Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [adv] the [adj] and " in BNC.
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| 31 | 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 . |
| 32 | He put down the still and took the champagne bottle . |
| 33 | In 1695 , he toured both the Inner and the Outer Hebrides , visiting many of the islands personally . |
| 34 | It had perhaps the largest and strangest range of tickets for any railway of its size . |
| 35 | Mooney scored the goal of the game when he burst down the left and hit a low shot into the far corner . |
| 36 | The clothing industry , including flax , had flourished because it supplied both the Tsarist and the Red Armies which trampled through Belorussia . |
| 37 | 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 . |
| 38 | 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 . |
| 39 | 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 . |
| 40 | 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 . |
| 41 | They enable us to break up the larger and more nebulous goals , into smaller , more manageable pieces . |