Example sentences of "[vb pp] and [vb past] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As part of the normal processes of a river , the stones in these shoals are neatly sorted and graded by the flowing water into an overlapping fish-scale pattern known as ‘ armouring ’ , which makes them relatively stable . |
| 2 | A man , understood to be Keith Pringle , remained in the house with Mrs Reece 's 21-year-old daughter Leanne as armed police surrounded and cordoned off the area . |
| 3 | A young man with a bad case of acne approached and pointed at the phone . |
| 4 | This principle applies in full force in dealing with the harmonic idioms of the present day , in which discords are approached and quitted with the utmost freedom , and there is often little or no feeling of resolution at all , for there must always be ‘ part-writing ’ and the notes must ‘ go somewhere ’ and not be left in the air , so to speak , even if the progressions are not in accord with nineteenth-century harmonic notions . |
| 5 | Pine logs crackled and snapped in the small fireplace and warming dishes stood on stands at either end of the great writing desk . |
| 6 | Static crackled and flared through the roar of the storm outside . |
| 7 | Electricity crackled and flashed in the whole relationship , and in Vincent Van Gogh 's body , and brain . |
| 8 | Darkfall electricity crackled and danced on the rims of the shattered windows . |
| 9 | a number of research programmes were instituted and co–ordinated by the Department of the Environment . |
| 10 | Those soldiers not incorporated into the FAA were meant to be disarmed and demobilized by the time the new army was established . |
| 11 | Council officers conducted a survey to see where it could be usefully installed and decided on the railway centre and museum in North Road , Civic Theatre and booking office , Tubwell Row museum and offices at Houndgate . |
| 12 | The fear of future unemployment , he believed , was exaggerated and existed at the moment " as a heavy legacy of dictatorship " . |
| 13 | Mr Denny said Mr Young 's money was not taken but he was attacked and punched in the face . |
| 14 | The celebrations turned violent as property belonging to people connected with the former regime was attacked and looted by the crowds , and rioting broke out in which 27 people were killed . |
| 15 | The mineral and organic matter that passes through their guts in the burrowing process is mixed and churned in the gizzard , the calcium content is concentrated by the calciferous gland , and the resulting casts , which arc deposited on or very near the surface , contain more micro-organisms , inorganic minerals , and organic matter in a form available to plants , than does the surrounding soil . |
| 16 | He is cradled and cosseted above the earth and introduced to gravity very gently . |
| 17 | And then a bit later , her poor father , may the Lord have mercy on him , went out one evening with his wits scattered and fell over the cliff into the quarry . ’ |
| 18 | She lay beside her uncle , her brother , and several near neighbours , the fresh earth of the recent interment scattered and scuffed about the leaf-strewn path of the Necropolis , city of the dead . |
| 19 | That time lag is a feature that bedevils the software industry and led to the absurdity that the first generation 32-bit chip , the 80386 , had been superseded and obsoleted by the 80486 before there was a 32-bit desktop operating system available for the processor . |
| 20 | It is recruited , supplemented and renewed in the manner of an administrative hierarchy , independently of any special property relations of its own . |
| 21 | A sixteen year old girl collapsed and died at the Hacienda in Manchester after ‘ dropping an E ’ . |
| 22 | Ken Turk , the 67-year-old president and long time player for Hampshire club Hartley Wintney , collapsed and died at the wicket immediately after hitting a six against Shepherd 's Bush on May 3 . |
| 23 | Jock Stein , former manager of Scotland , and David Longhurst , the York City striker , both died of heart attacks ; the Dutch coach of Barcelona , Johan Cruyff , was given a double heart bypass operation after collapsing ; and only last month West Hartlepool 's rugby union lock forward , John Howe , collapsed and died on the pitch . |
| 24 | A PIONEERING rambler collapsed and died in the surroundings he loved the most the North Yorkshire dales . |
| 25 | The chimney collapsed and fell to the ground . |
| 26 | Their world became even more confined and focused on the home . |
| 27 | This was rebuilt and served as the German Embassy during the Nazi occupation of Prague . |
| 28 | But the level of pretence he sustains after the murder is penetrated and exposed by the arrival of the very being whose absence he so insincerely deplores : ‘ Here had we now our country 's honour roofed , /Were the graced person of our Banquo present ’ ( III.iv.40ff . ) . |
| 29 | The civil service found itself penetrated and politicized in the mid-1980s in a manner unknown since the days of Lloyd George . |
| 30 | In two experiments we recorded the sexual response of male and female auklets to realistic opposite-sex models with crest ornaments experimentally shortened and lengthened within the range of natural variation . |