Example sentences of "[verb] and [vb base] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And erm I I w we went up on er To try and get the basic wage increased and er I know Mr he was the er general manager at the time . |
| 2 | Outside , buttresses decorate and support the double vaulted storeys and these extend the whole height of the building ( 259 ) . |
| 3 | The important thing is to recognise that it is happening and take the relevant action . |
| 4 | Made up of four 30-minute scenes , in each of which the same people say and do the same things in the same setting , Roll On Friday , it is no surprise to learn , has been developed into a five-year television series in New Zealand and Australia . |
| 5 | Glen Coe Still on conservation issues , it came as a pleasant surprise to many when the news leaked that the Countryside Commission for Scotland , who built and own the controversial visitors centre on National Trust for Scotland ground in Glen Coe , had recommended that the centre be moved . |
| 6 | She never looked like being caught and beat the favourite Hencliff Ben by five and three quarter lengths . |
| 7 | Members of the legal profession are highly educated and have the good fortune to have a firm and unambiguous language at their service . |
| 8 | stuff 's no problem but er once it starts and get the medium stuff done as well |
| 9 | These techniques are normally used to assist , augment and inform the quantitative forecasting process . |
| 10 | Explanatory forecasting These techniques are used to assist , techniques augment and inform the quantitative forecasting process , giving depth , colour and understanding to the issues at hand . |
| 11 | How is it that the sociologists and oral historians who interview and record the elderly have not already countered the derogatory myth of old age as helpless degeneration ? |
| 12 | Mountain View , California-based portable communications devices developer Eo Inc duly announced its partnership with AT&T Co , Matsushita Electric Industrial Co and Marubeni Corp to design , build and market the first generation of what it is calling personal communicators . |
| 13 | Encourage each trainee to cite an instance of maladaptive behaviour they have met and ask the whole group to discuss the way in which the child acquired it . |
| 14 | It 's no good having an in-depth knowledge of how to produce perfect aquarium conditions , if we mix and match the wrong fish . |
| 15 | Versions of the traditional hornpipe danced by sailors of many nationalities are featured in many ballets because it is so descriptive of the very particular way in which seamen walk and do the many different jobs that have to be done on any kind of boat . |
| 16 | Cuthred is said to have fought bravely against Aethelbald ( ASC A , s.a. 741 ) and in his twelfth year , which the Chronicle gives as 752 ( ASC A , s.a 752 ) but which may need to be corrected to 751 , to have defeated and put the Mercian king to flight at the battle of Beorhford . |
| 17 | At the Albert Hall rally of the Left Book Club on 7 February Pollitt assured the audience of seven thousand that the Campaign was " not directed against the Labour Party " , but that its whole aim was to " strengthen , revivify and revitalise the Labour Party " . |
| 18 | You are then guaranteed that if you register and receive the full packaged software it will work on your machine and with your printer . |
| 19 | Or it is like the light pictures that enter the eyes lenses and escape into the vastness of the tundra and like ice crystals on the windows , they freeze and become the light flowers that bloom on the endless snow fields . |
| 20 | Text retrieval seeks to interpret what the user says and retrieve the appropriate document from the database . |
| 21 | As Sabah said that an agreement with France would soon follow , the aim being to " guarantee peace and security in the region , be it through the storage of weapons and military equipment in Kuwait , as is the case with the agreement with the USA , or the articles in the agreement signed with Britain which make stipulations on helping to build , organize and train the Kuwaiti army " . |
| 22 | ‘ I 'd always hung around with boys , never really known any men — certainly no man had ever made me feel and think the dreadful things I felt and thought whenever I saw you ! ’ |
| 23 | In actually physically up dating anything , I would suggest that at this point that Simon does n't do of them until after the next meeting when we have got all the other 's together as well because again they may attach things , just that you 've got your information and know what 's been decided and do the whole lot after the next meeting . |
| 24 | Vienna Dear Fräulein , I hope and believe the sad condition you describe is no more than a temporary fantasy . |
| 25 | Support and encourage the further worldwide development of the principles of the chemical industry 's ‘ Responsible Care ’ programme and the International Chamber of Commerce 's ‘ Charter for Sustainable Development ’ . |
| 26 | We support and accept the good sense of increasing sentences for offences that are worse than taking and driving away and of extending the deterrent of disqualification where personal injury and damage occurs , but it is quite another thing for someone to be guilty of additional offences that he does not commit , to which he is not a party and which he might not have foreseen as the likely consequences of his taking and driving away . |
| 27 | of a small company from York , called and what we 're doing is we 're working on behalf of the Group , who compile and publish the English Dictionary . |
| 28 | But later on , when the hairs that began sprouting in the heat of the bandage become fully grown and replace the old hairs , a startling white patch will appear . |
| 29 | Arts should provide disabled people with ways of confirming their own identity and , as a secondary gain , inform , educate and attract the non-disabled world . |
| 30 | Wash and chop the fresh herbs . |