Example sentences of "and [verb] this [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | BRAVE Princess Diana put two weeks of torment behind her yesterday … and beamed this smile of relief . |
| 2 | They took a prominent part in the repulse of the Austrian attack in this sector in June 1918 , and countered this attack by raids on Austrian positions , in which they took several hundred prisoners . |
| 3 | You must have a sound knowledge of the life cycles , nutrition , and management of the different species of animals on your farm , and develop this skill to a point where you can notice , almost instinctively , the slightest signs that a beast is off-colour . |
| 4 | That is to say , Libyans whose families had settled in the cities some generations before were perhaps exempt from this process ; but the majority of Libyans made their history in the same way , and shared this picture of the past . |
| 5 | Click on the up arrow of the palette box to select 2 into the current colour box and repeat this process of selecting the shade for this colour . |
| 6 | Likely it was because she had recognised in him from the first the trait matching her own : the ability to make money , for especially was she enamoured of his Sunday second-hand car-sales and of the fact that he insisted on working on that day and handling this side of the business himself . |
| 7 | But for most products and service this sort of exercise would be too expensive . |
| 8 | Were they morally justified in lying to Mrs Keech and her followers and maintaining this lie for several months on end ? |
| 9 | While there are obviously problems in developing and using this type of notional scale it has some utility . |
| 10 | What effectively , I think , I mean I 've never actually sat down because it would be an enormous mistake and nobody would thank me for it , but my guess is that those enormously complex classificated can be understood as a method by which old men rig the system for their own benefit and hide this kinds of ridiculous anonymous and the anomaly basically is the young men end up with old wives |
| 11 | They are class-blind , in that the programme may reach only a minority , and separates this elite from the bulk of girls who are defined as failures and frequently pushed into opposition to the school 's programme . |
| 12 | Apparently erm , they often do this and of course , they sort of went into their home and got this girl with her friend and they sort of put the pegs on their noses and have these sort of rubber hats with those |
| 13 | Well , I think , I do n't know if they went back to the pits and sort of left , but he did n't want to stay there and and got this job as a gamekeeper . |
| 14 | The other aspects of the package were fundamental to the successful development of a high-performance system , and distinguish this approach from previous applications of quality-of-working-life techniques . |
| 15 | Mervyn Wilson gives a good service to his cricket clients and it is hoped that he was able to put his money where his mouth is and lay this price to all that wanted it to reasonable limits . |
| 16 | On Aug. 19 Khan told reporters in New Delhi that the two sides had also agreed " to address the issue of Jammu and Kashmir " , and described this development as " a positive step forward " . |
| 17 | This must have given him great satisfaction for he used to refer to himself " as one who has been admitted a member of the great family of the deaf " , and described this family as " my people " . |
| 18 | In these units , students are encouraged to experience , at first hand , specific theatre practices , and to relate this work to the Core Studies work on the Theory and Practice of Modern Theatre . |
| 19 | The original research was designed to investigate the subsequent labour-market behaviour of a sample of steelworkers made redundant from the British Steel Corporation , Port Talbot , South Wales , and to relate this behaviour to the type of domestic organisation of their households and the character of their local social networks . |
| 20 | 5 Sign below , and send this form to the Personnel Department . |
| 21 | I bought this plot of land and built this bungalow on it . |
| 22 | Are n't you tempted to try and buy this house for yourself ? ’ |
| 23 | What this implies is that a group of people who , as consumers , constructed and sustained this image of the individualist tradition also , as producers , constructed the very image of change , community and modernity to which it is opposed . |
| 24 | It is a substance like the ether or gravity or the waves of radar beyond human senses , that penetrates our being and causes this ecstasy within us . |
| 25 | He is mainly known for his work on the analytical centrifuge and related hydrodynamic techniques , both in terms of developing the methodology and applying this methodology to the study of macromolecular solutions . |
| 26 | The government policy is to expand the total number of beds in the island to around 20,000 and to encourage this expansion to be outside Funchal , thereby opening up the wonderful countryside and expanding the economy of the many small villages . |
| 27 | Calculate the score for each overlap and attach this score to the active word and the candidate word in each case . |
| 28 | For each word position , calculate the best overlap between each of the candidates and the active word , and attach this score to the active word ( only ) . |
| 29 | The painter Patrick Heron wrote for the New Statesman in London in the 1950s , and used this technique for writing about Braque , whom he compared with Picasso . |
| 30 | He formed a united clan , largely through family ties amongst army officers , and used this clan for his own purposes . |