Example sentences of "and [vb -s] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | To do this exercise , put the carriage to E , where you 'll find it tucks to the right and knits to the left . |
| 2 | The Public Order Act of 1936 was passed by Parliament to control political rallies and marches by the British Union of Fascists and the counter-demonstrations which such rallies provoked . |
| 3 | The village is in a beautiful situation , and attracts great numbers of visitors and sightseers during the summer when Sledmere House and grounds are open . |
| 4 | Design Standards for this section will be similar to those for the Colinton Section consisting of dual two-lane carriageways with a central reservation and verges at the shoulders . |
| 5 | The first person goes round the outside and pats on the head those sitting saying ‘ duck ’ each time . |
| 6 | ‘ There have been lots of promises and pats on the back but little else . |
| 7 | Over the cobbles he clatters and clangs in the dark inn-yard ; And he taps with his whip on the shutters , but all is locked and barred : He whistles a tune to the window , and who should be waiting there But the landlord 's black-eyed daughter , |
| 8 | Some does , and some comes from contributions and grants to the ADAA Foundation , a separate corporation . |
| 9 | Yeltsin announced a softening of economic policy , with extra credits to industries , investments in agriculture and grants to the military conversion project . |
| 10 | For the rest of the war Youth Allyah depended on its own brave attempts at self-sufficiency and , when these failed , on charitable appeals and grants from the RCM . |
| 11 | There are now several benefits — family credit , free school meals , housing benefit and grants from the Social Fund , for example — that can help families in financial need , but the processes of application and appeal for these are complex enough to warrant the assistance of social workers in many instances . |
| 12 | ‘ Silly old bugger , ’ she says suddenly , as Fairfax , in the way of elderly men who have once been very athletic , hobbles and skips to the lavatory , trying to shake the easily accumulated stiffness out of his limbs , as though by this display of sprightliness he can somehow leap out of the tethers fi-xing him to the earth . |
| 13 | A day 's golf with the president of this company or that company when the fellow who makes up the four and plays with the president of the corporation just happens to be last year 's Masters Champion . |
| 14 | But in the context of the modern cultural mythology of the artist/model relationship , this statement simply begs further questions and plays on the frisson of sexuality activated by the exhibition . |
| 15 | and plays on the pink film of their eyelids ; |
| 16 | If the lamp is adjusted , by a circular knob set into the side , the purple glow can be made much brighter and plays over the mutant . |
| 17 | The other player then picks up four beads from one hole on her side and plays in the same way . |
| 18 | Due to the overcrowding of thoughts , emotions and subconscious patternings , our attention is drawn down from its princely abode between and above the eyes and plays among the tattwas , gross and subtle , of the physical realm . |
| 19 | The degree of splitting of the bone suggests equivalence to Behrensmeyer 's stage 2 weathering , but the degree of flaking is less : some flaking occurs , spreading out from breaks and splits in the bone , but it is not as well developed as seen in large mammal bone at weathering stage 2 ( Behrensmeyer , 1978 ) . |
| 20 | 7 The attacker 's right leg is then snapped back and kicks to the body of the downed opponent . |
| 21 | It too will have extra time and kicks from the penalty spot if necessary . |
| 22 | Easy Rider was the motivation for a lot of things and for those not familiar with the story , it is one of free love and excessive drugs and of American society as perceived by Hopper in 1968 , with some moralistic warnings about drug use and undertones about the consequences of such a lifestyle — but only if you were actually looking for them . |
| 23 | They will all receive individual Net Sets , the new net measurer that collapses to the exact height of the net , then folds away to the size of a pen and clips to the pocket accordingly . |
| 24 | This neomucisa contains all normal intestinal cell lineages and persists for the life of the animal . |
| 25 | However they should not be a worry for a pilot who is well trained , and who keeps in practice and thinks about the conditions before each flight . |
| 26 | He parks it on the carpet in the bay window of his plush Deptford Park , south-east London terraced house , surrounded by Sega Megadrive games , and thinks about the long-lost days when he was a young , hip rent-a-gob Cockney git on NME . |
| 27 | An extremely fat and gummy bus conductress wobbles and frets and poddles and wets on the opposite seat to me of the bus 's lower , non smokers deck in fierce counterpoint to the holey road beneath . |
| 28 | The structure can be stabilised by a triangulation that is most economic when symmetrical and evolves into the familiar forms of roof trusses , bridges , arches and vaulting . |
| 29 | Over it go a continuous stream of goods wagons carrying arms , ammunition , and supplies to the BEF . |
| 30 | Home to the USAAF 315th Troop Carrier Group of the 9th Air Force , Spanhoe 's C47 Dakotas towed their gliders which carried British , American and Polish paratroopers and supplies to the D-Day beaches , Arnhem and the Rhine crossing in 1944–45 . |