Example sentences of "and [verb] [adv] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We took a two-hour tour of South London with Eva drinking Guinness and hanging out the window cheering as we passed down the Old Kent Road , stopping beside the famous site of Dr Lal 's surgery and the dance hall of love , where Mum met Dad and fell . |
| 2 | She was always a busy , tidy little girl , going around the house at night making sure all the curtains were drawn and tucking up the zoo of small furry animals which crowded her bed — she has kept them to this day . |
| 3 | He lapsed into a sullen silence as the cab left the confines of the airport terminal and cruised up the turnpike onto the freeway . |
| 4 | The mob tried to overturn it and drag out the driver . |
| 5 | A high and uncertain rate of inflation is disturbing because it reduces the efficiency of the market economy and slows down the process of economic growth . |
| 6 | For students — young people and adults alike — it will mean more opportunities to gain new skills , obtain qualifications and develop fully the roles that they need to fulfil themselves at work and as citizens . |
| 7 | Organised in regular gangs or teams on the model of seasonal harvesters , led by an elected captain who negotiated terms and shared out the proceeds of the contract , poor peasants from Italy , Croatia or Ireland would criss-cross continents or even oceans to provide labour for the builders of towns , factories or railways . |
| 8 | As silence fell , he snatched up the green telephone and stabbed out the number of the Internal Security department . |
| 9 | At last the cabby climbed up to his seat and whipped up the horse . |
| 10 | The strength of neo-elitism is best seen against the background of pluralism ; as a critique of pluralism it introduces the concept of non-decision-making and points up the failure of pluralist methods to define properly what is meant by the term ‘ key issues ’ . |
| 11 | He knows every corner and brick of the cathedral and points out the glories of the 11th-century ( Romanesque ) triforium with its later , inferior , 14th-century equivalent : ‘ You do see , do n't you ? ’ |
| 12 | By experiment and observation , Hahnemann worked out the drug pictures of many remedies and laid down the principles whereby they were to be used — remedies and principles which are still as valid today as they were when Hahnemann first discovered them . |
| 13 | Nicholas looked at what he had been doing , which was nothing very much , and laid down the stone and the knife and , clasping his knees , looked at Diniz . |
| 14 | Where Mother fried the fish , lit the Friday night candles and laid out the clothes in the order my brother and I would put them on . |
| 15 | Mr Cyril Stayley was the initial foreman of this shop and he established and laid out the system of repair . |
| 16 | Azmaveth did not argue but knelt down on the floor by the bed and laid out the silk square in front of her . |
| 17 | Bramham Park has been in the Lane Fox family for eight generations , since Robert Benson and the first Lord Bingley built the House and laid out the grounds in the manner of Versailles in 1698 and George Fox married his daughter . |
| 18 | A few notable articles discussed in the following chapters have taken this further and laid out the implications of successful conservation . |
| 19 | A little way along , Vern stopped and sat on the very same wall and gazed up the gorge , like I 'd done , at the high flying bridge . |
| 20 | He returned their wave and gazed down the sun dappled ribbon of bright water as it meandered its way towards Sharpness docks a couple of miles distant . |
| 21 | Eric spat and choked down the line , and there followed the noise of the phone-box handset being smashed around the inside of the booth . |
| 22 | This first violent incident in over three months of continued demonstrations raised political tensions and led both the CDU and LDPD to threaten leaving the government . |
| 23 | Each girlfriend is blindfolded and led down the line , burying her nose in the chest of each man — who must keep quiet — and taking a sniff . |
| 24 | Very kindly , Carole and Ben Meadows invited them to come and stay over the weekend . |
| 25 | come and sit down the front here to . |
| 26 | As he took his handkerchief out and wiped away the water that was still dripping from the front of his hair , a voice said , ‘ I would n't drink that if I were you ; the cows wash in it just round the corner . ’ |
| 27 | Willie peered in the window and wiped away the mist his breath was making on the glass . |
| 28 | The librarian fetched a checked duster , and wiped away the dust , a black , thick , tenacious Victorian dust , a dust composed of smoke and fog particles accumulated before the Clean Air Acts . |
| 29 | She took a cloth and wiped down the counter . |
| 30 | Polly finished drying the dishes and wiped down the cooker and the work surfaces , vaguely aware of the engine 's deep rumble and the sensation of movement . |