Example sentences of "and [prep] [pron] [vb past] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and through him became a founder member of the Fitzroy Street Group , a small society of artists centred on the Soho area who were aware of post-Impressionist developments in France . |
| 2 | An enormous powder blue car , gleaming and new , its plentiful chromium winking in the sunlight , was drawn up in front of the house and against it leaned a man in a white suit . |
| 3 | Such blood , and the mud of Culloden , were the last Gaelic colours to fly over Scotland ; the clans looked straight into the mouths of Cumberland 's cannon and died , and with them expired a way of life — the Stewarts of Appin , and the Maclarens , and the Camerons , and the Atholl Brigade , and behind them Ogilvies , and behind them the prince himself . |
| 4 | Nevertheless , the Mediterranean world had found a common language , and with it went a literature which was uniquely open to all sorts of problems , debates and emotions . |
| 5 | … and from them rose A cry that shiver 'd to the tingling stars . |
| 6 | In AD 208 the Emperor Severus took personal charge of a fleet into the Firth of Forth and from it led an expedition across Fife , over the Tay valley , and on into the ever inhospitable north to put an end to these depredations . |
| 7 | He took a cardboard box and from it drew a toy consisting of two monkeys with bright brown fur and boot-button eyes . |
| 8 | The Keeper was carrying a portable cage and from it peered an eagle . |
| 9 | In sum the archaeological evidence confirms in rather a striking manner the impression conveyed by writers who held to the view that ivory connoted luxury and in itself constituted a treasure in much the same sense as gold , silver and precious stones . |
| 10 | Import substitution tended to close down markets in northern and western Europe , but for the first sixty years of the century southern Europe , especially Portugal , filled the gap and in itself provided a link between the old and new geographies of trade . |
| 11 | He had made a will about 21 years earlier and in it left a legacy of £100 to Mrs Violet Peppercorn . |
| 12 | The big pine table in the middle of the floor had been set for dinner , and on it stood a bottle of cheap wine from the village store . |
| 13 | Paul married a Jane M'Caig in June 1879 , and by her had a son and daughter . |
| 14 | Late in the eighteenth century a Glasgow industrialist , David Dale , built a cotton mill here in collaboration with Arkwright ( q.v. ) , and around it built a model village for his workers . |