Example sentences of "[adj] and [pron] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has nothing to do with the plight of the unemployed and everything to do with the power and desire for further power of the Trade Union Movement . |
| 2 | In fact , she was very old ; she was twenty-four years old and she worked in the mill and earned eight shillings a week . |
| 3 | She was pretty and popular and she lived for the moment . |
| 4 | If you come out of our , out of a swimming pool and you 're wet and you stand on the side and you 're beginning to get cold , what 's your body reaction , what do you do ? |
| 5 | The dormitories were empty and nothing stirred in the main corridor . |
| 6 | the , yeah , twenty I mean , well that one goes different and they started at the same edge , ah two twenty twos oh |
| 7 | The method is simple and it relies on the duck 's instinct to try to chase away a threatening fox . |
| 8 | I know but you but you see if it came to be something big and serious and it went into the newspaper he would . |
| 9 | ‘ I finished early and I called at the library for you . |
| 10 | They were rumoured to wait until dark and them to cross into the white suburb and steal wallets from trousers draped across bedroom chairs while their white owners slept . |
| 11 | Thereafter the relationship became steadily more strained and he left during the 1978 season . |
| 12 | The horse was led back to its stable and I walked to the far end of the house , where there was a lawn of coarse-bladed grass , brown with the heat , some exotic-looking flowers in a stony border , and cushioned garden chairs standing bright in the dappled shade of what looked like a cherry tree . |
| 13 | In the course of our case studies in the manufacturing sector we encountered several organisations which had recently introduced or extended their use of temporary working and which referred to the workers concerned as " casuals " . |
| 14 | The journey itself was pretty tiring , taking 21 hours in total and we arrived at the hotel at 5am . |
| 15 | His industry was prodigious and he left to the Museum a volume of files , indexes , and notebooks filled with accurate and methodically arranged taxonomic work , together with his exceptionally fine library of works on Polyzoa and whales . |
| 16 | His output is prodigious and it springs from the unbending control he exercises over every aspect of his life . |
| 17 | Sunday dawned dry and we gathered in the church again for morning prayer ; followed by breakfast . |
| 18 | Nils shoved her hard and she fell into the deep satin embrace of a sofa . |
| 19 | Their social circle was more geographically widespread and they looked beyond the local village for their friends and kin . |
| 20 | They were within sight of the airfield when Woolley inexplicably wheeled left and they climbed towards the mattress of cloud . |
| 21 | The Iraqi leaned to the left and I peered through the crack in the sandbags at the Fattal building , a yellow-painted office block whose window frames had been chewed down to an inch or two by thousands of bullets ; the Christian Phalangist front line . |
| 22 | Billie could n't believe the cold and she rushed towards the warmth of the terminal . |
| 23 | The average Briton finds someone knocking at his door extremely embarrassing and someone performing on the streets and handing out tracts equally uncomfortable . |
| 24 | ‘ Driver acceptance too has been very good and it looks like the misconception that diesels are dirty , slow and smelly is a thing of the past . ’ |
| 25 | my Lord we have said in a number of places the claims are erm unlawful and we refer to the fact that the claims come out of the central fund bi-law |
| 26 | He said : ‘ The selection committee is multi-racial and we came with the 30 best players we could pick . |
| 27 | Their tusks were gnarled and they differed from the older Daurog in one remarkable and savage aspect : ridges of long , black spikes grew from the fronts of their bodies ; the central , vertical line of thorns ran down on to the twisting , restless sex organs that hung from their rotund bellies . |
| 28 | Later of course as up this early infantile attitude where you idolize your parents becomes replaced by a more rational and so on , but Freud 's finding was that this early attitude in childhood does n't get er abolished , it just gets repressed , it 's forced out of conscious because you true and of course things that are not true have to be removed consciousness , but they can not be erased , so they 're forced into the unconscious and they live in the unconscious and they feed myths like the Myth of the Birth of the Hero and all of us in our er erm in our er conscious see the hero as a , as a parental figure that reflects the family romance , the idea that once we were , we were a special child with very special parents . |
| 29 | Novell Inc has finally produced the big restructuring that it has been planning and ( sort of ) denying for so long and which led to the departure of Tony Scrivens as UK managing director . |
| 30 | Chatam had not been seen in public since finishing fourth to Sibton Abbey in the Hennessy at Newbury in November , and Pipe said yesterday : ‘ It was a fine run considering he had been off the course for so long and he goes for the Gold Cup with every chance . |