filming . |
| 5 | Mr Major won his mandate to continue his premiership and press on with the Maastricht Bill by just three votes after a photo-finish climax to a day of drama . |
| 6 | A few miles to the south-west of Beverley the Scots raised their standard on the beacon at Hunsley , which marks almost the southern end of the Wolds and looks out across the Humber to Lincolnshire and across the Vale of York towards Selby and Doncaster . |
| 7 | By the time we eventually turned to starboard and headed off towards the UK I was most anxious to get home : I was to be the best man at a wedding that day , and I had to get back before high noon , When the dawn really appeared we were lying very sedately over ( and we were not aware of it at the time ) Belgium . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'm not surprised ! ’ the other girl agreed sympathetically , having just heard from Laura the full story of her traumatic outing , which had culminated in her being arrested and ending up in the New York police station . |
| 9 | Besides Ermine Street itself , a second road led southwestwards towards Irchester from a gap in the western defences , crossing in the process a further route which runs north-westwards from Ermine Street , roughly parallel with the enclosure , and heads off across the Billing Brook . |
| 10 | From here it follows the route of the prehistoric Sewstern Lane and drops down to the Grantham Canal . |
| 11 | The Somme dragged on through July , a futile and terrible battle of attrition that cost hundreds of thousands of lives , through Aubers Ridge , Delville Wood , where the Cameronians had a section of trench they called Buchanan Street , and into a dreadful September , when Haig decided to try and break through on the Somme with a secret weapon , the tank . |
| 12 | I finish my tea and climb back into the Toyota . |
| 13 | We eventually left the outback by way of some tiny townships , widely spaced , and came down onto the Queensland coast at the busy city of Townsville with a modern cylindrical building surmounted by a silvery roof feature . |
| 14 | Sykes went to Paris a couple of days before you did , and came back on the Monday . |
| 15 | He crossed the road , pausing on the kerb and looking back towards the Lancia . |
| 16 | Leave the Museum of Decorative Arts and walk along to the Svatopluka Čech Bridge of 1906 , by J. Soukup and J. Koula . |
| 17 | The five ancestors are generally regarded as the sole survivors of the Shaolin temple after it was sacked and burned down by the Ching emperor 's army . |
| 18 | Henry got out of the car and sauntered over to the Sierra . |
| 19 | There appear to be four main Soviet categories for Latin American regimes : ( i ) ‘ revolutionary democratic ’ states or ( a label rarely applied ) states of ‘ socialist orientation ’ , such as post-1979 Nicaragua and 1979–83 Grenada ; ( ii ) capitalist , yet ‘ progressive ’ and ‘ anti-imperialist regimes which are willing to be friendly to the Soviet Union and stand up to the United States , such as Mexico and panama ( particularly under General Omar Torrijos ( 1969–81 ) , who negotiated a treaty with the Carter administration providing for complete Panamanian sovereignty over the Canal by 1999 , a campaign that was strongly supported by Moscow ) . |
| 20 | Session 1992 — 3 A programme of events will be discussed and drawn up at the June meeting . |
| 21 | Session 1992–3 A programme of events will be discussed and drawn up at the June meeting . |
| 22 | A light breeze from the north cleared the air and the sun blazed out over distant mountains as we headed between the Crowlin Isles and shaped up towards the Kyle of Localsh . |
| 23 | Handcuffed and hauled off to the Los Angeles County jail , he was mug-photoed , fingerprinted and seemingly washed up . |
| 24 | We liked the motor camp at Marahau so much that we stayed two nights , giving us a chance to wash and clean up after the Abel Tasman . |
| 25 | The ruling arose from the case of Humberto Alvarez-Marchain , who was kidnapped in 1990 from his home in Guadalajara , Mexico , flown to the USA , and handed over to the US Drug Enforcement Administration ( DEA ) in return for a financial reward . |
| 26 | He gave a quick , curt nod to the soldiers on duty and turned on to the Al Ain road . |
| 27 | The driver revved up enthusiastically and turned on to the October Bidge . |
| 28 | Walk through and look up at the Parler net vaulting with the crown of Bohemia on the boss . |
| 29 | Stand here and look up at the River Esk a famous salmon fishing river ; and across the river at St. Mary 's church , at the top of 199 steps , furnished by local shipwrights . |
| 30 | ( And look out for the Somerset Companion Map Leaflet with vouchers to the value of £20 and over ) . |