Example sentences of "and [vb base] [pron] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fireworks is chartered to co-ordinate varied but related businesses to ensure early marketing of leading-edge multimedia systems ; create joint ventures and alliances with other firms ; put up initial funding for promising , pioneering multimedia services under development by entrepreneurs outside IBM ; and take responsibility for IBM 's worldwide multimedia marketing strategy and co-ordinate it across lines of business . |
| 2 | I was so rattled I glanced round to make sure this was n't a signal for an army of bunnies like this Dobermann of a beast to come up from behind and tear me to shreds . |
| 3 | The man 's trembling want of her made her feel that speck grow into a force ; she began to enjoy denying him , then permitting him again , she used her strength to grip and pin him and squeeze him in parts that made him cry out , to gouge and scratch his pale , thin flesh , she fortified him with tisanes that make men what was called in her language ‘ cross ’ , and gave him leaves to chew to stay his excitement so she could explore the crustacean pinkness of his flesh and turn her curiosity and its tinge of disgust to a form of power over him which gave her pleasure . |
| 4 | Steve says the small scale dealers buy 50 tablets from bigger dealers , and sell them on weekends before clubs open , or once they 're inside . |
| 5 | Lending institutions now sell more and more of their mortgages to Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac , which in turn package them into securities and sell them to investors . |
| 6 | We would would go out with catapults and shoot chickens — pow — and sell them to restaurants . |
| 7 | ‘ We could take them home and sell them as pets . |
| 8 | Because another one was er we come down the houses in here , empty houses and in , in the summer they used to grow flowers , Marguerites , and we used to go in the backyard , we were n't supposed to , er and cut these flowers and make them into bunches and , and sell them for tuppence and thruppence a bunch . |
| 9 | Do n't rely on it though — ski with your weight centred on your skis and make your up motions more vertical than backward . |
| 10 | They were notoriously warlike , subduing or assimilating lesser tribes and raiding sketchy Roman settlements to loot silver and make it into ornaments to add to their warpaint . |
| 11 | Barton-on-Humber , Burton Stava Broomfleet all had clay pits where they used to dig out the clay and cut it up and make it into bricks . |
| 12 | Tanjung said : ‘ Witnesses claim that police are taking the arrested demonstrators to the central Timisoara square , where they beat them up and stab them with bayonets , before shoving them into lorries and driving them away no one knows where . ’ |
| 13 | She had the state collect painting , carpets , silver , jewellery and ceramics , and display them in museums created especially by her . |
| 14 | I guess he heard Barbara and me discussing the good time we had with you , and he kind of picked up on it , and he wondered why he could n't come down to the Bahamas and isolate himself from drugs . |
| 15 | Some of these royal gifts presented the warden with a formidable task : in December 1238 the sheriff of Essex and Richard de Munfichet , warden of the forest of Essex , were ordered to take alive in the forest 120 bucks and does for the Count of Flanders , put them in cages , and transport them in carts to the Thames , where Raymond Ruffus , a yeoman of the king , was to have a ship ready to take them to Flanders . |
| 16 | Together , every few weeks we 'd dismantle the rig and transport it in sections a few hundred miles through swamps and desert and forest . |
| 17 | If you can identify the item pictured here , please write your answer on the back of a postcard with your name and address and send it to Curiosities , The National Trust Magazine , 36 , Queen Anne 's Gate , London . |
| 18 | If you can identify the object pictured here , please write your answer on the back of a postcard with your name and address and send it to Curiosities , The National Trust Magazine , 36 Queen Anne 's Gate , London SW1H 9AS . |
| 19 | And expect plenty of spills this Bank Holiday Monday at Kingston Bagpuize near Abingdon . |
| 20 | If the application is based upon payment of all the debts , the applicant must give at least twenty-eight days ' notice to the official receiver and ( if other ) the trustee and supply them with copies of the application and affidavit ( r 6.206(4) ) . |
| 21 | Herbaceous borders or mixed borders , or even the island beds of herbaceous perennials which make an interesting alternative , are a standard feature in many gardens , but few garden-owners take the word " herbaceous " literally and grow nothing but herbs in their beds or borders . |
| 22 | Boil eggs and decorate them with paints and put tufts of wool on for hair . |
| 23 | Now , the cheats amongst us ( like me ) will discover that you can import graphics into the Cel editor , and will quickly come to the conclusion that very lifelike images can be formed by using a scanner to scan individual frames from a film , and then pick out the bits they want and place them on cels to form a small animated sequence . |
| 24 | Programmers can carry out code changes and test them from Windows and OS/2 clients . |
| 25 | I could throw them out and replace them with Bretons , ’ said Thorfinn . |
| 26 | Caedwalla attempted , according to Bede , to exterminate the natives and replace them with inhabitants of his own kingdom , vowing , though still a pagan , that he would give a fourth part of the island and the booty seized to the Church if he were successful . |
| 27 | Now the summer bedding plants in tubs and window boxes are fading or frosted , chuck them out and replace them with flowers for the winter and spring . |
| 28 | We miss meals and replace them with snacks which may mean missing out on vital nutrients . |
| 29 | There was unrest in some twenty-six English and Welsh towns on 20 October , the day of George 's coronation , by which time the new monarch had already begun to turn out the old Tory ministers and replace them by Whigs . |
| 30 | Why not just accept experience — why try to understand it and encapsulate it in words which will necessarily have an imprisoning effect upon the insight ? |