Example sentences of "and [verb] [pers pn] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Remove the dough from the bowl and knead it on a floured board until smooth , about 5 minutes . |
| 2 | In the early 1970s an organization was established to govern karate on a world scale and to promote it as a new and fascinating sport . |
| 3 | Humility is to orient our lives towards God , so that we understand and obey him in a greater and greater sense . |
| 4 | and change them to a bigger size |
| 5 | So although this is fifty pence when you show it on here the fir so the first thing we 've got to do is change this fifty pence to get away from fifty pence or thirty pence or twenty and change it into a fraction . |
| 6 | If you produce an invoice , and on reading it onscreen discover that you have entered £350 instead of £250 , almost every Windows user will expect to drop a text cursor over the offending 3 and change it to a 2 . |
| 7 | You can do more than play games : you can add them , multiply them , and develop them to a remarkable depth . |
| 8 | UCLA 's head of the Art department , Henry T. Hopkins , is taking over the directorship , and he plans to show special exhibitions in the building and develop it as a cultural centre for ‘ lectures , symposia , dance , film and poetry readings ’ . |
| 9 | ( Some pocket calculators will do this ; otherwise one obtains a random integer of 5 or 6 digits from a random number table and precedes it with a decimal point . ) |
| 10 | According to Antony the Devil came to tempt and torture him in a variety of fantastical forms from lascivious women to wild beasts . |
| 11 | The Levellers articulated this awareness , and channelled it into a coherent set of democratic political demands . |
| 12 | But a final word of caution : venturis are temperamental , and to enclose yours within a blockwork wall , only to find that it did n't work properly , would be frustrating . |
| 13 | Then they peeled back the bedcovers and laid him on a crisp sheet , covering him from the waist down with another sheet . |
| 14 | And she brought forth her first-born son , and wrapped him in swaddling clothes , and laid him in a manger ; because there was no room for them in the inn . |
| 15 | And she brought forth her first born son , and wrapped him in swaddling clothes , and laid him in a manger. because there was no room for them in the inn . |
| 16 | " And she brought forth her first-born child , and laid him in a manger , because there was no place for them in the inn . " |
| 17 | I contrived to get Martinho beside Goreng 's jeep and laid him against a wheel . |
| 18 | She picked up my underclothes from the floor and laid them on a chair . |
| 19 | He took her protesting hand , and laid it on a thick roll of tablecloths between their bodies . |
| 20 | Based in the UK , MAP is an ecumenical organisation that aims to increase media awareness , to encourage critical dialogue with media practitioners and to recognise the underlying values in the media and evaluate them from a Christian viewpoint . |
| 21 | They form a component of some social stratification systems simply because members of those systems select certain characteristics and evaluate them in a particular way . |
| 22 | Seeing the latter in one-dimensional terms , and characterising it as a weak version of the more prestigious intellectual analogues used ( design as weak art or weak science ) , such models never explored design — cognitive activity from its own standpoint or in respect of its own efficacy . |
| 23 | He has studied the details of their forms and physiognomy and renders them in a manner both truthful and original . |
| 24 | He untied Dobbs and led her into a large dark shed . |
| 25 | But it took a trained observer to follow her through the quicksands of her disapprobation ; a false step on the part of one of the aunts , for instance , could have reversed her attitude , and led her into a eulogy of black , into a martyred position whence the garments of all the others were an insult to her lone and exclusive widowhood , into a position where she alone had the right to flout the weight of tradition . |
| 26 | I stood up , took Flavia 's hand and led her into a little room . |
| 27 | He gripped her wrist firmly and led her to a door . |
| 28 | The girl swung round as a silent invitation to follow , and led them past a tangled bunch of bicycles and a wall of political posters to hopeless causes . |
| 29 | A young man in an immaculate dark blue suit took over from the young woman who had met them at the elevator and led them into a vast room , furnished with antiques . |
| 30 | She took Mungo 's case , hung up his mac and led him to a fire as lively as the one in the waiting-room . |