Example sentences of "and [vb base] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What had happened was that O had been at home , not sleeping , thinking about Boy at six in the morning , and he had called up and said , ‘ Are you watching TV , ’ to which Boy had replied , as the man had heard , ‘ Yes , ’ and then O had told Boy to turn over to the boxing ; he 'd just said , ‘ Get up and change to the third channel . |
| 2 | Maitland to be asked to circulate a copy of the draft Minute of Agreement to Christian Aid and SCIAF before the next meeting so that this can be looked at . |
| 3 | Write your plans below and evaluate at the next C.P.S. |
| 4 | But City are prone to concede goals in the last quarter of an hour and bang on the 75th minute the impressive young Dodd fed a wonderful 30-yard pass to Rod Wallace , who held off two defenders to equalise . |
| 5 | But technical descriptions only indicate the positions through which the feet and legs should move and at which moment they should co-ordinate with the arms as weight is transferred from one step and pose to the next . |
| 6 | At the time I wondered how any improvements could be visual , when I learnt that players could ignore March winds and appear on the 1st tee in shirt and slacks . |
| 7 | Turn left from the entrance and wait on the first corner . |
| 8 | The wise veterans nod their heads and wait for the first whistle . |
| 9 | Or chortle and wait for the next T-shirt ? |
| 10 | Well might and wait till the second of July and get it all second hand . |
| 11 | Greenough and colleagues showed that preterm babies who did not require respiratory support had a high prevalence of wheeze and cough in the first year of life . |
| 12 | A fitting finale — and summons to the Last Judgement , be ye Saint or Sinner . |
| 13 | So can we just ignore that for the moment and focus on the first sheet deliberately |
| 14 | List all your good points , i.e. determination etc , and focus on the next race . |
| 15 | The home season will have a top-level start with the South Pacific contest ( involving Auckland , Wellington , Canterbury , Fiji , New South Wales and Queensland ) and the CANZ contest ( Otago , Canada , North Harbour , North Auckland , Waikato ) in March and April , and finish with the first semi-finals and final of the National Championship . |
| 16 | As you 'll notice when you play this , it 's actually the same phrase or ‘ motif ’ taken up through 3 octaves using 3 Pentatonic positions on the fretboard ; we start in the 3rd position and finish in the 10th position . |
| 17 | Ever demonstrative , Markus Stenz clearly aimed at the dramatic in Beethoven 's Symphony No4 and digging deep , uncovered hidden orchestral reserves bringing a satisfying degree of tension and thrill to the first movement . |
| 18 | Whether Drake was the first person to introduce potatoes to Britain is a matter of debate , but they certainly came to this country as stores aboard the ships which sailed to South America on missions of pillage and plunder in the 16th Century . |
| 19 | Open the glass fronted cupboard on the left-hand side and look on the fourth shelf from the top . |
| 20 | As we have , therefore , travelled together through so many pages , let us behave to one another like fellow-travellers in a stage coach , who have passed several days in the company of each other : and who , notwithstanding any bickerings or little animosities which may have occurred on the road , generally make up at last , and mount for the last time into their vehicle with cheerfulness and good humour ; since after this one stage , it may possibly happen to us , as it commonly happens to them , never to meet more . |
| 21 | IT was claps , crackles and pop at the first night of a new comedy venue in Darlington . |
| 22 | Even today there are those who have doubts about the great burst of prosperity and splendour in the first half of the fourth century manifest in the great villas . |
| 23 | Spray it and jump to the next ledge and grab the extra life . |
| 24 | Rip it into tiny pieces and throw it at the bride and groom at the next wedding you see . |
| 25 | Robert Kennedy , who played a notable role throughout the crisis , suggested that the President should ignore this second letter and reply to the first in the affirmative . |
| 26 | Now for God 's sake let's go to the airport and get on the next flight home . ’ |
| 27 | It would be great to bounce back from a temporary aberration and get into the Third Division . |
| 28 | Lopsided and vulnerable , he tried to climb the barrage and get to the second balloon . |
| 29 | [ J. M. Price , France and the Chesapeake , 2 vols. , 1973 ; Charles Wilson , Anglo-Dutch Commerce and Finance in the Eighteenth Century , 1941 . ] |
| 30 | I fetch water — an easy job , just grab a kettle , head for the cliffs and fill from the first stream you fall in — and offer it to Tor . |