Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] and [verb] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He related some good anecdotes about him and told us that although the admiral had been killed in August , he had already chosen and wrapped up the Royal Family 's Christmas presents and — even more remarkable — had already chosen and wrapped up Prince Edward 's twenty-first birthday present , then six years away . |
| 2 | A group of people was being alternately shoved and pulled down the roadway , the shafts of Sellsword spears hastening them on their way . |
| 3 | As the influence of Christianity spread , the new religion gradually embraced and took over the festivals , giving them new names and meanings . |
| 4 | The first is that nobody had really analysed and spelt out the interrelated series of planning and policy decisions which changing a school curriculum entails ; the essential links between the processes of curriculum planning and implementation ; the costs of change . |
| 5 | He cinched his towel around his hips , then bent and scooped up the jewellery as if it were junk . |
| 6 | While training for preaching has happily improved since the Council , other factors have sadly hampered and slowed down the work of theological re-education . |
| 7 | The article also states that the burden of proof that a standard term has been individually negotiated falls on the seller or supplier , but given the provisions set out in the previous paragraph , it is hard to see how this burden can ever be discharged , unless there has been an individual negotiation at which both parties actually discussed and wrote out the clause in question for the first time . |