Example sentences of "and [verb] [prep] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rose never interested in clothes before , tried the lot on and beamed at herself in the long mirror . |
| 2 | Dynamics of survival within the NMGC must be related to the role which the organisation has defined and redefined for itself in the light of a changing understanding of marital problems over time and in relation to the work of other agencies . |
| 3 | Within a mere three weeks the Smolensk Party authorities also required all uezd executive committees to collate , check , and comment to them on the minutes of every single peasant meeting on mutual aid . |
| 4 | ‘ I shall convince the parents to let me come and stay with you in the holidays , ’ Antonia had promised . |
| 5 | When Rodie heard of what happened , she went up to Sam 's room and comforted him enough to bring him downstairs and sit with them on the terrace . |
| 6 | And then I used to get on to the dray and sit beside him on the box and then we 'd go as far as Road , which is quite a stretch and I used o walk back . |
| 7 | Rachel kneels behind me whispering in my ear , ‘ You never told me about Jancey ’ and I tell her she 's just the woman next door and Rachel says , ‘ Oh yeah ? ’ and I push her onto her back and sit astride her in the dark . |
| 8 | The chief preoccupation of Methuen 's later years , apart from his painting , and one for which he denied himself many luxuries , was the restoration , maintenance , and improvement of Corsham Court , the family seat , and of the collection of pictures which hung in the magnificent gallery built and furnished for them in the 1760s . |
| 9 | We welcome that and will do all we can to sustain and build on it in the future . |
| 10 | Sir Henry agreed to help in this way , and to go by himself to the Stapletons that evening . |
| 11 | No and like they 're , like Mr was like taking the piss yeah right , everyone was clapping and cheering about something in the class , yeah , and Mr opens the Mr opens the door and goes stop that clapping , and shuts the door . |
| 12 | The face loomed up out of the darkness and leered at her through the rain-soaked glass . |
| 13 | ‘ Serendipitous , eh ? ’ he said , and leered at me through the artificial gloom , his rubber lips curling up . |
| 14 | And of course , Bullitt had directly observed the man and interacted with him during the critical time at , at the Versailles conference . |
| 15 | Only I would have probably braked , changed down ended up in second and crept past it on the inside and then speeded up again . |
| 16 | Children may enjoy spreading out a large selection of junk materials on the floor , and exploring and experimenting with them with the teacher 's active participation and help . |
| 17 | They used to be in the garden here , but Her Majesty doesnae care for them so they were thrown out on the rubbish heap , but the rubbish heap was by the river so the seeds were carried down by the water and sprouted by themselves on the bank . |
| 18 | And the thing growled and howled to itself in the centre of its blind struggle . |
| 19 | They 'd danced to Michael 's band and her glossy pink trousers flashed and moved in the dimmed lights , and he had felt elated and mildly drunk , and had lost most of the inhibitions he 'd had about dancing , until it became clear to his confused brain that the drummer , who had soft dark hair and was probably a potential Celtic supporter , was getting on so well with Amanda that perhaps they should move on elsewhere , and he swayed out of the room , pushing her in front of him , and bumped into someone at the door , and had realised it was the man in the raincoat , only he was in a dark suit and a tie with geometric designs . |
| 20 | Two days sitting in the plane and fifty bourbons later I had this young born-again advocate holding my hand and praying for me at the top of his voice . |
| 21 | The figure of Mercy points to the nature of the redemptive process : Later still , Julian of Norwich , whose mystical experience arose out of meditation on the Passion , defined her sense of a dynamic power of divine love working to process the effects of sin as the work of Christ : " and there is in him bleding and praying for us to the Father — and is and shall be as long as it nedith " . |
| 22 | She kicked out at him as he covered her body with his but he held her tight and rolled with her into the protection of the trees . |
| 23 | He will be long remembered , valued and respected by me for the development of a movement which firmly established " People 's Art " as part of the expectation of education for each person and especially for children . |
| 24 | Then , gradually , her ideas would come together until , sitting on a stretch of grass and stabbing at it with the end of her parasol , she would repeat to herself , ‘ Oh God , why did I get married ? ’ ’ |
| 25 | And thins to nothing but the wish I made |
| 26 | Will my hon. Friend the Minister bear it in mind that many of the frauds that have come to the attention of our regulating authorities were first discovered and reported to them by the American SEC ? |
| 27 | He drinks from his can and looks at me over the top of it . |
| 28 | She smoothes the dress out against her front and looks at it in the mirror . |
| 29 | In a classroom it can give you the students ' view of the teacher , it can give you the teacher 's view of the students or it can be an observer which sits at the side of the class and looks from one to the other . |
| 30 | He constructed his own refined version of the newly-invented telescope and peered through it from the top of St Mark 's tower in Venice . |