Example sentences of "and [verb] [adv prt] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 Organised in regular gangs or teams on the model of seasonal harvesters , led by an elected captain who negotiated terms and shared out the proceeds of the contract , poor peasants from Italy , Croatia or Ireland would criss-cross continents or even oceans to provide labour for the builders of towns , factories or railways .
2 He knows every corner and brick of the cathedral and points out the glories of the 11th-century ( Romanesque ) triforium with its later , inferior , 14th-century equivalent : ‘ You do see , do n't you ? ’
3 By experiment and observation , Hahnemann worked out the drug pictures of many remedies and laid down the principles whereby they were to be used — remedies and principles which are still as valid today as they were when Hahnemann first discovered them .
4 Where Mother fried the fish , lit the Friday night candles and laid out the clothes in the order my brother and I would put them on .
5 Bramham Park has been in the Lane Fox family for eight generations , since Robert Benson and the first Lord Bingley built the House and laid out the grounds in the manner of Versailles in 1698 and George Fox married his daughter .
6 A few notable articles discussed in the following chapters have taken this further and laid out the implications of successful conservation .
7 He was in a position in which he would have every opportunity of gaining knowledge of the customers ' business and influence over the customers ' .
8 This segmentation of spheres of action and influence along the lines of gender difference is reflected in the radio programming in the novel .
9 We can turn our backs on the divisions of the past , and tear down the barriers that divide us .
10 But he then had to get across the gully and connect up the wires to brin' this lot down on top of us . ’
11 The visitor sat back and watched the alchemy of the coffee take shape as the slightly stale odour of boiling milk permeated the room and steamed up the windows that looked down into Sauchiehall Street .
12 He stated that the British were not persuaded by the move for major changes in the institutional balance within the Community and ruled out the proposals for giving the European Parliament the right of co-decision over the Council of Ministers on legislative matters .
13 What Clark did was to imagine what substances are responsible for killing parasites in these systems — and to carry out the experiments that prove his idea .
14 In practice it is impossible to maintain any rigorous separation between executive power and legislative power — between the power to set down the broad direction of the state and to carry out the laws , and the power to make laws and general rules — and , in Britain , Bagehot saw the fusion as taking place in the Cabinet which he said was a committee of the legislative body chosen by the Commons to be the executive body and rule the nation .
15 They will have to learn how to present new lexis , structure and discourse forms appropriate to the tasks to be set in the assessments ; to construct cue cards for the practice of the language functions ; to manage the moves from class teacher to pair work organiser and to individual helper ; and to carry out the assessments in a rigorous manner .
16 A military judge came to see me and read out the charges — I had been accused of stealing a car .
17 They are strays , having been carried here by the glacier that once occupied Crummackdale as it retreated at the end of the Ice Age , scouring the ground as it departed and bringing down the boulders from their place of origin higher in the valley .
18 That was when they first changed over from seamed stockings to seamless ones and started laying off the skilled knitters and bringing in the women .
19 Sometimes it seemed that those who loved them were almost willing the band to spend their lives touring pubs , returning to Farnborough merely to return the empties and pick up the bills .
20 To pick them up , moisten the paintbrush slightly , draw out the bristles to make a fine point and pick up the aphids with the tip of the brush .
21 Whether to you know sort of try and pick up the guys who are getting thrown out of Heathrow and make a long-term go of it or whether in the long term , em , they want to flog it off for gravel and you know mining it for gravel and sending it for houses and you know , that sort of thing .
22 And then er Tom retired and he used to run the bus long after we start the mails and then he retired and er the bus service to come down along and pick up the passengers and that was how it start .
23 And pick up the groceries .
24 Whimper like a whipped puppy , Jay , have a drink and pick up the pieces .
25 I then deliberately smudge the area with my fingers and pick out the highlights with a plastic eraser .
26 I then deliberately smudge the area with my fingers and pick out the highlights with a plastic eraser .
27 Try and pick out the aspects of your background which make you especially suitable for the job you have applied for .
28 Contestants will join him in the arena to try to do a Tyrus — and bring on the tears again .
29 An arc of movement and bring down the feet
30 Willy away and and bring back the matches please .
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