Example sentences of "and [verb] [adv prt] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it is also an ideological statement : the housewife 's place is in the home washing and hanging out her own clothes ; not in the launderette where they are processed for her . |
| 2 | Many bizarre proposals have been put forward to save the tower in recent years , including flying a huge helium balloon from its top , securing it with a giant safety pin , and lopping off its uppermost floor , which is a later addition . |
| 3 | Instead , we became his accomplices and shared out his ill-gotten wealth . ’ |
| 4 | Newman raised his own right hand in a diversionary gesture and whipped up his right foot . |
| 5 | The photographer and author , Daniel Farson , recollects Minton surrounded by sailors and fussing over his latest infatuation as if he were a chorus girl , whilst simultaneously complaining , ‘ I 'm only liked because I 'm rich . |
| 6 | Kontrax also aims to sell and lease back its main office building in Budapest which it values at $13m . |
| 7 | Why not do likewise and build up your own record of your progress within the organisation ? |
| 8 | Finally , as our market dies — and all markets die eventually — we cut our costs and squeeze out our last profits . |
| 9 | 11.3 At the end of the Term of this Agreement , may continue for an additional period of six ( 6 ) months to complete orders and sell off its existing stocks of the Licensed Products and will pay to all royalties attributable to such sales in accordance with clauses 5 and 6 . |
| 10 | And to round off your top-to-toe beauty treatment , the Clairol Foot Spa , £39.95 , is a thermostatically controlled water massage treatment for tired and aching feet . |
| 11 | With Willis having been injured in the semi-final , England had chosen to play an extra batsman , Larkins , and make up their fifth bowler by combining Gooch , Boycott and Larkins , and it proved ill-judged . |
| 12 | They can then absorb the literature in their own time and make up their own minds . |
| 13 | It is best for you to follow your instincts and make up your own ritual . |
| 14 | I 'll draw no conclusions on the whole factory/handmade dilemma here ; you 'll just have to read the first two paragraphs again and make up your own mind . |
| 15 | You do n't have to use ready-made cable lengths ; ; you can buy a drum of thin Ethernet cable ( RG-58/50Ohm ) at about 50p per metre , and make up your own cable lengths . |
| 16 | Be grown up and make up your own mind . |
| 17 | ‘ Look at the world and make up your own mind . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Look at life , ’ I said , nastily , ‘ and make up your own mind , guy ’ ! |
| 19 | Try the NI FREE for three months and make up your own mind . |
| 20 | It is a visual equivalent of flowering , she thought , as the last petal jerks back and the calyx lies open , defenceless , the pollen blown , come to its end ; and of the flowering of the body as it lets go , and offers up its clenched treasure , in the rush through narrow flight , in the relief of its settling , falling , dying , coming to its end . |
| 21 | As the light had caressed the window in my room early the next morning , implying that the world had begun to awaken , I was already up , dressed in clean crisp fabrics of my school uniform , a new and unwelcome experience to me , and gobbling down my two Weetabix and Marmite toast for breakfast . |
| 22 | twenty mile an hour on the A forty seven this is where you get a big , some big lorry come along and go and land up my fucking arse |
| 23 | So I become more the other person rather than utilizing and using up my own pain . |
| 24 | Lizzie is divorced and bringing up her two children , aged seven and five , on a tight income . |
| 25 | Once upon a time Fenna had brooded on a hoard for so many years and with such desire that it had quickened and grown , diamonds breeding and bringing up their young under his weight . |
| 26 | going and pick up your own |
| 27 | Meantime , he reminded himself , since the entire company was now assembled , he had better be about sending off Father Boniface 's errand-boy to find Aldhelm at Upton among his sheep , and ask him to come down to the abbey when his work for the day was over , and pick out his shadowy Benedictine from among a number now complete . |
| 28 | Further doubts have been raised about the future of the THORP reprocessing plant at Sellafield by the Japanese authorities ' decision to abandon plutonium transports by sea [ see above ] and to scale down their nuclear-energy programme . |
| 29 | But he died rather young , leaving his widow to carry on the farm and bring up their three children . |
| 30 | ‘ Can you go down to the car and bring up my medical bag ? ’ his question explained the keys . |