Example sentences of "and [prep] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They go and off it with the doctor . |
| 2 | Somehow we then got on to the theme of French poetry , and Eliot expressed surprise at one of Herbert Read 's recent pronouncements on Laforgue and another nineteenth-century poet I can not recall and about whom at the time I knew too little to be able to arrive at an opinion . |
| 3 | I have not described a tenacious battle to secure compensation for a number of distinguished urologists who contracted hepatitis , believedly at a medical banquet , and for whom at the end of the day a moderate degree of compensation was — against considerable odds — secured . |
| 4 | Under communism there would be no exploitation , and society would be run by and for everyone on the basis of equality and community . |
| 5 | Nothing , blessed state for the hard-working Crispin , and for myself after the turmoil of exams and end of term . |
| 6 | The Communist Party could apparently hope for little from the Socialist League and for nothing from the Labour Party . |
| 7 | And for her at the most , third sight . |
| 8 | I was struck too by the way in which we started the programme by considering the dangers of the situation and there 's no doubt that that 's correct , but it is important to say , perhaps the most important thing is that the end of is n't in the Soviet Union and the break up of the Soviet Empire is an enormously positive event for all of us , for the citizens of the Soviet Union and for us in the West it gives the opportunity for much greater stability , real stability , peace and prosperity then ever existed under the old regime . |
| 9 | What he lacks , though , is White 's flayed Christian moral sense : hs profound , compassionate identification with his characters ' sufferings , and through them with the world 's . |
| 10 | Texas drove some beasts to New Orleans and after 1849 to California , but it was the promise of the great north-eastern market which urged ranchers to explore those long routes which have become part of the heroic romance of the ‘ Wild West ’ , linking the remote south-west with the slowly approaching railheads and through them with the giant transport centre of Chicago , whose stockyards were opened in 1865 . |
| 11 | : The state under ‘ crown privilege ’ would have the right to withhold crown documents such as the RUC report to the Director of Public Prosecutions and through him to the Attorney General . |
| 12 | As Diocesan Secretary , Colonel Ross co-ordinates all the administration of the diocese , and is responsible to the Bishop , and through him to the Synod . |
| 13 | I 'm grateful to North Yorkshire and through you to the Strensall people for the arrangements and the use of the Village Hall and I think I must commend Mr Whipp for his fortitude through the last week or so . |
| 14 | He would be up and after them in the blink of an eye . |
| 15 | The voice lanced through the blackness , close to him and below him to the right . |
| 16 | How reach through and past them to the axis of power ? |
| 17 | She gave a brief glance at the screen , dropped her jaw by at least a metre , and walked backwards , first into the back wall , and then slowly and hypnotically down our aisle , past our row — in spite of our waving and hissing cries of ‘ Mummm ! ’ — then backwards again , eyes never leaving the screen , and past us in the other direction . |
| 18 | Section 303 of the Companies Act 1985 provides that a company may by ordinary resolution remove a director before the expiration of his or her period of office and despite anything in the company 's articles or in any agreement between the company and the director . |
| 19 | Aragorn , then , has some hope of the future and of something outside the ‘ circles of the world ’ that may come to heal their sorrow , but he does not know what it is . |
| 20 | He was wearing his raincoat and behind him in the hall stood his suitcase and a scuffed , imitation-leather flight bag . |
| 21 | Under his arm was a heavy shoulder-holster and behind him in the doorway stood a policeman in blue shirt , bow tie , white crash helmet and riding breeches . |
| 22 | Down to his last few hundred dollars , and with nothing but the good offices of a public defender standing between him and the octopus , it was time to evacuate the hostages . |
| 23 | Indeed , had he told me where he went and with whom on the evenings he spent away from the attic , I should have felt less vulnerable : it was secrecy itself I found hostile . |
| 24 | We shall look at this very carefully and have discussions with the current owners and with everybody on the island before anything is decided . |
| 25 | When he gives evidence , sitting for the most part on two cushions , he leans forwards attentively like a headmaster , and with something of the same terrifying effect . |
| 26 | In the Eastern District of the Association , I know , you are behaving as though the idea were a brand-new one ; and with something of the enthusiasm of your founder-members you are carrying it into the countryside . |
| 27 | The differences are deep and go far back into history , but while I have been a Minister dealing with the economy and the environment I have always had the greatest possible collaboration from all the parties in Northern Ireland , which have always worked cheek by jowl with one another and with me for the benefit of all the people of Northern Ireland . |
| 28 | Newman explains that LET works with big practices of commercial architects because time and time again they come up with the goods , on budget , on time and with none of the tantrums of the prima donna . |
| 29 | We found him on the floor getting cold and with none of the other monkeys taking much notice . |
| 30 | Here the three criteria of ( *a ) explainability , ( *b ) comprehensiveness and ( *c ) positivity intertwine , as I indicate by means of the asterisks : The problem for the atheist is to provide a convincing account ( *a ) of religious experience , and with it of the entire ( *b ) religious history of mankind , which will do justice ( *c ) to its character and effects . |