Example sentences of "and [verb] [pron] under the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mickey glanced at Margaret and chucked her under the chin . |
| 2 | Crosland had realized ‘ the impossibility , as he saw it , of a Labour Secretary of State taking institutions from urban local education authorities which were predominantly controlled by Labour , and bringing them under the same regime as the universities ’ . |
| 3 | Then spit 'em into a handkerchief and hide it under the pillow . ’ |
| 4 | He soaked bits of cotton wool in essential oils and passed it under the noses of his patients . |
| 5 | He slipped a loop around one of her wrists , and passed it under the table to secure it to her other wrist . |
| 6 | He wanted to get back to his lodging house as soon as he could and get out of his suit , these tight-fitting shoes and his new white shirt which was just a little too small and caught him under the arms . |
| 7 | He hands me the silver tube , lights a match and holds it under the foil while I suck in and follow the smoke . |
| 8 | It provides also for management of resources outside the EEZs , both high-seas fish stocks and the resources of the sea bed ; the latter it declares to be ‘ the common heritage of mankind ’ and places it under the control of an International Sea-bed Authority . |
| 9 | It is essential that we should do all that we can to take as many schools as possible out of local education authority control and place them under the control of governors and parents . |
| 10 | The significance of the service lies in the attempt to take the process away from them and place it under the control of national and local welfare élites . |
| 11 | We begin , however , with an examination of a recommendation which , when introduced , will take much of the control of pre-trial procedure out of the hands of the parties and place it under the control of the court . |
| 12 | We immediately rushed to the ladies , washed Jessica carefully in the sink and dried her under the hand dryer . |
| 13 | She picked up the shoes from the hearth and put them under the table . |
| 14 | Speechless with weary anger , she cut herself two crooked slices of bread and put them under the grill . |
| 15 | Well the , the bed , there were no spring beds in , that came into my life until many years after , were the old straw palliasses , which were really more hygienic to sleep on than your spring beds , because you get the lumbar trouble with a straw palliasses cos it was just hip firm , I give you an instance I used to , as I was growing older I used to fold my trousers and put them under the mattress to press my trousers so I 'd always got a nice crease in my trousers , they were so solid that er you got y you did n't even get any wrinkles in your trousers in those days . |
| 16 | But when on first hearing of this arrangement I tried to inform Miss Kenton of it , she once again refused to converse with me , and in order to accomplish matters as quickly as possible I was actually obliged to write a note and put it under the door of her parlour . |
| 17 | He never even glanced at it , and put it under the horse 's nose at once . |
| 18 | During the week , whenever they were out , she insisted that she roll her hair up and put it under the cap . |
| 19 | You lay the knife beside the umbrella , heft the gun and put it under the duvet to click the safety off . |
| 20 | You could take it to the kitchen and put it under the grill of the electric cooker in order to get it hot , without knowing why it should be hot . |
| 21 | She had the most ghastly pallor , Sabine thought , racing to fetch her jacket from the car and put it under the older woman 's head as a pillow . |
| 22 | They must carbon-date it and put it under the microscope , and we must examine Aziz carefully and get him to say where he found it . |
| 23 | Proofread and correct your work and SAVE it under the filename YourInitials6 see Task 4 ) |
| 24 | I dig a hole with the hand trowel and pop them under the courgette together with the hands , feet and eyes ( which I 'd already collected ) . |
| 25 | To guard against accidents — such as the loss of the first packet , for example , or a furious spate of activity when the chemists ' were closed — he bought another packet of condoms and secreted them under the lining paper of his sock drawer . |
| 26 | Or is this the time to bring home a few ingots , dig up the cellar and bury them under the floor ? |
| 27 | You must tie them together and bury them under the great gate of the city . |
| 28 | His horse slipped and threw him under the wheels of a cart . |
| 29 | and selling it under the flyover . |
| 30 | So I took it home and stuck it under the door . |