Example sentences of "[noun sg] and [vb -s] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He flicks the wheel and slides the front wheels . |
| 2 | Brian Laban dons his chest wig and flexes the huge muscles of Britain 's ultimate sports cars |
| 3 | December 198 , : Transito is now in exile and supports the FDR-FMLN . |
| 4 | ( Interestingly , in the car industry , although Ford has never belonged to an association in Britain nevertheless in Germany it is an active member of the metalworking employers ' association and follows the terms of its negotiated agreements . ) |
| 5 | This logic has the advantage that it protects the more efficient contractor and exposes the less efficient and is thus conducive to efficiency in the long run . |
| 6 | The pearlescents have an historical precedence in Japanese prints , where ground up mother of pearl was used to catch the light but are otherwise an entirely novel kind of colour that invites experiment and stimulates the imagination . |
| 7 | For many practical purposes it is convenient to use the form for an incompressible rubber where P is an arbitrary hydrostatic pressure , to be determined from experiment and has the values 1 , 2 or 3 . |
| 8 | Room rates are stored in the computer 's memory and when the cashier enters the room rate code and presses the room rate look-up key ; the terminal locates the rate in its memory , prints it on the folio and updates the totals . |
| 9 | It also acts as a " referee " of the group struggle : it holds the ring and secures the public interest by restoring the balance and moving in when one group goes too far , and it also protects the interests of the inactive and inarticulate . |
| 10 | The so-called Caudal Sympathetic Nervous System arises from the posterior compound ganglion of the ventral nerve-cord and supplies the reproductive system and posterior part of the gut ; it is , however , difficult to draw a clear distinction between such a system and the visceral branches of the peripheral nervous system considered below . |
| 11 | She says , ‘ I 'll bring your duvet in a minute , ’ and she slips into her bedroom and shuts the door . |
| 12 | MK points out that it conforms to TACMA 's Band B recommendation and advises the use of filters where interference is a problem . |
| 13 | One Brownie has a football and starts the game by trying to roll the ball between another Brownie 's legs . |
| 14 | Fearless as ever , our man with the weirdest record collection in Britain , EDWIN POUNCEY , dives into this week 's bundles of scariness and salutes the magic of Faust , Fun With Mushrooms , Japanese hardcore … and Smashie And Nicey ! |
| 15 | David Meadapproaches warp speed and gets the ( final ) frontier spirit … |
| 16 | The 4320 jigsaw has a variable speed control mounted in the trigger , a lock-on button to maintain the desired cutting speed and has the air flow cleverly directed forward to clean dust off the cutting line . |
| 17 | This is pretty low for a speculative investment and assumes the company is capitalised at 12.5 times earnings in the year to 31 March 2017 . |
| 18 | Given information represents the common ground between speaker and hearer and gives the latter a reference point to which s/he can relate new information . |
| 19 | Gret , a Brueghel peasant in a breastplate filches food and cutlery and mutters the occasional curse . |
| 20 | It is a story about love and loss and marks the directional debut of writer Anthony Minghella . |
| 21 | ‘ The Lord Lieutenant wears the insignia of command and signs the log , the Chief Secretary is Captain of the ship , while the Under-Secretary is the man at the wheel . ’ |
| 22 | This is a typical result and supports the ‘ absolute income ’ hypothesis . |
| 23 | It crawls down the vine and enters the soil , whereupon it reaches and punctures the roots for nourishment . |
| 24 | He enjoys the closeness of the Pontypridd club and relishes the opportunities that the British game gives him . |
| 25 | It retreats into the ghetto and dismisses the work of the historian as irrelevant to its needs . |
| 26 | The other two crowd round while the fifth crawls or reaches beneath the seat and grabs the bag . |
| 27 | Doug loses his seat and hits the floor . |
| 28 | Robyn leans across the passenger seat and winds the window down a little way . |
| 29 | In pairs one partner assumes the role of any one of the people in the photograph and tells the other ( a colleague , friend or relative ) why he is tempted to go on the journey . |
| 30 | If there are two parties each putting forward programmes which they are pledged to carry out if elected to government , and which they are able to carry out because they possess sufficient internal cohesion , then the electorate in choosing a programme ( and a programme at that which has been drawn up to appeal to their interests ) mandates a party to carry out its programme and holds the party accountable for its adequate fulfillment at the next election . |