Example sentences of "and [vb base] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The patients , too , are the same ; skinny single parents in stone-washed jeans , hair longish and limp with bleach , oily-haired lads in dirty anoraks , babies in prams and famished couples . |
| 3 | One old , old man , drunk and limp as old laundry but standing , yells at another old man who is sleeping with his head on the table . |
| 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 | Turn out dough and knead on a lightly floured surface until firm . |
| 6 | Turn the dough onto a floured surface and knead for a minute before adding the cooked onion , extra oil and chopped olives . |
| 7 | Turn onto a floured surface and knead for 5 minutes until smooth . |
| 8 | As the mixture becomes too stiff to stir , turn it out onto a surface dusted with cornflour or icing sugar and knead in the remaining icing sugar . |
| 9 | Colour the remaining fondant a pale cream colour ( use a tiny amount of diluted yellow food colouring ) and knead in a tiny amount of brown until almost mixed in but still a bit ‘ muddy ’ . |
| 10 | As he was thought to have abused an hallucinogenic drug , he was given activated charcoal and sorbitol by nasogastric tube . |
| 11 | ‘ We can go and visit Senga and thaim in Southern Rhodesia . |
| 12 | The very notion of development and change over time is contained within the notion of implicit and explicit aspects of attitudes . |
| 13 | Perhaps too the future of systems , by focusing upon the mechanics of the system , will necessarily incorporate processes , man and change over time , and employ quantitative methods — thus providing an integration of the themes in the previous four chapters . |
| 14 | There is however no existing policy , control development and change across this wide countryside . |
| 15 | ‘ We 've had to chop and change on a regular basis this season , but it could hold us in good stead because when everyone is fit again , we 'll know we have people who can operate well in different positions . ’ |
| 16 | Black silhouettes move out of the darkness and change into blunt torpedoes , dark and slow-moving as they glide over the sandy bottom . |
| 17 | 7.00 a.m. : rise from a bed in an open dormitory shared with five or six other girls ; 7.30 : breakfast , followed by bedmaking ; 8.30 : early morning lacrosse practice or running round the lake ; 9.00 : chapel ; 9.20 : three periods of lessons or prep ; 11.20 : break for buns and milk ; 11.40 : two periods of lessons or prep ; 1.00 : lunch ; 1.40 approximately : a house meeting in which each of thirty-six girls had to inform the housemistress of her activities for the afternoon , and other house business was discussed ; 2.00 : lacrosse ( tennis , cricket , running ) or , if the weather was bad , country dancing , or , with luck , a shampoo ; 3.20 : wash and change into non-uniform clothes ; 3.45 : tea ; 4.00 : four periods of lessons or prep ; 6.40 : house prayers ; 7.00 : supper ; 8.00 or 8.30 , depending on age : half an hour to be spent in chitchat with the housemistress in her room ; 8.30 or 9.00 : bathtime followed by bedtime . |
| 18 | When the larva is about to shed its skin and change into a pupa ( which it does prior to emerging as a real fly ) , it exudes a sticky fluid . |
| 19 | … and change into that subdirectory . |
| 20 | Then , on some mysterious cue , they emerge simultaneously from the soil and change into winged adults . |
| 21 | ‘ Go upstairs and change into trainers ’ she said . |
| 22 | ‘ And run upstairs and change into something more suitable . |
| 23 | Return and change into uniform . |
| 24 | It does mean that law is not a fixed , precise and immutable set of rules ; and that not only its content but also its form are subject to interpretation , adaptation and change as part of and in response to social change . |
| 25 | The practice of meditation and contemplation is life-long , reflecting this daily process of repentance and change at heart . |
| 26 | Syphon off the bottom mulm and change at least 20% of the water . |
| 27 | What had happened was that O had been at home , not sleeping , thinking about Boy at six in the morning , and he had called up and said , ‘ Are you watching TV , ’ to which Boy had replied , as the man had heard , ‘ Yes , ’ and then O had told Boy to turn over to the boxing ; he 'd just said , ‘ Get up and change to the third channel . |
| 28 | When the fish are well on feed I will put one rod away and change to a butt-indicator which allows me to fish more quickly and efficiently . |
| 29 | This meant that changes in crime rates , or variations between different settings ( such as urban and rural ) , which had played an important part in theories relating social or economic conditions and change to crime , could equally well be explained by variations in crime-recording practices . |
| 30 | 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 . |