Example sentences of "and [vb pp] [verb] [noun sg] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 Now , at Pac Bo , under Ho 's chairmanship , the Party cleared its ideological decks and prepared to take advantage of the even more extraordinary opportunities that would be presented to it by the Second World War .
2 A British Broadcasting Corporation ( BBC ) television programme , Panorama , broadcast on Nov. 18 , suggested that Waite had been set up as a front man in the arms for hostages deal and helped gather intelligence on the whereabouts of the captors .
3 The results are analysed and used to improve training for the next batch of recruits .
4 He tried to think back to the first Mystery he had seen , but he could only remember ‘ Eve ’ as that unshaven , white-skinned man who had left them outside the lock-up in Greathaven and gone to find work on the boats .
5 Yet they were tricked out of lands by Daniel Boone and others and forced to take part in the ‘ Trail of Tears ’ , the enforced march from Kentucky and Tennessee to northern Oklahoma , during which 4,000 out of 16,000 Cherokees died .
6 Hair was then set on rollers and dressed to achieve height on the crown and pieces were brought down for added softness .
7 Then he threw the paper in the dustbin and planned to stage discovery of the knife later .
8 He was of course not the only one : the idea of a nation roused to righteous anger and determined to crush Nazism in the most resolute manner , applied — and then chiefly because of the fire and resolution of one man , Churchill — not to that period but to a year later .
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