Example sentences of "and dry [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tom was clean and dry during the day shortly after his second birthday , but at over 3½ years old he still needs a nappy at night . |
| 2 | On his second attempt , Cadfael made straight for Upton to enquire where their younger shepherd was to be found , and set out stoutly to tramp the further mile to a fold high and dry above the water-meadows . |
| 3 | She gazed again at the peaceful scene in front of her until her eyes rested on an old Severn Punt lying high and dry on the foreshore . |
| 4 | Because the Troodos ophiolite has been uplifted and eroded , a slice through successive layers of oceanic crust has been exposed , high and dry on the main hillsides of Cyprus . |
| 5 | There was no footpath from here on , so I followed the boundary wall and fence dividing West Witton and Melmerby parishes until I came , dripping and thirsty , wet oil the outside and dry on the inside , to the Height of Hazely . |
| 6 | The mints must be hard and dry for the best results and some produce , as I have seen , impressive flashes . |
| 7 | We must not allow Ipswich to widen the Lennie Lawrence Blackburn are virtually home and dry for the championship , but the challenge of Ipswich could leave Boro chasing a play-off spot . |
| 8 | It was both wet and dry at the same time . |
| 9 | HAIR CONDITION : Fine and dry at the ends |
| 10 | Both of the leaf spots common in waterlilies have a similar effect , the foliage becoming brown and dry at the edges , eventually crumbling and wasting away . |
| 11 | Becoming clearer and dry from the north . |
| 12 | At Crowland in Lincolnshire stands a medieval bridge , stranded high and dry in the middle of the town . |
| 13 | That 's why the Castleford girls are so fair , They bathe in the Calder and dry in the Aire . |
| 14 | One might suppose , for example , that the British would be likely to emerge from the war rejoicing in a warm nostalgic glow as the gallant kid brothers of the American heroes ; that the British ( and the Americans ) would be profoundly alienated from the stay-at-home Germans ; and that the French would be left uneasily high and dry in the middle . |
| 15 | ‘ Have you ever wondered why it is always hot and dry in the Sahara Desert and cold and raining in Wales ? ’ |
| 16 | tidy his feathers and dry in the sun . |
| 17 | Atkinson shaded it , but both were home and dry by the 53rd minute . |
| 18 | ‘ It 's all very well to plan for next year 's holiday or a new home but there 's litle point if your family would be left high and dry by the death of the breadwinner . ’ |