Example sentences of "and [vb base] [pers pn] under the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then spit 'em into a handkerchief and hide it under the pillow . ’ |
| 2 | It is essential that we should do all that we can to take as many schools as possible out of local education authority control and place them under the control of governors and parents . |
| 3 | The significance of the service lies in the attempt to take the process away from them and place it under the control of national and local welfare élites . |
| 4 | We begin , however , with an examination of a recommendation which , when introduced , will take much of the control of pre-trial procedure out of the hands of the parties and place it under the control of the court . |
| 5 | She picked up the shoes from the hearth and put them under the table . |
| 6 | Speechless with weary anger , she cut herself two crooked slices of bread and put them under the grill . |
| 7 | Well the , the bed , there were no spring beds in , that came into my life until many years after , were the old straw palliasses , which were really more hygienic to sleep on than your spring beds , because you get the lumbar trouble with a straw palliasses cos it was just hip firm , I give you an instance I used to , as I was growing older I used to fold my trousers and put them under the mattress to press my trousers so I 'd always got a nice crease in my trousers , they were so solid that er you got y you did n't even get any wrinkles in your trousers in those days . |
| 8 | But when on first hearing of this arrangement I tried to inform Miss Kenton of it , she once again refused to converse with me , and in order to accomplish matters as quickly as possible I was actually obliged to write a note and put it under the door of her parlour . |
| 9 | He never even glanced at it , and put it under the horse 's nose at once . |
| 10 | During the week , whenever they were out , she insisted that she roll her hair up and put it under the cap . |
| 11 | You lay the knife beside the umbrella , heft the gun and put it under the duvet to click the safety off . |
| 12 | You could take it to the kitchen and put it under the grill of the electric cooker in order to get it hot , without knowing why it should be hot . |
| 13 | She had the most ghastly pallor , Sabine thought , racing to fetch her jacket from the car and put it under the older woman 's head as a pillow . |
| 14 | They must carbon-date it and put it under the microscope , and we must examine Aziz carefully and get him to say where he found it . |
| 15 | Proofread and correct your work and SAVE it under the filename YourInitials6 see Task 4 ) |
| 16 | I dig a hole with the hand trowel and pop them under the courgette together with the hands , feet and eyes ( which I 'd already collected ) . |
| 17 | Or is this the time to bring home a few ingots , dig up the cellar and bury them under the floor ? |
| 18 | You must tie them together and bury them under the great gate of the city . |
| 19 | One strategy is to take a statement from them and tender it under the Civil Evidence Act to see if the other side serve a counter notice requiring them to be called . |
| 20 | ( ii ) Pipette embryos gently up and down in the solution and observe them under the microscope . |
| 21 | Put the butter and stick it under the grill . |
| 22 | Raise the yarn slightly and take it under the first needle in E position , that is the E position needle nearest to the knitting . |
| 23 | A friend of mine did it erm they did n't burn the erm the spirit when they 'd finished and erm you know you 're meant to actually put a piece of paper under and burn it under the light or smash the glass and erm for the next six months she could n't sleep properly and it felt like there , she was like tormented and erm things were like pulling at her , her bedclothes and I swear she 's like seeing a psy a psychia psychiatrist and she had to sleep in her parents ' room and everything really scary . |
| 24 | In an emergency , tear a sheet from a pad of lined paper , turn it on its side and slide it under the next sheet . |
| 25 | In passing through Inverness , do not grudge to halt a night to visit the islands : if the night is moonlit , revisit the scene , and see it under the mellow beams . |
| 26 | Bring this loop up to your left wrist and tuck it under the rope tied to that wrist at the point marked B. Once you have pushed a little through , grasp it and place it over your left hand and you will be free once more . |