Example sentences of "and [vb past] [prep] the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he was on business away from home he stayed and entertained in the Hiltons and Sheratons and InterContinentals . |
| 2 | A snorting and savage beast , it promptly ate all Mother Leeds other children and plunged into the New Jersey forest , from whence it emerged regularly to tear clothes hanging out to dry , and trample vegetable gardens . |
| 3 | But these bright spots were dimmed by the assassination of the Western-orientated Hashemite royal family in Baghdad on 14th July 1958 during the Nasser-inspired coup , which ended Britain 's treaty relations with Iraq and led to the RAF 's withdrawal from the Habbaniyah and Shu'aiba air bases that lay on the air-reinforcement route to the Far East . |
| 4 | It was this fundamentally sound structure which made the game readily accessible to everyone in those unions and led to the South African game being so strong , so great , and so famous . |
| 5 | The student will develop the skills and knowledge required to process client requirements for air travel sold in and ticketed in the UK for journeys both within the UK and originating from the UK ( SITI ) . |
| 6 | Perhaps it is this bicameral quality in the American mind that lets the citizen read of the all-out official ‘ war on drugs ’ and ‘ war on terrorism ’ on one page , and then turn the page and read of the CIA sharing a bank with Miami cartels and Abu Nidal , and still go on as if he inhabited a ‘ normal world ’ . |
| 7 | This time all the recipients responded promptly and agreed to the DC . |
| 8 | A detailed recruitment strategy has been drawn up by the National Executive Committee , which was discussed and agreed at the March Council meeting . |
| 9 | We also append the quotation from BS Computers for the supply of an Apricot Lan-Station as discussed and agreed at the January 1993 Computing Sub-Group . |
| 10 | The magnates saw themselves as the natural counsellors of the king , and argued in the Boulogne agreement and in the petition against the Despensers that they had a duty to act to protect the realm if the king was being led by unwise counsel . |
| 11 | L-Cpl Lawrence Dickson , 26 , of the 1st Battalion The Royal Scots , was from Edinburgh and lived in the Inverness area with his German-born wife , Silke , and their daughter Roxanne , who will be two in July . |
| 12 | The reformed communists threw a pop concert in St John 's Lateran and the neo-fascists of the MSI rallied and hectored in the Piazza del Popolo . |
| 13 | Man may have reached coastal New Guinea as long ago as 50 000 BP and penetrated to the Highlands there by 26 000 BP . |
| 14 | The rain pattered down softly and dripped off the Mini 's rusty edges , trickling to join the puddle they were already lying in . |
| 15 | Arati Prabhakar was born in India and moved to the United States at the age of 3 . |
| 16 | The Franks left Sicambria , and moved to the Rhine . |
| 17 | Aideed 's supporters , angered by what they saw as US support for a rival warlord , Mohamed Said Hersi , stoned and shouted at the US forces , chanting at them : ‘ Go Home Americans ’ and ‘ Down With America . ’ |
| 18 | Aideed 's supporters , angered by what they saw as US support for a rival warlord , Mohamed Said Hersi , stoned and shouted at the US forces : ‘ Go Home Americans ’ and ‘ Down With America . ’ |
| 19 | I thought it was a fine display of irreligious pop art myself , but the local Scout Master must 've taken offence , for the Dog pack packed up and headed for The Robey , where they currently host their anti-establishment , multi-media club nights . |
| 20 | Both Jack and Miguel finished with par fours and headed for the PGA hut to check and sign their scores . |
| 21 | I frittered away the morning and then got Armstrong wound up and headed towards the West End . |
| 22 | He turned to the back seat as I swung under the arch and headed towards the Baños del Inca . |
| 23 | A river passenger boat crashed into a cargo ship and sank on the Amazon on March 7 after leaving Iquitos . |
| 24 | In addition , the Soviet submarine Komsomolets , which caught fire and sank in the Barents Sea in 1989 , is known to contain two smashed nuclear warheads . |
| 25 | Unwanted sugar is purchased from the Caribbean islands and stockpiled by the United States , who would rather spend billions of dollars annually in this way ( to keep the region ‘ stable ’ ) than help those nations develop an alternative and more useful crop — food , for instance . |
| 26 | In 800 Pope Leo III was taken prisoner by relatives of his predecessor Hadrian I. They tried to blind him , but he escaped and fled over the Alps to Charles , who was encamped at Paderborn in central Saxony . |
| 27 | Dundee had received a commission from the deposed James II as his Commander-in-Chief in Scotland , and fled into the Highlands to gather support among the clans . |
| 28 | The upper classes rapidly gave up the struggle to maintain social exclusivity at the seaside resorts and fled to the Highlands , the Lakes , and eventually the Continent , to pursue their particular pleasures , unhampered by the proximity of their inferiors . |
| 29 | A Vietnamese couple who had to leave their country and fled to the North Yorkshire market town of Kirkbymoorside 14 years ago , are returning to it to open a Chinese takeaway . |
| 30 | Despite his lame leg , he also served with the hajduk leader Veljko in the last months of the Karadjordje revolt , and fled across the Danube when the Turks recaptured Belgrade in 1813 . |