Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] and [verb] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course she 'd had to ; Gran needed her ; Adam was no use , and Ruth , steady and sensible , was the obvious grandchild to come and help over the summer season . |
| 2 | Well , because we have a very flexible course , a modular course which is made up of units , it 's , it 's possible to almost fit anybody into our course , so in fact she 's met one of our specialists and the analysis had been done of what she 's done before , what she wants to do in the future to try and match up the whole thing ; only she knows exactly what she 's doing . |
| 3 | I seem to recall I did once look in a dictionary to try and find out the definition of settlement , all it said was something like a place where people settle . |
| 4 | I felt my eyes closing and picked up the paper to hide behind . |
| 5 | Laura said something else , Edward grunted and put down the phone . |
| 6 | In a warm blizzard of drowsiness he watches the snow sud and curdle over the roofs and spires of the New Town , mounting up the slope of Old Odborough , up the hill of the Main Street , till it reaches Mount Pleasant . |
| 7 | As part of this strategy , senior managers are using FDC to improve and speed up the production of monthly reports . |
| 8 | Timid winds of change had been trying to blow in Spanish universities since 1951 , when a relatively progressive Minister of Education , Joaquin Ruiz-Giménez , had initiated an attempt to revitalize and open up the torpid and reactionary Spanish education system . |
| 9 | Jesus had been , with his disciples and he had spent the whole day in teaching and preaching to the people , he 'd been explaining to them what the kingdom of God was like , he 'd been telling them some of the parables that perhaps we 're familiar with , he 'd been telling them about the parable of the sewer and the seed , the man who went out and he sewed his seed and different things went wrong birds came and picked up the stuff that fell by the wayside , some fell on stony ground and it could n't put down any roots , some fell amongst thorns and they were quickly choked , but some did fall in good prepared soil and that grew . |
| 10 | A number of dressed mannikins sit and lie around the stage . |
| 11 | We have a 24-hour claims helpline ; breakdown assistance — if you have an accident , a tow-truck to come and pick up the car ; and much better documentation . ’ |
| 12 | In the meantime , the transport ministers also agreed to harmonise standards for air traffic control equipment to try and cut down the delays at EC airports . |
| 13 | Benedict rose and came down the table . |
| 14 | Tranmere Rovers , worried by the missing thousands at Prenton Park , became the first club to react with their recent cut-price campaign to try and win back the fans . |
| 15 | This is seen in the way the Faroese people fiercely defend their traditional rights to hunt birds and animals for food , and their resentment of the people who come from more ‘ enlightened ’ countries to try and point out the ‘ error of their ways ’ to the islanders . |
| 16 | They gave Jacqueline a bright parish flag to flap and trail along the ground . |
| 17 | In their natural environment , ramblers spread and sprawl over the ground or up into and over other plants or objects that offer support — a more literal name would be ‘ scrambler ’ — and their frequent use is to be tied to and draped over arches , pergolas , fences and similar supports . |
| 18 | It would take about an hour and a half to fix and heat up the oven ; and , of course , once it was started we had to carry on with the job of re-tyring . |
| 19 | The northern part is also worth visiting though , and there are several excellent areas to rest and soak up the sun and the atmosphere . |
| 20 | The Courtaulds man explained : ‘ Hashing serves the needs for expatriate communities to relax and work off the frustrations of life in a foreign land . ’ |
| 21 | Selling horses is my living , so it 's my job to try and match up the right horse with the right owner . |
| 22 | The council has set up a special investigation team to try and track down the copiers . |
| 23 | Got the pudding off the ceiling with a fish slice and mopped up the trail of onions running down the wall like sheep streaming down the mountain side . |
| 24 | Helen frowned and pushed back the hair from her forehead , a habit she had when thinking . |
| 25 | Willie rose and clattered down the hallway . |
| 26 | The SWWA had opened the hydrants at night to try and clear out the system before the town woke up . |
| 27 | Could I point out to members that we did have er written replies to try and speed up the question process , could I ask members both in asking the question and especially in answering , not to make it another speech occasion because otherwise it destroys the whole purpose of having the written replies . |
| 28 | In order to publicise his efforts to redesign and brighten up the Champs Elysées , the Mayor of Paris , Jacques Chirac , has given the go-ahead to an open air exhibition devised jointly by his own City Hall and gallery owner Didier Imbert . |
| 29 | Adam grinned and put down the phone . |
| 30 | In the face of sustained congressional hostility to his August 1991 proposals , which had envisaged a total of 44 constitutional reforms to liberalize and open up the economy and reform fiscal policy [ see p. 38388 ] , Collor offered on Oct. 4 a revised set of proposals , involving only 13 amendments to eight articles . |