Example sentences of "and [adv] [verb] [adv prt] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a few reasonable take-offs and landings , said those dreaded words feared by all trainee pilots , ‘ Do you think you can manage on your own for one circuit ? ’ , and promptly got out of the plane , leaving me to do the usual pre take-off checks , taxi to the beginning of the runway and nervously accelerate down the runway to do a fair take-off . |
| 2 | Describing Gloucester 's subsequent attack on the Woodvilles , More continues : ‘ [ Gloucester and Buckingham ] said that the lord marquis had entered into the Tower of London and thence taken out the king 's treasure and sent men to the sea . |
| 3 | Describing Gloucester 's subsequent attack on the Woodvilles , More continues : ‘ [ Gloucester and Buckingham ] said that the lord marquis had entered into the Tower of London and thence taken out the king 's treasure and sent men to the sea . |
| 4 | The dark rim around the bright mound is artefactual : the coverslip has pressed the top of the mound down into the plane of optical section and thereby pushed down the epidermis around the foot of the mound below that plane . |
| 5 | The frost causes the bracken to die back and thereby opens up the canopy to let in more light . |
| 6 | The Bank , by rejecting offers at r 1 , is in effect reducing its demand for bills ( D 1 to D 2 ) , and thereby drives up the rediscount rate to r 2 . |
| 7 | It was holiday snaps of Wyatt with a naked Bea which angered Andrew and eventually brought about the Yorks ' tragicomic separation . |
| 8 | Some of those attending the final farewell wept as personnel manager Mr Parry , 46 , stood beside his son 's coffin and courageously poured out the family 's feelings . |
| 9 | But he thought better of it and slowly breathed out the air through his nose . |
| 10 | Perhaps for the first time he felt something akin to Eliza 's feelings , as he watched his boxes and bottles winched aboard ship and slowly disappear over the horizon . |
| 11 | Old Herky turned around and slowly started back the way he had come . |
| 12 | With what I swear was a scathing look that said something like " Wally " , he launched himself gracefully on to the air and noiselessly flew down the gill out of sight . |
| 13 | He slipped a hand beneath Corbett 's cloak and deftly drew out the clerk 's knife which he stuck into his own sturdy leather-studded belt , and almost dragged the horse across the market-place . |
| 14 | One species of beetle in Brazil , when alarmed , immediately folds up its legs and flattens itself sideways , exposing its white underside and so takes on the appearance of a bird dropping . |
| 15 | A good catalogue , therefore , makes life easy for its user , and so builds up the supplier 's reputation . |
| 16 | If the risk-free hedge is seen to produce a greater return than the risk-free rate then arbitrage will take place as investors offer to write more calls and so bring down the price of the option . |
| 17 | If the forecasts are believed , they will affect the actions of agents and so take on the role of expectations . |
| 18 | If you use drugs , you will need to consider that drugs can deplete your immune system and so speed up the progression of the illness . |
| 19 | Rather than face up to change , however , politicians , especially in the Conservative Party , campaigned for the use of the tariff to keep out foreign goods and to provide subsidies to British industry and so slow down the process of adjustment . |
| 20 | For the diminutive Andy — people often wonder how he hauls around the pro bags that stand as high as him — the triumphs he has shared with Nick Faldo are something of a fulfilment of his own ambition of winning the titles himself : he started as a tournament professional with dreams of a major championship before realizing he would not make the grade as a pro , and so took up the bag instead of the club . |
| 21 | ‘ If students are going to be landed with a debt at the end of three years , they are going to choose vocational courses so that they can be certain of getting a job when they graduate and so pay off the loan . ’ |
| 22 | The curtains were not drawn half across the window and so closing out the light as most curtains were wont to do , but were wide apart showing , of all things , a piece of grassland parched by the sun but , nevertheless , still giving evidence that it was grass by the strip in the shadow of the house . |
| 23 | As we saw earlier , the period which marks the emergence of Consumers ' Co-operation as virtually the sole objective of the Movement , and its rejection of authentic Producers ' Co-operation , coincides with Hobsbawm 's Age of Capital , that period which marked the phenomenal growth of a global economy of industrial capitalism and so held out the prospect of unlimited and unfailing progress — and nowhere more than in Britain which held a de facto international monopoly in trade in manufactures . |
| 24 | It composed a tortured symphony , and impulsively printed out the score on fabrex in the Midlands clothe factory . |
| 25 | But he decided they probably had enough on their minds for the moment ; and swiftly tossing back the Glenlivet , he left them , making his way thoughtfully to the front entrance , and wondering something else : wondering whether any announcement of Kemp 's death — Kemp 's murder — would have come as too much of a surprise to one of the four people who still sat round their table in the Chapters Bar . |
| 26 | After depositing my faint-hearted photographer at the foot of the craggy slope , I locked the Discovery 's transmission into low-ratio first gear for the steep climb , revved the big V8 engine decisively and gingerly eased out the clutch . |
| 27 | As always , remember to practise sl-ow-ly at first and only build up the tempo as and when the part begins to feel comfortable . |
| 28 | We disturb wildlife , pollute air , drop litter and literally wear out the footpaths . |
| 29 | There 's no installation program ; instead you have to create a directory on your hard disk and manually copy over the files . |
| 30 | Highlander provided an educational forum where those who were interested in pursuing the idea of a ‘ participatory research ’ project on land ownership could swap experiences and ideas and together hammer out the details of what was known , what was wanted and how to collect the facts . |