Example sentences of "[noun prp] and [vb past] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Does my hon. Friend think that the Labour party was acting in the best interests of Britain and of our Baltic friends when , in 1969 , it did a deal with Brezhnev and handed over the Baltic gold ? |
| 2 | Artisoft Inc has journeyed to Palo Alto , California from its backwoods base in Tucson , Arizona and signed up the Wollongong Group in a bid to give Lantastic users access to the Unix world . |
| 3 | Benjamin spun on his heel , grabbed a torch from Sir John Santerre and walked down the nave , beckoning me to follow him . |
| 4 | We collected our horses , took leave of Santerre and galloped down the frozen , cobbled track as if Mandeville intended to waste no time in reaching Glastonbury before nightfall . |
| 5 | Together they rode across Hodge Beck and gathered up the flocks to look them over before the onset of winter . |
| 6 | Last summer HP decided to proliferate its SoftBench framework source code beyond CASE and stripped out the CASE-specific utilities , getting down to a core communications technology known as the Broadcast Message Server which can coordinate messages among different software applications in a common environment . |
| 7 | We also hired a speedboat in Ipsos and powered up the coast for a beautiful view . |
| 8 | The midday sun glinted against the bronze bas-reliefs of famous battle scenes on Napoleon 's column as Chantal steered the Harley-Davidson through the place de l'Opéra and turned down the busy rue de la Paix . |
| 9 | So she went and bought some in Lincoln and came back the next day and got down on her knees and cleaned it all up . |
| 10 | She would rally the creatures of this Castle , and the Cruithin , and drive out Medoc and beat back the Dark Ireland . |
| 11 | Indefatigably the Lionisers prowled their way along Albion Street and surged up the narrow Fort Road , but this time they stopped before they got to Fort House . |
| 12 | ‘ Let's go then , ’ said Caro and picked up the big carpet bag . |
| 13 | He finally flew home to South Africa and put down the money on his cluster house . |
| 14 | He knelt before Dorn and held up the knife . |
| 15 | I drove north into Georgia and pulled off the road into Brunswick . |
| 16 | So we ordered another Guinness and soaked up the atmosphere some more . |
| 17 | It may have inundated lower Egypt , flooded the Nile and swept back the Red Sea waters to permit the escape of the Israelites fleeing from the Pharaoh . |
| 18 | Police in Florida believe Magaly Carr , 29 , telephoned father-of-three Mr Bates and set up the fateful meeting where her boyfriend carried out the killing . |
| 19 | And then sailed from Montreal , I was going to go back my , it was my intention to go back to New York , but I changed my mind at Montreal and sailed down the St Lawrence from Montreal , back to Glasgow . |
| 20 | Endill hugged goodbye to the Bookman and climbed down the shelves , hoping no-one had spotted him . |
| 21 | He must have appeared as " the man of destiny " , the young saviour , as he entered Constance and progressed down the Rhine in 1212 . |
| 22 | Jenkins unlocked one of the bedrooms when they got back to the Windorah and switched on the light after he had crossed to the window to draw the curtains . |
| 23 | They consulted a map of France and worked out the ideal point between London , Paris and Helmond in the Netherlands . |
| 24 | They were embarked at Leith and sailed down the east coast to Gravesend where they were transferred to another ship . |
| 25 | As Alcuin looked back from the high days of his own collaboration with Charlemagne , which also involved his many pupils who became bishops and abbots , he obviously saw a model of this relationship at the York of his younger days , when Eadbert ruled Northumbria while his brother Egbert was archbishop of York and built up the cathedral library . |
| 26 | In 1166 he marched on the Breton capital , Rennes , deposed Duke Conan and took over the duchy in the name of Conan 's infant daughter and heiress Constance . |
| 27 | I saw the barrels begin to spin and that 's when I snatched up Barry and whipped out the trusty Smith and West Wittering . |
| 28 | This happy coincidence — happy , that is , for all those visionaries and seers who speak in sonorous phrases about the ‘ New Pacific Century ’ and the ‘ Grand Pacific Age ’ , and find such a discovery a perfect symbol of what they 're talking about — has been the case ever since 22 October 1884 , when a group of scientists and politicians met in a hotel in Washington DC and set down the rules by which the planet was henceforth to organize the keeping of its time . |
| 29 | You can read in The Spectator of two hundred and sixty years ago that the streets of London were not safe at night because of the Mohawks , gangs who terrorised London and beat up the Watch , who tarred and feathered innocent citizens . |
| 30 | Sailing on the night on 26 December — the day Colonel Harrison 's men landed in the Lofoten Islands — the Vaagsö force met the submarine HMS Tuna on station as their navigation check at 0700 hours off Vaagsfjord and steamed up the fjord between spectacular snow-covered hills glinting in the dark . |