Example sentences of "and [art] [noun pl] [vb past] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 And the consequences made her shudder .
2 He heard my father had died and the doctors said they needed to see me .
3 ‘ I was taken to Arrowe Park Hospital where I spent four hours having scans and the doctors said he seemed to be OK .
4 On command , the vans raced to the side of the road , the cordon parted , and the demonstrators found themselves facing a mounted police charge at full gallop .
5 ‘ We shall not need to use that formation again , ’ Thorfinn said , and saw that the forest was quiet and the scouts had nothing to disturb them before turning to walk to his men .
6 She did n't seem to be as strong as in her young days , and the socks stopped her catching him with her toenails .
7 When the price of graphite fell in 1900 and the mines closed they returned to their villages ; one result was an increase in the number of cases of cattle stealing in the Western and Southern Provinces of fifty-six per cent over 1899 .
8 There was a public meeting , and the residents said we do n't want it .
9 Or for instance , we decorated two of our lounges and the residents discussed what paints and paper they 'd like on the walls . ’
10 So he was operated on , and the vets found he had a misplaced colon , put it right and stitched him up .
11 Cook 's skipped it , and the others said they 'd already talked to you . ’
12 And the members said they hoped the widespread devastation caused to buildings in the city would never be repeated .
13 Kuala Lumpur acquired at the beginning of the century one of the most spectacular stations in Asia , where building and train-shed were conceived as one architectural whole and the trains entered what seemed like a cross between an extravagant Oriental palace and a mosque .
14 Dorothy Mitchum , his wife since 1940 , tried to get him to move away from the West Coast after eight years of marriage , but he did n't want to leave so she and the children left him to go and live in New York .
15 Wreathed with white wistaria , they are half-hidden behind a ghostly phalanx of variegated osteospermum , Salvia argentea , white allium and a banksiae rose which has managed to escape predatory Wicklow deer .
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