Example sentences of "and [verb] [pron] [noun pl] of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Forty-six years on , John Edelnand , now living in Luton , revisited Gwrych Castle and the neighbouring village of Abergele and found his memories of the local people still clear : |
| 2 | The young men holding office were still tactful , and even complicity helped people to avoid saying the wrong things ; but they spoke with the authority of government , and informed their elders of the facts of cases and the truths of matters . |
| 3 | He wants me in a purple gown to match the set and shows me drawings of the dancers ' outfits . |
| 4 | If we take sentences without contexts and devise interpretations for them on the basis of the mutual compatibility or otherwise of the type-meaning of the words in them , we are putting ourselves under constraints which have nothing to do with syntax ; by thus restricting and deforming our appreciations of the structure we prevent ourselves seeing what the effect of the syntax , qua syntax , is . |
| 5 | Because she had been aggressive again , she pulled out her wallet and showed him photographs of the children . |
| 6 | The denial mechanisms will distort relationships and dealings with the client , and warp our perceptions of the whole situation . |
| 7 | It is theoretically possible in each case to work out the maximum sustainable yield , and to determine which classes of the animal — superfluous young ones , superfluous males , old ones — can safely be caught without damaging the stocks . |
| 8 | They talked of the market and the fair , and then , Emily having noticed and praised his drawings of the swans , Mr Stephens held forth about his hobby . |
| 9 | After being so intimately associated with Christ and hearing his parables of the Kingdom and private commentary interpreting those stories , his disciples still expected the Kingdom to come in the material and nationalistic terms of the Old Testament ( Acts 1:6 ) . |
| 10 | He began to whistle , and taking his hands of the handlebars he negotiated the last half mile home without touching them again . |
| 11 | And yet , despite the extremely personal aspect of so much Cubist painting , the movement remained free from introspection , and the painters continued to view and record their ideas of the material world of their immediate experience in a detached and objective way . |
| 12 | ( d ) The massive body of historical research that has gone on throughout this century has gradually discovered new sources of information and refined our views of the early modern period , in all probability bringing them closer to the objective truth . |
| 13 | The children draw and paint their representations of the giant — several show the giant beside trees , some next to buildings , one remarkable painting has Herbert with his head in the clouds ! |
| 14 | Elected in 1841 to the first legislative assembly of Upper and Lower Canada as an independent representing Huron , he served five years before resigning in 1846 to become superintendent of the Lachine canal and publish his Recollections of the American War , 1812–1814 . |
| 15 | When Pilate realised that a riot was a distinct possibility , he literally took water and washed his hands of the affair with the words : |