Example sentences of "and [verb] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Affliction succeeds in taking the detailing associated with Raymond Carver-style dirty realism and fusing it with the pace of a detective story . |
| 2 | Remove the dough from the bowl and knead it on a floured board until smooth , about 5 minutes . |
| 3 | I would hope that you would see beyond that , and issues like it , the primary claims of Christ in his Church , to love him and to promote him as Lord of the Church . |
| 4 | In the early 1970s an organization was established to govern karate on a world scale and to promote it as a new and fascinating sport . |
| 5 | Dr Losberne , of course , was full of immediate plans to rush round London arresting all the gang and hanging them at once . |
| 6 | ‘ Have I said something , then ? ’ he asked , taking off his cap and overcoat and hanging them on the door peg . |
| 7 | The role of the museum is to present the collection in a fresh way , both showing unfamiliar paintings and hanging them in natural light ’ . |
| 8 | ‘ Like some coffee ? ’ said Wilcox , taking her coat and hanging it on the back of the door . |
| 9 | There were stacks of old art magazines , a broken easel , the white-painted bough which Elise had brought down at Christmas before trimming and hanging it over the inglenook fireplace . |
| 10 | Shaken off balance by her startling thoughts , Isabel glanced away , stepping out of her gown and hanging it over the table . |
| 11 | Oriental dragons were not bloodthirsty like the Worms in England , and a pretty story tells us that the beautiful colours of autumn leaves are a result of a nearby dragon yawning and tinging them with his warm breath , before settling down to his winter hibernation . |
| 12 | After fulling , the cloth was well rinsed and , now reduced from 35″ to 27″ in width , was taken to the tenter ground to be stretched to shape by fastening hooks in the selvedge and attaching them to the tenter frames . |
| 13 | Toolbars are also customizable ; you can construct your own by dragging tools from existing bars and attaching them to your own . |
| 14 | This is not , in fact , a problem , since LIFESPAN provides the tools for creating other DCs as the need arises and attaching them to the same package . |
| 15 | Preliminary identification of the peptide binding to the SSB oligonucleotide was accomplished by synthesising a 5' biotinolyated SSB oligonucleotide and attaching it to magnetic Dynal beads coated with streptavidin . |
| 16 | For three days before the unveiling ceremony , the cadets were on the site collecting stones from the hillside and cementing them into the cairn . |
| 17 | So takes it up and knits it on the back . |
| 18 | Taking her hand warmly in his and tucking it into his pocket , he ordered softly , ‘ Tell me about Elinor Browne with an ‘ E ’ . ’ |
| 19 | The story ends with the teacher coming over and praising him for this reaction and Little Turtle receiving a very good report card that term . |
| 20 | If these words , often carelessly spoken , can have such a long-term and devastating effect , think how much good we can do by encouraging our children and praising them for what they have achieved . |
| 21 | It may be extremely hard for your employer to justify a poor grading at assessment time when earlier in the year you received a letter from the chairman specifically thanking and praising you for your efforts . |
| 22 | The price of this combo is excellent for a twin channel amp , but its shortcomings in the lead department may keep it from playing in the World Series and confine it to the Junior League . |
| 23 | Humility is to orient our lives towards God , so that we understand and obey him in a greater and greater sense . |
| 24 | and change them to a bigger size |
| 25 | Yeah , well you then just go and change them for that one drawing ! |
| 26 | David Hunt from Downing Street told Lascelles that Ramsey had been known to stop in a procession , send for a pair of trousers to replace the wrong ones which he had put on by mistake , and change them in the middle of the aisle . |
| 27 | Jonathan , Jonathan , dad wants to watch the news in a minute please , so hurry up and change it over You 'd think they 'd save that You do n't know , I would n't be surprised you will well that 's marvellous is n't it ? |
| 28 | So although this is fifty pence when you show it on here the fir so the first thing we 've got to do is change this fifty pence to get away from fifty pence or thirty pence or twenty and change it into a fraction . |
| 29 | Take one whole one , from the three whole ones , and change it to twelfths . |
| 30 | If you produce an invoice , and on reading it onscreen discover that you have entered £350 instead of £250 , almost every Windows user will expect to drop a text cursor over the offending 3 and change it to a 2 . |