Example sentences of "and [vb base] [adv prt] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The mob tried to overturn it and drag out the driver . |
| 2 | come and sit down the front here to . |
| 3 | That is why we have invented the concept of trust status , which gives us the opportunity to entrust to local people — those who work in the hospitals — a greater discretion and influence over the way in which resources are used in their institution . |
| 4 | He was in a position in which he would have every opportunity of gaining knowledge of the customers ' business and influence over the customers ' . |
| 5 | This segmentation of spheres of action and influence along the lines of gender difference is reflected in the radio programming in the novel . |
| 6 | We can turn our backs on the divisions of the past , and tear down the barriers that divide us . |
| 7 | Leave the brush in the oil for several hours , or longer , and then remove it and squeeze out the oil and work the brush backwards and forwards over plain brown paper or the side of a clean carton . |
| 8 | But he then had to get across the gully and connect up the wires to brin' this lot down on top of us . ’ |
| 9 | Tang Shubei , spokesman for the State Council 's Taiwan Affairs Office , warned on Oct. 14 that if Taiwan independence activists " continue the move to split the nation and sell out the territory of the country , the Chinese government will not sit idly by " . |
| 10 | Thus , the total quantity of pollution is regulated , but firms that can cheaply reduce pollution have an incentive to do so , and sell off the ERC to firms for which pollution reduction is more expensive . |
| 11 | It was thought likely that some substantial Teesdale farmer might buy all three , ranch the land and sell off the house as a weekend cottage — a regrettably common practice which has been partially responsible for the steady depopulation of the Dales , particularly the more isolated places . |
| 12 | Subtract these calories from your total for the day and make up the rest from other meals . |
| 13 | We are glad that is able to be with us twice this season , and that has agreed to continue her regular music lessons for the early birds as well as taking a number of sessions. , and make up the rest of the team and we all look forward to working with you . |
| 14 | The heightened interest in underwater archaeology caused by the find of the Brindisi bronzes has prompted the new Ministro per i Beni Culturali , Alberto Ronchey , to propose changes in the law : first , to extend the limit of Italian territorial waters beyond the six miles off the coast currently in force and beyond the seabed on the continental shelf ( no distance has yet been specified ) ; second , to consider allocating underwater ‘ concessions ’ to non-government teams who would take a course in the theory and practice of underwater excavation and make up the shortfall in trained divers . |
| 15 | He could see the separate strands of spray thrown aside by the bows and make out the shadow of the helmsman in the wheelhouse . |
| 16 | Moving like a boy in treacle , I rotate on the axis of my right knee and pick up the yard and a half of large bore nozzle between hands slick with sweat . |
| 17 | The American embassy in London reported on 23 November 1956 that " anti-American feeling is at a very high pitch and yet is accompanied by the somewhat contradictory but nevertheless complacent assumption that the U.S. is bound to come to its senses and pick up the check " . |
| 18 | Potential buyers , who have a pre-sale preview of all stock on offer , then watch the screen on sale day and pick up the phone to make a bid . |
| 19 | Sometimes it seemed that those who loved them were almost willing the band to spend their lives touring pubs , returning to Farnborough merely to return the empties and pick up the bills . |
| 20 | Next time , stay calm and pick up the pace when you can . |
| 21 | To pick them up , moisten the paintbrush slightly , draw out the bristles to make a fine point and pick up the aphids with the tip of the brush . |
| 22 | I climb out and pick up the wood arrow , |
| 23 | Because of his other highly classified projects , his office already contained all the paraphernalia of necessary secrecy : the code-block and buttons on the door , the gaggle of different-coloured telephones , the five-thousand-pound safes , even the tempered glass in the windows , as his lawyer noted at his trial , ‘ so that enemies of the country ca n't beam through the windows and pick up the sound ’ . |
| 24 | Gently hold the disc in place on the surface of a grid by means of a strong eyelash mounted to the end of a thin wooden ( orange ) stick , and pick up the disc by bringing the grid up under the disc and out of the water . |
| 25 | And pick up the paper and read the ‘ Obits ’ |
| 26 | I cram the minute halfway back into the stack of papers in the Quaker Oats box to mark where it came from and pick up the box . |
| 27 | Whether to you know sort of try and pick up the guys who are getting thrown out of Heathrow and make a long-term go of it or whether in the long term , em , they want to flog it off for gravel and you know mining it for gravel and sending it for houses and you know , that sort of thing . |
| 28 | Think of India or the hippy trail to Kathmandu and pick up the hint of the free-wheeling late Sixties flower-power look . |
| 29 | He wished they 'd left him the radio mast , so that he could at least listen to some music and pick up the news . |
| 30 | And then er Tom retired and he used to run the bus long after we start the mails and then he retired and er the bus service to come down along and pick up the passengers and that was how it start . |