Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] and [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What was new was the scale of its economic implications and its worship of the cult of the amateur who led and of the practical man who did . |
| 2 | We ask and for the younger nations help to grow to maturity Help us that wherever we may go we may amen |
| 3 | These kinds of problems lead to difficulties in keeping everything indexed and in the right order , and that is obviously going to make the whole thing farcical sometimes from the children 's point of view . |
| 4 | The centre-piece was a perspiring bloke who was plainly at the end of his tether and at the other end of the tatty tether was a huge hairy bundle who 'd decided he was now one of the family and acting in a suitably demented manner ; noise effects included whoops , cheers , shrieks , curses , admonitions and deep explosive barks which provided punctuation in the manner of the cannon fire in the 1812 Overture . |
| 5 | He received the help he needed and in the next three months showed his superb generalship by totally subduing the island . |
| 6 | It worked and for the next half hour she was able to quiz the woman whom she saw as having stolen her happiness on every aspect of her life . |
| 7 | The whole joint family is on the scene , bearing the onslaught of British society and groaning with agony as a result groaning on the one hand because of the intense racism and poverty it faces and on the other because of the confusions caused by the irrelevance in Britain of its most valued concepts . |
| 8 | It recognized and at the same time limited the importance of Egypt , Mesopotamia and above all Iran . |