Example sentences of "and [vb -s] [adv] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The schoolmaster of St. Andrews was ambitious ‘ and aspires eagerly to the dignity of being professor of humanity in this university ’ . |
| 2 | From early on March 28 the whole of Moscow city centre appeared to be under siege , with lorries and armoured cars blocking all approaches to the Kremlin , water-cannon trucks , mounted police and troops in gas masks stationed in backstreets , and troops on street corners keeping shoppers and sightseers away from the Kremlin . |
| 3 | It takes them long enough to cut a way through to the chimney of the air shaft , sawing through the rhodie branches and tearing away the brambles and other undergrowth ; then they lever off the iron grating over the shaft without any difficulty , and one of the younger cops , in an overall and a hard hat , wraps the rope around himself — proper climbing rope they had in the back of one of the Range Rovers — and abseils down into the darkness . |
| 4 | ‘ Provided always that every assignment or underlease or tenancy of any kind relating to the premises shall if required by the landlord contain a covenant by the assignee underlessee or tenant and the lessee or tenant as the case may be directly with the landlord to observe and perform the covenants and conditions in this lease contained and covenants directly with the landlord in the terms of sub-clauses ( A ) and ( B ) hereof and covenants that any sub-underleases whether mediate or immediate shall contain covenants with the landlord in the terms of such sub-clauses . |
| 5 | He has all the basic attributes and tackles well into the bargain . |
| 6 | Hintertux is a tiny hamlet and offers little in the way of nighttime activity but Mayrhofen , 15 minutes away , positively buzzes in the evening . |
| 7 | An administrative culture — which is concerned with rules , roles , authority and fits in with the concept of a role culture . |
| 8 | The system is flexible and fits in with the user 's way of working . |
| 9 | This way the lining stretches as easily as the knitted skirt and fits smoothly over the waist . |
| 10 | When the transistor came along , we thought that with valves and relays out of the way , electronics would never ( well , hardly ever ) break down . |
| 11 | Middlesbrough-born Gill has signed until the end of the season and goes straight into the squad for tomorrow 's important game at Scunthorpe . |
| 12 | LEEDS hooker Richard Gunn has signed for Featherstone Rovers and goes straight into the side against Carlisle to-morrow . |
| 13 | The decisive customer knows what she wants and goes straight to the counter to ask for the item she requires . |
| 14 | He cuts out the middle men and women — the dreaded parents — and goes straight for the hearts and minds of kids . |
| 15 | First , do we really accept that a man in the act of undressing suddenly decides halfway through that he will hang himself and goes up to the garret without his boots on to carry out the terrible act ? |
| 16 | And it goes out in a blaze of colour — a spectacular firework display which starts at 6.45pm and goes on into the night . |
| 17 | He turns his back and goes over to the chest of drawers , his brown bottom wiggling at Mark . |
| 18 | She takes out this dark red dress with these big white dots and goes over to the mirror . |
| 19 | She lifts her eyebrows at me and then stands up and goes over to the sink . |
| 20 | I stay at home and my partner — for I 'm not a wife — puts on a suit and goes out of the door to work . |
| 21 | One boy is chosen and goes out of the room . |
| 22 | Skipper has his breakfast and goes out in the field and I go home and am ready to start work at 10.30am — one of the benefits of being a freelance is that the person who rings up at 10.31am does n't realise that you are wearing jodhpurs and have dirty fingernails ! |
| 23 | Everyone comes in and goes out by the front . " |
| 24 | If there are no more loans to be entered , the user presses the RETURN key and goes back to the options list . |
| 25 | Howard escapes from the hospital and goes back to the scene of the robbery where everything is strangely familiar . |
| 26 | She loses interest and goes back to the television . |
| 27 | She turns and goes back to the house . |
| 28 | And the miserable hotchpotch of confused ideas and pressures was quietly buried in the depths of her mind , just as a wilderness of plants dies down and goes underground for the winter . |
| 29 | Roy , 37 , even leaves Janette in the dead of night and goes down to the bar hoping to catch a glimpse of his beloved spirit . |
| 30 | After a further mile towards Chapel-le-Dale , a track turns off the road to the left and goes down to the beck in the valley bottom , arriving at a section roofed by a natural arch of considerable length . |