Example sentences of "and [vb pp] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They wandered the savannah during the day , looking for food , and sometimes met and socialised by the lake with other groups of hominids . |
| 2 | The actual goods and services selected include a wide range of food items ; alcoholic drinks ; tobacco ; housing costs ( including mortgage interest payments ) ; fuel and light ; durable household goods ( such as furniture , television sets and hardware ) ; clothing and footwear ; transport and vehicles ( including petrol and oil ) ; a large selection of miscellaneous goods ( including books , newspapers and stationery ) ; services ( which include postage and telephone charges , and all entertainments ) ; and meals bought and consumed outside the home . |
| 3 | This was why he was feared and tabooed as the totem , but this was also why he was periodically sacrificed and consumed by the clan brothers in rituals which re-enacted the primal trauma and the occasion of his first emergence as a psychological force of self-restraint . |
| 4 | Where literary criticism is concerned , we are faced with the depressing reality that this is now just one more academic specialism , a large specialism , admittedly , produced by and consumed within the academy . |
| 5 | How should society make plans today for the quantities of goods to be produced and consumed in the future ? |
| 6 | The situation has improved in many ways , but it is not easy to overcome the problems created by natural obstacles and compounded by the legacy of centuries of neglect . |
| 7 | Now you may be thinking that these options sound very dramatic and limited in the context of social chit-chat . |
| 8 | South West Surrey Community Health Council , a body responsible for monitoring standards of patient care , also recently confirmed their satisfaction with the service and commented on the professionalism . |
| 9 | The events of 1297 marked a new era in crown and church and in clergy-laity relations , one in which the endowments and incomes of the clergy were increasingly raided by the king and coveted by the laity to meet , above all , the soaring costs of warfare and diplomacy . |
| 10 | With a regretful sigh she closed the window again and made her way into the luxurious en suite bathroom and stripped off the shirt before turning on the shower . |
| 11 | He laid out the newspaper on the carpet and stripped off the bowl 's clingfilm covering . |
| 12 | Mrs Sweet stood up and stripped off the housecoat . |
| 13 | The subscription rates shall be subject to review from time to time and altered on the recommendation of the Finance Committee with the agreement of the Executive Committee . |
| 14 | Once we see that the relationship between a set of explanatory principles and the more specific analyses offered by social scientists must be a reciprocal one we are able to benefit from the fact that , just as social scientific practice is moulded by existing views of explanation , so those views can be refined and altered by the impact of practice . |
| 15 | With the commanding posture that was the unmistakable and indelible mark of St. Cyr , and clad in the uniform of ‘ horizon blue ’ , there was no more impressive sight on a French parade ground . |
| 16 | These will be collected and catalogued by the Institute , which will pass on to Merck any promising varieties . |
| 17 | In Incredible Era , a book on the corruption of the Harding years in the Twenties , historian Samuel Adams wrote , ‘ A president is measured , weighed and catalogued by the character of his chosen intimates . ’ |
| 18 | He did n't know the doctor and was very disorientated and frightened for the rest of that day and the next ; but on the following one it was as if it had never happened . |
| 19 | I was nervous and frightened about the future , yet excited because of being so . |
| 20 | She felt infantilised by them , but also felt bitterly that they were not fair , and she was bored and frightened at the thought of remaining bored all her life . |
| 21 | ‘ Yes , ’ said Gabriel , both excited and frightened at the prospect . |
| 22 | She was staring wide-eyed and frightened at the supper room 's open doorway which , like a proscenium arch , framed the Highland dancers and , quite suddenly , now also framed her lover . |
| 23 | She felt depressed and frightened by the time the shop closed and she was able to go home . |
| 24 | Before doing so all offers received should be examined and explained to the client with a recommendation as to which offers to proceed with . |
| 25 | The breakdown of capitalism and the advent of a new form of society are conceived and explained as the outcome of the way a particular structure — the capitalist mode of production and capitalist society — works , not as the product of a historical process ; and the post-capitalist societies which can be foreseen , or which actually exist , may be as varied as were feudal societies or the absolutist states . |
| 26 | The images that go through Alfred Hayley 's mind in the minutes before he dies follow similar patterns , but in all three cases the discursive deviation is localized and explained within the novel as a product of the suspension of reason . |
| 27 | None of the studies presents an operative model ( Rosener , in our opinion , comes closest , but her model , as she shows herself , is more heuristic than empirical ) , and so in the next section a model will be set out and explained in the light of the evaluation criteria for participation and effectiveness put forward in the first two sections of this paper . |
| 28 | In section 4.2 , demand-deficient unemployment is defined and explained in the context of a Keynesian model and its possible causes are discussed . |
| 29 | These sections will be broken down and explained by the lecturer , and further understood in your reading . |
| 30 | Greenwich Mean Time , Jonas Savimbi , the UNITA leader , telephoned his organization 's radio station , known as " Voice of the Resistance of the Black Cockerel " , and arranged for the ceasefire order to be broadcast . |