Example sentences of "and [verb] [noun sg] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Amtrak deals with about 12,000 parcels every day , and guarantees delivery the next morning . |
| 2 | The second course ( to be held in the second term ) will require students to present for discussion and peer criticism the theoretical , methodological and empirical bases which they intend to use in their chosen field of enquiry . |
| 3 | Pope John Paul II paid a three-day visit ( his fourth ) to Poland on Aug. 13-16 , celebrating mass in Krakow on Aug 13 and paying tribute the next day in his home town of Wadowice to the town 's pre-war Jewish community , many of whom died in the nearby concentration camp at Auschwitz . |
| 4 | If you are successful and recover compensation the Legal Aid Board will have first claim on the money . |
| 5 | It was almost surreal , an angry crowd waggling protest placards and condemning the seven decades of Communist rule that had beggared and laid waste the vast land . |
| 6 | Nevertheless the Northern Ireland Executive was sworn in on 31 December 1973 and took office the following day . |
| 7 | Their goalkeeper , Neville Southall , was preparing to clear the ball upfield and making no haste about it when the referee , George Tyson , booked him for time-wasting and awarded Forest the indirect free-kick which was to decide the match . |
| 8 | So where Schleiermacher had drawn a sharp line between theology and philosophy , rejected metaphysics as an avenue of approaching truth , and stressed consciousness as lying deeper than rationality , Hegel subsumed theology under philosophy , and gave reason the highest place . |
| 9 | It credits him with ‘ Christianising the Empire ’ and making Christianity the official state religion of Rome . |
| 10 | Quite exceptionally , therefore , Baldwin was allowed to perform as a member of the Government and spoke front the front bench from February 1917 onwards . |
| 11 | Mike Atherton looked in good touch again until missing a sweep off Such and falling lbw the first of four victims for the England off-spinner . |
| 12 | Now twenty two is not a large number , certainly not large enough for any statistical reliability to be placed on the result , but the fact remains that if you had bet on every single horse in that season at two to one on , and had bet the same amount , then you 'd have finished ahead . |
| 13 | Hertford took his instructions seriously , devastating Lothian and Edinburgh and laying waste the great border abbeys , as well as destroying numerous small towns and villages . |
| 14 | Were orderly , dope-free communes and tolerating authority the right way to fight the system ? |
| 15 | Knowledge pretends it is completely different from faith and makes faith the odd man out by ignoring its own assumptions . |
| 16 | Starting near the Cat and Fiddle Inn the raging tide of mud and uprooted trees created havoc in the narrow valley , sweeping away bridges , large sections of road and anything else in its path . |