Example sentences of "and [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " For which our Lord Jesus Christ was contented to be betrayed , and given up into the hands of wicked men , and to suffer death upon the cross . |
| 2 | He looked at himself in his mind 's eye , squared his shoulders and carried on down the stairs . |
| 3 | The report concluded that substantial financial support should be given to research promoted and co-ordinated by the Home Office and carried out in the Universities and by other agencies . |
| 4 | Young and fit and keyed in to the processes of organisational power . |
| 5 | Originally Salcey was part of the chain of Royal Hunting Forests that stretched from Stanford to Oxford and dated back to the days of William the Conqueror ( 1066 ) . |
| 6 | Stephane Chapuisat is proud to be Swiss — and fed up to the teeth with being a loser . |
| 7 | Knowing who we are as humans has been one of the great vexed questions , searched after and written about down the centuries . |
| 8 | He found that a quiet bay gelding had been saddled for him , and mounted along with the others , the Hearthwares hissing with effort as they pulled the weight of their armour into the saddle . |
| 9 | This time he 's kept the somewhat wiggy feel and the one-liners but streamlined the satire and woken up to the necessities of plotting and dialogue . |
| 10 | JFK : flown down from Washington and flung together by the doctors ' knives and the sniper 's bullets and introduced on to the streets of Dallas and a hero 's welcome . |
| 11 | A con man was arrested and brought in to the police station . |
| 12 | Both his father and his uncle had been Stickies , while several younger relatives were reputed to have broken with the official wing and gone over to the Provies . |
| 13 | The same basic principle is used for the tearing apart of Miguel , who has been bitten and gone over to the zombies , letting them into the compound — though they still rip him to shreds . |
| 14 | The memorial harbour light on Carraig Fhada at the entrance to Kilnaughton Bay was built in 1853 and taken over by the Commissioners of Northern Lighthouses in 1924 . |
| 15 | He 'd try to sneak us into the zoo without paying and we 'd get caught and taken down to the Police Station . |
| 16 | But not so long ago they were actually sails and had to be put up and taken down like the sails of a ship . |
| 17 | When Sweetheart fixed her hair and make-up a certain way and dressed up in the clothes she made on her treadle sewing machine , she looked for all the world like Jane Russell come to life from the big screen . |
| 18 | There is even talk of rebuilding the Kaiser 's Schloss , damaged in the war and blown up by the communists in 1950 . |