Example sentences of "[to-vb] and [adv] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It often happens , especially if you train only spasmodically , that you start off the season with a personal best time , get really excited because you think there is a lot more to come and then the rest of the summer turns out to be something of a damp squib . |
| 2 | He heard his mother continuing to scream and then the headlights on the Glory turned back on , the radio crashed out again with its heavy rock and the doors closed and locked . |
| 3 | The skin beneath them begins to swell and soon the eggs appear to be embedded in it . |
| 4 | Two days passed before the man was strong enough to talk and then the Captain asked him to tell his story . |
| 5 | Such a feature should always have somewhere positive to go and here the path leads one on with a genuine air of anticipation . |
| 6 | 15 It causes the muscle to contract and hence the hand is pulled away from the pin . |
| 7 | When she too heard the clatter of the galloping horse far below she went to the window , but there was no longer anything to see and only the sound of the nursemaids chattering . |
| 8 | Because there 's always been an opport , I mean even if your sort of poor , there 's always the opportunity , I mean I learnt to drive and then the driving instructor erm , lived next door to my mother saying , it , at the time it should of been three pound and erm , he let us have it for two pound |
| 9 | The waiting patients pricked their ears and tried not to smile and then the surgery door would burst open and eject … a little old lady , pink with pleasure ! |
| 10 | Nitrite is also extremely poisonous to fish and hence the reason it is very important to check the pond water for the presence of either of these toxins . |
| 11 | Her family soon knew what to expect and so the potential for resentment was never allowed to build up . |
| 12 | This encompasses the design of passenger seats and the methods of body restraint with seat belts , the establishment of the forces they are designed to withstand and even the strength of the seat attachments to the floor of the aircraft . |
| 13 | The kid laughed loud enough for me to hear and then the chain snicked off . |
| 14 | Then the helicopter began to descend and only the rear of the house was in view . |
| 15 | Here the ‘ cut and paste ’ method of working was just as easy to use and so the program 's sales began to mushroom . |
| 16 | An announcement concerning changes to the Food Hygiene ( Amendment ) Regulations was received after thee April issue of Hospitality had gone to press and consequently the information on temperature in our Refrigeration feature was , unfortunately , incorrect . |
| 17 | Trying out new materials depends on what the artist wants to do and how the medium can be used to advantage ; at the same time it would be foolish to try to fit a new tool exactly into your pattern of work and thus limit it . |
| 18 | As I approached it I reached out my talons to land and perhaps the prey I was holding obscured the view for I should have seen sooner what had been put on top of the post by Men . |
| 19 | In war it was only the poor who were expected to die and so the death of Earl Patrick came as a great shock to everyone . |
| 20 | However , it will be noted that the above depends upon the propensity to save and not the propensity to unproductive consumption . |
| 21 | The solid is allowed to settle and then the solvent is run off until its level is just above the level of the solid . |
| 22 | The chairman of the education committee said ‘ If boys are to be turned into fairies and girls into butch young maids , it should be for the parent to decide and not the education authorities ’ ( TES 13.10.78 ) . |
| 23 | ‘ Her eyes began to roll and then the pupils disappeared upward , ’ he later told his superiors . |
| 24 | The royals have been virtually the only gossip among their delegations following first the news that Anne and Tim were to marry and then the bombshell that Diana and Charles were to separate . |
| 25 | The belief that human life will continue to survive and also the apocalypse we 'll have to go through . |
| 26 | And we must continue to improve and better the information that is provided . |
| 27 | Yeah but it might not work you see that 's a big risk for a school to take and anyway the parents would be against it . |
| 28 | It will be irresponsible to allow this to happen and therefore the company will maintain normal port services irrespective of any union ballot . |
| 29 | The press serves it too well for that to happen and so the problems which have taxed the left for so many years will continue to haunt it in the future . |
| 30 | Just do that that , that 's what I find is the best thing to do and then carry on with what you have to say and then the gestures become quite natural because all of this this is is not I 'm not trying |