Example sentences of "and [art] [noun] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Again , in a frenzied blur of storm-driven wind , ice-cold rain , glass and splintered wood , Cardiff was suddenly at that door now , tearing it open with one gloved hand while he pushed Jimmy and the girl through into the darkness . |
| 2 | She looked slyly at my master , just like Queen Margaret had , though she greeted us civilly enough , ordering servants to take our guide and the baggage off to the guest house while she entertained us with cups of wine , fresh-baked bread and huge bowls of hot spicy broth . |
| 3 | A Mr yesterday , he was just authorising the use of firearms and he said that was put into writing and we 've got that form but that only authorises the issue of firearms er the practicality , the authorising and the carrying out of the raid is n't covered by that document . |
| 4 | The Second World War was to bring about an intensification of the disillusionment with national and international politics that led Nasser to seek an alternative through the organisation if the Free Officer corps and the carrying out of the successful coup d'etat . |
| 5 | And lay off were the tunnel was going to go and the road up to the hill and lay off the power station and |
| 6 | In the old town by the harbour you find Piazza III Novembre , dominated by the 13th century Apponale Tower , and the cable-car up to the round Venetian watchtower which offers wonderful views . |
| 7 | Patrick had briefed him on the reasons for their sudden turnaround in Bucharest and the dash back to the Channel . |
| 8 | They put the bowl in the ale and the stem through between the bars — perhaps Snaith invented drinking straws . |
| 9 | The problem , in terms of the present discussion , is to explain how the evolution of the id and the ego up to the point at which hunting began could have resulted in its success and could have brought about the adaptive advance represented by self-reproducing hunting bands . |
| 10 | The chaos happened after workmen resurfaced a mile and a half stretch of the motorway north of junction 16 between Watford Gap and the turn off for the M-45 . |
| 11 | Er Madam Speaker , I I agree with er the honourable gentleman that it 's extremely important that the various agencies do play a part in working together to ensure effective action with minimum bureaucracy and I know that the honourable gentleman has been anxious to ensure that that happens in his own constituency and his own area where he is dealing with the problems of high unemployment er and the fall out from the closures of pits in his area and if the honourable gentleman has any specific er er measures which he would like us to look at then I 'd be very happy to consider those . |
| 12 | Mairi Ban would grudge them a bowl of oatmeal sowens , and then tell Ranald to see to the pig , and the sheep up on the grazing land . |
| 13 | Only with the repeal of these measures , the abolition of all laws based upon precepts of ‘ obscenity ’ and ‘ indecency ’ , and the opening up of the narrow , prescriptive sexual teachings insisted upon by the moralists , can we get on and live our lives , talk about our desires and argue about them without feeling ashamed or guilty . |
| 14 | A faction of the ruling Blanco Party remained opposed to the privatization of state companies and the opening up of the economy , as did the increasingly powerful left-wing FA and the trade unions belonging to the Plenario Intersindical de Trabajadores-Convenció Nacional de Trabajadores ( PIT-CNT ) which called a total of seven general strikes in 1990 . |
| 15 | ‘ It 's what we — they — in the City call the Channel Tunnel and the opening up of the full Common Market in Europe in 1992 and ‘ 93 . |
| 16 | Officials already say they are willing to discuss more flexible ways of operating the ERM , in order to bring sterling and the lira back into the fold . |
| 17 | I heard Mr Loveitt say summat like it with his own lips , and the landlord down at the Seven Stars . ’ |
| 18 | I put the sheet back in the folder and the folder back on the other rear seat . |
| 19 | erm well no actually that 's It 's not the line on the green dots because that 's a er er an older plan , but is in fact it 's shown better on the er the aerial photograph where you can see the the currently preferred or the preferred route for the northern outer northern route , er and the link up to the A sixty one to the north . |
| 20 | Sue is ju and the pots back in the |
| 21 | They were everywhere , and the pots out on the side as well . |
| 22 | In some cases , the collapse of Roman technology , and the economic structure which supported it , marks a clear break between what went before and the developments through to the present day . |
| 23 | They are Alexander the Great ; the Silver Shields ( a Macedonian corps d'élite of the early hellenistic period ) ; and the Spartans up to the date of their defeat at the hands of the Thebans at Leuktra in 371 . |
| 24 | This time place both your whole forearms horizontally across the back and slide them slowly , yet firmly , apart , one up the back to the top of the shoulders and the other down to the top of the buttocks ; use a fair amount of pressure ( see Fig. 10 ) . |
| 25 | No initial peak was seen in costs in the under 5s and the increase up to the 75–84 age group was more gradual . |
| 26 | The glorious ‘ saturated ’ sound of the VPO strings is strangely attenuated , and the build up to the last climax ( around 16′40″ ) is an unconvincingly brazen affair with too much from the timps and cymbals and not quite enough heart . |
| 27 | On the morrow of Marshal Ogarkov 's removal as Chief of the General Staff , Western press comment included speculation that his policy stance had come to obstruct the reassessment of arms control and East-West policy sought by the leadership ; according to one respected newspaper , senior Western military attachés in Moscow were tipped by Soviet army officers that the Kremlin blamed Ogarkov for the disasters of the SS-20 deployment and the shooting down of the Korean airliner off Sakhalin Island . |
| 28 | And the police up on the railway embankment when they walked home from school , and the tunnel fenced off so they had to go the long way round . |
| 29 | She pulls over on to the hard shoulder , gets out , opens the boot , gets out the spare tyre and the jack , jacks up the car , takes off the old wheel , puts on the new one , lets the jack down , puts it and the wheel back in the boot , closes it , gets back in the car and drives on , knowing that she will be fifteen minutes late . |
| 30 | At present , another member commented , " we have been driving with the accelerator full down and the brake on at the same time " . |