Example sentences of "and [vb base] in a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The total student population of 90 000 helps greatly to preserve an element of life and change in a city where one quarter of the population is over 66 . |
| 2 | She had imprisoned her anger and hate in a part of her mind , as something unworthy which could be overcome . |
| 3 | You need a certain kind of front to breeze in from an alternative reality in the back of a time-travelling Volvo and sit in a Presley City bar , with a two-headed nipper on your lap , complaining to a private dick from the twenty-fifth century that you do n't have time for nonsense . |
| 4 | Every year some of the Culler coats ladies dress up in lifeboat gear , and sit in a row as though they are pulling a lifeboat . |
| 5 | Well , there 's a certain romance in floating in a warm swimming pool on a cold winter 's night , looking up at the stars and wondering whether to fling oneself down the rapids or go and sit in a Jacuzzi instead . |
| 6 | This argument , that the Scottish party should elect its own leader , raise its own funds , hire and fire its own staff and sit in a Westminster coalition with the English and Welsh Labour Party , is something which acutely interests a few hundred activists , but not many MPs , and one guesses , precious few voters . |
| 7 | I order a vodka and orange and sit in a corner beneath peeling mauve and silver flock wallpaper . |
| 8 | I 've known women to choose something highbrow to impress me — and sit in an agony of boredom all the way through . |
| 9 | And more importantly than that , what was a Pakistani doing in a position of power and influence in a publishing house ? |
| 10 | All all the boss used to say , Well if anybody comes round th that you do n't know just go and hide in a hamper . |
| 11 | He saw the members of the congregation approach the altar and kneel in a row . |
| 12 | So , the economic , philosophical and biological criticism of Marxism all point in the same direction : that though ‘ muddled Mr Owen ’ was , of course , wrong in supposing that sweet reasonableness and an appeal to the best in human nature would , following the organisation into general unions of workers in productive industry , enable them to take control of it ; and further , by thus reconstituting society as an industrial democracy , remove its evils and usher in an era of plenty and universal happiness , he was not wrong because a clear-sighted Mr Marx 's alternative was right . |
| 13 | However , responses to Newbolt were to become the focus of the first major ideological rift within the class-based cultural movement , a rift which was to undermine the strategy proposed in the Report and usher in an era in which English would be constituted in much more limited cultural terms . |
| 14 | Break the chocolate into pieces and melt in a basin over a pan of hot water . |
| 15 | The mixture of an SD1 engine , Range Rover flywheel and exhaust in a Range Rover does not give you the power that you might expect , so be careful when mixing engine components such as flywheels , camshafts , distributor and carbs from different engine applications . |
| 16 | The '80s have seen a return to a more stable market , with demand and supply in a measure of equilibrium . |
| 17 | Combine the gravadlax , cucumber and yogurt in a bowl , add salt and white pepper to taste . |
| 18 | Place the grated orange rind , cheese and yogurt in a bowl and beat together . |
| 19 | The women work and eat and sleep in an atmosphere thick with impalpable hairs and tainted with the sickly smell of the skins … the average daily earnings are 1/1d . |
| 20 | Come down and snooze in a garden when I am a dragon , an ocean-lurking , sky-flying free dragon ; when the mother wind that keeps the world spinning caresses my scales as I fly across the moon and bring warnings and hopes to the fiery heart of the world ; when I can dance aloft at dawn , so that the rising sun turns my every scale to a pure diamond and the tides and rhythms of the oceans slow down in delight . |
| 21 | Also rub a little Flora margarine over the outside of the skin and sprinkle with salt and pepper.Wrap loosely in foil and place the leg on a flat enamel pie plate and cook in a pre-heated moderately hot oven . |
| 22 | 4 Cover with foil and cook in a pre-heated over for 10 min . |
| 23 | This chapter will argue instead that deviance and sexism act as brakes on each other , and interact in a myriad of fascinating ways to make schools very complex and unpredictable places in which to work out pupil ( and teacher ) identities . |
| 24 | That 's until I clock the boat races at the Basildon count , and realise in a horror flash that the Cons are going to do an over-aller ; perhaps even increase their maj . |
| 25 | Yes , wind them round and this should , should generate a charge which rang bells and sounded bells and then er you lift up a telephone and plug in a jack and , and take a message in that way . |
| 26 | Lift the knife to make a space beneath and slip in a ribbon of pepper . |
| 27 | Users wanting to upgrade their VAX machines to Alpha simply take out their VAX board and slip in an Alpha one . |
| 28 | It reflects a conception of themselves inherited from the theory of their nature and place in a slave society , a theory they shared with the slave owners , and from whom they learned it . |
| 29 | Stuff each of the wedges with some of the bean and cheese mixture and place in a baking dish . |
| 30 | Colour a little royal icing brown and place in a piping bag with a medium writing nozzle . |