Example sentences of "[noun] and [verb] [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The breeze rattled Eochaid 's springing black hair over his ears and pulled at the ends of his lashes . |
| 2 | As Constance picked her way heavily across the mine-field of the Minuet in G , her faltering efforts were greeted with screams and jeers from the birds who would not be silenced even when Miss Hatherby threw an enormous dust sheet over their cage . |
| 3 | a self-evaluation followed by visits by advisers to see if staff are performing up to their own perception and to look into the objectives of the school . |
| 4 | She has been acclaimed as the greatest Canadian painter of the century , while her four books are said to have reached new heights of perception and understanding in the annals of Canadian literature . |
| 5 | She hurried to the pond and peered among the reeds to see if her friend was visible . |
| 6 | Most people stretch their legs and go into the stations . |
| 7 | The new ‘ sociology of deviance ’ suggested hooligans were not abnormal young people and that the whole phenomenon — like the Mods and Rockers panic before — had been ‘ amplified ’ by the popular press in order to boost their circulation and pander to the prejudices of their readers . |
| 8 | He will follow the route taken by Gary Wolstenholme and play in The Masters , The Open and other major world events . |
| 9 | If the ring had not captured and ruined Gollum 's mind , he would never have been overcome by desire of it and hence he would not have snatched the Ring and fallen into the Cracks of Doom , the only place the Ring can be destroyed . |
| 10 | It has been suggested that this linear design process should be replaced by a cyclical process , whereby at each stage of development of the system there would be opportunity for feedback and influence from the users and their representatives . |
| 11 | The South is not a classless society , but its class nature has been well hidden in consciousness and dominated by the procedures of the capitalist-democratic process . |
| 12 | Take himself off to Yzordderrex and set up business with Peccable ; marry Hoi-Polloi despite her crossed eyes ; have a litter of kids and retire to the Hills of the Conscious Cloud , in the Third , and raise parrots . |
| 13 | Follow the pre-race qualifying sessions and go behind the scenes for exclusive pictures and interviews with the teams . |
| 14 | From the top , you will have a glorious view , and you can go for a walk , or relax at one of the mountain top restaurants , sitting on the terrace and drinking in the views . |
| 15 | In ‘ thin-soiled ’ Attica ( Thuc. i.2 ) the olive was unusually important : its deep roots could penetrate the subsoil and get into the rocks , enabling the tree to thrive where other plants could not . |
| 16 | In April President Nursultan Nazarbayev<$ ! = had announced that the 40th Army was to be removed from the Turkestan military district command and subordinated to the CIS joint armed forces C.-in-C . |
| 17 | He failed to do all he could for the Jews and socialised with the Nazis too easily for the Poles ' liking . |
| 18 | I closed my eyes and listened to the cracks and smashes until one especially loud thump ended in a low buzz telephones do n't usually make ; then I put the phone down again , turned , looked upward , and set wearily off , back up the stairs . |
| 19 | Martin screwed up his eyes and looked towards the hills , saying , ‘ How can you tell from here ? ’ |
| 20 | Due to the overcrowding of thoughts , emotions and subconscious patternings , our attention is drawn down from its princely abode between and above the eyes and plays among the tattwas , gross and subtle , of the physical realm . |
| 21 | I just closed my eyes and breathed through the contractions . |
| 22 | He closed his eyes and waited for the pupils to widen . |
| 23 | On this particular journey I occasionally opened my eyes and peered through the slats of the truck . |
| 24 | On her left was a thin , grey-haired woman with deep lines between her eyes and curving past the sides of her mouth . |
| 25 | The road serves the village of Barashevo and sometimes the civilians have to stand behind the lines of the guards and wait for the columns of criminals to go by before they can proceed on their way . |
| 26 | And all this merely supplements and whets the appetite for the serious nourishment of hot dogs and beer , in search of which you must leave your seat and descend below the stands . |
| 27 | This request was important in that it forced the staff involved in Guidance to review the programme and look at the students ' experiences in totality . |
| 28 | One path of enquiry leads Gallop to repudiate this ‘ homosexual economy ’ and speculate thus : ‘ I wish to speak of radical heterosexuality , a true openness and love for the heteros , the other , an intercourse between two modalities … . |
| 29 | Even the precious spools of film in the camera slung around her neck and tucked into the pockets of her jacket were forgotten . |
| 30 | She was an outsider and feared by the wives of the other officers of Camp 3 because her husband was KGB and because his reports could break and crush the career of any man , however senior . |