Example sentences of "and [vb base] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It means instead the end of childhood and freedom , the beginning of a new life as a slave and chattel at the bottom of a hierarchy in someone else 's family . |
| 2 | Kids too sick to raise their heads , lying soft and limp beneath the burden of heart disease , kidney failure and cancers that eat everything but innocence . |
| 3 | Thus a peroxide-bleaching process produces a less obnoxious effluent than a kier-boil-hypochlorite bleach , and change to the peroxide method might be advantageous provided that the resulting textile product and the costs were acceptable . |
| 4 | Furthermore , at a time of indeterminacy and change like the present , where there is frequently no strong institutional ideology to subscribe to , individual values matter all the more . |
| 5 | She 'd dry herself and change in the bathroom . |
| 6 | For beginners , then , there is loss and change in the transfer to print — loss of immediacy of relevance , loss of vividness , loss of support in the search for meaning . |
| 7 | There has been a lot of research and change in the treatment of mental illness or frailty over the last few years . |
| 8 | Your speaking of the balance between tradition and change in the evolution of art raises a crucial question : I mean the question of progress . |
| 9 | It would not be surprising , either , if this flux and change in the self were to generate a more flexible response to morality , and one that is peculiarly sensitive to the aesthetic dimension . |
| 10 | The Committee was not laying down patterns of teacher education to be followed , but was contributing , at a time of considerable difficulty and change in the system , to debate about future directions . |
| 11 | I go and change in the toilet and wear my mac like a dressing gown , and then hop into my sleeping bag and take it off . |
| 12 | Some further evidence of the complexities involved in handling the problems of the relationship between social and economic change and change in the family comes from accounts of the way in which families handle problems of migration in societies undergoing processes of urbanization and industrialization . |
| 13 | In the years 1975–81 , two substantial sociolinguistic research projects were completed in Belfast , Northern Ireland , concerned with language variation and change in the city . |
| 14 | On the other hand , you can have something like the gang of four in China that creates such tensions and anxieties in the society and so many people get to feel that things have gone from bad to worse , that you get a shake up and change in the regime . |
| 15 | Cook under a hot grill for 5 minutes , tuck in rosemary and baste with the marinade . |
| 16 | Neither of these countries , poor as they are , can hope to recoup these losses and develop in the future without external assistance . |
| 17 | The Ryazan-Uralsk railway succeeded in linking the grain producing regions along the Volga with the major consuming area around Moscow , and the Trans-Caucasus Railway linked the southern port cities of Odessa , Rostov , and Novorossiysk with the grain areas of the Middle Volga . |
| 18 | Press and pat onto the face but never rub it . ’ |
| 19 | For instance , if clitorectomy often known as female circumcision — is a ‘ moral ’ requirement to serve male interests , it is nevertheless women who carry out , maintain and insist upon the practice , and it is women who express their moral offence if it is not carried out . |
| 20 | Added attractions include Sound Garden Club DJs Tony Ross , Nipper and The Spinmasters from Manchester as well as Fabian and Grooverider from the capital . |
| 21 | Molecules of galactoside ( β in the figure ) enter the cell , and bind to the repressor molecules . |
| 22 | Oxygen can just get into the pocket and bind to the iron but , due partly to the absence of water , ca n't oxidise it . |
| 23 | ‘ Go and sit at the table . |
| 24 | come and sit at the table and wait , come on , put those away |
| 25 | Look we have got special bread now come on and sit at the table with us , |
| 26 | I take a camera and sit on the edge of the water . |
| 27 | Jenna slept badly , waking with a throbbing pain in her head , and it took a great effort to swing both her feet from the bed and sit on the edge . |
| 28 | I ca n't remember where they go , but Peter tells me to bring them too , so I go and sit on the sofa next to him . |
| 29 | You switch on the kettle and sit on the stool . |
| 30 | Apart from anything else , his working day did not begin till seven or eight , so that he was often there during the day , and always ready to listen ; but there were times when his customers left early , at two or three in the morning , and then Maurice , somewhat exhilarated with whisky , would come over to Grace , magically retaining his balance on the gangplank , and sit on the gunwale , waiting . |