Example sentences of "and [adv] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | But repeat the procedure often enough and the response will diminish and eventually the animal will no longer curl itself into a ball when touched — as if it had become accustomed to the stimulus and no longer regarded it as dangerous . |
| 32 | Boys will choose their mothers as sexual object , and eventually the identification with the father conflicts with the object-choice of the mother . |
| 33 | Rumours spread ; and eventually the day came when ‘ he was found in his shop dead , sprawled amidst rubbish around him . ’ |
| 34 | The offer caused mass protests and eventually the firm pulled out , but now it has put in another bid , believed to be £5m . |
| 35 | The paraxial mesoderm of the head region is not overtly segmented but in the trunk , and eventually the tail , there is overt metamerism in the form of somites ( Figure 1e and f ) . |
| 36 | But as the wheel slows , the energy of the ball decreases , and eventually the ball drops into one of the thirty-seven slots in the wheel . |
| 37 | A protracted legal battle ensued , but Mr Bright declined the offer of a steam engine from the colliery owners and eventually the mill closed down . |
| 38 | Sometimes the silence is never broken and eventually the caller puts the phone down , unable to bring themselves to spill out their fears and worries . |
| 39 | A querulous voice told him to go and jump in the Thames so he knocked again and eventually the door swung open to reveal a tall , gaunt figure , dressed in a long robe of dyed brown fur . |
| 40 | The smart ones drop out , the less smart linger on and eventually the sport gets them . |
| 41 | And eventually the judge took it upon himself to discharge the jury . |
| 42 | ‘ The battle was over in less than an hour , ’ says the leaflet , and eventually the Prince 's message went out , ‘ Let every man find his own way to safety the best way he can . ’ |
| 43 | Certainly , mixed race children are regarded as black by society and eventually the majority of such children will identify with blacks , except in instances where reality and self-image have not merged ( Bagley and Young , 1982 ) . |
| 44 | It was pointed out that the relocation of Mackies would create just such conditions and eventually the minority workforce will be disposed of . |
| 45 | Both rows converge upon St Machar 's Cathedral , and then wander their separate ways through Seaton Park to the River Don , and eventually the Brig o' Balgownie — ; although Johnson does not seem to have walked that far . |
| 46 | A void grows around the sewer or in the vicinity of it and eventually the ground above collapses into the void . |
| 47 | In a few years , the sward may become dominated by the coarse tussock-forming grass , Brachypodium pinnatum , and eventually the vegetation turns into some form of scrub and possibly woodland . |
| 48 | But this was too soon in my own development for me to be able to grasp the opportunity and eventually the shop closed down and Mr Farrer moved on . |
| 49 | A Welsh translation was soon published by John Cassell and eventually the book was translated into all the major European languages . |
| 50 | However , Nyerere was said to be personally opposed to this kind of personality cult , and eventually the policy was changed . |
| 51 | We did a few vocals and overdubs and eventually the album was mixed bar one track , which he did somewhere else . |
| 52 | I myself would seemingly represent the environmental lobby , but there have been others , many ex-members of Harwell , who have been campaigning for a long time now , many years , to get these reactors shut down , and it has just been a very long slog , and eventually the truth has had to come to light to shut these reactors down . |
| 53 | The complex folds introduced by Augustus were simplified in succeeding centuries , and eventually the toga was evidently only worn on formal occasions . |
| 54 | In a slow , confused , grudging process of adjustment the Labour Party attuned itself to the fight against fascism , and eventually the need to abandon its emphasis upon political independence . |
| 55 | Elstone said that Farnell 's immediate aim was to cover the whole of Europe ; and eventually the world . |
| 56 | Lorraine Shaw says … she wwent to a course at Cheltenham and the coach told her that she could be throwing as far as 60 metres in two years … now her ambition is to break the commonwealth record and eventually the world record |
| 57 | If we do this often enough , and most of us do , then these ways of being become habitual and eventually the muscle tension that is required for these unnatural positions becomes fixed into our body . |
| 58 | The horla became stronger than they , and eventually the family left the house to the devices of this ‘ malevolent force from an unknown dimension ’ . |
| 59 | Similar incidents occur over the next few months , a pattern emerges , surveilance teams are used and eventually the intruder is arrested . |
| 60 | Well , the city was n't a nice place to live because of all the silly laws the merchant had passed , and people started to leave it and go to other towns and other countries , and the merchant was spending so much time passing new laws and trying to make people obey the ones he 'd already passed that his own business started to fail , and eventually the city was almost deserted , and the merchant found that he owed people much more money than he had in the bank , and even though he sold his house and everything he owned he was still broke ; he was thrown out of his house and out of the city too , because he had become a beggar , and beggars were n't allowed in the city . |