Example sentences of "[noun sg] and [vb base] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This can be steep , making progress forward difficult — you have to hold one wheel and push hard on the other just to stop yourself from rolling down it . |
| 2 | Nigel assured me that it would be more efficient than the wheel and produce considerably more electricity , and I had to be content with that . |
| 3 | Come over here and join us by all means — but not too many of you , so we 'll vet you as you come in ; and not make getting in pleasant or easy ; and just please stick to your own districts , and keep your own religion and dance away to tambourines , or bow to the East , or whatever you like to do to remind you of home — or home as it used to be a hundred years ago but certainly is n't now — and are n't we clever , and kind , and good , the way we give you your roots back ? , and with any luck your children will grow up well-behaved and pleasant ; ours certainly are n't ; because your children come of a society which , being somewhere else and a long time ago , is probably better than ours . |
| 4 | If no changes occur then repeat the same remedy and wait again . |
| 5 | Indirect Rule had far more ideological content than the Punjab creed : it was found necessary ceaselessly to draw attention — perhaps because it was a principle coming to be so explicitly disputed by those to whom it was applied — to the long and careful weaning required for the native to shed his primitive mode of thinking and adopt successfully the ways of the modern world . |
| 6 | In close communities like mines , the workers have been able to express both grief and anger openly . |
| 7 | You may need to allow her to feel very free to express mixed feelings of grief and anger too within the safety of your confidential relationship . |
| 8 | Add the chicken breasts to the stock and simmer gently until cooked . |
| 9 | Stir in the flour , add a tablespoon of the stock and cook very gently for 2–3 minutes . |
| 10 | As the week went on I got more and more anguished telegrams from home telling me to conclude the deal and come home . |
| 11 | I think they jump in the jeep and go home for mince and dumplings and a mug of instant coffee . ’ |
| 12 | Try to read the feedback and get as definite a picture as you can . |
| 13 | I go along and watch women 's football and get really infuriated to see a man out there refereeing the game , and often in a very condescending manner ! |
| 14 | You weave uncertainly along the road at first , but soon you pick up speed and rush smoothly forward , and your heart leaps with joy at the mastery of the thing . |
| 15 | What it did prove , emphatically , is that you can buy a car which will out-handle any Ferrari , out-accelerate the most powerful Porsche to way past licence-losing speed and provide more safe fun than anyone who has n't driven one could possibly imagine . |
| 16 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that if there were a minimum wage and also higher taxation both on individuals and on companies , that would kill inward investment and cause even more unemployment ? |
| 17 | He has to watch the actor he would replace for signs of strain or imminent collapse and wonder nervously whether he could actually remember the lines if he had to go on . |
| 18 | It comes almost as a relief to find Cortot 's Debussy and Ravel less distinguished . |
| 19 | When the time comes , it can recoup any water loss and rehydrate very rapidly , although not by drinking . |
| 20 | Left : The Regency dining table and chairs were bought at auction and combine well with the Georgian desk |
| 21 | Thus the two and a half years between his resignation and the outbreak of the Second World War brought Baldwin , the epitome of a man looking forward to retirement , disappointment and anticlimax rather than satisfactory afterglow . |
| 22 | The leaders of the groups take command and move silently towards their predesignated positions on the approaches to the farm . |
| 23 | The stranger might refuse to admit defeat and maintain simply that the person sitting on the bench was not I , that he was I , and that it was with him that the man who was now doubting his identity was having a conversation a moment ago . |
| 24 | I kicked myself all the way back to the hotel for being an arrant coward , and next day persuaded my companion to return with me to the scene of our defeat and try again . |
| 25 | Select a more lofted club and swing normally thereafter . |
| 26 | Now one of the most important things that we 've established erm is that er you need to sit down still with the secretary of the club and say right now you 've got this list of businesses tell me more about them . |
| 27 | I take my combination tackle bag and seat and walk carefully towards the river , then place the seat near to the water but behind the cover of a hawthorn bush . |
| 28 | As artfully devised as any 19th-century print to convey an impression of grand scale , the photograph and title together imply that the voices of the choir are a sound-portrait of the wealthiest college in Cambridge : a realm of gilded statuary , lofty pinnacles and heraldic shields . |
| 29 | For this to be fair , they should investigate the conflict in depth , trying to persuade the parties to bury the hatchet and work constructively together . |
| 30 | ‘ He will hear a tune on a programme and go away and play it on a keyboard . |