Example sentences of "[adj] and [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | On arrival at the theatre I was met by Mr and Mrs Alexander Heymeyer , the latter was originally Scottish and born on the Isle of Skye . |
| 2 | Because of the sensitive nature of this service the pre-issuance review is necessary to give additional assurance that the firm policy is adhered to and that the firm 's report is clear and responds to the needs of the client . |
| 3 | But all over the pastoral Midlands and the south of England too , the canals flowed clear and sparkling in the sunshine , something new in the landscape with their towpaths , lock-keepers ’ cottages , stables for canal horses , their Navigation or Canal Inns where they met a main road , and their long and narrow gaily painted boats . |
| 4 | He found it and clung there for a while , then pushed clear and knelt among the waves , head lowered . |
| 5 | He wiped them clear and peered inside the smoking gap . |
| 6 | ‘ Apparently you keep the path clear and look after the little hut ; does your father come here much ? ’ |
| 7 | It was a dazzling Saturday afternoon , and the park was full of contented people : children stood knicker-deep in bliss , stroking the paddling-pool as if it were some great tame animal ; attendant mothers soaked in the sun ; lovers were prone and entranced on the grass . |
| 8 | They were the harmless copying the harmful and benefiting from the deception . |
| 9 | This use of language is poetic and characterized by the intention being applied not only to content but also to its specific form . |
| 10 | In tests with intragastric administration of bFGF , the peptide was dissolved in 1 ml of saline and instilled into the stomach via the cannula of the gastric fistula and the fistula was closed for 30 minutes . |
| 11 | Sucralfate or bFGF was dissolved in saline and given by the intragastric route in a volume of 1 ml or infused subcutaneously at 4ml/hour . |
| 12 | The aqueous solution was made fresh daily and used in the rats at a dose 10 times higher ( 50 µg/kg ) than that shown in separate experiments on these animals to reduce by 50% the platelet activating factor induced hypotension ( ID 5 =5 µg/kg ip ) . |
| 13 | political ideology is male-biased and associated with the values of male supremacy and ferocity ; |
| 14 | There was a woman who wanted me to call her mother , and then called me awkward , exasperated and frightened with the dreams and the screams . |
| 15 | Charlotte made to reply , but suddenly felt exasperated and wearied by the hoops she had been obliged to jump through . |
| 16 | Very gradually , the secure base that the mother provided ‘ out there ’ becomes absorbed and assimilated within the young child so that she is ‘ in here ’ and does not always have to be kept in sight . |
| 17 | How was the Beau Ideal absorbed and reinforced by the architectural profession in the design of municipal suburbs ? |
| 18 | You 'd be sucked in , absorbed and fused with the steel and the plastic and the concrete — fused into the very fabric of the building itself . ’ |
| 19 | She 's blond , Sloaney , utterly vacuous and gossips on the phone . |
| 20 | There the cries of the watersellers and the buzz of taxis came wafting on the wind , strident and echoing across the dirty water . |
| 21 | Various branches of the former FDP were demilitarized and placed under the control of the Justice Ministry . |
| 22 | Each one is a potential hypnotic and competes for the attention . |
| 23 | I held her , trying to appear calm and composed on the outside , a shaking wreck on the inside . |
| 24 | Worrying about people 's comments instead of keeping calm and concentrating on the flying and on getting down safely is often the root cause of a bad landing . |
| 25 | ‘ I had a bust up with John Sillett a week or so before and had been transfer-listed and dropped from the team , ’ he recalled . |
| 26 | Others might be talking to their girlfriends or just idly smoking and looking at the sky . |
| 27 | Do n't go about much ; no late returning in crowded streets from Earl 's Court or elsewhere ; no dissipating jabber and smoking and drinking with the Andrews [ where Helen was employed ] . |
| 28 | Will she send out a message to those who oppose smoking and belong to the brigade who say , ’ Do as I say and as I instruct you , ’ to the effect that they should leave ordinary people to get on with the job of smoking and supporting the economy ? |
| 29 | When he shows a film or summat his room 's like a little cinema — you know , people sitting round watching the telly in the dark , and smoking and laughing at the funny bits and that . |
| 30 | A vicar has now joined the ranks of the unemployed and signed on the dole . |