Example sentences of "[adv prt] and [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ Get in and socialise with the family , ’ Peter Shearer told Mr and Mrs M. You re not just teaching one child , you 're taking on the whole family , ’ this being a family of fifteen children , some with social and behavioural problems , and eight still of school age . |
| 32 | Forty provides abundant examples of the complex manner in which commerce developed new goods around perceived divisions in the target population and a series of beliefs about the nature of hygiene , domesticity , science and modernity which become enshrined in and reproduced through the appearance of everyday objects , although again the transformation of goods in consumption is largely ignored . |
| 33 | Sister Cooney came in and snapped on the light . |
| 34 | He was laughing at her , yet in such a nice way that she had to give in and join in the laughter . |
| 35 | Without the slightest hesitation , he took two hops to the water , waded in and swam across the deep , still pool . |
| 36 | Down on the dark grey beach there was a collection of glaucous gulls and a few purple sandpipers , and then to my delight a snow white ivory gull flew in and settled on the shingle , giving me the chance to stalk and photograph one of the world 's rarer gulls . |
| 37 | The system may look very good in theory , but does anyone actually come in and look at the tapes ? |
| 38 | she said do you wan na come in and look at the kitchen now and I said no I wo n't stop now I 'll work |
| 39 | but I never pushed in and stood on the stage , look I 've done all this ! |
| 40 | A third Algerian wearing European dress walked in and stood behind the counter . |
| 41 | Whether the issue is North Korea 's nuclear defiance , tensions between India and Pakistan , or the wrangle over Cambodia , China 's new-found influence obliges it to choose : it can join in and help with the sorting out , or confirm the suspicion that China may become , instead , Asia 's most troublesome power . |
| 42 | I DO N'T so I stay in and play with the kids . |
| 43 | I only caught a bit of it but he said that he turned up for training and was surprised to be called in and told about the deal . |
| 44 | After the hearing Mr Rodmell , said : ‘ Great swathes of beach are being taken in and put under the banner of Sites of Special Scientific Interest , which makes things very difficult for us when we need bait . |
| 45 | The semantic theories argue that the description just given is realized in and enforced by the very vocabulary of law , so that it would be a kind of self-contradiction for someone to claim that the law provides right s beyond those established through mechanisms sanctioned by convention . |
| 46 | That was a great cross by , did absolut did absolutely magnificent , he controlled the ball he turned left footed shot in and hit against the post , very very unfortunate fo for Blackburn but then I suppose Shrewsbury deserve a little bit of luck . |
| 47 | When she 'd gone , we were bustled in and raced up the stairs . |
| 48 | He said that unless Niki gave in and raced on the terms offered , he was going to go with Keke the following year . |
| 49 | The concept , as employed by orthodox Marxism , goes from the singular to the universal and therefore , Sartre claims , detotalizes in a movement of ‘ decompressive expansion ’ , whereas incarnation involves ‘ a way of totalizing compression which , on the contrary , seizes the centripetal movement of all the significations drawn in and condensed in the event or in the object ’ ( II , 59 ) . |
| 50 | A woman walked in and sat at the middle of the counter — Maxim had chosen the furthest end . |
| 51 | Jamie came in and sat on the couch next to my chair . |
| 52 | Even old Florence had been brought in and sat in the most comfortable armchair while they talked . |
| 53 | as long as it is a round trip commencing in and returning to the United Kingdom . |
| 54 | Anne reached in and turned on the lights . |
| 55 | A third-year nurse came in and turned on the radio . |
| 56 | Later the wolf would be cut open while she was asleep , filled up with heavy stones once the little pigs had scrabbled out of her , stitched up again by the woodcutter ; and then she would be driven by thirst to the river , would topple in and drown with the weight of the stones . |
| 57 | The 15-acre Herculaneum Dock , two miles from Liverpool city centre , was filled in and reclaimed for the International Garden Festival . |
| 58 | fancy let to go in and mix with the grouting , its a bit of a cheek in it ? |
| 59 | Knocker 's bored looking battered features brightened as Yanto walked in and leaned on the well used but polished bar . |
| 60 | I was in charge of weekly wages and organized shifts and hours , as well as keeping a check on the quantities of tomatoes brought in and weighed at the entrance of the factory . |