Example sentences of "of [noun sg] [adv] and [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although there is no direct evidence that the Baron saw cricket on his visits , he must have been well aware of its traditions of Play Up and Play the Game . |
| 2 | Lyte was enormously popular during his 25 years of ministry there and built up a Sunday School of over 700 children . |
| 3 | He wants to grasp the nature or the practice of ideology scientifically and characterizes ‘ ideology ’ as whole , unified by its problematic and dependent on the social situation in which it occurs . |
| 4 | This is in contrast to the majority of existing pronouncements , which are in the form of guidance throughout and contain no explicitly prescriptive material . |
| 5 | A MOTHER who beat her baby daughter to death was convicted of murder yesterday and jailed for life . |
| 6 | Insert needle from right to left under both loops of stitch below and draw the thread through . |
| 7 | I 've got the word count from each one I 'll be able to sort of tot up and tell you when to stop collecting from that area . |
| 8 | He indicated that he still hoped that Mozart would be offered the post of organist there and hinted at some of the intrigue surrounding the appointment . |
| 9 | GOLDEN couple Bill and Freda Jefferson celebrate 50 years of marriage today and put their happiness down to working together . |
| 10 | But Cad took in their neglect of her sister , and she put down her piece of bread steadily and stood to leave . |
| 11 | It may then be better for his welfare to sever contact with the family of origin completely and enable the substitute carers to assume the full parental role . |
| 12 | He employed the Staffordshire architect John Webb , a landscape gardener at heart , who had done a lot of work locally and came highly recommended . |
| 13 | If you work now , not you know , not killing yourself but if you can put in a certain amount of work now and go without watching telly , sitting round , listening |
| 14 | I did the minimum of work academically and got on with my sport — at first soccer — and they never bothered me . ’ |
| 15 | When insulin was introduced its use in less severe form was continued with the intention of keeping the dose of insulin down and controlling the blood glucose . |
| 16 | Then the Annamite woman began to sob and he relented at last and raised himself from her ; still moaning quietly to herself she scrambled from the cot onto the dirt floor , gathered her scraps of clothing together and fled past the American woman into the rain . |
| 17 | Indeed , if the Government had faced up to the reality of BSE earlier and had accepted the Opposition 's proposal for 100 per cent . |
| 18 | Wrap little pieces of cellophane around and tie with lengths of thin pink ribbon . |
| 19 | He was seen with a pretty young woman , was able to paw her a little without having the effort or commitment of doing more and had also enjoyed himself complaining about his wife . |
| 20 | I put the glass of whiskey down and lit a cigarette , thinking about it . |
| 21 | I said I 'm going to have to clear that and delete a bit of stuff off and load it with and load WordPerfect again . |
| 22 | Artefacts are frequently reconstructed before they are put on display , which may involve little more than repair work , such as sticking pieces of pot together and filling any remaining gaps . |
| 23 | Workers therefore have an incentive to revise their expectation of inflation upwards and to lodge claims for money wage increases which fully reflect the extent of this revision . |
| 24 | Scrape the bits of putty out and put some filler in that will accept stain . |
| 25 | Obviously parents must show a degree of control here and do as I do by restricting playing time , although that is admittedly difficult with all these portable devices now on the market . |
| 26 | Roll out half to a large square , place the roof-sized pieces of paper over and use to cut out the icing . |
| 27 | He pushed the sheet of paper away and looked around him , his eyes straying up to the dusty rafters . |
| 28 | A friend of mine did it erm they did n't burn the erm the spirit when they 'd finished and erm you know you 're meant to actually put a piece of paper under and burn it under the light or smash the glass and erm for the next six months she could n't sleep properly and it felt like there , she was like tormented and erm things were like pulling at her , her bedclothes and I swear she 's like seeing a psy a psychia psychiatrist and she had to sleep in her parents ' room and everything really scary . |
| 29 | and then it winds another piece of paper in and starts printing again |
| 30 | I come out of role again and ask them what we should do . |