Example sentences of "and [vb -s] [verb] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He thinks he 's Apollo and goes ravishing all over the place , all the girls are after him , his wife 's not very pleased . |
| 2 | The situation in Powys reflects that in Wales as a whole and has contributed especially to the threat to upland broadleaved woodlands but also to the losses of heather moor , rough grassland and to the degradation of species-rich pastures . |
| 3 | This report has therefore left until the end the question of the degree to which the ESSE/L Project has achieved the targets it has set itself , and has roamed widely across the experiences of those involved both directly and indirectly with the project . |
| 4 | The detection rate is well down and has fallen steadily in the past four years — the detection rate for burglary in dwellings is now less than 20 per cent . |
| 5 | For Charlie is one of Scotland 's best known pipers and has travelled all over the world with the Black Watch to play at social and diplomatic functions . |
| 6 | It has been self-consciously policy-oriented and has fed directly into the political debate with a series of prescriptions which involve cutting back the activities of the state and changing the nature of democracy in Britain . |
| 7 | He did well for the likes of Cammell Laird and other plant closures , and has done well for the people at Rock Ferry . ’ |
| 8 | Solvent can kill and has done so in the past . ’ |
| 9 | He walked barefoot to three shrines , and he returned shriven , and has done more for the church than any King of Alba before him . |
| 10 | For the past sixteen years , he has lived and worked in New York and has battled daily with the American inability to understand the strange words and peculiar constructions which lace and buckle his Wexford brogue . |
| 11 | The Audit Commission was established in 1982 to address this issue and has campaigned vigorously for the introduction of performance review considering this an appropriate response to many of the problems perceived to be afflicting local authorities . |
| 12 | The design and build group , established in 1988 , specialises in healthcare developments and has grown quickly in the past four years . |
| 13 | Corgi is trying a new approach and has broken away from the single figure on the cover , giving this one an old master oil painting reproduction which makes it more sophisticated . |
| 14 | Dr Breeze is an international authority on Roman archaeology and has published extensively on the subject . |
| 15 | He has had to find an alternative group in Europe which will be able to hold its own against the formidable record of Eliot Gardiner 's English Baroque Soloists , and has chosen well with the Hungarian ‘ authentic ’ orchestra Capella Savaria . |
| 16 | In the case of one interactional variable , the agreement-marking " you know what I mean " , it seems fairly certain that this originated in the Caribbean community and has spread outwards to the wider community of LE speakers . |
| 17 | Virginia Rushton the soprano will be accompanied on piano by Elizabeth Bicker who , is well known throughout Ireland and has performed widely in the U.K. including in Sir Harry Secombe 's ‘ Highway ’ programme . |
| 18 | It has been noted above that while the accepted Turkish tradition has rejected the Muftilik of Molla Yegan and has passed straight from the Muftilik of Molla Fenari to that of Fahreddin Acemi , there is evidence , part of which is the source chiefly used in formulating the Turkish tradition , to show that Molla Yegan did succeed Molla Fenari in his office of Mufti . |
| 19 | Now an education and training consultant , Dr. Strongitharm has made a substantial contribution to building education and has worked tirelessly for the Institute for almost 30 years . |
| 20 | The report also found that the Church can appear unfriendly to outsiders , and needs to teach more about the basics of the Christian faith . |
| 21 | It has provided excellent service in the past , and wishes to do so in the future . |
| 22 | To put it slightly differently , it is important to understand that the poverty of the Third World and the wealth of the West are the outcome of an interlinked process in which the rapid and massive growth in Western prosperity has occurred and continues to do so at the expense and underdevelopment of the Third World . |
| 23 | And still , after Crime and Punishment , the idea of a confession novel or story tugs at the edge of Dostoevsky 's vision , and continues to do so for the rest of his life in the form of The Life of a Great Sinner which he planned on the scale of War and Peace , but which never got written though it fed previous material into his novels of the seventies , and especially Karamazov at the turn of the next decade . |
| 24 | Internal histological changes , comparable to those occurring in exopterygotes , take place during the prepupal period and the wing-rudiment becomes pushed out of its pocket and comes to lie just beneath the cuticle . |