Example sentences of "and [vb past] [noun prp] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With this announcement the powers which had occupied and divided Germany after the Second World War effectively accepted the inevitability of early German unification , although the statement contained no indication of the four powers ' preferred timetables for unification or for the two-plus-four negotiations . |
| 2 | To have released Meehan from seven years of wrongful imprisonment , recommended a free pardon for him , and then to have arrested and charged Waddell for the same crime would have required a greater degree of resolution than either of them possessed . |
| 3 | She went out and found Jack at the nursing station with Jake Hunter , the obs and gynae senior registrar . |
| 4 | Dr Neil discarded the towel , throwing it into a packing-case , checked that his patient was not needing immediate attention , and drew McAllister into the far corner of the room where their conversation could not be overheard . |
| 5 | They will also be showered with gifts like top-of-the-range Mercedes cars and luxury apartments if they can spring a World Cup upset and beat England for the first time . |
| 6 | The latter option is the more likely to produce a stable , peaceful and united Ireland in the long-term . |
| 7 | In time to come , will someone else walk these halls and remember the Wolfqueen who lived here for a time , but who brought the Cruithin out of hiding , and drove Medoc from the Bright Palace ? |
| 8 | During the ensuing twenty years his energetic and far-sighted management brought great prosperity and turned Pickfords into the largest carrying business in the country . |
| 9 | I left him to muse on my brilliance and joined Rex in the quiet corner , where the brat was holding court . |
| 10 | Bridget winked at Loretta and followed Geoffrey into the other room . |
| 11 | I nodded , told Emil I 'd be back , and followed Zak down the Great Hall and round a comer or two and came to a buzzing gathering of people in an area like an airport departure lounge . |
| 12 | ‘ No need , ’ replied the DDI as he took a seat and waved Coy to the opposite side of the table . |
| 13 | He went to the gap in the hedge and saw Gary at the far end of the kitchen garden . |
| 14 | She smoothed a weary hand across her eyes and then looked up and saw Luke over the far side of the room , gazing at her with impenetrable eyes . |
| 15 | After his release and recovery he joined a United Nations medical programme for Third World nations , and reached Celebes in the early 1950s as part of a team of sixteen other doctors and nurses . |
| 16 | This theology thus drew an outer and an inner circle , and located Christ in the inner one : the outer circle of sin and judgement stood quite independently of him . |
| 17 | The central committee took the view , however , that there could not be a ‘ party within a party ’ and they made preparations to expel members of the DPKR and removed Rutskoi from the Central Committee . |
| 18 | Daniel became free of the Haberdashers ' Company in 1632 , and apprenticed Samuel to the same trade in 1634 . |
| 19 | Home-bred by Derby winning owner Khalid Abdullah , Tremolando made virtually all the running to come home ten lengths clear of Graegos and put Eddery on the 55 mark . |
| 20 | I entirely agree with my hon. and learned Friend about the civil liberties issue . |
| 21 | Milton tried hard in those last few minutes and forced Bicester on the defensive , but they failed to break down and Bicester won two nil in this very very entertaining cup match . |
| 22 | He refused to comply and left Oxford after the first year to join the Guardian where he remained for seven years before taking up a post as an investigative journalist with a left-wing French newspaper . |
| 23 | The result dashed England 's hopes of winning the Triple Crown and left France as the Five Nations champions . |
| 24 | One can imagine that if Xerxes had been successful and absorbed Greece into the Persian empire , Greek archaic art might have crystallised in the decorative academic formulae which characterise Achaemenian ; while the threat and its repulse can be seen as the catalyst which released the spirit of Hellenism , flowering in the fifth century as richly in literature and thought as in the visual arts . |
| 25 | Denholm was surrounded by an almost palpable aura of aristocratic exhaustion that had disturbed and irritated Talbot in the early stage of their acquaintanceship , a feeling that had lasted for no more than half an hour . |
| 26 | Smiling wryly , he fetched the lead and yanked Clytemnestra from the best armchair . |