Example sentences of "and [vb pp] [prep] the [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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1 | As the dragoons beside the cannon prepared to advance , the Highlanders dashed forward and slashed at the horses ' noses , which sent the unfortunate animals , maddened with pain , into headlong retreat , scattering the supporting line behind them . |
2 | They went along with populist solutions to problems that if not actually created by the Nazis , had certainly been worked on and exaggerated to the Nazis ' own advantage . |
3 | The defendant , who had been committed for trial to the Crown Court on bail , was arrested for breach of a condition of his bail and brought before the magistrates ' court pursuant to section 7(4) of the Bail Act 1976 . |
4 | Next morning , Sunday 13 November 1715 , General Carpenter reached Preston with three regiments of dragoons and blocked off the rebels ' only escape route , towards Liverpool . |
5 | Next night the mice came again , and gnawed through the soldiers ' belts and sword-straps , so they had no means of keeping their swords and their breeches on . |
6 | The effectiveness of metaphors of the type in which inanimates are treated as animate is shown in passages of narratorial description where they are deployed in a fully developed form , for example in a lengthy passage where the pre-Copernican view of the universe ( which still pervades the English language ) is exploited and combined with the peoples ' perception of animacy in all things : " The moon rose slowly and almost vertically into a sky where there was nothing but a few spilled traces of cloud . |