Example sentences of "and [verb] [adv prt] the [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Christopher went with him to feed the chickens and let out the sheep which were used as ‘ mowers ’ for the steep lawns . |
| 2 | Taking advantage of the diversion created by the school of minnows laying their eggs , this predatory fish would enter stage right and gobble up the perch 's eggs while he was desperately trying to evict the minnows . |
| 3 | Five minutes treatment in a fresh water bath ( N.B. this must be dechlorinated , well-aerated and adjusted to within 0.2 pH units of the aquarium water using pH adjuster or sodium bicarbonate and an accurate pH kit/meter ) will cause the flukes to release their hold and drop off the fish . |
| 4 | Cockroaches crawl inside machinery such as tape recorders and computers and gum up the works . |
| 5 | In short , rapid population growth was a result of poverty and this asked fundamental questions about access and control over the means of production as well as the technical means by which they were developed . |
| 6 | Such a correspondence would ensure that no political party exercises undue influence and control over the means of communication or that the means of communication do not overwhelmingly support one political party . |
| 7 | Brush melted butter over pastry and scatter over the fruit . |
| 8 | The females were codding around and sussing out the fish with their pretty faces . |
| 9 | George was second out of the hat and picks up the £100 second prize , while Yvonne is £50 better-off in third place . |
| 10 | He opened the safe door and took out the fish as though it were stuffed with rubies . |
| 11 | From the moment he hit the track head-first and rolled down the 50ft high cambered banking , he had to fight for his life . |
| 12 | He found that he enjoyed going to a parish to confirm the children , or to institute a new incumbent , and stay afterwards for the sausage rolls or sandwiches at the bunfight and chat up the people with a mixture of silence and belly-bumping laughter and beams all round and leg-pulling but with care and affection . |
| 13 | On receiving confirmation of his decision from the commander , the pilot made a turn to the left and lined up the aircraft for an approach to the selected field . |
| 14 | It injected $250m into the bank and bought out the 43% minority for $224m . |
| 15 | When the horses , being bridled to lead them to safety , panicked and lashed out in the dark , threatening to do worse harm to the buildings than the wind would , it was his father who forced his way between them and dragged out the pair who were causing most trouble . |
| 16 | From there the vans would be collected by the ex-Great Central Railway Fish Dock tankers ( a little outside cylinder 0 — 6 — 0 side tank locomotive of a short-wheel base design for working the tight curves on the docks ) and pushed up the fish jetty for loading with fish for despatch to such places as Leicester and Banbury as part of the express fish train service offered by the railway . |
| 17 | The following morning they lit the oil-lamp in the shrine and loaded up the sheep . |
| 18 | The right building in the West End would have been expensive , so the company bought Porters South in 1988 for £2.7 million — and set about the £10.3 million conversion . |