Example sentences of "and [verb] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Quickly beat in the gelatine to form a smooth dough and knead well in the bowl . |
| 2 | I settled back in my seat , picked some dirt from my fingernails with a spare scythe blade , and whispered discreetly through the partition . |
| 3 | But she knew then that , plagued and plagued again by the same thought during her fretful waking night-time hours , she just could not leave it . |
| 4 | The schoolmaster of St. Andrews was ambitious ‘ and aspires eagerly to the dignity of being professor of humanity in this university ’ . |
| 5 | They are high speed and fun , cutting through the water with little wake , and are raced and cruised all around the UK . |
| 6 | But there is scope for innovation and change both in the composition and procedures of appellate courts ( Bell , 1983 ) . |
| 7 | From early on March 28 the whole of Moscow city centre appeared to be under siege , with lorries and armoured cars blocking all approaches to the Kremlin , water-cannon trucks , mounted police and troops in gas masks stationed in backstreets , and troops on street corners keeping shoppers and sightseers away from the Kremlin . |
| 8 | On the one hand , private enterprise is presented as efficient , cost-effective and competitive while public provision is shown as wasteful , inefficient , and concerned more with the interests of the workers involved than with the consumers of the service . |
| 9 | By contrast , the G cells are not detectable until 18 weeks of gestation and develop entirely within the anatomical antrum . |
| 10 | He went back , took a hoe from inside the door of his house and stabbed furiously at the cabbage patch , trying to rearrange the furrows in neat order . |
| 11 | You can hasten this recovery process by relaxing , resting and eating well in the days following your run . |
| 12 | The bulk of it , though , is just standard major record company dross which is greeted with a yawn and propelled directly into the nearest rubbish bin . |
| 13 | And the needs of people with learning difficulties and their carers , above all , can not be defined and prescribed independently of the process of encouraging and helping them to welcome opportunities and change . |
| 14 | Neil teaches at the Guildhall School of Music in London and , like most of the artists listed here , teaches and plays regularly for the European Summer School of Arts and Languages at Oxford . |
| 15 | " Sit here , near me , and let's be cosy … oh , well , perhaps just a touch , " she turned her eyes away from the bottle and gazed absently at the passing crowd until her glass was quite full . |
| 16 | He straightened up and gazed anxiously over the end of the bed at her . |
| 17 | He stopped , confused , by the bus stop opposite the Protestant Truth Society , and gazed unseeingly at the list of routes . |
| 18 | He puffed furiously on his pipe and gazed dreamily at the ceiling . |
| 19 | A man climbed to the top and gazed helplessly at the curved expanse of the copper-sheathed dome . |
| 20 | The Bishop sighed and gazed wearily at the opposite wall . |
| 21 | You 've a gift for this sort of thing , ’ declared Susan , as she sat down by the fire and gazed appreciatively round the room . |
| 22 | With some deliberation , he withdrew his arms from under the bedclothes and gazed tiredly at the backs of his hands . |
| 23 | ‘ So am I. ’ Heather turned again to the opening and gazed hard over the fields to where the spirals of smoke were rising behind the bushes . |
| 24 | Katherine lay on the bed which had become hers and gazed blankly at the ceiling . |
| 25 | I nodded and gazed adoringly across the table at those dark , passionate eyes . |
| 26 | He took another sip of whisky and gazed thoughtfully at the ceiling . |
| 27 | It was a prime-ministerial cabinet in all but name and plunged instantly into the economic blizzard which engulfed the new Labour administration and with which , initially , it coped so inadequately . |
| 28 | The way it slips down the neck of your new one-piece after you 've crossed your tips and plunged head-first into the stuff . |
| 29 | Even as she observed this , it did just that , slithered off the nail which supported it and plunged headfirst into the deep blue of the mantelpiece . |
| 30 | Suddenly , they both jumped up , pulled off their remaining cotton restrictions and plunged straight into the water . |