Example sentences of "and [verb] [adv prt] the [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was always a busy , tidy little girl , going around the house at night making sure all the curtains were drawn and tucking up the zoo of small furry animals which crowded her bed — she has kept them to this day . |
| 2 | A high and uncertain rate of inflation is disturbing because it reduces the efficiency of the market economy and slows down the process of economic growth . |
| 3 | Organised in regular gangs or teams on the model of seasonal harvesters , led by an elected captain who negotiated terms and shared out the proceeds of the contract , poor peasants from Italy , Croatia or Ireland would criss-cross continents or even oceans to provide labour for the builders of towns , factories or railways . |
| 4 | As silence fell , he snatched up the green telephone and stabbed out the number of the Internal Security department . |
| 5 | The strength of neo-elitism is best seen against the background of pluralism ; as a critique of pluralism it introduces the concept of non-decision-making and points up the failure of pluralist methods to define properly what is meant by the term ‘ key issues ’ . |
| 6 | He knows every corner and brick of the cathedral and points out the glories of the 11th-century ( Romanesque ) triforium with its later , inferior , 14th-century equivalent : ‘ You do see , do n't you ? ’ |
| 7 | Mr Cyril Stayley was the initial foreman of this shop and he established and laid out the system of repair . |
| 8 | A few notable articles discussed in the following chapters have taken this further and laid out the implications of successful conservation . |
| 9 | This segmentation of spheres of action and influence along the lines of gender difference is reflected in the radio programming in the novel . |
| 10 | Tang Shubei , spokesman for the State Council 's Taiwan Affairs Office , warned on Oct. 14 that if Taiwan independence activists " continue the move to split the nation and sell out the territory of the country , the Chinese government will not sit idly by " . |
| 11 | But , even though it discouraged optimism and ruled out the possibility of progress , it did not weigh too heavily on medieval historians , particularly because the year 1000 which had been awaited by many with a mixture of hope and trepidation , had passed without any sign of the world coming to an end . |
| 12 | We are glad that is able to be with us twice this season , and that has agreed to continue her regular music lessons for the early birds as well as taking a number of sessions. , and make up the rest of the team and we all look forward to working with you . |
| 13 | He could see the separate strands of spray thrown aside by the bows and make out the shadow of the helmsman in the wheelhouse . |
| 14 | Annie picked up her copy of the Workshop weekly newsletter and skimmed down the list of meetings , appeals for information , contacts , list of new women 's liberation publications . |
| 15 | And bringing up the end of the procession was a tribe of people whom she recognised at once as those who , like herself and Claud , had always had a little of everything and the God-given wit to use it right . |
| 16 | Think of India or the hippy trail to Kathmandu and pick up the hint of the free-wheeling late Sixties flower-power look . |
| 17 | Try and pick out the aspects of your background which make you especially suitable for the job you have applied for . |
| 18 | Already he was capable , it seemed , of making that impact on the stage which was , in record time , to put him at the top of his treacherous profession and bring on the applause of his finest contemporaries . |
| 19 | These would undoubtedly deter smaller corporations and bring down the incidence of corporate crime , particularly amongst the relatively smaller national-bound corporations , and even those larger corporations whose capital equipment is relatively fixed and who need the local more specialized work force . |
| 20 | The number of days lost through strikes is lower than at any time since 1979 , and people ought to know that Labour policies would sweep all that away and bring back the sort of industrial anarchy that existed in 1978-79 . |
| 21 | Shah 's victory opened the door to a brave new world in which the proprietors could , once more , manage the industry and bring about the sorts of changes which they had long desired . |
| 22 | I watched her do this and bring about the destruction of one of England 's greatest noblemen but that 's another story . |
| 23 | Edward VIII , the rise of Hitler , and World War Three which will last three years and seven months and bring about the end of the world . |
| 24 | So too his message of the coming kingdom can not be lifted out and carried over to the present : that message was refuted when Jesus himself attempted to provoke the intervention of God and bring about the end of history by challenging the powers and authorities of his own day . |
| 25 | When approached by a possible killer they hide their real heads and raise up the tips of their tails . |
| 26 | They squinted into the sun and made out the shape of a boat near the midstream . |
| 27 | Somehow the outside world had intruded and broken up the fabric of the tale . |
| 28 | A few swift strokes of the comb smoothed her bubbly curls into soft wings which lay neatly against her well-shaped head and feathered down the nape of her neck . |
| 29 | Excel boasts a graph creating wizard , which guides you through graph creation , and turns out the kind of thing you see in the screenshots . |
| 30 | It was said that ‘ When he prayed his soul took wing for heaven and wrapt up the souls of others with him . ’ |