Example sentences of "and [verb] [adv prt] [noun] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The silence continued long , while Harry picked up and laid down tool after tool , smoothed a finger-nail along the chisels , hefted the mallets , turning and twisting like a caged animal with the fury of his longing and the rigidity of his pride . |
| 2 | But out of sight in the galley , she gripped the rail in front of the cooker to steady herself and choked back tears of rage and frustration . |
| 3 | On offer at the shop is a full design and make up service for cots , cribs , Moses baskets , bedding and curtains . |
| 4 | She would drive to the nursery in the spring and pick up boxes of spring flowers , pansies , violets , crocuses , iris , lilies of the valley , daffodils , and jonquil , and set them lovingly in the damp sweet-sour earth . |
| 5 | Erm I 'll go through the consultation paper and pick out sort of paragraph by paragraph and any that we particular agree or disagree with . |
| 6 | Headaches are stupefying , benumbing and bring on confusion of mind . |
| 7 | Before the First World War , the younger women of the village , of whom my mother was one , used to walk from Mavhinje to Štivan ( San Giovanni ) , near the coast , and bring back pots of water on their heads . |
| 8 | ‘ We used to go round the farms to collect the harness-work and bring back sets of harness for repair . |
| 9 | And even if it went down , at least it would be a heroic failure — a genuine attempt to break the mould and bring back standards of quality and decency . |
| 10 | I 'm currently working out measures which can follow up on the policy statement and bring about changes in practice and law . |
| 11 | The scheme will use up LWT 's £50m of cash and bring in £72.5m of borrowings . |
| 12 | There are prototyping packages available which will set up screen layouts and bring in blocks of code for validating and presenting data . |
| 13 | If a raised body temperature promotes alertness and staves off feelings of fatigue , high body temperatures are obviously disadvantageous when we wish to get to sleep . |
| 14 | Higher education is also expected to rely more heavily on private sources of finance with polytechnics and universities competing for commercial , foundation and research council contracts and building up relationships with industry through consultancy and science parks . |
| 15 | It is a wonderful way of assuring the presence of core stock and building up stock in Dillons stores . |
| 16 | Fellow director Eryl Morris underlined the need for productivity improvements : ‘ We have to put programmes in place to drive down costs and push up return on sales . ’ |
| 17 | Local councils will then have to collate the information and send out bills with details of the valuations put on houses . |
| 18 | RNAS non-rigid airships , able to stay aloft for many hours and send down reports by wireless , did important work on patrol and convoy escort , many times directing British destroyers into contact with the enemy 's U-boats . |
| 19 | A limited marine transgression in the Roman period caused the formation of salt marsh in the northern part of the Fens , while the Fen rivers aggraded their courses and built up levees of silt . |
| 20 | It can be so — certain women have a perpetual ‘ devouring ’ quality — but it is a natural process , echoed in the menstrual cycle , and in the moon 's waxing and waning , and it can be used to positive effect , regulating the ebb and flow of relationships and opening up pathways of communication . |
| 21 | And in ‘ Macbeth ’ , ‘ when Tarquin ‘ rapes ’ the crown , and the Boar climbs into Duncan 's slashed skin and stands up King of Scotland ’ , one must simply groan , because for all the tortuous extravagance of metaphor , and the twists and turns of myth intended to give it power like twisted elastic , one is not being told anything novel . |
| 22 | Measure up any items which have to stay in the kitchen , and cut out shapes from graph paper to represent them . |
| 23 | Henry Kissinger recognized that Romanian co-operation could be useful to the United States in its efforts to get out of the Vietnam War and to open up relations with Mao 's China . |
| 24 | THE LEAVING TRAINS : ‘ Sleeping Underwater Survivors ’ ( SST ) misunderstood Los Angeles band with their confusingly titled fourth album of mixed up and messed about songs of violence and torture — out on Monday |
| 25 | The Doctor spent several minutes inspecting his hat , turning it over in his hands and picking off specks of dust . |
| 26 | held-a football club as occupier should foresee that crowd could become unruly and break off pieces of concrete which if thrown could cause injury to visitors in this case on duty police officers . |
| 27 | Herringman is probably best known as the publisher of John Dryden [ q.v. ] , but his first enterprising move was to purchase the stock of John Holden , who had died in May 1652 , and to set up business at Holden 's former shop at the Blue Anchor in the Lower Walk , New Exchange , during 1653 . |
| 28 | When not leading the armies to war he dwells at the court of the Everqueen and keeps the peace in Avelorn , slaying marauding monsters and hunting down bands of Beastmen and Goblins . |
| 29 | It is because they substitute half-baked faith for genuine effort and hold out promises of intervention in the world 's affairs on payment . |
| 30 | Others relate to policies of pricing and work management to avoid ‘ feast ’ and ‘ famine ’ and to smooth out troughs in income . |