Example sentences of "[verb] [noun sg] and [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She also got on well with Branson ; she had become one of the ‘ inner circle ’ at Virgin , invited on ski-ing holidays and country weekends , utterly trusted within her own sphere ; a model , in fact , of the Virgin ethos of somebody being given responsibility and rising to it . |
| 2 | Dip the cut end in rooting powder and insert in a hole made with a dibber in pots or trays of rooting compost . |
| 3 | Whole leaf with stalk ( African violet , peperomia ) : cut a leaf near the base of its stalk , dip the end in hormone rooting powder and insert in compost up to the leaf base . |
| 4 | Raise camcorder and hold in comfortable position . |
| 5 | ‘ I sit in Lancaster , ’ Newton wrote in that heavy copper-plate hand which seemed to plant sarcasm and doubt on the page by the very nature of its forceful , butting lettering , ‘ like a hen on eggs gone cold . |
| 6 | Christopher Appleton , 18 , of Highmoor Road , Darlington , admitted burglary and asked for two offences to be considered . |
| 7 | The file " prntr.cli " may be created using PipeDream and saved as a plain text file with the name " prntr.cli " . |
| 8 | for physics there is only one true measurement from any one position , and it can be more accurate than ever before ; writing and painting communicate look and feel from a viewpoint with more sophistication than ever before ; with a Cubist vision which constructs reality from the different facets exposed from different angles one is better orientated than ever before . |
| 9 | Where previously they would on occasion lose direction and splutter to a halt , now their relentless barrage seamlessly moves from one epic song to another . |
| 10 | Considerable work has also been undertaken to develop new blends using wool and experimenting with new man made fibres and dyestuffs . |
| 11 | Although most of the Reichmanns ' empire-building occurred in the 1980s , it already seems a far-away era when banks and their customers were willing to suspend disbelief and dare to be , well , if not great at least borrowed to the eyeballs . |
| 12 | Hari made tea and sat at the table , her hands curled around the warmth of the cup . |
| 13 | The bear suddenly stopped eating and glared at the knight , its small , piggy eyes red with hatred . |
| 14 | This has had political and analytical ramifications , with the inner city debate frequently lacking a left perspective , leaving the field to a contest between liberal assertions of the case for sympathy ( ESRC , 1986 ; Robson , 1988 ; MacGregor and Pimlott , 1990 ; Wilson , 1987 ) and more recent and robust demands on the right for a faith in strategies of benign neglect based on market led regeneration and tempered by occasional state facilitation of the private sector ( Savas , 1983 ; Trippier , 1989 ) . |
| 15 | On the other side were many who voiced optimism and trust in the Holy Spirit rather than defensiveness , saw more need for encouragement than for condemnations , and were convinced that there was a new opportunity for liturgical and pastoral use of the Bible which must not be missed . |
| 16 | The stairwell echoed with the counterpointed sounds of pounding feet , of automatic doors heaving open and slamming shut , of trains arriving and departing , slowing down or gathering speed and hurtling along the narrow cavernous tunnels . |
| 17 | But the teaching does treat adultery and divorce with the seriousness it deserves . |
| 18 | Wheeziness worse ( < ) 3–5 am , better ( > ) leaning forward or by rocking , like Arsenicum ; with rattling in the chest , rattling cough and stitches in the chest with respiration , like Bryonia , or between breaths . |
| 19 | THE convicted Watergate figure Charles Colson , once known as ‘ the toughest of the tough ’ in the Nixon White House , won a million-dollar prize yesterday for bringing religion and hope to prisons . |
| 20 | Most importantly , its key objective was to promote openness and trust at the top level , a refreshing contract to the dog-eat-dog approach being bred into far too many managers in this sado-masochistic age . |
| 21 | Any books on the Alexander Method co-ordinate thinking and doing in a creative way . |
| 22 | ( Although both of the Marcoses had been indicted in October 1988 , Ferdinand was judged too ill to stand trial and died in Hawaii in September 1989 . ) |
| 23 | Adelheid Streidel , who attempted to kill Lafontaine at a political meeting on April 25 , 1990 [ see p. 37388 ] , was declared on Nov. 5 unfit to stand trial and detained in a psychiatric clinic . |
| 24 | Foster care is not permanent and many children will return to their natural parents , and here again foster parents will need support and help in easing a parting . |
| 25 | Off Whitstable , Glisseuse changed course and made for the Swale channel which leads between the Isle of Sheppey and the main Kent coast , a popular short cut into the Medway for small craft when the tide is right . |
| 26 | The commercial , financial and logistics staff in all parts of the company also enjoyed variety and challenge as a result of the expanding geographic spread and , once again , gave good support to the business units . |
| 27 | The Lewis and Clark expedition was able to provide powder and lead for the Nez Perce , a persuasive enough argument for their friendly relations with the white man . |
| 28 | In the early Fifties she decided to branch out on her own ; she moved west and drove with her two children across America to Los Angeles , where she became a secretary in an aircraft factory and later a fashion buyer at J.C . |
| 29 | Ahead , jamming the traffic into long impatient queues , was a procession consisting of the groom sitting on a white stallion , and clutching in front of him a small boy , an empty marriage rath ( chariot ) , a brass band , twenty rogues carrying portable striplights and , bringing up the rear , a scattering of eunuchs , dancing around , soliciting money and flashing at passers-by . |
| 30 | A silence grew on the line , a vacuum that drew loathing and dread towards it in a soundless rush . |