Example sentences of "and [verb] [adv prt] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | The accident happened at about 7:40am when the lorry , travelling towards Stirling , crossed the central reservation and hit the car , which was heading towards Glasgow , before plunging off the motorway and careering down an embankment and landing on the A883 Denny-Falkirk road . |
| 2 | In the end the company became frustrated by lengthy negotiations and laid down an ultimatum saying it wanted an answer by September 1988 . |
| 3 | ONE man was killed and another seriously injured yesterday when their car skidded off the road and plunged down an embankment into a tree at a popular beauty spot . |
| 4 | The coach carrying forty four American tourists on a day trip to Canterbury collided with a van and plunged down an embankment . |
| 5 | He gibbered and choked over an appeal for mercy . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Although he has had his feet under the desk only since January , he has been preparing for the job since last summer by meeting researchers and officials , visiting institutes abroad and drawing up an initial draft of his plans . |
| 8 | These two lie close together , and make up an equilateral triangle with Zeta Puppis and Lambda Velorum . |
| 9 | Increasingly local Law Societies are either undertaking training or can be persuaded to do so , and bringing down an experienced personal injury practitioner or trainer from London may not seem too horrendous an idea if the local Law Society is funding and arranging it . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The beauty of working on location is that so much is experienced , there is the constant interaction with the people and environment , and a constant stream of information filters into the subconscious and builds up an intuitive feeling and empathy for the country , culture and language , which ultimately influenced my drawings . |
| 12 | But most of the English fleet had been on Parliament 's side during the Civil War , and in 1650 the Republic decided it was strong enough to impose an embargo on trade and send out an expedition to make Virginia and the West Indian islands acknowledge its authority . |
| 13 | Or do you press " button 39 " and send out an automatic " I 'm sorry " response ? |
| 14 | She was celebrated in the media , was featured in a 1940s radio programme and built up an impressive list of clients Sacheverell Sitwell , the Marchioness of Bristol and the Countess of Rosebery plus a clutch of other aristocrats placed regular orders , and a certain Mrs Demarest of the Manor House , Harrold , Bedfordshire used to send twelve small cheeses in lieu of Christmas cards to a selection of her titled friends . |
| 15 | Dr Kinlen says children in densely populated urban areas are likely to have been exposed to the infectious agent and built up an immunity to it . |
| 16 | ‘ Sometimes it is important for the individual to step back from the fray , ’ said , ‘ and describe to themselves what the work problems are and build up an action programme for themselves . |
| 17 | It tackles the problems of both dispersing stubborn , localised fat deposits and toning up an uneven , ‘ lumpy ’ skin tone with a revolutionary two-step ‘ liposome-system ’ . |
| 18 | The CUMS celebrated its first local congress in October 1982 and drew up an organizational structure to give equal representation to all the organizations of women which wished to participate . |
| 19 | The Highlanders surrounded Ruthven , offering Molloy and his dozen men the choice of moving out unharmed or being overrun and hanged , but he refused , and beat off an attack by 150 Highlanders . |
| 20 | I wafted down the face and traced out an elegant arc with my bottom turn , squirting a fountain of spume from my rail as I flew back up and pirouetted on the lip . |
| 21 | The coach carrying elderly passengers on an outing , left the road south-east of Worcester , and crashed down an embankment . |
| 22 | They loaded the launcher and a box of black clays into the back of the Toyota , and drove up an old gated track to the little-used range . |
| 23 | At Level One students will work as individuals or in small groups to plan and carry out an investigation into an aspect of Community Welfare with limited support from the tutor . |
| 24 | The nuns joined the lemmings and darted over an immense cliff called apostolic activity . |
| 25 | He looked up just as Mary turned , and let out an exclamation . |
| 26 | The man with the ‘ Go Dawgs ’ hat saw our rebel flag at the spreaders and let out an approving yell that sent two gulls squawking up from the garbage cans behind McIllvanney 's office . |
| 27 | ELEVEN bus passengers were injured when their vehicle left the road and toppled down an embankment . |
| 28 | By following the course of the stream overland and looking over an intervening wall , the immense crater of Braithwaite Wife Hole will next be seen . |
| 29 | The Government seems to be trying to destroy the education and health services in Britain and to set up an alternative system in which wealth rules . |
| 30 | This Association has been instrumental in getting the APA to adopt guidelines on non-sexist language and practices , and to set up an office for Women 's Programmes . |