Example sentences of "and [verb] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 31 | By the time you have dictated the brief and asked the relevant questions you will have started to form some idea of the answers . |
| 32 | The uniformed guard , who wishes to be known only as John , approached the car and asked the three youths inside to leave . |
| 33 | He returned to Downing Street and asked the waiting journalists for their prayers rather than their congratulations . |
| 34 | In such a society , as in southern Italy , the stronger spirits took to brigandage or smuggling and became the epic heroes of a depressed race . |
| 35 | As the years passed , the exotic Eastern cats gradually ousted the less exciting British cats and became the hot favourites , much to the distress of the British organizers . |
| 36 | Some people were outstanding and became the deified men and women of the great religions , and their lives can be shown to be relevant to the conception of the Created God . |
| 37 | A bitter and complex dispute was decided by the crown jurists in the interests of the foreros ( 1763 ) , and when the entailed lands of the nobility and the church estates were put on the market by the liberal legislation of the nineteenth century they purchased their foros and became the outright owners of land they had rented ; they became foristas . |
| 38 | Indeed , had it not been for the blazing row with Mama she would still be living with her parents , seeing Charlie twice a week and helping the wounded airmen get back their confidence . |
| 39 | It should be surprising but liberating : and undermine the other ads in the commercial break . |
| 40 | Such duplication could cause juristic confusion and undermine the very values intended to be protected . |
| 41 | Apprehension was also voiced that allowing international organisations to create rights and obligations for member States could threaten the sovereignty of States , and undermine the basic principles of the international legal order , by elevating the legal status of international organisations . |
| 42 | The issue will be whether the new government will have the courage to face the problems and introduce the harsh measures which will perhaps be required , at the price , it may be , of its own popularity . |
| 43 | By her insulation , Czechoslovakia has bought herself a safe and steady misery and avoided the worst buffetings of the decade : only 27.3 per cent of the country 's trade was conducted outside the Bloc in 1978 , compared with over 50 per cent in the case of Poland and Romania . |
| 44 | The emphasis of the book from now on is of a pragmatic nature , but I hope it is a sanctified pragmatism applied to operating within and shaping the contemporary manifestations of the Church of Christ . |
| 45 | Remove the voltage regulator box and connect the large wires A , A1 and D together . |
| 46 | George Piggott retired in 1972 aged 70 , although he still works part-time on the course today and produces the attractive borders and tubs by the clubhouse . |
| 47 | Erm , also I , I wanted to try and cover the main points and it 's very difficult with a subject like that to , to only give you part of the , the story otherwise people would immediately say , well , yes , but you have n't thought about this or that . |
| 48 | Helping the client to reassess their difficulties in these terms helps to specify and clarify the exact nature of these problems and highlight the specific areas of change required . |
| 49 | Finally , Van Andel ( 1984 ) and Molnar ( 1988 ) present brief but thought-provoking assessments of the current status of plate tectonics theory and highlight the remaining problems of the model particularly when applied to the continents . |
| 50 | He took out the letter and scanned the final lines again . |
| 51 | If you like , the columns are the shorthand version of the pattern , the console reads the shorthand and displays the written instructions as you knit . |
| 52 | We were also impressed with the raising of teachers ' awareness through visits to library suppliers and book exhibitions and the replacement of " buying blind " through catalogues with a system of actually browsing and handling the available alternatives before making a choice . |
| 53 | John must have been so angry , I know that now , he 's still angry , John did n't shout at Dad or anything , or throw a tantrum , he just stood there and looked at Dad and realized the other boys would call him a liar and what could he do ? ’ |
| 54 | ‘ Even Snookums knows and appreciates the soothing qualities of Johnson 's Toilet and Baby Powder . ’ |
| 55 | The Bar Council is responsible for the maintenance of professional standards and represents the general interests of the Bar in its relations with outsiders . |
| 56 | Zonal governments should be compelled to decree controls on manufacturing enterprisals and make the money-harvesting polluters pay . |
| 57 | The person chosen puts his face in the frame as if he is a picture and then he has to try not to laugh as the rest tell their best jokes and make the funniest expressions . |
| 58 | Television can be a positive influence : it may ( in moderation ) give brighter children a faster start in their pre-school years and make the dull children a little more knowledgeable about the world . |
| 59 | With the new fitting connected up and mounted , run the rest of the wiring along your selected route to the point at which it will be connected to an existing circuit , then turn off the power and make the final connections . |
| 60 | Highlight the paragraph(s) to be reformatted and make the appropriate keystrokes as shown above . |