Example sentences of "the [noun pl] and [noun] [conj] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eventually , the young officer weighed up the pros and contras and made the correct decision , for him and for yours truly , by delivering us to our front door . |
| 2 | First we thought something fell , but then 15 minutes later we came out and saw the crowds and police and realised it was a bomb . ’ |
| 3 | Khrushchev could never forgive him for the cruelties and stupidities that brought Russia so close to defeat by Hitler . |
| 4 | The injection of considerable sums of federal money into many American schools in the 1960s , together with the programmes and methodologies that resulted , arose from and sometimes led to the conclusion that change in education was primarily a matter of provision . |
| 5 | Here you can descend into the secret underground haunts of the Smugglers of Hastings for a journey through time , reliving the dangers and excitement that faced Smugglers and Customs Men in times past . |
| 6 | Embark on a journey through time , reliving the dangers and excitement that faced smugglers in times past . |
| 7 | Elizabeth Mowbray , faced with the conflicts and uncertainties that had beleaguered the court during the weeks following Edward the Fourth 's death , had made plans to return with Anne and Joan to Framlingham until the tumult had died down . |
| 8 | This is , of course , part of the slow , gradual , painful process whereby Ministers are forsaking , step by step , all the policies and principles that underpinned the poll tax . |
| 9 | In fact , under the policies and leadership that demanded this , Labour could n't defeat the government in the worst recession since 1931 . |
| 10 | It is in this context that we must read the definitions and practices that constituted Victorian sexuality . |
| 11 | In the 1920s America had witnessed some of the problems of the modern world that was emerging after the First World War ; the confusions and uncertainties that revealed themselves became more acute as prosperity suddenly came to an end in 1929 . |
| 12 | would virtually take over completely , the section Cricket Green — Fair Green — Tooting Junction , providing the cars and crews that worked over it as part of a through service from a central London terminus . |
| 13 | They made a great many improvements , built houses , restored the lakes and park and enlarged the mansion house . |
| 14 | Wycliffe denounced the abuses and corruption of the clergy and Papacy and insisted that the authority of the Scriptures was self-sufficient . |
| 15 | Mine was ripped and stained around the knees and elbows and had a bright yellow crutchpiece . |
| 16 | So she remained silent as the taxi carried them towards the restaurants and bars that nestled beneath blocks of luxury flats overlooking the marina . |
| 17 | The months and years that followed saw the establishment of a much more substantial Soviet presence in Afghanistan than any that had previously existed , including political and economic links as well as a growing military commitment . |
| 18 | His eyes roved her features , as if he was recalling every item of the lines and planes that made up her face . |
| 19 | He went unannounced , many times , braving the bottles and firebombs that rained on his military convoy and donated his fees , to the Army Benevolent Fund . |
| 20 | She paused by the table with the bottles and glasses and looked at him . |
| 21 | IT WAS JUST like a genteel Hampstead tea party , at which celebrities mingled with the chattering classes among the cakes and biscuits and gossiped about the people who were n't invited . |
| 22 | Its troubles begin with the regulators and public that helped to create it . |
| 23 | We hauled up the pots , removed the lobsters and crabs and dropped the pots back in the sea . |
| 24 | With a sigh she knew that in the morning when the people returned they would bring with them the rivalries and ill-feeling that had spoiled everything . |
| 25 | He had his agents out in the bazaars and souks and offered a steady price for good information . |
| 26 | Their lifestyles focused on the social networks around the pubs and clubs that had emerged in the wake of Gay Liberation . |
| 27 | Their campaign reflected the uncertainties and weakness that led the Financial Times to back Labour . |
| 28 | The tensions and conflicts that arose out of Italy 's struggle for unification were paralleled in the art of the nineteenth-century by the antagonism between Romanticism and Realism . |
| 29 | The days and nights that followed this procession became filled with the ghostly rhythms of the Ma'badong dance a cumulative mantric tone intended to induce altered states , which most successfully we found , interfered with our capacity to keep a grip on the job of filming . |
| 30 | In the days and weeks that followed , Chola was sometimes well , sometimes ill . |