Example sentences of "and [vb -s] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The organizer starts and squeezes the hands of the person next to him . |
| 2 | Outside , a winter gale blusters against the sides of the house and swishes the branches of trees to and fro . |
| 3 | The Ultratone Facial firms and tightens the muscles , lifting your facial contours for a healthier , younger looking face . |
| 4 | ‘ It 's an old story , it 's in Grimm , the hedgehog sits on a black cock in a high tree and plays the bagpipes and tricks people . |
| 5 | They summon the overseers before the magistrates for not complying with their unreasonable demands and though they do not always gain their ends yet it teases and harasses the overseers and takes up their time which is a great hardship . |
| 6 | Albert Honey , who works for Thames Valley Police , agrees and thinks the regions M P's should be made more aware of the problem . |
| 7 | The illusionism which conjures a complete and natural ( I would prefer apocalypticnatural ) city out of materials as unpromising as the colour yellow , also yields up Raskolnikov like a natural secretion , and this vouchsafing process encompasses and transcends the resources both of first- and third-person narrative . |
| 8 | And finally it is divided in such a way that the learner hears only one of the speakers and supplies the responses for the other . |
| 9 | ( The Atlantic , though dominated by an enormous mid-ocean ridge where new sea-floor is being created at a modest rate of about an inch a year , is home to only two very small subduction zones , with volcanoes and trenches , in the Caribbean and the South Sandwich Islands , and therefore is not being destroyed at its edges as rapidly as it is being created in the middle ; the Indian Ocean is similarly undramatic — a mid-ocean ridge once again , but a single subduction zone where its eastern plate collides with the Eurasian Plate and produces the volcanoes that — like Krakatoa — line the southern side of the islands of Java , Sumatra and Timor . ) |
| 10 | Fig. 4a shows that the P.wickerhamii ai2 carries all postulated helices ( P1-P9 ) in the conserved core sequence and displays the characteristics of subgroup ID introns : a CUA sequence motif separates P6 and P7 and a UGUA motif occurs between P8 and P7' ( 7 , 15 ) . |
| 11 | A surveyor who fully understands his own role and appreciates the roles of both client and contractor as defined in the contract can have a great influence in ensuring that a project runs smoothly . |
| 12 | When he fragments and decomposes the objects in his still lifes and landscapes , it is not in order to strip form bare or to disengage some essential quality , but it is rather as a means of creating a completely new kind of pictorial space . |
| 13 | It answers Muslim demands for more political power and offers the Christians promises that Syrian troops will pull out of western Lebanon within two years of the reforms taking place . |
| 14 | The modem software is Bitcom , which allows file transfers using most popular protocols and fits the modems spec well . |
| 15 | The Chair , interprets and enforces the rules of the meeting . |
| 16 | Through his powers , he makes fertile the jungle and rivers : he travels to all the sacred homes of the ‘ parents of the animals and fish ’ beneath the earth , and transforms the inhabitants of these subterranean villages into the form of animal and fish . |
| 17 | What matters is what happens when the individual , who incorporates his past , incorporates and transforms the divisions which are part of that past . |
| 18 | Blood flowing forwards opens the valves and flattens the pockets . |
| 19 | Anyone who has seen the martins and swallows in September , assembling on the telephone wires , twittering , making short flights singly and in groups over the open , stubbly fields , returning to form longer and even longer lines above the yellowing verges of the lanes — the hundreds of individual birds merging and blending , in a mounting excitement , into swarms , and these swarms coming loosely and untidily together to create a great , unorganized flock , thick at the centre and ragged at the edges , which breaks and re-forms continually like clouds or waves — until that moment when the greater part ( but not all ) of them know that the time has come : they are off and have begun once more that great southward flight which many will not survive ; anyone seeing this has seen at work the current that flows ( among creatures who think of themselves primarily as part of a group and only secondarily , if at all , as individuals ) to fuse them together and impel them into action without conscious thought or will : has seen at work the angel which drove the First Crusade into Antioch and drives the lemmings into the sea . |
| 20 | However , the IQ test provides some early indication of mental handicap and alerts the parties concerned to the additional efforts needed to ensure that the child 's potential is adequately explored . |
| 21 | A young woman from Lyons reported that she refuses to visit Paris without her friend who has been to Paris more often and understands the Parisians ' sign language better . |
| 22 | The move is good both for him and Coventry because he 's joining a manager who believes in him and understands the mechanics of his game . |
| 23 | ( ii ) " If he is reasonable and understands the facts , he 'll send the letter . " |
| 24 | The process of assessment incorporates a number of key elements and involves the assessors ( including users and carers ) in bringing to bear a wide range of observational , communication , interpersonal , cognitive , and analytic skills . |
| 25 | When deciding the environment of the system being modelled , keep in mind the simple definition that applies in this context , ie it influences but does n't control the system , and also the notion that the environment provides the inputs to the system and receives the outputs from it . |
| 26 | and all that , then he took no notice of that , now do n't tip them silly , what the bloody hell you doing that for ? , do n't be so daft , so any way , then Stuart goes off into the showers and turns the showers on |
| 27 | It has depth , fury and scalds the walls . |
| 28 | It is not prurient but cruel , hip and disturbingly beautiful , intimate and playfully referential , as in Thomas and Dovana , where a naked black man and a ball-gowned white woman are caught , dancing , in a pose that both mocks and reveres the myths and fears of Gone with the Wind . |
| 29 | The National Old People 's Welfare Council , now known as Age Concern , coordinates and encourages the activities of a vast number of local groups concerned with old people 's welfare . |
| 30 | Module 5 extends and deepens the student 's exposure to the language and encourages the skills of independent study . |