Example sentences of "and [verb] [adv prt] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When we get up , the weight of our bodies compresses these discs and squeezes out the extra fluid . |
| 2 | A computer chip checks voltage levels within the battery , and slows down the recharging process if this increases too rapidly , thereby , according to Innovations , avoiding the danger of explosive gases building up . |
| 3 | Improv provides business an professional users with a unique set of capabilities for dynamic viewing and analysis , and , for building spreadsheets that can be easily reused , modified and shared over a long lifecycle . |
| 4 | The curtains were still pulled and he placed one of the packages of groceries on the table , holding the other to his side as he went across the room and whipped back the heavy green curtains . |
| 5 | I saw the barrels begin to spin and that 's when I snatched up Barry and whipped out the trusty Smith and West Wittering . |
| 6 | The new law increases fines for shopworkers found guilty of selling cigarettes to children to £2,500 and tightens up the previous legislation in a number of other ways . |
| 7 | Hastings , who has played only 40 minutes on the tour , increased speculation that all was not well when he declined a round of golf today significant as the Watsonians star is a golf fanatic and plays off a seven handicap . |
| 8 | It was the legacy of the previous form of uneven development based in the sectoral spatial division of labour ( high levels of unemployment from previously dominant sectors which had overwhelmingly employed men ) which provided the conditions ( regional policy grants , a ‘ green ’ , female labour force anxious for paid employment ) which attracted in this new form of economic activity and laid down a new form of uneven development . |
| 9 | The big moment came : she opened her hand and laid down the burdened flower by Maman 's plate . |
| 10 | She opened the door and gazed down a splendid vista of reception rooms that opened out one into the next , which Buzz had learned was typical of grand French houses . |
| 11 | Which Nick 's chewed up and spat out a Hula Hoop with water added . |
| 12 | FORTY-FIVE people were killed last night when an excursion coach careered off a Spanish motorway and plunged down a steep embankment . |
| 13 | I do n't remember him doing much digging in the garden but in my memory he is always mowing the lawn and fussing over a particular type of grass which evaded the blades and sprang back upright after the mower had passed over it . |
| 14 | At the next trick , I continued my strategy of playing Clubs and led out the 9 . |
| 15 | They file into the office and sit round the long oak table , slightly in awe of Vic , serious men in chain-store suits , with pens and pencils sticking out of their breast pockets . |
| 16 | They came instead upon another of Whipple 's scouting parties , under Lieutenant S.M. Rains , and wiped out the entire twelve-man detachment . |
| 17 | The eternal westerly swell rolled lazily across our wake and wiped out the last trace of our intrusion . |
| 18 | You ask for a chair and four telephone directories and rig up an impromptu table near the only plug — and ask all your prospective clients to turn their heads around . |
| 19 | Cut in a tee at this point , and connect up the new runs . |
| 20 | Although he has had his feet under the desk only since January , he has been preparing for the job since last summer by meeting researchers and officials , visiting institutes abroad and drawing up an initial draft of his plans . |
| 21 | ‘ Your lot are slinging up tower-block hotels all round the coast and stamping out the olive groves . |
| 22 | Although there was a break in the snowfall , the wind still blew fiercely from the north , moaning round the house and whipping up the fallen snow so that it skimmed across the fields like fine powder , piling up in deep drifts where its progress was interrupted by hedgerows . |
| 23 | PREMIER John Major yesterday assured the Chancellor his job was safe and ruled out a festive Cabinet shake-up . |
| 24 | But all the first-year students had arrived together on the first day of term and sought out the one fixed event in the university calendar , the Freshmen 's Fayre . |
| 25 | Then I returned to the tinker camp and sought out the same woman . |
| 26 | This allowed us to line the side curtains in striped fabric and make up a flat roof instead of a gathered one . |
| 27 | Clear away topsoil and make up a simple formwork of timber supported by pegs set on the outside . |
| 28 | Erm so do you feel that in the years that you 've worked here are women just as important in the factory and make up a large part of the workforce now as they , as they 've ever done ? |
| 29 | When the children arrive you give them each a balloon and make up a convenient number of teams . |
| 30 | When cheques are cashed a transfer is automatically made from the deposit account to meet the payment and make up the current account to £20 . |