Example sentences of "and [pron] [vb past] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Late in the afternoon , a porter came along with a creaking trolley carrying a coffee urn and snackstuffs , and everyone stirred to a kind of frisky wakefulness and examined the fare keenly . |
| 2 | The information desk was manned throughout the weekend , the timetable was strictly adhered to and everyone benefited from the efficiency . |
| 3 | ‘ There were 17 players in the team and everyone got on the pitch at some point during the game , ’ he added . |
| 4 | At last , there was a cry of ‘ Silence ! ’ , and everyone looked towards the door . |
| 5 | At this there was a loud outburst of laughter , and everyone looked at a girl sitting at the back , who , scarlet in the face , ran out of the room , sobbing . |
| 6 | and everyone jumped on the bandwagon , or have they all made up their own ? |
| 7 | They could hear the sound of music coming nearer , and everyone turned as a silver band came round the corner into the main dusty street , men dressed in grey trousers and pink shirts , their instruments glistening in the morning sun . |
| 8 | The stones at its margins were bleached like bones and nothing grew at the water 's edge except rank thickets of bamboo . |
| 9 | This enthusiasm , inspired by Scottish sections , was short lived , and nothing came of the move , but it did signal a phase of agitation over representation that was to culminate in formal acceptance of the principle at the 1917 Congress . |
| 10 | The whereabouts of Flaxman 's death mask was not known , and nothing came of the suggestion . |
| 11 | Other bidders found out that I could top their bids , and no-one came to the party . |
| 12 | ‘ Everyone was looking for reasons why he left us and no-one appreciated at the time that his health was suffering . |
| 13 | I looked and I looked as the candle fought with the wax and cast a flickering light on her face , and I just could n't get over her . |
| 14 | ‘ Clark and I looked at the thing for five minutes and we said ‘ Wow ’ ’ , White told New Scientist . |
| 15 | Yet , directly I stepped out into the sunshine again , my superior self took over , and I looked at the matter differently . |
| 16 | Anyway , I come in ah , I went int kitchen , and I thought oh , there 's a loaf out of freezer , and I looked at the loaf but there 's only about four sandwiches in it . |
| 17 | We visited each weekend , and I looked after the baby during the week . |
| 18 | And I looked upon the stream of the river and saw the mouths of the kids upon the water and they drank not . |
| 19 | And I looked upon the earth and saw a dish set , and workmen lying by it , and their hands were in the dish : and they that were chewing chewed not , and they that were lifting the food lifted it not , and they that put it to their mouth put it not thereto , but the faces of all of them were looking upward . |
| 20 | show them the garden , by Saturday night I felt shattered for it and I 'd come home and I looked in the cupboard and I said Ton well what do you want for your dinner then ? |
| 21 | En route we fried and ate the well tenderised cod — this was filmed with plenty of zizzle track — and I drank to the loss of another illusion in the Scotch that will never be seen in Saudi Arabia . |
| 22 | When I came back , I went to the children 's room , to see if they needed me , and I listened for a moment at their door . |
| 23 | I can not account for its striking me more now than any other day , but it was as if new to me ; and I listened to every sentence he spoke as if to a musical composition . ’ |
| 24 | Later I descended with the songs of the skylarks still in my ears and I listened to the grumbling of the men in the mist of the grey streets . |
| 25 | Neither therapy was enjoyed and I listened to the catalogue of side effects like a reporter who had just pierced the darkest Amazonian forest and was observing a new race for the first time . |
| 26 | His bedroom door was n't shut and I listened to the stillness inside . |
| 27 | The photographer had long since gone , but Kevin Seymour and I pored over the yacht 's considerable folio of charts while we discussed in detail the cruises that have been sketched in so lightly in the previous paragraphs . |
| 28 | Making our way through the crowds — great busloads of excited if baffled-looking Rajasthani villagers — Dr Jaffery and I passed over the moat and through the outer gate , part of the indecorous additional defences erected outside Shah Jehan 's fort by Aurangzeb . |
| 29 | Dr Jaffery and I passed by a cluster of black-chadored ladies spooning ice cream under their veils . |
| 30 | One day I had to go to the clinic and I lied about the time of the appointment so I could skip a suit inspection , so I had an hour to waste . |