Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [adv] the [adj] and " in BNC.
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| 31 | Repacking the camera gear , we decided to abandon it to the elements in orange survival bags , and bracing ourselves , we retreated down the steep and slippery slope . |
| 32 | We investigated both the common and the unique elements of these various images . |
| 33 | In doing these two things , they tear up the third and fourth commandments of the Christian faith ( Exodus 20:7,8 ) . |
| 34 | By describing , for example , the histories of western psychological concepts of the Madonna-like good mother , who is present , sensitive , and , currently , stimulating , and the bad mother , who is the reverse , they map out the political and ideological origins and currencies these concepts have , beyond the biologized significance which traditional psychology gives them ( e.g. Adams 1983 , Hardyment 1983 , Riley 1983 , New and David 1985 , Urwin 1985 ) . |
| 35 | So they fan off the loose and close down the spaces for the fly-half or blind-side winger . |
| 36 | ‘ Why do you think they brought in the Black and Tans ? |
| 37 | After some bartering they acquired both the nude and a splendid portrait of a servant girl for five hundred francs . |
| 38 | Unfortunately they say one thing , but they do exactly the opposite and whereas local authorities are in a position to in the main to provide rental accommodation , the government are stopping them . |
| 39 | He attacked both the British and the Russians for their " imperialist " policies in Iran and called for a free , independent Iran with a constitutional monarchy . |
| 40 | When he lifted out the first and looked through the handwritten pages he found that he was holding Henryk Liawski 's personal diary covering odd and irregular dates between 1952 and 1958 . |
| 41 | Eataine 's control of the straits of Lothern makes it unique in Ulthuan because it straddles both the Inner and Outer Kingdoms . |
| 42 | His North Sea assault gave the environmentalists a powerful and unique spokesman ; it made the government sit up and take notice ; and it speeded up the long and painful process of making the public aware that there was a very real problem to solve , which was going to involve personal sacrifices . |
| 43 | He earned his first Chair , at Southampton , in 1972 , and in 1981 he took up the oldest and most senior Chair of Archaeology in Britain , the Disney Professorship at Cambridge , where he is presiding over a great expansion of archaeological studies there with the creation of the Macdonald Institue for Archaeological Research . |
| 44 | So he took up the longest and sharpest , wrapping its hilt round in his leather apron , and waited . |
| 45 | It kept out the cold and gave strength and comfort beyond its natural powers . |
| 46 | Here Owen set about the great social reforms which made New Lanark for a time one of the most celebrated places in Britain ; he improved both the working and the living conditions of those on whose labour he depended , and proposed a system of universal co-operation in industry in place of the misery of exploitation . |
| 47 | He put down the still and took the champagne bottle . |
| 48 | In 1695 , he toured both the Inner and the Outer Hebrides , visiting many of the islands personally . |
| 49 | It had perhaps the largest and strangest range of tickets for any railway of its size . |
| 50 | Mooney scored the goal of the game when he burst down the left and hit a low shot into the far corner . |
| 51 | The clothing industry , including flax , had flourished because it supplied both the Tsarist and the Red Armies which trampled through Belorussia . |
| 52 | There is an element of bravado here — having conquered the academic and " literary " worlds , he wanted to move on — but it suggests also the extraordinary and self-conscious determination with which he worked . |
| 53 | Part of this culture was a certain distinction between what made up the sacred and what made up the profane spheres . |
| 54 | The more dedicated among them combed both the cultivated and wild places of the world in search of novelties and in doing so a good number of them lost their lives , in some cases in tragic circumstances . |
| 55 | It can help us explain why the entrenched and the familiar can suddenly appear conditional and temporary , and inject meaning into those long-forgotten disputes which are bubbling to the surface , especially within the Soviet bloc . |
| 56 | I … well , I want to find a way to ensure that we have a method that will help us produce only the best and happiest of individuals , so that when the time comes for control to be applied , it can be done gainfully . |
| 57 | They enable us to break up the larger and more nebulous goals , into smaller , more manageable pieces . |