Example sentences of "and [adv] [vb base] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A truly political art , he realised , would not content itself with the message alone ; it would it had to engage the viewer in a questioning of the nature of the institutions and the pressures they exert , and thereby subject them to the necessary critique . |
| 2 | ( 8 ) Finally the farmer asked his dog to bark loudly at the donkey ( 10 ) and thereby frighten him into the shed . |
| 3 | We wanted to avoid all the delays that creep in if we hack them by hi-speed Busby post to Dover , put them on board a ponderous Sealink ferry and eventually consign them to the decidedly risky hands of some unknown foreign postman in the forlorn hope that they-might , with luck and a following wind , reach the Antipodes before the turn of the century . |
| 4 | In the Commons , Mr Kinnock accused Mrs Thatcher of ‘ defending the indefensible ’ by ‘ giving instructions that in the middle of the night armed riot police raid children , women and men , shove them into cages and forcibly deport them to the country from which they fled ’ . |
| 5 | ‘ What excuse , ’ he asked Mrs Thatcher , ‘ have you got for giving instructions that in the middle of the night , armed riot police raid children , women and men , shove them into caged lorries and forcibly deport them to the country from which they fled ? ’ |
| 6 | ‘ What excuse has she got for giving instructions that , in the middle of the night , armed riot police raid children , women and men , shove them into caged lorries and forcibly deport them to the country from which they fled ? |
| 7 | When a large debt issue is undertaken , the Bank will underwrite a large proportion of the issue and slowly sell them to the market over a period of time to avoid excess supply of government debt . |
| 8 | ‘ Marxism ’ , on the other hand , Sartre claims , ‘ is History itself becoming conscious of itself ’ ( I , 40 ) : as for Lukács , it is by becoming conscious of itself as the subject of history that the working class will understand history 's meaning — and so recognize itself as the meaning of history . |
| 9 | You messed up their surveillance , you beat up their agents , you went in for exactly the same unauthorised adventurism as they had — and so let them off the hook . |
| 10 | So how we 're going to actually interpret that and er act on that here in Manchester and we set out our against er er to achieve that on the simple basis of quality and you 've heard enough about quality over the last two years to not be too surprised that that 's what we 've said was going to give us the cutting edge and perhaps put us in the leading position here in Manchester . |
| 11 | Fleury was not sure that his own teeth were very sound either so they decided that the best thing to do was to suck the cakes and perhaps dip them in the tea to soften them . |
| 12 | ‘ It was quite usual for me to take on this sort of job but it was n't usual for him to make an appointment for me and only tell me at the last minute , especially when it meant working after hours . |
| 13 | ‘ Just cruising down the street , see one you fancy and literally pick her off the sidewalk — wallop , in the back of the truck . ’ |
| 14 | In the end the man became so nervous that I had to hold his arm and literally steer him through the crowd to the right spot . |
| 15 | If we wish , we can establish one melody for the first verse and merely repeat it in the others , possibly varying some factor such as accompaniment , volume , colour , etc . |
| 16 | Despite some evidence to the contrary of Third World women in EOZs organizing fierce resistance to exploitation , of a sexual as well as a general nature , the overwhelming weight of evidence SuppOns the view that most women workers in EOZs , while not necessarily enthralled by their jobs , are glad to have them and much prefer them to the alternatives on offer . |
| 17 | For the remaining half-hour she would be pleasant to him , and then she would quietly and purposefully remind him of the time , and with gentle dignity insist that he take her home . |
| 18 | The Sweeper reached out a hand and gently put it on the front of Minch 's cage . |
| 19 | Allow to cool a little until the mixture is thick but still pours , then spoon onto the top of the cake and gently work it down the sides . |
| 20 | He was moved and promising miracles , the recovery of things lost , the wholeness and holiness of things profaned ; but the faith she had professed was perhaps no more than a conviction that the star of the Prince of Aberffraw would not fail him , and that God would humour him and not cheat him of the fulfilment of his vow . |
| 21 | This would still be so even if Members of Parliament were persuaded to settle issues with Health Authorities and not raise them in the House of Commons when dissatisfied . |
| 22 | Theologically , if we are going to accept cremation at all ( given our belief in bodily resurrection ) should we not at least commit the ashes to a grave and not scatter them to the winds ? |
| 23 | In a democratic society , this means that the public needs to have a basic understanding of science , so that it can make informed decisions and not leave them in the hands of experts . |
| 24 | ‘ The onus is on line managers to develop the people who report to them and not leave it to the human resources professional , or anybody else . |
| 25 | However , it can be possible for the documents to be signed after you have sent a payment by cheque provided that you arrange for us to hold the cheque and not pay it into the bank until we have received the signed Deed of Covenant . |
| 26 | and it would also enable you to quickly and easily do something on the erm on the , on the private functions night to make it look different . |
| 27 | This Museum , with the help of the Museums and Galleries Commission/Science Museum Grant Fund , was able to purchase most of this collection and thus help it in the public domain . |
| 28 | The first was over the board 's decision to close the senior staff dining-room and require staff to eat in the staff canteen : Fred apparently thinks you initiated this policy , and resents the fact that he will no longer be able to produce a limited number of high-quality meals and thus ingratiate himself with the senior staff . |
| 29 | And just put it on the coffee table , but keep it away from those books . |
| 30 | Yeah well you go round with him and just tell her through the letter box , do n't say anything . |