Example sentences of "and [vb -s] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It takes them long enough to cut a way through to the chimney of the air shaft , sawing through the rhodie branches and tearing away the brambles and other undergrowth ; then they lever off the iron grating over the shaft without any difficulty , and one of the younger cops , in an overall and a hard hat , wraps the rope around himself — proper climbing rope they had in the back of one of the Range Rovers — and abseils down into the darkness . |
| 2 | The system is flexible and fits in with the user 's way of working . |
| 3 | It admittedly makes intuitive sense , and fits in with the general observation about staffs ' professional identities being a function of their research identities . |
| 4 | An administrative culture — which is concerned with rules , roles , authority and fits in with the concept of a role culture . |
| 5 | When the transistor came along , we thought that with valves and relays out of the way , electronics would never ( well , hardly ever ) break down . |
| 6 | First , do we really accept that a man in the act of undressing suddenly decides halfway through that he will hang himself and goes up to the garret without his boots on to carry out the terrible act ? |
| 7 | She has been voted the best assistant in the store by her colleagues , and goes on to the next leg of the competition , the district semi-finals on April 10th . |
| 8 | And it goes out in a blaze of colour — a spectacular firework display which starts at 6.45pm and goes on into the night . |
| 9 | She lifts her eyebrows at me and then stands up and goes over to the sink . |
| 10 | She takes out this dark red dress with these big white dots and goes over to the mirror . |
| 11 | He turns his back and goes over to the chest of drawers , his brown bottom wiggling at Mark . |
| 12 | One boy is chosen and goes out of the room . |
| 13 | I stay at home and my partner — for I 'm not a wife — puts on a suit and goes out of the door to work . |
| 14 | Skipper has his breakfast and goes out in the field and I go home and am ready to start work at 10.30am — one of the benefits of being a freelance is that the person who rings up at 10.31am does n't realise that you are wearing jodhpurs and have dirty fingernails ! |
| 15 | Everyone comes in and goes out by the front . " |
| 16 | This central role for private property has a long history in European thought and goes back to the eighteenth-century notion of the social contract . |
| 17 | Howard escapes from the hospital and goes back to the scene of the robbery where everything is strangely familiar . |
| 18 | She turns and goes back to the house . |
| 19 | She loses interest and goes back to the television . |
| 20 | If there are no more loans to be entered , the user presses the RETURN key and goes back to the options list . |
| 21 | After a further mile towards Chapel-le-Dale , a track turns off the road to the left and goes down to the beck in the valley bottom , arriving at a section roofed by a natural arch of considerable length . |
| 22 | Roy , 37 , even leaves Janette in the dead of night and goes down to the bar hoping to catch a glimpse of his beloved spirit . |
| 23 | Cross the road and take path going north-north-east which then bears left to Stoke Ridge and goes down to the bend in the road at Stoke Pero . |
| 24 | Clint says he has been sitting on the story of Unforgiven for 15 years waiting to grow into the part but denies that this could be the last time he saddles up and rides off into the sunset . |
| 25 | Like Flynn before him , Fonda can not stay in the town he has tamed and rides out at the fade-out into the desert . |
| 26 | Once or twice a week Howard climbs into the station wagon and drives over to the little market town fifteen miles away . |
| 27 | He knows it , and drives off into the night licking his dollar lips . |
| 28 | He removes his parka , wrapping it around the muzzle of his Sturm-Ruger , and sits back on the step of the lectern . |
| 29 | Perhaps it is repetitive , but not for the sake of repetition , as each phrase carries a different emphasis and builds on to the prior phase for effect . |
| 30 | The collection begins in 1901 with Picasso 's ‘ Woman in Blue ’ and peters out in the 1960s , although there are some exceptions , such as Miró 's late works . |