Example sentences of "and [vb base] [verb] in the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had also seen migratory birds in the sky directly above the paralysis , suddenly stop and remain suspended in the air . |
| 2 | Cut the salmon into thinnish steaks , arrange them in one layer in a well-buttered baking dish , sprinkle them with salt and seasonings , add about I oz. of fresh butter , cut in pieces , for every pound of salmon , cover the dish with buttered paper and a lid , and put to cook in the centre of a moderately heated oven , gas no. 3 , 330 F. In 45 to 50 minutes — a little more or less according to the thickness of the steaks — the salmon will be cooked . |
| 3 | In Salman Rushdie 's The Satanic Verses , two Indian men , Farishta and Chamcha , fall out of an aeroplane and hang suspended in the air before landing on the shore of Britain , where they begin to reconstruct their identities . |
| 4 | In their second year these children become able to walk , they leave the hut and begin to participate in the life outside . |
| 5 | Since The Band Wagon is arguably the greatest — as well as most typical — of all musicals ( if we exclude The Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach , 1968 , as non-eligible and demote Singin' in the Rain , 1952 , to second place ) , one can only wish there were more of it . |
| 6 | ‘ Then you can learn a great deal by working in Moll Sutton 's shop , and get paid in the process . ’ |
| 7 | WELCOME TO Meridian — the birthplace of country music , and slap bang in the middle of the region that brought you jazz , the blues and rock'n'roll . |
| 8 | WELCOME TO Meridian — the birthplace of country music , and slap bang in the middle of the region that brought you jazz , the blues and rock'n'roll . |
| 9 | Remove the pears from the heat and allow to cool in the syrup . |
| 10 | In 1792 Whitbread stressed his commitment to ‘ a cool and moderate proceeding in the course of justice and humanity ’ . |
| 11 | At times of the greatest mental stress I would wander into some cool church and try to pray in the dimness scented by peasant sweat , cold candle-grease and stale incense . |
| 12 | Often , the best way to prove a mathematical theorem is to start at both ends , and try to meet in the middle . |
| 13 | ‘ If no one else turned up we 'd play three pots in , at night we 'd get nearer the light in the pub car park and try to play in the pitch black . |
| 14 | As some spiders only come out when it is dark , take a torch and go searching in the evening . |
| 15 | Even from where I stood I could see the white and yellow of dog-daisies and hawkear blowing in the sea-breeze like coloured veils over the green . |
| 16 | He failed to show how from the other direction values could arise from the people and become incorporated in the state ideology . |
| 17 | The door and the lead are immediately in front of her and become particularized in the poem . |
| 18 | They insist that there must be no deviation from that style and demand such loyalty that their dancers lose their own identity and become absorbed in the world of that particular ballet . |
| 19 | Through such matchings notions of blackness and depth , threat and secrecy emerge and become embedded in the sculpture that seems to articulate them . |
| 20 | , aha , just basically I mean how do you find working and , you know rearing children , bringing up a family , and doing your housework , do you , how do you organize it , do you find that you get up early and do work in the morning , will you do a bit of work when you go home or , does your partner help out with the work ? |
| 21 | Boxers can and do die in the ring . |
| 22 | Place on a tray lined with nonstick baking parchment and leave to harden in the fridge . |
| 23 | After that , you can expect Leeds mail to come surging down the wires to your computer every day of the week , and aim to join in the talk whenever you can . |
| 24 | In the parasitic phase the L3 enter the mucosa of the small intestine and occasionally that of the caecum and colon ; after a week they moult , the L4 emerge on to the mucosal surface and migrate to congregate in the caecum where development to the L5 is completed about 25 days after infection . |
| 25 | We will start to replace the underfunding suffered by the Health Service under the Conservatives , invest more in renovating and constructing new health service buildings , and increase spending in the priority areas listed below . |
| 26 | She craved clean air and peace , but there were not many hours to pass before she could point her car westwards and join Ayling in the country . |
| 27 | In turn under the leadership of QC and QC we have sent delegations to the Baltic States , Estonia , Latvia and Lithuania ( at their request , we hasten to add ) , and have assisted in the setting up of a new bilateral organisation called BELLA ( British Law Association for Estonia , Latvia and Lithuania ) . |
| 28 | It mattered to Randolph Ash what a man was , though he could , without undue disturbance , have written that general pantechnicon of a sentence using other terms , phrases and rhythms and have come in the end to the same satisfactory evasive metaphor . |
| 29 | The tuners are Jackson-stamped Gotohs and have proved in the past to be man enough for the job , relegated as they are to being mere anchor points for the strings , taking into account the Floyd Rose licensed tremolo employed here . |
| 30 | In the middle ages Margaret had had a wonderful time ; women had understood then that it was not to other mothers that you turn in childbirth , it is to those women who have lived it , who have been down between the dragon 's teeth , have travelled the dragons ' pathways and have lurked in the dark and boiling belly of pain , have been chewed and digested and emerged . |