Example sentences of "and [vb base] [pron] [prep] an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Three things I 've always wanted to do : go to Machu Picchu , put my foot in Lake Titicaca and make it with an oriental chick . |
| 2 | It agreed to draw on creative Marxism and other traditions and transform itself into an empowering organisation in order to contribute to opening up the new political formulations that will be needed across Europe in the post cold-war era . |
| 3 | The alternative , of close integration of the railways into the central machinery of the state , has not proved suitable for the efficient conduct of complex productive activities ; a Spanish experiment with direct ministerial control during the late 1950s ( RENFE 1957m : vii , ix ; IBRD 1963 : 192–3 ) was shortlived , and the disadvantages of direct control have recently led the Italian government , for example , to remove the state railway from under the direct control of the transport ministry and endow it with an autonomous corporate structure ( Railway Gazette International , December 1985 : 926–7 ) . |
| 4 | though this a bit rich and observed that it was the study 's authors who proposed , in effect , to remove directors ' responsibilities for judgmental matters and vest them in an omniscient panel of assessors . |
| 5 | Use a sharp scraper to lift off deposits and ladle them into an empty bucket for disposal . |
| 6 | You do n't hurl them through space and put them through an electric field and a magnetic field and the rest of it . |
| 7 | and put them through an educational programme as a conditional of a probation order . |
| 8 | As I clambered into the boat , moored near her big yacht , Lucy took the bottles of beer and Coca-Cola and put them into an open net bag which she lowered over the side , tying the net with a long rope to a hook on the gunwale . |
| 9 | All that stuff on our first two records I think is really cool and in some ways I prefer it to what we 're doing now , and I knew that once we took any of those songs and put them in an electric context people would go , ‘ Duh , it 's a good song ! ’ . |
| 10 | As with the data manipulation unit , these units are able to carry out any one of an appropriate set of operations when signalled by the control unit ; for example , to read a digit punched on paper tape and store it in a specified store location or to retrieve a digit from a specified store location and print it on an electric typewriter . |
| 11 | Jones , now 19 , and living in Holyhead , said Roberts and son , Ian , would hold him upside down , tie his feet with rope or string , and tie it to an overhead pole . |
| 12 | Jones said Roberts and son Ian would hold him upside down , tie his feet with rope or string , and tie it to an overhead pole . |
| 13 | It is this attempt to redesign the genetic instructions of living organisms and utilise them on an industrial scale that is creating so much excitement and concern " . |
| 14 | Neither did the remaining reduced core of electors identifying with the Labour Party subscribe with any unanimity to the proposals of the party 's left wing , which were designed to capitalise on anti-Heath radicalism and extend it in an anti-capitalist direction . |
| 15 | For he had the bi the ability to take the ordinary things of life , and interpret them in an effective way . |
| 16 | The Iraqis ' suspicions of his links with Iran , Israel and America ( he was on the CIA 's payroll ) were reinforced when , that year , he said : ‘ If support were strong enough we could control the Kirkuk oilfield and give it to an American company to operate ’ . |
| 17 | Gather the crêpe paper at one end of the roll and secure it with an elastic band ( Fig 2 ) . |
| 18 | Function models are important because they enable us to separate tasks and approach them in an organized way . |
| 19 | Limnaea perega , and compare it with an a-helical protein ( such as tropomyosin found in muscles ) . |
| 20 | I have canvassed the views of my hon. Friend the Minister for Local Government and Inner Cities who is very European , and he assures me that people who live in the southern part of Spain were totally bemused to wake up one day and find themselves in an invented region called Andalusia with a different Government from than in Madrid . |
| 21 | If you wish , you can copy this and use it as an ongoing walking record after the 30 days . |
| 22 | ‘ But Miss Everdene can do as she likes , and she 's chosen to manage her own farm — and keep me as an ordinary shepherd only . ’ |
| 23 | Flynn , of course , meant that the English government was uncaring and malignant — out to break Ireland and keep her as an inexhaustible well of cheap labour and a fertile nursery for the British army . |
| 24 | UB hopes to expand sales of Phileas Fogg in pubs and smaller retailers and turn it into an international brand , doubling sales from the present £24 million in five years . |
| 25 | She had misunderstood the subtleties of their relationship and cast him as an ineffectual married man , always complaining of his wife , always on the chat-up , but never getting any further than that . |
| 26 | The idea was for Swedish studios to shoot films based on Scandinavian stories and aim them at an international market . |
| 27 | When you pick up that telephone and answer it for an external caller , you 've become Oxford University Press and it 's important that we create the right impression for our customers , whoever they are . |
| 28 | These magical sights are not to be missed , so come and join us on an unforgettable spring holiday to the glorious Dutch Bulbfields . |
| 29 | And treat it as an outdoor room , not just another part of a garden . |
| 30 | WordPerfect have found the multi-tasking capabilities of OS/2 valuable and see it as an important platform for future development . |