Example sentences of "and [vb base] [adv] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | She would drive to the nursery in the spring and pick up boxes of spring flowers , pansies , violets , crocuses , iris , lilies of the valley , daffodils , and jonquil , and set them lovingly in the damp sweet-sour earth . |
| 2 | Erm I 'll go through the consultation paper and pick out sort of paragraph by paragraph and any that we particular agree or disagree with . |
| 3 | Headaches are stupefying , benumbing and bring on confusion of mind . |
| 4 | Before the First World War , the younger women of the village , of whom my mother was one , used to walk from Mavhinje to Štivan ( San Giovanni ) , near the coast , and bring back pots of water on their heads . |
| 5 | ‘ We used to go round the farms to collect the harness-work and bring back sets of harness for repair . |
| 6 | And even if it went down , at least it would be a heroic failure — a genuine attempt to break the mould and bring back standards of quality and decency . |
| 7 | The scheme will use up LWT 's £50m of cash and bring in £72.5m of borrowings . |
| 8 | There are prototyping packages available which will set up screen layouts and bring in blocks of code for validating and presenting data . |
| 9 | Using the same value for control absorption as above one can estimate that hexamethonium blocked about 85% and lidocaine about 50% of the secretion caused by the bacterium . |
| 10 | Why do you pick up the evening paper and linger over tales of local gossip or distress when you have important tasks to carry out ? |
| 11 | Measure the height and width of each side of the bus — front , back , two sides and roof — and cut out pieces of non-stick paper to the same dimensions . |
| 12 | Measure the height and width of each of the sides of the cake ( including the two short ends ) , and cut out pieces of non-stick paper to the same dimensions . |
| 13 | Measure the height and width of the two roof sides and cut out pieces of non-stick paper in the same way . |
| 14 | As you build up and level out areas of the garden , keep the soil in place using retaining walls . |
| 15 | held-a football club as occupier should foresee that crowd could become unruly and break off pieces of concrete which if thrown could cause injury to visitors in this case on duty police officers . |
| 16 | With a dado rail you would hang all of one type first , but we did n't do this as we needed both pieces wet so we could cut right through the overlap point with a sharp knife and remove both pieces of waste to leave a perfect butt joint . |
| 17 | If the puncture is in the middle of a pipe run , cut through it at the puncture site , and remove about 20mm of pipe so you can reconnect the cut ends with a compression fitting . |
| 18 | A UNITED Nations cash crisis threatens to reignite violence in Hong Kong 's Vietnamese detention camps and snuff out hopes of an orderly end to a 17-year problem . |
| 19 | It is because they substitute half-baked faith for genuine effort and hold out promises of intervention in the world 's affairs on payment . |
| 20 | ‘ I would challenge Michael Fallon to withdraw his remarks and accept only 25pc of under fives are in nursery education . ’ |
| 21 | Drake easily told by greatly elongated central tail feathers , 4 in. of total length , combined with striking pattern of dark head and throat and white breast and stripe up side of neck . |
| 22 | And rather than being at the mercy of the autobiographer 's choice of what to mention , we can ask questions and open up areas of significant memory which would otherwise have been lost . |
| 23 | IN THE SAME WEEK : Sir Alf Ramsey 's England footballers , World Cup winners nine months earlier , were beaten 3–2 by Scotland at Wembley , prompting ‘ hordes of tartan-clad Scots to pour over Wembley 's barriers to dance on England 's grave , kiss the centre spot and dig up pieces of turf as souvenirs . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ The anthropologist must relinquish his comfortable position in the long chair on the verandah of the missionary compound , Government station , or planter 's bungalow , where , armed with pencil and notebook and at times with a whisky and soda , he has been accustomed to collect statements from informants , write down stories , and fill out sheets of paper with savage texts . |
| 25 | 13 Monitor and note down areas of difficulty after lesson for future practice . |
| 26 | I should be able to consider seriously the idea of escape , and talk over problems of disguise and frontier crossings with other people for whom the war was not yet over . |
| 27 | While our friends have made their new houses look good in just a few hours with a lick of paint , we 've had to put up new ceilings , repair skirting boards and hack off layers of old tiles . |
| 28 | And find out details of inter-library loans . |
| 29 | Tight labour markets and increased union strength at the end of the sixties may well have made it more difficult for employers to increase work intensity and carry out schemes of reorganization . |
| 30 | Under the Environmental Protection Act , it will monitor emissions from 5,000 major industrial plants and carry out audits of waste regulation authorities . |