Example sentences of "and [vb base] [pron] [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Return to any parts that cause residual difficulties and repeat them before moving to the second objective . |
| 2 | It 's more of a trick to see if we can get artistic freedom within a business structure — to see if we can create things and sell them without charging five times our cost . ’ |
| 3 | Try to be relaxed , confident , pleasantly enthusiastic , and sell yourself without bragging . |
| 4 | Animals that are venomous secrete toxic matter and inject it by biting or stinging or by some other means . |
| 5 | To remove the drill , insert a drill drift into the slot in the spindle and tap it in using a hammer or piece of wood . |
| 6 | Then ice the whole thing and decorate it by drawing on doors and windows . |
| 7 | So it 's a very great honour and privilege for me to address you today because at the end it may be difficult for you to understand but when I return to South Africa , and forgive me for speaking personally I also realize the full meaning of the support of British trade unions and the labour movement and the churches because it was because of your political material and particularly in the case of the G M B , financial and material support that it gave us the means to do what some of us wanted to do about our country and our situation , and bring about change if we could peacefully . |
| 8 | He said his party would abolish mortgage interest relief and replace it with housing cost relief so that tenants as well as house owners could benefit . |
| 9 | ‘ We can take the old sole off and replace it without changing the shape of the shoe or damaging the structure . |
| 10 | Keep yourself clean from head to foot and provide yourself with opening medicine in case of need . |
| 11 | He comes away from the roots and I swing the rod over to my right , parallel with the water , to keep him low and prevent him from splashing at the surface . |
| 12 | He seized her shoulders , but her hands came up to hold his wrists and prevent him from pulling her close . |
| 13 | In some species the male will also take an active part in egg care , in other the female will reject him and prevent him from attending to the eggs . |
| 14 | This would help expand Moby 's loyalties and prevent him from becoming too dependent on his main daytime companion . |
| 15 | For this , the physiotherapist usually sits in front of the patient on a stool , in order to stabilize his pelvis and prevent him from folding in the middle . |
| 16 | That is a fairly complicated question , which may confuse people and prevent them from seeing our present need clearly . |
| 17 | Thus the common aim of both legal mechanisms is to force managers to maximize profits for their company and prevent them from maximizing their own utility . |
| 18 | This is the argument that women 's domestic responsibilities get in the way of their paid work , and prevent them from taking the opportunities for higher-paid work . |
| 19 | Government concern is to develop what the Foreign Office called a mechanism to turn people round more quickly and prevent them from arriving at a destination where they were unwanted . |
| 20 | Sludge — another corrosion by-product — can block the inlet or outlet to the radiator and prevent it from heating up . |
| 21 | Part of the reasoning behind the move was the search for an effective policy to contain the violence within Ireland and prevent it from spreading to Britain . |
| 22 | The Tunisian government confirmed on Sept. 11 that , while it stood by the unanimous March 1990 Arab League decision to transfer the headquarters to Cairo [ see p. 37334 ] , the move to speed up the transfer " could hamper this body and prevent it from shouldering its responsibility " . |
| 23 | The wetness of the rags does not accomplish much but the wood gets heated and the rags may insulate the hot wood and prevent it from cooling too quickly . |
| 24 | When thesis subjects as broad as juvenile delinquency in the South or differential fertility in the U.S.A. are chosen — subjects which transcend any bounds of accomplishment during graduate work and which are not definitely formulated — they are likely to bring the young research person to a state of despair when he realizes that the masses of material he has assembled answer no questions , neither confirm nor refute any hypothesis , and yield nothing toward developing a scientific sociology . |
| 25 | If a design problem is the cause of the airlock , this procedure will have to be repeated every time , so it will be better to find the cause and remedy it by fitting bigger pipes or a bigger cistern ( or a second cistern alongside the first — see Chapter 3 ) , or by repositioning the pipes so that they have the correct fall . |
| 26 | The sergeant instructed him to take him into the police station and charge him with taking a vehicle without consent — the offence as complete by moving it thirty yards . |
| 27 | Having given up hope of a career , they have doubts about the future and support themselves by working in ‘ low pay , low prestige , low benefit jobs in the service industry ’ or ‘ McJobs ’ . |
| 28 | Three or four of these youngsters will approach the elderly person , try and confuse them by speaking to them about something completely irrelevant , and just er disappear during which time of course er valuables have been taken from these people . |
| 29 | 1 The trick of making eyes smoulder is to apply solid colour sparingly , then smudge and spread it by softening the edges . |
| 30 | ‘ It is shocking that Unionists should attempt to use bullying tactics to instill fear into staff and stop them from voicing what they believed to be genuine concerns . ’ |