Example sentences of "and [noun] [prep] [verb] [pron] the " in BNC.

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1 ‘ I know it sounds bizarre to say that when someone has made an awful lot of money and had a lot of fame and adulation , but you can wreck their minds , you can wreck their self-ego and esteem by giving them the whole wrong picture of themselves by pretending they are good at one thing when they are not and boosting other things .
2 Eighteen months previously President Kennedy had ordered the withdrawal of the American missiles in Turkey but eighteen months later those missiles were still there and when Kennedy was presented with this bargain , bargaining counter by Khrushchev he sort of shouted at his chiefs of staff and secretary of defence and anyone else he could shout at and sort of said what the hell are those missiles still doing in Turkey , I told you eighteen months ago for God 's sake get rid of them !
3 We chose to tackle the walk from north to south , not least because the route passes our home in the south — though the excellent official guide provides duplicate maps and instructions for waling it the other way .
4 Thank you President and Congress for granting me the honour to report back on behalf of the ten G M B Members in the European Parliament .
5 A very famous Yoga teacher from India came to England and , after observing many Yoga classes , asked the instructor why it was that he did not first teach his students to sit , stand and walk with balance and coordination before teaching them the more complicated postures .
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