Example sentences of "and [verb] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | 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 . |
| 32 | 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 . |
| 33 | 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 . |
| 34 | 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 . |
| 35 | 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 . |
| 36 | Now you may be thinking that these options sound very dramatic and limited in the context of social chit-chat . |
| 37 | Animals appeared to be bounding and bellowing around the room . |
| 38 | ‘ I think it 's time we stopped poisoning half the land and concreting in the rest . ’ |
| 39 | I once saw a cartoon which pictured hundreds of lemmings throwing themselves off a cliff and drowning in the water below . |
| 40 | The village is in a beautiful situation , and attracts great numbers of visitors and sightseers during the summer when Sledmere House and grounds are open . |
| 41 | She could n't risk slipping on the wet surface of the stones and pitching into the river . |
| 42 | When chipping and pitching into the wind , the ball will settle down more quickly and the stroke must be quite positive , with a quite noticeable acceleration through impact . |
| 43 | The left-hander just avoided a caught-and-bowled to Malcolm 's left hand , but when Gooch brought Salisbury on , this time at the Nursery end , and pitching into the legside rough , he spun one right across Salim Malik to have him caught at gully . |
| 44 | is being choked and polluted by the motor car , coming specially from large housing estates built on the wrong side of |
| 45 | South West Surrey Community Health Council , a body responsible for monitoring standards of patient care , also recently confirmed their satisfaction with the service and commented on the professionalism . |
| 46 | The events of 1297 marked a new era in crown and church and in clergy-laity relations , one in which the endowments and incomes of the clergy were increasingly raided by the king and coveted by the laity to meet , above all , the soaring costs of warfare and diplomacy . |
| 47 | Cook under a hot grill for 5 minutes , tuck in rosemary and baste with the marinade . |
| 48 | ’ … if the goods or any part of them have been delivered to and appropriated by the buyer he must pay a reasonable price for them . ’ |
| 49 | 9 – ( 1 ) Where there is an agreement to sell goods on the terms that the price is to be fixed by the valuation of a third party , and he can not or does not make the valuation , the agreement is avoided ; but if the goods or any part of them have been delivered to and appropriated by the buyer he must pay a reasonable price for them . |
| 50 | With a regretful sigh she closed the window again and made her way into the luxurious en suite bathroom and stripped off the shirt before turning on the shower . |
| 51 | He laid out the newspaper on the carpet and stripped off the bowl 's clingfilm covering . |
| 52 | Mrs Sweet stood up and stripped off the housecoat . |
| 53 | The subscription rates shall be subject to review from time to time and altered on the recommendation of the Finance Committee with the agreement of the Executive Committee . |
| 54 | Once we see that the relationship between a set of explanatory principles and the more specific analyses offered by social scientists must be a reciprocal one we are able to benefit from the fact that , just as social scientific practice is moulded by existing views of explanation , so those views can be refined and altered by the impact of practice . |
| 55 | Neither of these countries , poor as they are , can hope to recoup these losses and develop in the future without external assistance . |
| 56 | She could be heard hawking and coughing in the upstairs bedroom . |
| 57 | Many microorganisms enter the body via the respiratory tract and those who have colds , for example , should minimise the spray from their sneezing and coughing by the use of a paper tissue which can be disposed of safely after one use . |
| 58 | ‘ There have been lots of promises and pats on the back but little else . |
| 59 | The first person goes round the outside and pats on the head those sitting saying ‘ duck ’ each time . |
| 60 | With the commanding posture that was the unmistakable and indelible mark of St. Cyr , and clad in the uniform of ‘ horizon blue ’ , there was no more impressive sight on a French parade ground . |