Example sentences of "and [vb base] [adv prt] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | They file into the office and sit round the long oak table , slightly in awe of Vic , serious men in chain-store suits , with pens and pencils sticking out of their breast pockets . |
2 | You ask for a chair and four telephone directories and rig up an impromptu table near the only plug — and ask all your prospective clients to turn their heads around . |
3 | Cut in a tee at this point , and connect up the new runs . |
4 | This allowed us to line the side curtains in striped fabric and make up a flat roof instead of a gathered one . |
5 | Clear away topsoil and make up a simple formwork of timber supported by pegs set on the outside . |
6 | Erm so do you feel that in the years that you 've worked here are women just as important in the factory and make up a large part of the workforce now as they , as they 've ever done ? |
7 | When the children arrive you give them each a balloon and make up a convenient number of teams . |
8 | When cheques are cashed a transfer is automatically made from the deposit account to meet the payment and make up the current account to £20 . |
9 | These two lie close together , and make up an equilateral triangle with Zeta Puppis and Lambda Velorum . |
10 | It was typical of the thoroughness of his approach that he immediately decided to visit sixteen gaols in nearby counties so that he could gauge the extent of the evil , look for alternative solutions and make out a proper case for reform . |
11 | In a desperately competitive climate , where anyone bright and competent could go down the road and pick up a better paid job with kinder hours and more congenial working conditions from someone like British Telecom , the railways ran a service dependent on people who belonged to a narrow and inbred working culture , with outdated procedures of training and promotion , and an institutional reliance on overtime working , whose wholly disgraceful dimensions are symbolised by the fact that maximum weekly hours were only recently cut to 72 hours a week . |
12 | You could be lucky and pick up a good one very cheaply at a sale of farming equipment . |
13 | And obviously that you can do , but it takes time , it 's quicker just to walk into a travel agent and pick up a cheap bargain . |
14 | Now I lean forward and pick up a dead bird whose wings sag open like a fan or like the streets of Berlin under their cam nets . |
15 | I am ushered reverently into a cabin and pick up the quaint hand set , which has an additional round earpiece for clamping over the spare ear , so that I see myself reflected in the glass like a radio operator or a session singer . |
16 | No , I never pick up the phone , they do that , pick up one phone and speak for a minute , while that ones ringing they say hold on a minute , and pick up the other one . |
17 | I mean when we 're walking we are actually falling the whole time , but insects are not like that , they do n't stand on three and pick up the other three . |
18 | ‘ Then come with me and pick up the latest reports . |
19 | Name select or something and pick out a one of the pads with that hole ? |
20 | When you have finished — it might take five minutes or five hours — look through your notes and pick out the central themes . |
21 | FINLAND 'S government yesterday announced an emergency economic austerity package to stem an outflow of investment capital from the country that is threatening to force a major devaluation and bring down the centre-right administration . |
22 | In the story , those invited to attend made excuses ; a response which so infuriated the host that he ordered his servant to ‘ Hurry out to the streets and alleys of the town , and bring back the poor , the crippled , the blind , and the lame . … ’ |
23 | In the immediate aftermath of the plague , neither combatant was anxious to resume the war , and both were willing to listen to Pope Innocent VI when he attempted to mediate between them and bring about a lasting peace . |
24 | But in Italy at the same time both foreign and native composers were developing forms of secular polyphony which later in the century were to spread over most of Europe and bring about a remarkable expansion of music 's technical resources in the regions of harmony and tonality and in emotional and pictorial expressiveness . |
25 | At forty-five years of age he was at the height of his powers , determined to drive out the Almoravids and bring about a united Spain . |
26 | The forces that we are dealing with are so far removed from what we regard as the material world that they will completely revolutionize physics and philosophy and bring about a profound change in humanity 's perception of reality . |
27 | As a result you should fell good enough to communicate your way through whatever problem presents itself , and bring about a fast resolution . |
28 | Thus Tony Benn , in June 1975 and three months into his tenure as Secretary of State for Industry , summed up what this volume is all about — his vain attempt to persuade government and Civil Service to implement Labour Party policy and bring about an irreversible shift of power and wealth to the working class . |
29 | So will lower mortgage rates and house prices be enough to attract the first-time buyer back into the market and bring about the long-awaited recovery in house prices ? |
30 | It is an Aboriginal understanding that the fauna and flora of the landscape has an ‘ increase centre ’ — an area of high electro-magnetic energy , where the performance of correct rituals will release the life essence or Kurunba stored there and bring about the desired increase . |