Example sentences of "and [verb] [pron] [prep] the [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The procedure involves the purchasing party to a proposed qualifying merger completing a prescribed form know as a " Merger Notice " and submitting it to the OFT . |
| 2 | There are eight behaviours that are typical of successful negotiators and distinguish them from the less successful . |
| 3 | Gina Newman has uprooted her inimitable Something Wild boutique from Swiss Cottage , and transplanted it to the more accessible environs of Covent Garden . |
| 4 | It seems that the slimes and waste gravel from the mill were discharged directly into the beck which obligingly carried the man made detritus downstream and depositing them in the less boisterous places causing silting and then , during heavy rain , flooding . |
| 5 | The prospect of Özal 's renewed direct involvement in party politics had reportedly been a key issue at a special ANAP congress on Dec. 1 , with the first 16 defections occurring after the failure of an attempt to unseat party leader Mesut Yilmaz and replace him with the more conservative Ahmet Kececiler . |
| 6 | It saw its function not to produce curricular prescriptions but rather ‘ to extend the range of possibilities open to teachers , and to provide them with the most detailed research evidence on which their judgement can be exercised ’ . |
| 7 | Since the earliest days of their conversion to Christianity , Greek Christians had been involved in a creative effort to baptise their glorious past and to wed it to the originally semitic Christian experience . |
| 8 | How you corrupted a young and lovely woman … and subjected her to the most shatteringly depraved treatment . |
| 9 | With the election due on Oct. 27 , the latest date allowed by the Constitution , the party took a final desperate gamble by persuading Palmer to resign in September [ see pp. 37716-17 ] and replacing him with the more dynamic Mike Moore . |
| 10 | For all his wayward impulses and the much documented erraticism of his '80s career , this contradictory figure has — through cunning , imagination and sheer force of will — constantly reassessed and reasserted himself as the most focused member of the old guard . |
| 11 | It was with such proclamations that the Cubists confirmed our lurch into the twentieth century and confronted us with the sometimes harsh realities that are alternative to the Renaissance view of mankind and certainly far removed from the elegances of Art Nouveau , Tiffany 's , the Moulin Rouge and the Paris Métro . |
| 12 | Here was a person who took a faculty in another university and turned it into the most famous faculty in the land . |
| 13 | He nodded , smiling thinly , and fanned himself with the now redundant carpet-beater . |
| 14 | We shall consider Bukharin 's propositions in the light of the above considerations , and examine them at the most abstract level possible . |
| 15 | Cynthia Cockburn calls this " studied hypocrisy " , arguing that as things stood no woman could expect to earn the same wage as a man , because of the Factory Acts among other things , and links it with the undoubtedly fiercely held view among many compositors that women really had no right to " leave the home " anyway . |
| 16 | The 1973 Act extended beyond planning blight and takes us into the much broader area of the law relating to compensation . |
| 17 | He has accordingly built , in the heart of Islay , the only brewery in the Western Isles , for preventing the evils alluded to , and for gradually weaning off his tenants from a taste for ardent spirits , and accustoming them to the more nourishing and wholesome beverage of ales ; and has , by these means , not only improved the agriculture , but also the morals of the island . |
| 18 | We had the greatest difficulty in cleaning and recording it in the very limited time available , and in fact there was no time to draw it . |
| 19 | Trading standards officers compiled a case file and submitted it to the OFT three weeks ago . |
| 20 | Given that the member will be sent their membership card , it would seem a small step away to actually send them a letter addressed to them personally welcoming them to the union and advise them at the very least on the basic facilities and benefits , plus other important information , and signed by the Regional Secretary , if not by the General Secretary . |
| 21 | This time of the building of the gardens of our minds makes me think of the Pacific Ocean where insects spin the sunlight and the salt water , and weave them into the most beautiful oases of the sea . |
| 22 | I mix some sap green with Prussian blue and burnt umber still left in the palette and dab it onto the previously dampened , shaded areas of the greenery . |
| 23 | I mix some sap green with Prussian blue and burnt umber still left in the palette and dab it onto the previously dampened , shaded areas of the greenery . |
| 24 | If you decide to dispense with a thorough dig through the whole plot and merely take out planting holes , at least try to follow the above principle : dig two spits deep , and reverse them with the more fertile top spit going down to root level . |
| 25 | She started to feel much more comfortable about how she looked , and unconsciously began to relax and to hold herself in the quietly poised way she did when dressed in a nurse 's uniform or casual clothes . |
| 26 | The course teaches the techniques of design , drawing , model-making , paste-up , photography , rendering , typography , video and computing , and relates them to the equally important techniques of the publishing and manufacturing industries . |
| 27 | His brief was simple : charter a large cargo plane and bring back to Farnborough all the pieces of wreckage that will , in your judgement , need to be examined in detail in connection with this investigation , and do it at the least possible cost to the taxpayer . |
| 28 | That 's when they used to come up and put it in the straight on to the station . |
| 29 | He met me after school and accompanied me to the newly opened branch of Smith 's in Churchill Square . |
| 30 | Watford were the better team in the second half they pulled level with a header from Julian Alsford and went and won it in the very last minute with a great strike from Gary Porter … |