Example sentences of "and [verb] [adv prt] the [det] " in BNC.

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1 Then I returned to the tinker camp and sought out the same woman .
2 Impetus and the driving weight told , and the wedge , only a little misshapen now , crashed through and bore down the few extra yards upon the waiting English .
3 He came over , shoved the piece of paper into my hand , and vanished down the same hole .
4 She too was saying that she had an urge to go down with her broom and sweep up the these building works .
5 And end up the same circumstances we was now , er with out the stuff that we 'd we were paying for for the next six months of the year .
6 Had he been in Whitechapel , Charlie would have been happy to run up and down the market from five in the morning to seven at night and still box a few rounds at the club , drink a couple of pints of beer and carry out the same routine the next day without a second thought , but when at nine o'clock the sergeant-major gave them a ten-minute break for cocoa he collapsed on to the verge exhausted .
7 I decided to have a clear out and throw out the same number of old pairs .
8 But the bishops ' warning may harm Herri Batasuna and sober up the many Basques who have persuaded themselves that ETA terrorists are a kind of latter day Knights Templar , wielding car bombs and Uzzis for greater Basque liberty .
9 That probably means it will offend the few and rip off the many .
10 Then , pretending for a moment that he was back there , he would turn round and face the back of his cage , open his wings , and glide down the few feet to where his food lay on the ground , pretending that it was prey and that the few feet was hundreds of feet , and that he could feel strong winds on his wings and was an adult eagle , and free , free to fly where he liked .
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