Example sentences of "[subord] [noun] and [noun] [vb past] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As always , his knack of disarming was successful , and she was even laughing as they went into the foyer of the Tudor Queen where Sam and Anna awaited them . |
| 2 | If Maud and Enid thought she was mad and would n't help her , then no one would and the only course of action was to go ahead with the kidnapping plan . |
| 3 | Shocked is making plans to sail with her father , who long ago began building a boat , until marriage and fatherhood distracted him from finishing it . |
| 4 | But unless Stevie and Buck blew it , one of them was sure to win . |
| 5 | The Phoenicians called her Astarte or Ashteroth while Greeks and Romans termed her Artemis and Diana . |
| 6 | We worked very hard while Pippin and PJ watched us with interest from the comfort of the sofa . |
| 7 | The draft treaty drew strong criticism from most EC members ; Denmark , Ireland , Portugal and the UK considered it too radical , while France and Italy regarded it as not sufficiently far-reaching . |
| 8 | Selina donned an apron and put her hair up under a baseball cap and prickled with female make-do and knowhow , while Mandy and Debby took it in turns to amuse me downstairs . |
| 9 | He lay there motionless , while James and Slatter kicked him . |
| 10 | Before Cameron and Menzies left they had written down lists of safe houses , sources of milk and meal , and secure points further west . |
| 11 | In the sister institute in the French-speaking Cameroon set up somewhat earlier at Yaounde , workers embarked more conventionally straight into a programme of materials production and were able to announce confidently that by March 1973 , ‘ about 47 tons of textbooks and 33 tons of documents have been produced ’ , but you can not profitably assess the success of a curriculum by weight ; many megatons of unprofitable material have been produced ( and will still be produced ) all over Africa just because no preliminary study had been made to ascertain whether children and parents wanted them , could afford them , read them or understand them . |
| 12 | Sixteen days earlier ‘ the Baron ’ ( as Victoria and Albert called him ) had been sent to England by her ‘ Uncle Leopold ’ as his alter ego , and was Victoria 's guest at breakfast on her first day as queen . |
| 13 | Wee Joe watched as William and Jenny poured it into bowls and dripped water into it . |
| 14 | As Hitchcock and Mitchell put it : ‘ The principle that pedestrian paths should be straight , level , smooth and free from obstruction is easily stated , as is the one that mechanical vehicles can more easily travel further or change level to achieve vehicle/pedestrian segregation . |
| 15 | A sigh shivered through them as Léonie and Thérèse joined them and knelt down . |
| 16 | He wanted the job of national regional manager — in charge of the complex network of local committees which he had himself established — and was distraught when Walsh and Hayling offered him only the assistant 's job . |
| 17 | As Bourque and Grossholtz put it , ‘ that politics is a man 's world is a familiar adage ; that political science as a discipline tends to keep it that way is less well accepted , but perhaps closer to the truth ’ ( 1984 , p. 103 ) . |
| 18 | As Tiger and Fox put it : |
| 19 | As Keeny and Panofsky put it : |
| 20 | Only when Helen and Tony told him that Helen expected a baby before Christmas did he seem to come out of his stupor of misery . |
| 21 | We acted , sang , danced — hoping always for temperate weather , dreading the sudden heat waves which lost us audiences as surely as rain and snow kept them at home — burlesques with preposterous titles ( Very Little Hamlet , The Vicar of Wideawakefield ) , comedies , farces . |
| 22 | Morris , the Gloucester left wing , did not move to cover Swift as he sprinted across again from the right wing , so Swift was left with such a clear overlap when Guscott and Fallon gave him the ball that he was able to score unopposed . |
| 23 | When Blanche and Dexter arrived he was mumbling to himself on the side of the bed , hands clasped in the lap of his dressing gown . |
| 24 | It was felt that married women like Butler should lead the movement , because her status as wife and mother gave her more authority to speak about the delicate issue of sexuality . |
| 25 | As Hildyard and Olson put it : ‘ the authority of rhetorical conditions are collapsed onto the truth conditions so that if a statement is true to the facts or to the text itself , that is sufficient condition for its being interpersonally appropriate ’ ( ibid. p. 9 ) . |
| 26 | Its various divisions — by function , class , and sex — correspond to the analysis of that society as Marx and Engels presented it . |
| 27 | It was easier to imagine the future as Marx and Engels foresaw it . |
| 28 | In the Labour party , as in the TUC , the policy to impose a 5 per cent norm had provoked much fury , and the party conference in October heavily rejected the policy , even though Callaghan and Healey made it clear that they would ignore the views of the delegates . |
| 29 | ‘ I am most concerned , ’ he was saying in French as Iris and Melissa joined them . |
| 30 | When Bill and Jenny bought it in 1977 , it was in need of a lot of tender loving care — today , much restored and refurbished it has a wealth of beams , stripped pine and attractive brick fireplaces . |