Example sentences of "and [vb -s] [adv prt] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a country where , as a popular song puts it , ‘ every son is born a soldier ’ and turns out each year for a spell of military service until he is well into middle age , the army has long been regarded as an essential part of the country 's armed neutrality . |
| 2 | He has this lovely pixie body and whips off complicated tap routines in the Astaire and Gene Kelly styles — amazing . |
| 3 | But when it comes to the ecstatically energised and demonstrative music , he either plays safe with tempi and tones down orchestral brilliance or , more alarmingly , decides to add a wealth of extra cymbal ( suspended and clashed ) , presumably in the misguided notion that more emphasis is required . |
| 4 | Lucker drops his camera and holds out another knife . |
| 5 | After a few quick puffs the man turns and stubs out this cigarette too , three-quarters wasted . |
| 6 | So in Scout 's case , her innocence leads her through her childhood and because she is too young to understand fully the barrier between the different races she lives among , she is saved from the emotional torments other people suffer , but in Perk 's case her innocence leads her straight into a very touchy emotional situation and ends up suffering death , too young to understand why . |
| 7 | ‘ And rules out one thing : that she fell overboard by accident . ’ |
| 8 | When the text has a reader it ceases to be a mere object and takes on anthropomorphic form ; it has a voice or voices ( the ‘ codes ’ ) , it creates its own history ( the history of the already-read content ) , it ‘ plays ’ , ‘ creates ’ , ‘ lies ’ , etc . |
| 9 | He rises and takes on imaginary partner |
| 10 | She looks at me for a bit , then she goes over to the drawer and takes out another envelope . |
| 11 | Zoe goes for it and plucks up some courage while Leonard asserts himself and makes a decision . |
| 12 | Whenever anyone makes something too long , she snips one edge of the knitting , then snips the other edge on the same row and pulls out that line of knitting . |
| 13 | However , a £3000 reward is certain to attract a quality entry and McKinstry just might have some very stiff opposition to contend with even if Tarmac champion Bertie Fisher sticks to his guns and opts out this time . |
| 14 | He grins at the effect he has produced , and picks up more cheese crumbs on his finger . |
| 15 | If you have a low income and no more than £8,000 savings , you may qualify for Income Support , which is paid weekly and tops up any Income you have to a level set by the Government . |
| 16 | Q S P Six er gives generic job descriptions and sets down broad responsibility statements relating to quality and safety . |
| 17 | It 's such a wonderful thing and gives out such heat that I spend quite a lot of my time sitting alongside it in the kitchen . |
| 18 | The only other differences in the motive power is the use of a Class 37 on the Stanlow to Aberystwyth tanks which normally arrives around 08.10 on a Wednesday and departs around mid afternoon . |
| 19 | 3.30pm Liz deals with phone calls from reps and sorts out any maintenance problems like the dishwasher over-soaping or replacing breakages . |
| 20 | Hot water from the boiler passes through the hot cylinder , and heats up stored water that is then fed to the hot taps . |
| 21 | A whole house ventilation and heat recovery system eliminates condensation and sucks out stale air . |
| 22 | Dysmap compiles and carries out continuous simulation models and is particularly suited to modelling situations whose dynamic nature is based on feedback processes . |
| 23 | in addition , Just Deserts now rotates jobs more frequently , holds employee exercise sessions and carries out regular opinion surveys of staff to find out what changes they want made . |
| 24 | If the supplier goes beyond the mere supply of the equipment and carries out some work such as assembling and installing the equipment , the Supply of Goods and Services Act 1982 will apply , as discussed above . |
| 25 | More serious to the surveying practice is the job which has a fixed fee and runs over budgeted time . |