Example sentences of "and [verb] [prep] the [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This may prove liberating for many female art students who have felt isolated and marginalised within the notoriously male dominated space of the fine art department . |
| 2 | Millicent Fawcett vehemently objected to family allowances becoming a feminist plank and clung to the typically nineteenth-century belief that allowances ‘ would destroy the fabric of family life by wiping out the responsibility of parents for the maintenance of their children ’ . |
| 3 | Noise/horror undoes the self by confronting it with the other that dwells within it , the monstrous potential latent in us all , waiting to be catalysed by an extreme predicament ; what I 've called the new psychedelia undoes the self by letting it drift off and disappear into the otherwordly . |
| 4 | The sergeant bumped over the sleeping-policemen and gazed at the neatly trimmed lawns and hedges with aggrieved jealousy in his eyes : the private estate was a symbol of a world from which he was excluded , a world of privilege and snobbery , a world that had turned its back on the poor , the sick and the unfashionable who had been swarming round their car only ten minutes before . |
| 5 | He raised the lid and gazed at the brightly coloured pots . |
| 6 | As I stood and gazed at the now empty slit trenches , I could n't help a sinking feeling in my stomach as I pictured in my mind those who had occupied the trenches in this orchard , those who had been killed or seriously wounded . |
| 7 | Lexandro coughed and spat at the partly crippled Titan on his target-screen . |
| 8 | So though modem research has tended to discredit the idea of a medieval aristocracy ‘ of service ’ , to insist on blue blood for the great lines of the tenth and eleventh centuries , and to see in the later eleventh and the twelfth centuries an ever-sharper patrilineal descent obliterating other considerations in family history , it should not be forgotten that at least one great princely house was encouraged to view its progress in quite other terms . |
| 9 | The part of the volume in question is principally concerned with Suleyman 's Mohacs campaign of 1526 , but the anecdote occurs in the midst of a digression concerning Mehmed II's siege of Belgrade ( 1456 ) and refers to the still earlier siege of Constantinople ( 1453 ) . |
| 10 | Above : Xpelair 's GX6 exceeds building regulations and fits into the most stylish kitchen |
| 11 | Dominique gets out and sits on the surprisingly long bonnet . |
| 12 | The in-depth report by Philip Mackie , epidemiologist with Darlington Health Authority , has taken seven months to complete and reveals head injuries and poisoning among the most common type of childhood accident . |
| 13 | / All their products are made on looms designed and built by their own engineers , and recognized as the most technically superior weaving plant in the World / . |
| 14 | The areas of the five Saxon burhs were reorganised into Norman landships , the rapes , and given to the more powerful and trusty lay barons . |
| 15 | Nelson Mandela 's lawyers on Jan. 25 made available to the press copies of a document , originally written by him in prison and given to the then President P. W. Botha in July 1989 , which expressed his own view of the urgent need for the government to negotiate with the ANC . |
| 16 | Here lies the root of Callinicos , project — the buttressing of Marxism as the ‘ true radicalisation ’ of the Enlightenment ; and here I suspect lies also his ultimate discomfort with Modernism — prone as it is to slip the leash of a guiding politics and dance under the less biddable star of the Aesthetic . |
| 17 | Accepted in sensitive areas and regarded by the most discerning specifiers as the finest handmade tile on the market . |
| 18 | The human conscience should be respected and revered as the most precious and effective thing that the human race , in its struggle to civilise itself , has available , and it can be used only by giving it the utmost priority in child training . |
| 19 | Before them stretched a tunnel of darkness , broken only by the beam of light that flashed over tree trunks and gleamed on the gracefully curving fronds of ferns . |
| 20 | In this book , the authors — who have a reputation for creating innovative language teaching materials — avoid the normal ‘ word field ’ approach and concentrate on the more personal and associative aspects of vocabulary acquisition . |
| 21 | The Australia of the early 1960s still seemed secure and stultified with the apparently eternal regime of Robert Menzies . |
| 22 | Have you ever thought it strange that the curse of the working classes is none other than that beloved boardroom nectar that evaporates executive stress and wins over the most capricious of clients ? |
| 23 | They seemed so much less menacing than the crows that pecked and fought in the newly harvested fields at home . |
| 24 | It became clear that travelling was important to Morris and so much an inspiration that if he ever felt bored at home or lacking in inspiration he just packed a suitcase and got on the nearest train to visit someone . |
| 25 | It became clear that travelling was important to Morris and so much an inspiration that if he ever felt bored at home or lacking in inspiration he just packed a suitcase and got on the nearest train to visit someone . |
| 26 | The shortest priced favourite can stumble and fall at the very first fence while the 100–1 outsider can achieve the ultimate glory . |
| 27 | The academic community in many universities was startled by the ferocity of the cuts , and responded with the most short-term of strategies — voluntary severance for virtually any staff member who wanted it . |
| 28 | We eat well and sleep in the very comfortable barn ; the war has gone on — over the horizon . |
| 29 | Hong Kong , Hong Kong , Beats the Chinese Heart , a Viewpoint touring exhibition by Simon Buckley shows the mix of traditional and modern lifestyles in Hong Kong and looks at the how the Chinese community has attempted to recreate the atmosphere of Hong Kong in Manchester ( until 2 Mar ) . |
| 30 | He drew a deep breath and headed for the nearest parked car . |