Example sentences of "and [prep] [pers pn] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Greenall is a centre-half and between them the experienced pair have clocked up more than 700 League appearances . |
| 2 | In the foreground are the old bogies , in the background the old top-cover , and between them the newly-constructed sides . |
| 3 | C , on the other hand , has to be clear and reasonably accurate ; and for him the historical terminology must be correctly used . |
| 4 | Anyone in late eighteenth-century London who was anxious to ‘ insure the removal of barrenness ’ or ‘ improve , exalt , and invigorate the body and through them the mental faculties of the human species ’ , need not have looked further than the Temple of Health where Dr James Graham had constructed what he modestly termed his ‘ medico-magnetico-musico-electrical bed ’ . |
| 5 | A passageway crossed left and right before her ; a little way along the right-hand corridor she could see a wide opening in the wall , and through it the first few steps of a wide staircase leading upwards . |
| 6 | A recognition of the need to maintain that sector and through it the full diversity of recorded music in Britain is one reason why the last few years has seen a new interest in the record industry from public bodies concerned with culture and with employment . |
| 7 | On landings above and below them the same routine was in practice . |
| 8 | A Mercedes and a Zim , bumper to bumper , blocking both lanes of the carriageway and behind them the menacing silhouette of a T-77 tank , its barrel aimed directly at the oncoming van . |
| 9 | Gently they lifted the bedraggled form as Bert came lumbering down from the 3 and 4 landing , with Gilbert Forbes behind him , and behind him the trembling form of Jessie , wringing her hands . |
| 10 | I could hear the talk at the next table , the staccato clatter of Mexican , and behind me the piercing voice of an American woman . |
| 11 | This jumping-off line gave some order to the patrolling , and behind it the many administrative essentials could be organised . |
| 12 | It was through Bella , of course , that Vivien found them and with her the Indian , Shiva , whose other name Adam could not remember . |
| 13 | Or to take a comparison from fishing , she was bait : soft , swirling gracefully , juicy , to be gobbled in a mouthful , sucked in and with her the impaling point of the hard property deal also known as marriage . |
| 14 | The prime task of the 1905 revolution had been to break up the large estates and with them the political and economic power of the nobility . |
| 15 | The conditions of the farm worker , and with them the everyday life of the village community , could vary considerably across the country according to the distribution of landholding , the nature of agricultural production and the pattern of settlement . |
| 16 | It can hardly be pure coincidence that within three years of Kinsey 's appearance the limits of permissible sexual explicitness in the arts and entertainment had radically changed and with them the public image of the ideal woman as projected in , above all , films . |
| 17 | Robert Julius Matson had guessed right : the first train had come through just nine years after the town was founded in 1858 , pulling behind it the fertiliser works , the com mill , the seed-com warehouse , and with them the quiet prosperity that spawned the first Masonic lodge in 1871 , a voluntary fire brigade in ‘ 75 , the telephone in ‘ 84 and the first sewer in 1920 . |
| 18 | Wars became ever more expensive , and with them the national debt rose to heights that to contemporaries seemed awesome ( see Table 9.2 ) . |
| 19 | Some people worry that this argument , along with cheating by Iraq , North Korea and others , could fatally undermine the NPT , and with it the global effort to halt the spread of nuclear weapons . |
| 20 | And with it the unbelievable fact that she had survived . |
| 21 | The ever-rising statistics of delinquency and crime , and particularly violent crime , probably result in large part from a failure to establish the paternal authority in childhood and with it the normal , positive resolution of the Oedipus complex which it produces . |
| 22 | In Franco they possessed a leader who , notwithstanding German and Italian annoyance at his lack of dynamism and broad vision , was a first-rate field commander , devoted to the gradual but irreversible conquest of territory and with it the total subjection of the Spanish population . |
| 23 | The definition also removes the present reference to expectation and with it the possible argument that goods which are generally of low quality generate low expectations . |
| 24 | Britain still has the highest debt to income ratio in Europe and the appetite for credit may not be blunted until the review date comes and with it the monetary day of doom . |
| 25 | Ludger Beerbaum won the final showjumping World Cup qualifier , and with it the European League , in a two-horse jump-off on Saturday . |
| 26 | But also , by the time the programme drive came to an end [ when the Emergency ended and with it the effective coercive powers of than government ] , millions had suffered harassment at the hands of government officials bent on implementing it , many , perhaps hundreds , had died from it ; the political leaders who had willed it were out of power , and in disrepute , and the programme itself was in total disarray . |
| 27 | In the first flush of enthusiasm for the ‘ molecules of memory ’ many experimenters failed to take the precautions necessary to control for such biochemical and behavioural ambiguities , and as a result their research — and with it the entire field — became discredited . |
| 28 | Rosen is not alone in fearing the return of the work sheet , the fixed course of study , and with it the empty library , and the elimination of support for those splendid creatures , teachers with a mission to find the book that suits the child . |
| 29 | Autumn was reclaiming summer and with it the sun-gilded image of Samantha , last and most innocent of all the Abberleys . |
| 30 | Others who take the view that the outcome was inevitable , and with it the continuing conflict between capital and labour , will find comfort in the fact that the conflict was , after a time , institutionalised . |