Example sentences of "and [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | She took off everything that could identify her , and stowed it in the bottom layer of her jewellery box . |
| 32 | And at once , two more leapt forward and scooped up the bleeding lumps of flesh and bone and flung them into the open furnaces . |
| 33 | With that he snatched up the bottle and flung it through the open window into the yard . |
| 34 | Here , he introduced into New Testament criticism the idea of ‘ myth ’ , and applied it to the supernatural elements in the gospels . |
| 35 | His political ideals included the concept of arbitration as a substitute for war in the settlement of national disputes , and involved him in the jingoistic disputes of 1877 . |
| 36 | By the latter half of the century , the majority of books on child care — which were enjoying a tremendous popularity — strongly recommended breast-feeding and described it as the normal practice ( Fildes 1980 ) . |
| 37 | Again he made an early break and sustained it throughout the four-lap race . |
| 38 | President Arpad Göncz , himself imprisoned for six years for joining the 1956 uprising , had refused to sign the bill and referred it to the Constitutional Court , whose unanimous ruling described the law as " vague , ambiguous and unreliable " . |
| 39 | I needed to come up with a solution which avoided this overly defined focal point and used it at the same time . |
| 40 | He felt for Thomas 's hand and wrung it in the momentary blindness after the torch was quenched against the rock . |
| 41 | The sixteenth-century writers who condemned depopulation looked for a depopulator , and found him in the enclosing landlord , who found that stock , -rearing was more profitable than corn-growing . |
| 42 | He won East Bristol in 1900 and retained it in the general elections of 1906 and 1910 . |
| 43 | ‘ I 'll bring her , ’ said Caspar , and sat back and regarded them with the plump pleasure of a person who has reached a final decision . |
| 44 | The Junkers tolerated the troublesome middle classes only because they guaranteed the Junkers their place in German society ; the middle classes looked up to the Junker traditional leadership , and regarded them as the German image of itself . |
| 45 | Then , when he sought to take the oath , the House itself refused and excluded him on the dubious ground that , being an atheist , he could not swear . |
| 46 | Mitchell 's pass found Wright , who slipped but regained possession of the ball and squared it to the far post , where McGinlay was lying in wait to beat Nelson from inside the six-yard box . |
| 47 | Things that filled her with joy and drew her into the everyday lives of the two people she had loved for so many lonely years . |
| 48 | Instead of joining the press of bodies that jammed up the aisle towards the crush bar , he took my arm once again and drew me in the opposite direction . |
| 49 | They bound Guthlac ‘ in all his limbs … and brought him to the black fen , and threw and sank him in the muddy waters ’ . |
| 50 | She lashed the class with scorn and ridicule and punished them for the nasty thoughts in her own mind . |
| 51 | She had been a major influence in my life , and helped me through the rough patches . |
| 52 | He threw the luggage into the boot of her hired car and helped her into the front seat . |
| 53 | Immediately the current caught the oil-drum and with Simon still clinging to it , whisked it off down to the Lock and crashed it into the wooden gates . |
| 54 | They were watching her intently , with a look that disconcerted her and excited her at the same time . |
| 55 | The feeling of numb unreality persisted and anaesthetised me through the arduous business of identifying the body and making the necessary arrangements . |
| 56 | In a typical drive in March 1990 , Penghu fishermen rounded up a mixed herd of 50 to 60 bottlenose dolphins and false killer whales ( Pseudorca ) , and drove them through the narrow channel into Shakang Harbour . |
| 57 | It was Karl Franz who led the charge of the Reiksguard at the battle of Norduin against the Bretonnians , where the Emperor 's personal valour finally broke the resistance of the Bretonnian flank guard and drove them from the narrow defile which they had defiantly held throughout the battle . |
| 58 | I took out my knife and drove it through the sleeping man 's heart ! |
| 59 | This he derisively referred to as ‘ sociologism ’ and distinguished it from the true activity of sociology , the study of social action . |
| 60 | He worked each through a transition training programme with the assigned aircraft and schooled them on the forthcoming filming . |