Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] [conj] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In addition to sending military units , the USA also imposed a complete trade embargo on Iraq which included the prohibition of exports to any entity operated from Iraq or owned or controlled by the government of Iraq . |
| 2 | The tourist or business or conference traveller will more often than not travel on a plane manufactured by one of the few aerospace TNCs that dominate the civil airline industry , occupy a hotel room subcontracted to or owned or managed by the local affiliate of one of the few chains that dominate the global hotel industry , hire a car from an agency of one of the international firms that dominate the car rental industry , and will pay for all this with one of the credit cards issued by the few TNCs that control global personal finance . |
| 3 | Fergus , who had stormed castles and laid siege to fortresses and who knew the arts of infiltration as well as he knew the Twelve Books of Honour , found himself summoning every shred and every tag-end of legend and myth and lore ever whispered or recounted or imagined about the Prison . |
| 4 | 5.14 Indemnities To be responsible for and to keep the Landlord fully indemnified against all damage damages losses costs expenses actions demands proceedings claims and liabilities made against or suffered or incurred by the Landlord arising directly or indirectly out of : |
| 5 | There had been a week when she 'd paced the studio humming or sat and gawped at the tapestry she 'd created . |
| 6 | ½ tons ) in the Works Iron Foundry and machined by the Machine Shop , the component parts also being manufactured in the Machine Shop and wired and fitted in the Electric Shop . |
| 7 | She confirmed to McIllvanney that the weather-fax machine and the Loran and the Satnav and the radar and all the other things that hummed and winked and glowed in the night were working properly . |
| 8 | As you say , plain boards lettered and varnished and exposed to the elements soon lose their fresh effect . |
| 9 | Even over the economy , in particular interest rates and membership of the Exchange Rate Mechanism , the newspapers argued and argued and argued against the Government 's destructive obstinacy . |
| 10 | It did n't like it at first , and moved and beat against the sides of the plastic and the neck of the can while I held it and sweated , listening to the hum of the insects and the rustling of the grass , staring at Blyth as he lay there still and silent , his dark hair ruffled now and again by the breeze . |
| 11 | It was a very nice day out actually , and everything from serious riders who just went up and down and the most energetic one did a hundred miles , to families who treated it , took a picnic and stopped and looked at the badger tunnels . |
| 12 | He held no office , had no possessions , and came and went from the political arena at times of his own choosing . |
| 13 | Modigliani , of course , spotted her at once and came and sat at the next table . |
| 14 | He shut the door quickly behind him and came and sat on the small wooden chair in the corner . |
| 15 | The driver took the road carefully as it dipped and turned , and forded rivers that shone like a newly tarred road and roared and pounded against the floor . |
| 16 | The first creature we had seen , a small turtle , was sunning itself on a rock as we climbed into a canoe and paddled and drifted round the green-speared edge of the lake . |
| 17 | He had greased himself in oil and he had cooked and broiled and yearned for the magic hours of noon and six when he could down a life-saving tumbler of gin and lime . |
| 18 | Before the building of roads , it was peripheral and resembled that practised for the previous 350 years . |
| 19 | Edward 's cup of troubles was yet to overflow : Scottish resistance to his dynastic claims burst into open warfare from 1295 to 1298 and smouldered and crackled until the end of the reign . |
| 20 | Afterwards they went to a nightclub and danced and smooched in the smoky blackness , cleaning their throats from time to time with champagne . |
| 21 | Here they 're weighed and measured and checked for the early signs of malnutrition , cholera and smallpox . |
| 22 | He released her abruptly and turned and walked into the kitchen . |
| 23 | ‘ Bye , dreema , ’ she said suddenly and turned and fled into the house . |
| 24 | ‘ You must join us for dinner , of course , ’ he suggested quietly and turned to the waiter , but before a request for a more accommodating table was spoken Maria Luisa , to everyone 's shock , gave out a sudden sob of protest and turned and fled from the restaurant . |
| 25 | The latter writes : " Then he went on the in the year 833 … and returned and died in the month of Rajab . " |
| 26 | THE couple who left their daughters , aged just nine and four , Home Alone while they jetted off on holiday were booed and jeered when arrested at the end of their trip . |
| 27 | Whilst they rested and fed and waited for the skies to clear , we could enjoy their presence . |
| 28 | They are normally sown ‘ on the ridge ’ as soon as the ground is ready in early May , and hoed and singled at the two-to three-leaf stage whilst it is still easy to separate the entwined stems which grow from the multiple seeds . |
| 29 | Housed together under one roof from the early 1800s , and arranged and rearranged over the years ( but always with the Elgin Marbles at the centre ) , the collection was the raw material from which scholars wrought theories of the ‘ Progress of Antiquity ’ that culminated with the Ancient Greeks or , in direct opposition , that of cultural relativity accepted today . |
| 30 | I shook and panicked and wept for the fist time since he 'd been born . |