Example sentences of "and [vb past] [adv] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Organised in regular gangs or teams on the model of seasonal harvesters , led by an elected captain who negotiated terms and shared out the proceeds of the contract , poor peasants from Italy , Croatia or Ireland would criss-cross continents or even oceans to provide labour for the builders of towns , factories or railways . |
| 2 | By experiment and observation , Hahnemann worked out the drug pictures of many remedies and laid down the principles whereby they were to be used — remedies and principles which are still as valid today as they were when Hahnemann first discovered them . |
| 3 | Where Mother fried the fish , lit the Friday night candles and laid out the clothes in the order my brother and I would put them on . |
| 4 | Bramham Park has been in the Lane Fox family for eight generations , since Robert Benson and the first Lord Bingley built the House and laid out the grounds in the manner of Versailles in 1698 and George Fox married his daughter . |
| 5 | A few notable articles discussed in the following chapters have taken this further and laid out the implications of successful conservation . |
| 6 | I had woken up as the ferry was docking , feeling bad-breathed and half drunk , and had walked off the ramp , shown my passport at customs and asked where the police station was . |
| 7 | Shildon said he believed that , too , and asked how the police inquiry was going . |
| 8 | The visitor sat back and watched the alchemy of the coffee take shape as the slightly stale odour of boiling milk permeated the room and steamed up the windows that looked down into Sauchiehall Street . |
| 9 | He stated that the British were not persuaded by the move for major changes in the institutional balance within the Community and ruled out the proposals for giving the European Parliament the right of co-decision over the Council of Ministers on legislative matters . |
| 10 | A military judge came to see me and read out the charges — I had been accused of stealing a car . |
| 11 | ‘ Anyway , ’ he went on , ‘ I wandered round and checked out the corpses . |
| 12 | At St Moritz she became an expert skater and passed both the men 's and women 's tests . |
| 13 | A thirteenth-century man who was free to leave his own tithing ( or who absconded ) for a nearby town would not long be called Matthew atte Middele ( Matthew who lives in the middle of the village ) , or such , but rather Matthew Longback or Matthew of ( or from ) Thornbury , depending on which struck his new friends as the more appropriate , and the new identification may well have turned into a surname and passed down the generations . |
| 14 | Examples made famous by the exploits of their chiefly owners acquired names of their own and passed down the generations as heirlooms . |
| 15 | She walked away , her head held high , and fought down the tears . |
| 16 | She swallowed and fought back the tears , dashing her hand over her eyes . |
| 17 | Ruth buried her face in his neck and fought back the tears for poor Maria Luisa . |
| 18 | ‘ You are a success to them if you fit in with the culture , particularly when they have gone thousands of miles and built up the clubs themselves . |
| 19 | Lucier stood up , with his hand spread across his breastbone as if to protect his heart from the jolt , and weighed up the possibilities of escape . |
| 20 | His wife , an enormous woman in black , wailed and wrung out the ends of her skirt . |
| 21 | Rory did not switch on a light , but strode to the window and jerked back the drapes . |
| 22 | He gave no reply , but went to the window and drew back the curtains , letting the morning light spill into the room ; a room which , without being pretentious , bespoke his new standing in life , a large , well-furnished room , with a grand bed and expensive decor , and velvet curtains with fancy frills . |
| 23 | He went over to the window and drew back the curtains to let in a grey , watery light , and she closed her eyes briefly against the muted glare . |
| 24 | He reached into his desk drawer and drew out the copies of the contract , a trifle battered by yesterday 's violence , and tossed them across the desk towards her . |
| 25 | His young boss was catching the little animals and handing them to Rory who held them upside down , gripped between his thighs with their legs apart , and as I quickly incised the scrotums and drew out the testicles my blade almost touched the rough material of his trouser crutch . |
| 26 | Then there would be a frantic rush to grab an armful of branches and beat out the flames . |
| 27 | But nearly all its distinctive features may be exhibited in a place where population and wealth are both growing , provided they are growing at about the same rate , and there is no scarcity of land : and provided also the methods of production and the conditions of trade change but little ; and above all , where the character of man himself is a constant quantity . |
| 28 | came unto the workmen and beat and terrified them , threatening to kill them , if they would not leave their work , threw some of them in the river and kept them under water with long poles , and at several other times , upon the Knelling of a Bell , came to the said works in riotous and warlike manner , divided themselves into companies , to take the workmen and filled up the ditches and drains , made to carry away the water , burned up the working tools and other materials of the Relator and his workmen , and set up poles in the form of gallows , to terrifie the workmen and threatened to break their arms and legs , and beat and hurt many of them and made others flee away , whom they pursued to a town with such terror and threats , that they were forced to guard the town . |
| 29 | They dug and blasted out the ores from thin , but rich , mineral veins . |
| 30 | The courts upheld the method adopted and rejected both the alternatives suggested , the first because the shareholders were not ‘ part owners of the undertaking ’ and the second because the regulation implied that each holding was to be separately valued . |