Example sentences of "[coord] [prep] the [adv] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The primary source for ‘ Kubla Khan ’ is the book Purchas his Pilgrimage ( 1614 ) which Coleridge had evidently brought with him on his Culbone visit — borrowed perhaps from the bookroom or from the well stocked library at Alfoxden — and which describes how ‘ In Xanada did Cublai Can build a stately Pallace . ’ |
| 2 | Anyone else who had dared to criticize either Mobuto or his Government was immediately arrested and taken to La Tambier or to the now abandoned Branco prison in Kondese , the second-largest city situated in the south of the country . |
| 3 | Not in a great cathedral nor in a doll 's house , not in the tumult of a strange new city nor in the once sanctified words of a tough peasant stalking the sour hills of Judah . |
| 4 | So that 's the deal … and as the newly crowned king of formula one Nigel Mansell rules … |
| 5 | She excelled in playing ruthlessly calculating bitch-goddesses , clawing their way to wealth , security and power : eg as Mildred , the sluttish Cockney waitress who enslaves sensitive Leslie Howard in John Cromwell 's adaptation of Somerset Maugham 's Of Human Bondage ( 1934 ) , the role in which she made her reputation ; as Jezebel , flouting the decorous conventions of the antebellum South in William Wyler 's 1938 melodrama of that name ; and as the indefatigably scheming Regina , one of her most memorable creations , in Wyler 's 1941 film version of Lillian Hellman 's The Little Foxes . |
| 6 | Without waiting for an answer , she dashed off along the street and after the rapidly departing Harry . |
| 7 | " I see , " said Clara , descending : and she thought of the square flat patch that extended beyond her mother 's house at home , and of the grudgingly mown grass , and the dutifully weeded herbaceous borders , and the complaints about neighbouring cats and dogs that would come and dig in the unrewarding earth . |
| 8 | I ran out of the shed not looking back , raced across the old marshalling yard , out of the tumbledown gateway of the station , across the road and into the brightly lit warmth of the Railway Hotel bar . |
| 9 | They drew , too , upon illegal literature put out by clandestine presses within Russia , and upon the legally published works of social critics who skilfully circumvented the censor , the most influential being the journalist N.G. Chernyshevsky . |
| 10 | The 1988 trade expansion had been boosted , according to the review , by accelerated import demand , led by Japan , and by strong growth in domestic investment rates in industrialized countries and in the newly industrializing economies ( NIEs ) . |
| 11 | The antennae afford important secondary sexual characters which are particularly well shown in the pectinate or bipectinate organs of certain male Lepidoptera , and in the densely plumose antennae of male Culicidae and Chironomidae . |
| 12 | Appointments have been made to the Directorship of the School and to the newly established Peter Moores Professorship of Management Studies ( the holder of which will also be the first Academic Director of the School ) , and arrangements are being made to fill a Readership in Management Studies ( the holder of which will also be the first MBA Director ) . |
| 13 | As we might expect , nationalism today reflects something like the crisis of the old Wilsonian-Leninist ideology and programme , which is due to its political failure and to the sharply diminished relevance of ‘ nation ’ and ‘ nation-state ’ to the political and economic structure of the globe . |
| 14 | It is unavoidable to begin by referring to Young and Willmott 's ( 1957 ) study of Bethnal Green , and to the much quoted chapter in which they itemize how mothers and daughters and sisters constantly seem to be doing each other 's shopping , drying each other 's washing and looking after each other 's children for the afternoon . |
| 15 | Even fewer can appreciate in advance the effect , not just of the structures , but of the constantly moving stresses of traffic on them . |
| 16 | It is a small step to suppose that such effects might also operate when a stimulus is presented in compound not with another that is physically present but with the associatively activated representation of such an event . |
| 17 | Last year 's Benson & Hedges winners Lancashire , without the mercurial Akram , on tour with the Pakistanis , but with the ever improving DeFreitas will have their supporters keen to take the 8–1 on offer with Coomes and Dennis. , Hampshire , now able to welcome Malcolm Marshall back and as vice-captain , have the combined batting and bowling talent to make any opposition shudder . |
| 18 | But in the brightly lit dining-room the map looked very unusual indeed . |
| 19 | In fact both sides ( at different times ) gave out conciliatory signals , but in the highly charged atmosphere between the two countries each chose to concentrate on the hostile signs and ignore any others . |
| 20 | Among book ephemera I must also spare a paragraph for the modest bookmark , much neglected and too little chronicled.2 I do not , of course , refer to improvised examples such as scraps of brown paper and bacon rinds , but to the commercially produced strips of silk , paper and card , some of them elaborately lettered and decorated , deckled , frilled , tassled and ribboned . |