Example sentences of "[noun] and [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once away from the railhead , however , the army was back in the age of Napoleon and moved at the pace of horse and man . |
| 2 | Meanwhile Stanley made short work of undoing the nuts , pulling off the old wheel and slipping on the new . |
| 3 | He let go the clutch , lifted the front wheel and drove at the far bank , sand-spit dead ahead . |
| 4 | Drivers of both groups said that drunken passengers were a problem : they ‘ messed about ’ in the car , grabbed the steering wheel and pulled on the handbrake . |
| 5 | She slumped in the far corner of the white Corniche and watched her mother nervously hugging the steering wheel and peering at the road ahead . |
| 6 | They 'll take it in turns to man the winches … and wheel and cook in the galley … |
| 7 | The jeep continued to bounce and surge along the rutted , forlorn track that led , Robyn prayed , to the barn and to help , for several more minutes , while she gripped the wheel and perched on the edge of her seat , peering through the rain for any signs of civilisation . |
| 8 | Much the same would have been thought of Jessica as she would have been seen as someone who walked away from an evil religion and stepped into the right path . |
| 9 | She gained medals and prizes which enabled her , at age 15 , to go to Paris where she was accepted into the free Ecole des Beaux Arts and studied under the most eminent French artists and sculptors . |
| 10 | Moldovan President Mircea Snegur imposed a state of emergency and direct presidential rule on March 28 , and called on the population to prepare to fight for the " motherland " , following a month of skirmishes and fighting in the self-proclaimed Dnestr republic [ for formation in September 1990 see p. 37723 ] . |
| 11 | They are not to be looked at in isolation and followed to the letter , but if you 're not sure about style , they will give you some useful ideas . |
| 12 | Increasingly it is turning away from its relative isolation and facing towards the rest of Europe , a move symbolized by its accession to the European Economic Community on 1 January 1986 ( and in quite another sense by its debates concerning its membership of the NATO alliance ) . |
| 13 | Teachers who enjoy their work , feel supported by colleagues and can speak frankly about their ideas and difficulties in the staffroom and in meetings may find it hard to believe ( unless they have recently worked in such a school themselves ) the stories that other teachers tell about suspicion , isolation and backbiting in the school down the road . |
| 14 | Cassettes were reviewed and discussed in type-written fanzines and distributed in the same manner as cassettes , hand to hand . |
| 15 | Read the whole case again , read all the symptoms of the remedy and refer to the Materia Medica of the most common remedies at the back of the book for the final comparison which does not rely on the numerical evaluation . |
| 16 | That would be a little bit of a problem for Frank Clarke if er Cooper has got a problem with his shoulder you know if it 's if it 's serious because looking at his people on his bench you know Neil Webb and Crosby and looking at the make-up of his team he has n't really got anybody he could slot back in there unless he put er Rozario in there . |
| 17 | By the time he took to do his business , the bank 's video cameras must have had me down as a fairly suspicious character and I was happy to stop fidgeting when he finally turned away from the cashier and headed for the door . |
| 18 | From this it was only a short step to total involvement in folk culture , and his ability to play the gipsy violin led him to join the Gyorgyos Bokreta group , which at that time offered a programme of traditional songs and dances from the Bata region . |
| 19 | My father loved old time Music Hall songs and hits from the Gay Nineties like ‘ Good-bye , Dolly Grey ’ , and ‘ Soldiers of the Queen ’ , and one of his favourites was ‘ Burlington Bertie ’ . |
| 20 | These contain recordings of the songs and rhymes in the Pupil 's Books . |
| 21 | The Teacher 's Books explain clearly how to cover each Step and Cassettes at each level offer recordings of all the songs and rhymes in the Pupil 's Books . |
| 22 | The seminar is being organised by WACC 's North American regional association and hosted by The United Church of Canada under the theme ‘ Legacy : 500 Years of Evangelization in the Americas ’ . |
| 23 | The Branch Clubs have continued to receive the support of the Committee of Registered Clubs Association and to benefit from the work of the All Party Parliamentary Committee for Non-Profit Making Members Clubs . |
| 24 | But the residents resisted and formed themselves into a community association and negotiated with the council to save their homes . |
| 25 | He sacrificed , he sacrificed the quick movement , the rapid changes of circumstance which a certain kind of reader demands , in order to match his description of thinking and feeling to the actual pace at which these things are experienced in real life . |
| 26 | The moral low point comes when a Jew ( played by Von Trier himself ) is forced to attest , falsely , to the Hartmanns ' kindness and help during the war . |
| 27 | At the Nez Perce camp on Weippe prairie , and later in the Clearwater valley , the expedition met only kindness and help from the Nez Perce . |
| 28 | It would be great to bounce back from a temporary aberration and get into the Third Division . |
| 29 | In the day the pineal creates and stores a chemical called serotonin , and during the night this is converted into melatonin and released into the bloodstream . |
| 30 | If this advice is ignored , the torque of the seven-foot-diameter propeller , and the airflow it sends corkscrewing down the fuselage and acting on the large fin , causes the relatively light 207 to suddenly aim for the left-hand side of the runway . |