Example sentences of "and [adv] [art] [noun pl] [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | And still the buggers rejected me . ’ |
| 2 | The Qumran monks and later the Christians derived their strength in nonconformity from the same sources which Judas the Maccabee had discovered in the desert of Judaea . |
| 3 | She came home to Oxford at weekends , and she and Eleanor and Anna spent Saturdays together , and often the husbands joined them for supper . |
| 4 | About a third said unequivocally that they would not support the repeal , and even the doubtfuls expressed their opinions in such a way as to leave no doubt about the strength of their reservations . |
| 5 | Other races as varied as the Persians , Egyptians , Venetians and even the Crusaders brought their influences to Cypriot food when their armies invaded the tiny island . |
| 6 | From the early 1980s , the position began to change as first the Labour Party and then the Democrats increased their vote at the expense of the Conservatives . |
| 7 | Such was its power that both the Empire and then the Nazis dissolved it . |
| 8 | I did n't bother the milkman , but a lady kindly came and put in a little battery — and then the neighbours adjusted it and got it going . |
| 9 | There was so much of loveliness in every scene , my mind was surfeited with joys : how the far-spreading bay , with its expanse of white shell-sand , was girded by a sea which placidly reflected the blue of heaven ; and how the seaweeds left their markings in curious lines just where the last outgoing wavelet left them ; the grassy knolls girding the hollow of the bay , and the rock promontories , whose darker tones gave force to the silver lining of the breaking wavelet . |
| 10 | Although Mabel was a more sympathetic personality than her sister Ethel , when it came to discipline she was equally strict , the difference being that she did not take pleasure in enforcing the ruthless repetition that was necessary to get the routines to perfection and consequently the Girls adored her . |
| 11 | Time and again the women stressed their loss of independence and with that loss came frustration , insecurity and a sense of worthlessness ‘ commensurate with that which men experience over the loss of their breadwinner status ’ ( Coyle , 1984 , p. 107 ) . |
| 12 | At Dunsdale , around £17m of investors funds have gone missing , and again the investors thought they were investing in gilts . |
| 13 | Again he dived over the lake , and again the rooks chased him and the ducks fled . |
| 14 | Time and again the bumps lifted us off our feet . |