Example sentences of "and [adv] [vb past] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reality was that the growth of corporate enterprise shattered three of the assumptions which underlay the belief that economic power of the company was regulated and thereby legitimated by the competitive market . |
| 2 | There was a red light up , and he was stopped by a policeman as he reached the opposite pavement and duly asked for the appropriate number of marks . |
| 3 | Thrilled with the sight of the hot coffee , Mother took a paper cup and gingerly walked towards the darkened screening room . |
| 4 | Hun Sen initially refused to attend unless Sihanouk did , and only relented at the last moment . |
| 5 | The Queen disliked the service , which was hidden away and only re-emerged in the early 1980s when included in a Dutch television programme on royal gifts . |
| 6 | As McFarlane so aptly and untruthfully said of the Saudi contribution , ‘ the concrete character of that is beyond my ken . ’ |
| 7 | But the enormous changes in the social life and industrial occupations of the vast majority of our people , changes begun in the sixteenth century and greatly accentuated by the so-called Industrial Revolution , have created a gulf between the world of poetry and that world of everyday life from which we receive our " habitual impressions " . |
| 8 | They stood on the porch steps and eagerly drank in the invigorating cold air . |
| 9 | Now , if she were seated in her old place , wedged between the window and Penini , with his mother opposite encircled in her husband 's arms , or , if the men rode alongside or travelled on the outside of the carriage , sitting with her mistress while Pen and Flush lay on the other seat — now she would feel stifled , trapped , longing to get out . |
| 10 | In 1566 it was still incomplete and easily fell to the French corsairs who attacked Funchal in that year . |
| 11 | Amal and its allies had also performed strongly in east Lebanon and Beirut ( with Amal 's former Shia rival Hezbollah winning eight seats in all ) , and thus emerged with the largest bloc of deputies in the new 128-member National Assembly . |
| 12 | I chose my family , and just waited for the big boys to come up to the Birkdale area . |
| 13 | He fumbled for and finally pounced on the right word , ‘ Of torihada in my legs . ’ |
| 14 | Therefore , if the origin of the phenomenon is as recent as the late eighteenth century , it is difficult to explain how it could have become so geographically widespread in so short a time : it was already highly salient and overtly stigmatized by the latter half of the nineteenth century ( for some citations see Phillipps , 1984 , 136–9 ) . |
| 15 | Her fingers felt the warmth of his skin through the silk of the shirt and innocently lingered over the heavy beat of his heart . |
| 16 | Meanwhile the patient , who has not been named , was making a rapid recovery and yesterday walked for the first time since the operation . |
| 17 | Such ‘ consort songs ’ began to proliferate during the second half of the century and still flourished during the first decade of the next ; the viol parts soon became more animated as in the masterly hands of William Byrd whose Psalmes , Sonets , and songs of sadnes and pietie ( 1588 ) were ‘ originally made for Instruments to expresse the harmonie , and one voyce to pronounce the dittie [ text ] ’ , though he now published them ‘ framed in all parts for voyces to sing the same ’ . |
| 18 | Gastric pits become progressively deeper and more convoluted from the proximal cardia to the distal pyloric region . |
| 19 | Women themselves are more and more socialized into the male interpretation of these female blood mysteries . |
| 20 | Now , he picked up Faye 's chart and quickly took in the plotted lines on a graph that were her blood-pressure and blood glucose measurements . |
| 21 | That breakdown was reflected in the art of the period , which — as in Francis Bacon — partly protested and partly rejoiced in the excremental quality of the age . |
| 22 | Earlier this year he won the Kronenbourg Open in Italy and the Heineken Open in Barcelona , both European Tour events , and also carried off the Scottish championship . |
| 23 | MOTORHEAD : ‘ Hellraiser ’ Lemmy splits a track from the recent ‘ March Or Die ’ LP , co-written with Ozzy Osbourne and also featured in the forthcoming Hellraiser 3 — Hell On Earth soundtrack |
| 24 | The hostel staff advised us about the best areas for walking , and also arranged for the essential guide , to keep us on the right path and to protect us from the buffalo . |
| 25 | Andy Culshaw , the other trumpeter , studied at the Birmingham School of Music , while tubist Richard Sandland hails from Tamworth and also studied at the Royal College of Music . |
| 26 | One significant consequence of the Milan Congress , and also recommended in the Royal Commission 's report , was the rapid growth of day classes for deaf children in urban areas large enough to support such classes . |
| 27 | Mr R. Melbourne of Loughborough wins our first £25 award by asking you for a list of those clubs who have won the old First Division title and also played in the Fourth Division . |
| 28 | The finding that TNF-α , by contrast with IL-1Β , IL-2 , and GM-CSF , was seen in increased concentrations in colonic-rectal perfusion fluid from patients with ulcerative colitis and also correlated with the increased IL-8 release supports the idea that TNF-α is one possible mediator of enhanced IL-8 synthesis in the inflamed mucosa . |
| 29 | She performed with fellow West Londoners the Mighty Ethnicz on the recent Ice T tour and also appeared on the last Mantronix video . |
| 30 | The ensuing tension between popular and legal norms concerning a married daughter 's rights was an important cause of land disputes , and also contributed towards the increased fragmentation of shares . |