Example sentences of "[verb] and [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here they gave poetry readings in the 800-seat auditorium ; a measure of the man he was becoming and of the distinguished company he kept . |
| 2 | The power of traditional chiefs was curbed and for the first time women and young people were drawn into the political process . |
| 3 | Resource owners ' initial ignorance of the kinds of commodities consumers will buy and of the relative prices which can in principle be obtained for these commodities gradually diminishes . |
| 4 | Less burning of the skin than in Belladonna and worse ( < ) bending head backwards , worse ( < ) cold applications , better ( > ) uncovering and in the open air , better ( > ) pressure . |
| 5 | Pin temporarily after carefully aligning and with the rear end flush with the trailing edge . |
| 6 | Because of rising costs and the import of cheap foreign lead in the late 1800s , the market collapsed and by the early years of this century the mines had all closed . |
| 7 | Thus the diversity lies not only in the differences between people , the sitters , but also in different ways of photographing and in the varying contexts within which we encounter the image . |
| 8 | This is surely to be explained by the paramount corporate and legal sense of identity which the clergy enjoyed and by the institutional roots which convocation had in the church 's own provincial councils ; the assembly of merchants , for example , was nothing like so well established or defined . |
| 9 | Given a sustained period of peace and tranquillity , tension in the countryside would gradually lessen and in the longer term , the population curve could be expected to level out . |
| 10 | It was hard to believe we had been indulging the same appetite for climbing and on the same crag I had visited during a July heatwave three years before . |
| 11 | Here 's not a day when folk forget and at the Baiting House pub just north of Bromyard , there 's not a pint pulled without passers by talking of Nicolaus Silver with his jockey ; now the Landlord . |
| 12 | Inside it is richly decorated and of the typical open style dictated by the Jesuit Order . |
| 13 | Despite some of the language problems he grew to know and like the black and white constables of the patrols to which he was attached ; and to be accepted by them as a trusted companion under fire . |
| 14 | One review board chairman agreed completely with the inspector , one completely disagreed and in the third case the chairman merely rewrote the report in different words without coming down on one side or the other . |
| 15 | I entirely agree with this decision and with the passage cited but it is important to note that when Nolan J. spoke of the alternatives which ‘ must both be made available to the subject ’ he was , as I think , clearly referring to the alternative on the one hand of allowing the breath specimen to stand and on the other hand of exercising the right to have it replaced by a specimen of blood or urine in accordance with section 7(4) . |
| 16 | More than a year after the publication of the Pastoral Instruction Aetatis Novae on the communications media , I once again invite all of you to reflect on the vision of the modern world which the instruction presented and on the practical implications of the situations it described . |
| 17 | Creggan hesitated to tell her but she seemed different from other vagrants he had met and in the last few days a trust had developed between them , so it seemed natural to say . |
| 18 | The Warwickshire jurors , on being asked on what authority they had returned that ten townships ‘ with their woods , wastes and fields ’ had been afforested by King John , and that in 1154 there had been no royal forest in their county , replied that they knew by what their ancestors had related and by the common talk of the country . |
| 19 | In 1515 , we find a cow being left to provide a light before the rood to burn from the second peal to matins , and till high mass is done and from the second peal to evensong till evensong be done for ever more . |
| 20 | I delivered it to my agent to be framed and for the final hanging in the boardroom . |
| 21 | Sam obeyed and at the same time felt Rose grasp the tail of his own . |
| 22 | You are just lying there with these people washing , dressing and at the same time inflicting pain on you . |
| 23 | With a brief nod and a smile that again dazzled and at the same time almost lulled her into thinking things were going to be normal between them from now on , he left . |
| 24 | For instance one may find marked relief from taking warm drinks which would make another feel much worse ; one may have a high fever and sweats whilst another has no fever at all ; one may be hot and want to be uncovered and in the fresh air whilst another is hot yet wants to be covered up to his chin ; one may wish to continue his work whilst another might only wish to lie down and die and so on . |
| 25 | Finally , all is prepared and as the second hand ticks over into 8.30 pm the command ‘ Run Tape ’ is given . |
| 26 | Thanks to , among others , John Robinson and the radical theologians , however , the way has been paved for humanist concerns to become more widely accepted and for the established Church to lose its importance in the areas of both public and private morality . |
| 27 | The only breeding ground which is infertile is one running at high stress for achievement , tightly mapped and with the maximum openness . |
| 28 | She is God 's creative energy as well as His power to destroy and at the same time she is His saving grace . |
| 29 | An increase in exports would be particularly beneficial in that the balance of payments would improve and at the same time national income will rise by an amount greater than the initial increase in exports . |
| 30 | Owen had other fish to fry and for the next two days he was busy on other things . |