Example sentences of "and [verb] [noun] [adv] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These changes would drive savings overseas and make wealth again the prerogative of the few . |
| 2 | This will be achieved by abolishing the court warning against uncorroborated evidence , widening the definition of rape within marriage , and using video-links so the accuser need not face the accused , an attack on the fundamental principles of jurisprudence . |
| 3 | As to section 39(11) Mr. Langley relied on the decision of the Court of Appeal ( Dillon and Ralph Gibson L.JJ. ) in Bank of England v. Riley [ 1992 ] 2 W.L.R. 840 where the question was whether the defendant was entitled to refuse to answer interrogatories or disclose documents in reliance upon the privilege against self-incrimination , or whether that privilege was excluded by section 42 of the Act which entitles the Bank of England , inter alia , to require a person to attend and answer questions where the Bank has reasonable grounds for suspecting that a person is guilty of contravening various sections of the Act . |
| 4 | And there is , of course , another and clinching reason why the choice was apparent rather than real . |
| 5 | Later that afternoon , Branson telephoned Clark 's wife , pretending to be the managing director of the company to which Clark was going , and talked gibberish down the telephone . |
| 6 | Useful points to look for are cord/cordless functions and travel cases so the shaver can be charged up and used while travelling . |
| 7 | Aggravated sexual assault , which is the most serious offence of the three , carries a maximum of life imprisonment and takes place where the defendant , in committing a sexual assault , wounds , maims , disfigures or endangers the life of the complainant . |
| 8 | And then on 10 April 1544 came Henry 's chilling order to his brother-in-law Edward , earl of Hertford , to put all to fire and sword , burn Edinburgh town , so razed and defaced when you have sacked and gotten what ye can of it , as there may remain forever a perpetual memory of the vengeance of God lightened upon ( them ) for their falsehood and disloyalty … and as many towns and villages about Edinburgh as ye may conveniently , sack Leith and burn and subvert it and all the rest , putting man , woman and child to fire and sword , without exception where any resistance shall be made against you ; and this done , pass over to the Fifeland and extend like extremities and destructions in all towns and villages whereunto you may reach conveniently , not forgetting among all the rest so to spoil and turn upside down the Cardinal 's town of St Andrews , as the upper stone may be the nether , and not one stick stand by another , sparing no creature alive within the same … |
| 9 | For Pound undoubtedly made the poem more obscure by asking for the excision of some transitional and bridging passages where the language was not at full pressure , but on the other hand he caused to be removed some extended sections which , being plainly extraneous , could only have added to readers ' bafflement . |