Example sentences of "[vb base] and [prep] the [noun] " 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 | ‘ 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 . |
| 8 | 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 … |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 |
| 16 | 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 |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Approval by the Inland Revenue also means that there may be limits on the contributions employees pay and on the amount of their benefits . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Both live and in the studio , Alex will normally rely on his 1961 Fender Jazzmaster , ‘ which has got a really nice neck on it . |
| 24 | The resulting allocative decisions depend on the relative strengths of the political interests involved , the tactics they employ and on the chance influence of time and place . |
| 25 | We would ask the reader to bear in mind from the outset , however , that we write from the viewpoint of the English urban sub-culture , in which we are not only fieldworkers and observers but life members ; nevertheless , we believe that the English and American complexes of parental experience show very many points of coincidence , both historically and contemporaneously , both in the things that parents do and in the reasons for which they do them : and that , therefore , a discussion in these terms will have a validity for parent-child behaviour on both sides of the Atlantic . |
| 26 | There is an increasing tendency nowadays for solicitors to specialise in the work that they do and in the kind of client they advise . |
| 27 | There will be considerable opportunity in this kind of shared activity to talk with the children as they play and for the teacher to discuss the mathematical ideas involved . |
| 28 | As the public draws notes and coin , banks ' deposit liabilities fall and on the asset side banks ' holdings of notes and coin shrink by an equal amount . |
| 29 | Work on knowledge about language should involve discussion of matters such as sexist language ; styles of interaction in social groups ( see below ) ; how hidden messages about social groups ( such as teenagers or older people ) which are conveyed by advertising etc. can be decoded for the values they contain and for the differences between what is said and what is implied . |
| 30 | ‘ We 're very fortunate with Verve in that they have a good understanding of why I work and about the way in which I work . |