Example sentences of "and [verb] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Brigadier set down a fat puppy that he had been holding and squelched towards the yard , driving a dozen pullets before him . |
| 2 | It means instead the end of childhood and freedom , the beginning of a new life as a slave and chattel at the bottom of a hierarchy in someone else 's family . |
| 3 | At last Cranston belched , stretched , and beamed round the tavern , snapping his fingers to call Talbot over . |
| 4 | Kids too sick to raise their heads , lying soft and limp beneath the burden of heart disease , kidney failure and cancers that eat everything but innocence . |
| 5 | This doorway was made high in order to permit laden waggons or carts to enter the barn and to unload from the threshing floor into the bays . |
| 6 | I was scarcely called upon to say a word as she talked , pale smoke drifting from her mouth and her nose and hanging in the light . |
| 7 | and hanging around the street cos then that will |
| 8 | It was a warm and friendly night , and the sea swished and whispered on the sand . |
| 9 | He stepped back from the console and whispered to the Cell . |
| 10 | The thin figure leaned over and whispered in the sleeper 's ear . |
| 11 | Duncan looked at the long green grass and , as he looked , the wind blew strong and the tall , green grasses swayed and whispered in the wind . |
| 12 | They wandered the savannah during the day , looking for food , and sometimes met and socialised by the lake with other groups of hominids . |
| 13 | She confirmed to McIllvanney that the weather-fax machine and the Loran and the Satnav and the radar and all the other things that hummed and winked and glowed in the night were working properly . |
| 14 | Because we boys used to like the windbound lying and talking and in the galley and smelling of the coming from the galley , all the saucepans and things like that . |
| 15 | He dashed across the garden and pounced upon the garden gate , pressing the latch with his big feet . |
| 16 | The actual goods and services selected include a wide range of food items ; alcoholic drinks ; tobacco ; housing costs ( including mortgage interest payments ) ; fuel and light ; durable household goods ( such as furniture , television sets and hardware ) ; clothing and footwear ; transport and vehicles ( including petrol and oil ) ; a large selection of miscellaneous goods ( including books , newspapers and stationery ) ; services ( which include postage and telephone charges , and all entertainments ) ; and meals bought and consumed outside the home . |
| 17 | This was why he was feared and tabooed as the totem , but this was also why he was periodically sacrificed and consumed by the clan brothers in rituals which re-enacted the primal trauma and the occasion of his first emergence as a psychological force of self-restraint . |
| 18 | Where literary criticism is concerned , we are faced with the depressing reality that this is now just one more academic specialism , a large specialism , admittedly , produced by and consumed within the academy . |
| 19 | How should society make plans today for the quantities of goods to be produced and consumed in the future ? |
| 20 | a fat woman … frightened and fainted in the street ; |
| 21 | To do this exercise , put the carriage to E , where you 'll find it tucks to the right and knits to the left . |
| 22 | The situation has improved in many ways , but it is not easy to overcome the problems created by natural obstacles and compounded by the legacy of centuries of neglect . |
| 23 | And if you found that you had entered the company of players , of actors , of those descended from strolling vagabonds and historically always noted and envied for the looseness of their morals , then all your Christmases came at once . |
| 24 | Thus a peroxide-bleaching process produces a less obnoxious effluent than a kier-boil-hypochlorite bleach , and change to the peroxide method might be advantageous provided that the resulting textile product and the costs were acceptable . |
| 25 | Furthermore , at a time of indeterminacy and change like the present , where there is frequently no strong institutional ideology to subscribe to , individual values matter all the more . |
| 26 | She 'd dry herself and change in the bathroom . |
| 27 | For beginners , then , there is loss and change in the transfer to print — loss of immediacy of relevance , loss of vividness , loss of support in the search for meaning . |
| 28 | There has been a lot of research and change in the treatment of mental illness or frailty over the last few years . |
| 29 | Your speaking of the balance between tradition and change in the evolution of art raises a crucial question : I mean the question of progress . |
| 30 | It would not be surprising , either , if this flux and change in the self were to generate a more flexible response to morality , and one that is peculiarly sensitive to the aesthetic dimension . |