Example sentences of "and [vb base] [prep] a [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is a relief to me to take up this pen and sit at a table and endeavour to sort out what I feel pressing in upon me and to know that if sense can be made of it you will make it . |
| 2 | Every year some of the Culler coats ladies dress up in lifeboat gear , and sit in a row as though they are pulling a lifeboat . |
| 3 | I find it hard to think of any more splendid compensation than conferment of the power to transfer a very large sum of money from a newspaper which I dislike and despise to an organisation or institution which I love and admire . |
| 4 | It is found along with fossils of planktonic organisms and it is possible to explain the change in growth between coil and trumpet as a change that happened when the larval shell settled on the bottom . |
| 5 | Is try and make up a mountain that 's misty , so she looked at the map and began to climb down . |
| 6 | Place the grated orange rind , cheese and yogurt in a bowl and beat together . |
| 7 | Come down and snooze in a garden when I am a dragon , an ocean-lurking , sky-flying free dragon ; when the mother wind that keeps the world spinning caresses my scales as I fly across the moon and bring warnings and hopes to the fiery heart of the world ; when I can dance aloft at dawn , so that the rising sun turns my every scale to a pure diamond and the tides and rhythms of the oceans slow down in delight . |
| 8 | Yes , wind them round and this should , should generate a charge which rang bells and sounded bells and then er you lift up a telephone and plug in a jack and , and take a message in that way . |
| 9 | Drain the leeks and place in a liquidiser or food processor with the green chillis and the brine . |
| 10 | Strain the liquid into a bowl and place in a refrigerator until it begins to thicken . |
| 11 | The Geste brothers are stereotypes and may be laughed at with impunity : but Charles Wogan , as A. E. W. Mason saw him in Clementina , and the ingenuous John Ridd , self-revealing narrator of Lorna Doone , exemplify the intricacies of love and honour in a way that transcends period and social niceties . |
| 12 | They 've given her something and she , she had to put this stuff on her hair , had to take a trip to the hairdresser and he said to the hairdresser comb my hair first and then put this stuff on and wait for a fortnight and it did come a little lighter , but it was n't much |
| 13 | Yesterday West Yorkshire officers advised women to stay in their cars and wait for a patrol if they break down . |
| 14 | But this is one candle you can not possibly afford to extinguish in your life , for without it you may lose much of the valuable to-and-fro of friendship , which can protect you from isolation , and act as a safety-valve when you are under strain . |
| 15 | I know I 'm no end of a brute , and roar like a bear when I lose my temper , but there 's no need to be quite so distressed by my presence . |
| 16 | I mean it was just lifted from the scripture and and put into a prayer or whatever . |
| 17 | And nerves too when you have a finger whose paralysed and could n't remove it and put in a nerve and then they could work again . |
| 18 | A few gags , monologue — that was Lennie 's bit — a few more gags , I 'd do my drunk routine , and finish with a song and a bit of tap . |
| 19 | Drain the garlic and add to a blender or food processor , along with the yoghurt and milk . |
| 20 | They stagger off and go and lie in a park or a basement or wherever , until men come along and rape them , and then they 're okay again . |
| 21 | In general , however , we would stop at this point and accept as an explanation that he killed himself because he found his personal circumstances intolerable and sought to escape from them . |
| 22 | ‘ Just mill about and attack in a rabble when you feel like it . ’ |
| 23 | Those of a pike have become elegant filmy sculls , rotating slowly back and forth from a joint within the body , so that the fish can compensate for the tiniest variation of current and hang above a rock as though it were suspended from an invisible wire . |
| 24 | I pull up and watch for a time but typically the bird does not re-appear . |
| 25 | Mr Davey acknowledged that ‘ we each have our own commercial imperatives to follow ’ , and urged all groups ‘ to be realistic ; understand the imperatives of the other parties , and look for a deal or modus operandi that is stable and so gives both parties an acceptable result ’ . |
| 26 | A wild idea occurred to him — why did n't he just get his spare shirts and the few pieces that he 'd picked up while he 'd been staying here , throw them all into a bag , and jump on a train or a bus to present himself on their doorstep ? |
| 27 | Strain and mash with a fork or potato-masher . |
| 28 | Remove the vanilla pod and pass through a sieve or purée in a processor or a blender . |
| 29 | The irony was that The Smiths were objecting to an article which suggested that they had become governed by power and finance with an action that was itself a display of power and finance . |
| 30 | As you use your trimming , turn the ends under and secure with a pin or stick Sellotape over the cut edges as they fray . |