Example sentences of "and [vb base] [verb] [adv prt] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have just had an extension completed and want to dry out the walls quickly so that we can use the room . |
| 2 | And I think you 've got ta address my doubts because if I have doubts how am I going to stand in front of members and say hang on a minute , I can give you all of these answers , I can tell you what unison 's going to be like and this is what 's been decided , now come back to me and give me your fears , give me your doubts and I 'll go and take them on to represent you . |
| 3 | Choosing the right time and place to bring up the subject of safer sex is important . |
| 4 | They had an excellent position , but for the fact that there was an army between them and home , and with England at their backs , and bitterly conscious of their recent attentions , they could not afford to sit still and wait to wear out the enemy . |
| 5 | Snow and slush messing up the pavements . |
| 6 | Only thus could he step outside of the present situation and hope to puzzle out the riddle of Zephro Carnelian — even while being forced to react predictably … |
| 7 | She believes we must all recognise and come to terms with our own ageism and seek to break down the barriers to understanding . |
| 8 | When they stand at the watchnight service and hear those self-same carols they will galvanise into action and begin to take up the offering among the congregation and go off to ring it up on the cash register . |
| 9 | This was augmented by Hastings 's conversion and two penalties , and only now , with more than a quarter of the match gone , did France pull themselves together and begin to pull back the Lions ' lead . |
| 10 | And if I can not rid myself of it I will just have to go into the service and begin to root out the cause . |
| 11 | Later that afternoon , there was an inspection of the course , and while sideslipping down behind Mueller I was amazed to seen him remove his skis and begin walking down the course , an activity known as ‘ bootpacking ’ . |
| 12 | ‘ You tell her , Gaby , and remember to cut out the philosophy . ’ |
| 13 | We crash to the ground and roll fighting down the slope . |
| 14 | People , as we will see and know already ( see Stewart 1987 ) , largely choose to take heroin and decide to take on the lifestyle associated with it . |
| 15 | It says that recent years have seen a transformation in Britain 's manufacturing base , and it condemns those who do not recognise it and continue to run down the achievements of British industry . |
| 16 | Roll out half to a large square , place the roof-sized pieces of paper over and use to cut out the icing . |
| 17 | * Check the contents page and try to link up the entries into a developing narrative or argument . |
| 18 | one department might start ‘ empire building ’ and try to take over the work previously done by another department . |
| 19 | To the accompaniment of one of Alan Dell 's Big Band programmes Patrick told Peter Jennings about the murder and the theft of the letters , the switched bodies and his decision to come out to Romania and try to pick up the scent of John and Angela Bonnard . |
| 20 | Landowners ca n't do exactly what they want for a start , and if they intend to do anything which might damage the site they have to inform the Nature Conservancy Council in writing and try to work out a compromise . |
| 21 | I think you need to look again at the bit I 've marked above where I could n't understand it , and try to clear up the problem . |
| 22 | I 'm just trying to keep his feet on the ground and try to make up the yardage , but Lee hits out of the bunker and thinks it has all left him . |
| 23 | And honeysuckle twining up the birch . |
| 24 | Another reason is that , without such a freewheel , the tail rotor will continue to rotate at a normal speed and attempt to cancel out a torque effect which is no longer present . |
| 25 | Do you know she had the sauce to pick up my socks and start smoothing down the eiderdown . ’ |
| 26 | They now have an urge to seek fresh water and start swimming up the rivers . |
| 27 | Frankly I think from our colleagues in the conservative party should n't really be wasting our time here with these silly motions , erm what 's needed is if you 're gon na improve the housing situation in the city and in the country as a whole , we need to be allowed to use our capital receipts , all the ones we 've piled up , and we need to also inject money into the national economy to build new homes and incidentally to get the economy moving again and start bringing down the level of unemployment . |
| 28 | Jinny 'll have to do all the milking and start planting out the cabbages . ’ |
| 29 | If the debt is all owed to one organisation then you must write to them , explain your problem and offer to pay off the debt in fourteen instalments . |
| 30 | Slow movers may need to break off combat and leave finishing off the Champion to their swifter-moving friends if all are to get out alive ! |