Example sentences of "[verb] and [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Prices have continued to rise in the North , but to stagnate and fall in the South . |
| 2 | Similarly , insects and land snail shells are identified , sorted and quantified in the same way as animal and plant remains . |
| 3 | Any incoming mail for guests should be sorted and placed in the letter rack . |
| 4 | Business letters and enquiries for the attention of the management or various departments should be date stamped , sorted and distributed to the appropriate departments immediately upon arrival . |
| 5 | As part of the normal processes of a river , the stones in these shoals are neatly sorted and graded by the flowing water into an overlapping fish-scale pattern known as ‘ armouring ’ , which makes them relatively stable . |
| 6 | The teacher could provide containers ( boxes , drawers , jars , etc. ) , perhaps labelled with colour pictures , so that equipment can be sorted and put in the right place . |
| 7 | A man , understood to be Keith Pringle , remained in the house with Mrs Reece 's 21-year-old daughter Leanne as armed police surrounded and cordoned off the area . |
| 8 | A lip is not needed on the underside to form a key to the adhesive ; however , tonguing and grooving on the edges will help to locate the blocks during laying , maintain an even surface and reduce the possibility of loosening of individual blocks . |
| 9 | Outside in the howling , flobs of rain were twisting and twining around the few remaining hutches . |
| 10 | She stared at the creature twisting and wriggling in the glass . |
| 11 | The more the men whistled , the more ribald their remarks , the faster she walked ; but the faster she walked , the more of a sexual object , or sexual quarry , she became , twisting and turning between the rows of benches ( for she soon lost her bearings ) , stumbling over piles of metal parts , skidding on the oily floor , her cheeks as red as her hair , the wings of her nostrils white , her eyes fixed steadfastly ahead , refusing to meet the gaze of her tormentors. ‘ 'Allo , darlin' , lookin' for me ? |
| 12 | And thus , it would roar through the upper reaches of the Severn , twisting and turning through the green fields of Gloucestershire . |
| 13 | And now the children also saw the long thin slimy yellow-bellied lizard-like creature twisting and turning in the glass , and they squirmed and jumped about as well , shouting , ‘ What is it ? |
| 14 | The tournament doctor may be able to reduce the dislocation by twisting and pulling on the injured limb , but even if he is successful , that is the end of your day 's competition . |
| 15 | every anthropologist has experienced ‘ culture shock ’ ; a temporary inability to grasp and act and think in the terms of the assumptions upon which the newly entered culture is based . |
| 16 | This section of the Policy covers the Policyholder if they are TOTALLY DISABLED from engaging in or giving attention to THEIR PROFESSION OR OCCUPATION , as disclosed and declared on the policy , as a result of sickness . |
| 17 | The cash flows should be classified by operating , investing and financing activities , and the components of cash and cash equivalents should be disclosed and reconciled to the equivalent amounts in the balance sheet . |
| 18 | The small device which enables Canned Draught Guinness to pour as if from a pub fount looks simple , but well over 100 techniques were designed and tested before the final development of the patented in-can system . |
| 19 | The fact that where goods are designed and manufactured to the buyer 's special order the seller will have greater knowledge of the buyer 's requirements and the buyer will rely on the seller 's skill may make it less reasonable for the seller to exclude or limit liability ; on the other , hand , if goods are manufactured to the buyer 's special order , it may be more reasonable to expect the buyer to insure against losses . |
| 20 | These were specially designed and manufactured by the firm of Waygood Otis Ltd , a company still involved with lift mechanism all over the world today . |
| 21 | Mr Hughes believes it is the only such electronic game aimed at an adult market and the only one not designed and manufactured in the Far East . |
| 22 | The M-Series of mini-tower machines are designed and manufactured in the UK , and even have a British BIOS . |
| 23 | An appropriate performance metric is required and has since been designed and applied to the original results , to reveal more objective patterns in the data ; |
| 24 | It owns one steam locomotive especially designed and built for the project which has successfully managed services since it was delivered in October 1986 . |
| 25 | So , starting with the driver as pilot , a car was designed and built around the most important component . |
| 26 | The original Superspec was designed and built in the late 80s in a joint venture between Wimpey Homes , Wimpey Environmental and the Building Research Energy Conservation Support Unit ( BRECSU ) to look at ways of reducing the amount of energy needed to run a home . |
| 27 | Designed and built by the astronomer Andronicus Kyrrhestes of Macedonia in the second quarter of the first century BC , with a wind vane and complicated sundials on each of its eight walls , its most interesting feature is a reservoir in a smaller building that stood next to its south side . |
| 28 | The plaintiff was a tenant in a council flat designed and built by the defendants . |
| 29 | This border is just one of 30 new designs in Amelia Saint George 's book The Needlepoint & Cross-Stitch Book ( £16.99 , Conran Octopus ) which includes themes such as fruit , butterflies , roses , ribbons , animals and berries — all designed and embroidered by the author . |
| 30 | In particular , CEB engineers considered that stations designed and ordered by the separate municipalities and companies led to a proliferation of designs and a failure to gain the advantages of replication . |