Example sentences of "and [pron] [vb past] [adv] in [noun] " in BNC.

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1 And I realised early in life that each word has a certain presence for me , a texture , a weight .
2 And I felt perpetually in exile from Europe .
3 I do n't think it solves anything — it 's only twenty-one years since the last lot and I saw enough in Spain to make me hate it .
4 MY husband and I arrived home in Dumfriesshire , after a memorable and highly emotional weekend in dear old Liverpool .
5 It was regarded by the authorities as the latest stage of a blood-feud which had begun over the purchase of a house , and which had already in March resulted in three deaths [ see p. 38840 ] .
6 To this list we can now add Taurus — a system which was intended to automate the transfer of ownership of company shares in a way analogous to the transfer of money in the banking system and which collapsed spectacularly in March after countless delays and problems .
7 However , the Junkers , military , civil service and politicians chose to react to the Polish uprisings of 1830 , 1846 , 1848 , 1863 and 1905 — which took place in the Russian and Austrian sectors — by seeing , not a social and political movement that harked back to French revolutionary practice , and which aimed only in part at the restoration of the Polish state , but a Polish threat to Prussian and German identity .
8 Hyde hit her across the face , and she ran away in fear .
9 Well look at the time you see I did promise at one o'clock to make five o'clock arrive earlier , quicker and we got there in style for the past four hours .
10 Besides Pamela Chrimes , Nadia Nerina had been one of the company 's early members ; John had known her briefly in Johannesburg when they were both schoolchildren , and they met again in Cape Town just before she left for Britain in October 1945 .
11 And they lived here in safety throughout the war ? ’
12 He soon exchanged a legal career for a cornetcy in the Fifteenth Light Dragoons , and they lived thereafter in English and Irish barracks .
13 This started them both giggling and they fled upstairs in hysterics .
14 And he got straight in front there .
15 With a shrill yelp she nipped him in the hind leg and he shot away in alarm .
16 While the masses and nomenklatura flocked in their hundreds of thousands to Glazunov 's exhibitions and he lived lavishly in Moscow , he ably kept going a parallel reputation for dissidence : ‘ [ He ] has been a lifetime opponent of Soviet authority , and his art has always defied the politics and prejudices of his time ’ .
17 Attempts to revive him failed and he died later in hospital .
18 In his ‘ Histoire anecdotique du Cubisme ’ Salmon records their disappointment.l Gertrude Stein writes that ‘ Tschoukine who had so much admired the painting of Picasso was at my house and he said almost in tears , what a loss for French painting . ’
19 " Its all a little bit like a fairy tale , is n't it ? " she whispered as they filed into the throne room with the other guests , and he nodded eagerly in reply .
20 Cliff 's tally of 20 League goals in 1963–64 , when he was joint-top scorer with Peter Burridge , has only been exceeded since 1961 by Mark Bright in 1988 and Ian Wright in 1989 , but Cliff again headed our list of scorers in Division Two in 1964–65 with 11 more goals , and he did so in spite of spending several games at centre-half .
21 thank you and it said there in apportionment , page one , five , three again , calculated from the date of legal completion to the end of the then current half year , will be collected on completion , please note that these are estimated only and will be retrospectively adjusted when audited accounts are available now we 've seen the reflection of that in practice this morning have n't we ?
22 But they decided against it and it went again in October .
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