Example sentences of "[vb base] and [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 They ask for more stimulus than their children provide and for the opportunity to give expression to their other creative and intellectual drives .
2 Some of them are below the level you expect and below the standards we want to provide , ’ it says .
3 In two days we get everything we want and for the rest of the week he has his Christian customers .
4 In the new Act children are then to have a say in what they want and in the plans made for them .
5 They tend to advertise in the appropriate specialist hobbies press and through the medium of direct mail .
6 The news media can , by the way they report and by the significance they attach to personalities , events and the statements of individuals , colour the attitudes of the public and in turn influence the way in which the constitution is interpreted and the political system works .
7 Here 's not a day when folk forget and at the Baiting House pub just north of Bromyard , there 's not a pint pulled without passers by talking of Nicolaus Silver with his jockey ; now the Landlord .
8 ‘ Do n't you dare ! ’ she squealed , trying to push him off the edge of the sun-lounger and into the swimming-pool , which was how the accident yesterday had happened , fooling around by the poolside like a couple of kids when Ruth had slipped on a supposedly non-slip surface and wrenched her ankle .
9 An old man in the corner sang Where the water lilies grow And on the jukebox , Johnny sang about a thing called love And it 's how 're ya kid and what 's your name and how 'd you bloody know …
10 The best place to sample the mouth-watering local dishes is a Gaststätte , a cross between a bar and a restaurant Pavement cafés , bars , beer gardens and jazz clubs abound and in the sunny summer months , Munich 's concert season offers a feast of classical music with concerts in the Residence Schleissheim and the Baroque Nymphenburg Palace .
11 An anti-venin is available , however , and the majority of victims survive ; less than 5 per cent of people bitten by black widow spiders die and in the United States only one or two deaths occur each year .
12 On the other hand the EEC Nine produces only 64% of its consumption of sheep meat and it is generally assumed that the UK with approximately 25% of the EEC sheep flock and as the leading producer of 50% of Community production is well placed to reap some advantage which could be of benefit to the hills and upland areas .
13 I was going to do it this morning and bring and for the box that they have the old prayer I think going up to Yugoslavia soon
14 Dan gives talks to the Spitalfields Trust and to the Georgian Society and writes books on the practical aspects of restoration , preserving a heritage for eight-year-old Isabel , his daughter .
15 Despite this , Marxism continues to grow as a major intellectual force in Western societies , Marxist-inspired political organisations flourish and throughout the world more and more governments fall to communism .
16 They respond to affection , being made to feel that they matter and to the opportunity to talk about or work through their past , especially in ways that help to raise their self-esteem .
17 Now offer up a suitable length of cove with square ends and mark it on the wall edge where the walls meet and on the ceiling edge where the lines drawn on the ceiling intersect .
18 Since it will be a long time before the reflective process turns into action plans , we shall have to make do with what we already know and for the purposes of this chapter we can relate it to Level Three Partnership .
19 And they called me more or less er to do the odd jobs you know and in the brew house , as was here , I fixed , I told you once , I fixed a bench up , it was as tight as could be and put a vice on it and all in here , this shop here , they says you can come in here anytime and do what you like and er
20 Four other girls , that 's right and of course there were housemaids there to do the work and er yes housemaids and er and er you know and in the , in the kitchen , you see , there was the chef and er a cook , the kitchen maid and er a young man , a boy , well just left school to scrub the tables down and do the floors and that sort of thing and er and whi and er while I , of course I had to go down every day to type , to see what the chef said , what was on the menu and type it , type out the menus , you see , that was one of my jobs and er and if let me think , yes there was quite a number of staff , that 's just in the kitchen
21 erm , I shall be there as far as I know and in the meantime have a word with mum and dad if they 're free
22 The agencies display a sometimes considerable flexibility both in the standards set and in the enforcement policy adopted , in recognition of the technical difficulties and costs of complying , the potential for error , and the stigmatizing effect of strict legal enforcement .
23 It does n't mean to say that we are not on the , alert and on the look out and er , I think those opportunities erm , er , will still occur and that er , we will be involved .
24 What actually happens depends to some extent on the strategies that classes pursue and on the unity with which they organise themselves and seize opportunities to strengthen their positions .
25 The centre-piece was a perspiring bloke who was plainly at the end of his tether and at the other end of the tatty tether was a huge hairy bundle who 'd decided he was now one of the family and acting in a suitably demented manner ; noise effects included whoops , cheers , shrieks , curses , admonitions and deep explosive barks which provided punctuation in the manner of the cannon fire in the 1812 Overture .
26 Approval by the Inland Revenue also means that there may be limits on the contributions employees pay and on the amount of their benefits .
27 Also , the electric media ( by their nature , regardless of their commercial organization ) unify and at the same time decentralize the musical repertory and community , and make possible improvisatory musical styles .
28 So far as the transfer of the property or the whole or part of the husband 's share in it to the wife is concerned , the provisions set out in Chapter 2 apply and for the reasons there mentioned there is unlikely to be a liability for capital gains tax or inheritance tax .
29 We ask and for the younger nations help to grow to maturity Help us that wherever we may go we may amen
30 When you later screen a second replay on your colour television , it 's likely that you will be even more pleased with your efforts : the colours , the movement , the thrill of seeing and hearing the sights and sounds of the place where you live and of the people who live there ; it 's all magic , and a moment to be savoured .
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