Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adv] and [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It will build on and continue the work carried out over the past three years by the WACC-Asia Region 's Women 's Desk , which was based in Manila , Philippines . |
| 2 | Halidon was no great mount , a mere five hundred feet high , but it was sufficiently steep on that west side , after the slow plodding through the bog , to greatly slow down and disperse the advance . |
| 3 | Perhaps the shopkeeper should have a panic button under the counter to press during such a confrontation , and while humouring the shopper by pretending to go and look for some grey ones , stout men could rush in and restrain the customer before he can make it to his Access card . |
| 4 | We 'll stay in and watch the cup final |
| 5 | I 'll just stay in and scrub the kitchen floor , wash your clothes and make your dinner . ’ ) |
| 6 | It means that our no. 8 can stay down and help the shove . |
| 7 | And in the afternoon , at the time he was drowned , her mother would call her inside and bolt the door , and they would kneel together and say the rosary for the soul of the father she had never known ; and when all those Hail Mary 's had been said , and the Glory Be 's and the Our Father , and they had made the sign of the Cross together , her mother would pull out the silver Madonna she always kept hidden at her breast and press her lips to it in a way that said everything you needed to know about love and death and being a woman . |
| 8 | Let the hall fall down and let the so-called experts quarrel elsewhere . |
| 9 | On the other hand , if the peregrine was flying high up , above the pigeon , it would have the advantage , because it could swoop down and break the pigeon 's neck . |
| 10 | Without a check the hammer can bounce up and hit the string again , distorting the sound intended by the player . |
| 11 | Without a check , the player has less control , especially when repeating notes , and the hammer can bounce up and hit the string again , distorting the sound and inhibiting the freedom of the player to play loudly . |
| 12 | And now I must pack up and take the road ; you 'll be keeping me company on a long night march , although I know you 're asleep in our nice warm bed … |
| 13 | Langbaurgh Labour MP Ashok Kumar is outraged by a circular letter sent out by Abbey Life urging people to ‘ Act Now And Beat The Tax Man ’ . |
| 14 | No sooner does it fall back and hit the water than the whale flicks it into the air again with a blow of its tail or seizes it with its jaws and thrashes it on the water . |
| 15 | and on that basis you believe that that would be , or do you believe that that would be adequate so that she could maintain and carry on and drive the family car and living in the house children |
| 16 | But , the sa the very same organisms responsible for that relatively moderate appearance can also produce blocked er region of Prince Charles , the carbuncle with which in it 's most er florid form can break down and produce the series , but really effectively interconnecting . |
| 17 | She paid up , thinking of the Pascoes praying visitors should do so and save the precious fabric . |
| 18 | The raiders slipped in past the Macleans ' patrolling galleys , and killed and kidnapped , destroyed and looted , slaughtering or crippling what livestock they could not carry off and leaving the survivors to starve . |
| 19 | Her hopes that he might leave something to chance and throw her the opportunity to make her own way back faded as she saw him lock up and pocket the key . |
| 20 | At one point , to suppress attacks , a large handkerchief was thrown over the stuffed cuckoo , but the enraged birds ( in this case , nightingales ) would not give up and assaulted the handkerchief instead . |
| 21 | Any standard form of building contract incorporates two elements : the basic agreement between the parties that the contractor will carry out and complete the work and that the employer will pay the contractor for doing so ; and detailed conditions which define how this will happen and procedures which are to be followed . |
| 22 | A remarkable number of MPs attend BNF 's annual autumn meeting , arranged precisely for people who do speak out and argue the toss on nuclear issues . |
| 23 | Originally , rendering was on the inside , but this can flake off and block the drain , so rendering ( if used ) is now put on the outside . |
| 24 | But as far as their ideas of women in society goes it has n't changed — that women should stay home and do the cooking . ’ |
| 25 | If the foe seemed too large or numerous to deal with , he would withdraw discreetly and leave the witless Cleo to her fate . |
| 26 | He must be careful that the new rules he lays down fit well enough with rules established by others or likely to be established in the future that the total set of rules will work together and make the situation better rather than pulling in opposite directions and making it worse . |
| 27 | To be effective , services have to plan and work together and respect the need for a truly multi-disciplinary approach to the needs of dementia sufferers and their carers . |
| 28 | Under this system prisoners could work together and use the same dormitories , but they were forbidden to speak to one another or communicate in any other way ; they were , therefore , under constant close surveillance day and night . |
| 29 | It is seen as crucial that all parties interested in broadcasting on the public channel should work together and seize the opportunity to make public television in Australia a reality . |
| 30 | It also meant that the boys could see in and witness the general untidiness of his tiny room . |