Example sentences of "and [prep] the [noun sg] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The angel of God ( at this stage in Israelite writing just another way of referring to God himself calls ) a second time : ‘ By myself I have sworn … because you have done this , and have not withheld your son , your only son , I will indeed bless you , and I will multiply your descendants as the stars of heaven and as the sand which is on the seashore . |
| 2 | The promise to Abraham of a son has been fulfilled ; his descendants have indeed become multiplied ‘ as the stars of heaven and as the sand which is on the sea shore ’ ( Gen 22.17 ) . |
| 3 | Knowing that it was a basic railway practice to use detonators in foggy conditions to protect signals , etc , and as the sound they emitted carried some distance , the men awaited the series of bangs that would herald the presence of a train . |
| 4 | None of the charges quoted was outrageous , £5–6 per page is pretty much the norm but beware of minimum charges , and as the job we tested them on was non-urgent we could afford to be a little more flexible . |
| 5 | This will take the form of Preliminary Training ; a core part in the new Module 20 which has been expanded to last one and a half days followed by a written assessment with a pass mark of 75% ; and Specialist Training — both on and off the job which has been tailored to be appropriate to the area that the prospective RPS will be working in . |
| 6 | And off the horse it makes anyone long and slim , like Mark Todd , look like a nail ! |
| 7 | But even a random mudslide extinction serves to reinforce the fact that evolution involves the survival of individuals via the interchange of energy among contemporaneous plants and animal organisms , and between the Earth itself . |
| 8 | This was a strongly Catholic area and about the campaign there was now an almost holiday quality . |
| 9 | She told them about the disturbed girl at St Cecilia 's , the girl called Julie who performed feats of levitation , and about the girl who could read a page of a newspaper and remember it , and Enid who could hypnotize with a fountain-pen top . |
| 10 | Political argument was usually about particular forms of the State , about the grounds of its legitimacy , and about the way its power was used . |
| 11 | I mean , I know about your mother the harpist , and your father , and why you 're called Arthur , and about the way you can fall . |
| 12 | And when I 've expanded and I 've told you then I then come back to my ending and I say , okay so what I 've done I 've told you about three aspects of flying , about the safety of it , ab about the costs involved in taking part in flying and about the enjoyment you 're gon na get out of flying and I hope that I 've persuaded you that you will come along on Saturday to take part , and that 's the ending . |
| 13 | Anyway our Darren came in , and I 'm gon na forget Darren came to the caravan and I was telling him about these wet sheets and beds and the mirrors done and what I was doing there and Oh he said and about the mattress he said and I said to him mattress , it 's still the same mattress . |
| 14 | But it could only be done if there was this general agreement about the direction in which democracy in Britain should develop and about the role which Parliament should play . |
| 15 | Not going to school , and having to pretend I did n't live on the island all the time , has meant that I did n't grow up with anybody of my own age ( except Eric , of course , but even he was away for a long time ) , and about the time I was thinking of venturing further afield and getting to know more people Eric went crazy , and things got a bit uncomfortable in the town for a while . |
| 16 | The greatest areas of concern for tax-payers were about the Revenue 's staff 's apparent lack of authority to deal with certain problems , difficulty in getting through to the right person on the telephone , and about the time it took to resolve problems and answer queries . |
| 17 | Those two along the corridor will then know exactly what kind of a father they have , and about the slut you keep on the side under cover of the club nights . |
| 18 | Three weeks ago , we looked at God 's call to Jeremiah ; it taught us about God , and about the prophet who had been called to be God 's spokesman to His people Israel . |
| 19 | The schools selected varied substantially in their degree of consensus about the concept of education and the pedagogy appropriate to it , and about the form which the project-related curriculum development was to take . |
| 20 | She was able to give a good account of herself and was reasonably cheerful during the interview , except when she talked about her boyfriend and about the distress she had caused her parents . |
| 21 | Information was sought also about the relationship of topic work to the rest of the curriculum , about the selection of topics or themes , about teachers ' criteria for judging whether topics were successful , and about the advice they would give to student teachers about to tackle project work . |
| 22 | Mr. S. Walker left a note for the Board of Guardians expressing thanks for their kind and courteous hearing when his group had been interviewed on the subject of the unemployed marchers , and for the treatment they had received at the institution . |
| 23 | As the narratives of the siege of Rouen , pursued by Henry V between July 1418 and January 1419 , underline , the results , both for the civilians who had sought safety there and for the garrison who had led the resistance , could be devastating . |
| 24 | So I mean put all this effort in the building and for the Queen they knock it down afterwards . ’ |
| 25 | Bowls clubs abound , and for the golfer there is a good selection of courses , ranging from parkland courses inland to some truly great links , particularly along the northern coast . |
| 26 | It 's as if the name were waiting for the man , and for the novel which will transpersonalize or socialize the murderous concept : ‘ social unsteadiness , as Shatov says ’ and as we read in the Possessed notebooks . |
| 27 | While doing this the men are supposed to be separated by some distance in order to be able to call for radio assistance and to allow fire to be returned should one of them be attacked , and for the constable whose patch it is to become solely identified as the area 's neighbourhood policeman . |
| 28 | The Sheehy Report has wide-ranging implications for all ranks , and for the public they serve . |
| 29 | I mean , what we 're trying to do in the visual arts is to spend what limited money we have to produce a better situation for the visual artist and for the public who gets pleasure and enlightenment from visual arts than exists at the moment , so rather than just prop up the status quo , which is what is would be very easy to do if one just kept the pot boiling so to speak by giving a few grants to artists here and sitting at the centre of a spider 's web in Tunbridge Wells waiting for applications to come in to us and then responding . |
| 30 | And for the crown itself , Suger 's doctrine was timely . |