Example sentences of "[vb pp] [to-vb] the [noun prp] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jesus had claimed to destroy the Temple and rebuild it in three days . |
| 2 | In 1816 the Leith and Hamburg Shipping Company commenced operations and in 1936 the two companies merged to form the Hull and Leith Steam Packet Company . |
| 3 | The tough decisions needed to fight the Falklands and Gulf Wars would not have been made and neither would the striking miners have been defeated . |
| 4 | An interesting aspect concerning my widely-flung net for Pathfinders was that Groups after a short while sent crews who had not volunteered to join the PFF and , in many cases , had made a nuisance of themselves . |
| 5 | Some £3 million , half of it provided by the European Community habitats committee , is to be spent to prevent the Redgrave and Lopham Fen , near Diss in Norfolk , from drying out . |
| 6 | Commissioners to make the new perambulations were appointed — for example in Somerset , Dorset , Devon and in Rutland , but it is doubtful how far they proceeded : no perambulation had been made in Devon by November 13 18 , and fresh commissioners were appointed to perambulate the Devon and Nottinghamshire forests before Whitsun 1319 . |
| 7 | In 1985 legislation was also passed to abolish the GLC and the metropolitan counties ( all of which were Labour controlled ) . |
| 8 | The length of time taken to prepare the OED and its Supplement reflects the skilled , complex , and painstaking labour required in their composition . |
| 9 | We put a high priority on this league and have chosen to neglect the Norfolk and Suffolk Cross Country League in favour of it . |
| 10 | Sometimes members of the Yorkshire team are chosen to play the England and they play against teams from Australia . |
| 11 | James V had failed to subdue the Armstrongs and their kind . |