Example sentences of "and [adv] [pron] [vb past] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And on they travelled through the forest until they came to a place where the roads crossed and there sat an old woman resting on a stone . |
| 2 | Simultaneously with the AID and AIH , the Forts were trying to adopt , but with no great success , and eventually they turned to the US , which has a more relaxed attitude to age . |
| 3 | The sudden change of colour on the wall had upset its sense of direction and it buzzed about angrily and eventually it came into the porch where I was sitting and it stayed there for a few minutes and then went outside searching the wall again for the entrance . |
| 4 | Left and right we turned under the sick orange of the streetlights , then stopped . |
| 5 | I felt the tears welling up in my eyes and suddenly they spilled over the sides and dripped down my cheeks . |
| 6 | Her feet found wings and suddenly she twinkled with the spirit of Fred Astaire . |
| 7 | After our return from France we felt that we still did not have the complete story of that operation , and so we went to the Public Records Office at Kew to look up the records of 22 Squadron over that period . |
| 8 | I had found myself staggering from one situation to the next … we decided then that I was doing the same thing wrong you see , and so we looked at the actual practice … |
| 9 | Zuwaya did not say , ‘ and so we turned to the Turks for aid ’ , but ‘ we won , and our rights prevailed ’ . |
| 10 | We really felt that this was a book to push on , and so we talked to the trade very early on , consulted them on the jacket and so on . |
| 11 | His apartment in New York would be no place to keep an African antelope , and so he came to the nature reserve where I was working . |
| 12 | I was intrigued by this and so he went to the store room and eventually returned with a pile of prints . |
| 13 | Teclis could not refuse such an honour and so he returned to the Tower of Hoeth . |
| 14 | Some of Hugo 's drunken friends told him to let the hounds chase her , and so he ran from the house and unlocked the dogs . |
| 15 | And so he climbed to the mountains and there , high in the mountains , in an old stone building lived a man with hair down below his waist . |
| 16 | An evening thunderstorm suggested that the situation would not be CAVOK , and so I struggled with the telephone . |
| 17 | When I first went to work , I went and joined the union , there was n't one in the factory I was working in and so I went to the nearest er trade union office and joined . |
| 18 | And so I waited for the darkness of the Tongan night to lift , my fingers tightly crossed . |
| 19 | And so I ran to the forge to fetch him . |
| 20 | Oh I know , he said erm , let me see , oh he says , er like that , if it was a narrow road er you er pretty well covered the road and I looked , I said , covered the road , I said I know I 'm big , but not that big a and of course everybody , the magistrates on the bench and everybody laughed , you see and there were newspaper reporters sitting down there writing all this down , you see and so I said to the sergeant , I said , would you be kind enough to send me a newspaper to er tonight and he to I am not sure if I can oh yes I think I did . |
| 21 | ‘ And so I broke into the palace , with a sponge and a rusty spanner . |
| 22 | Nothing could take that from her , and so she clung to the memories . |
| 23 | The bedroom was on the same level as the terrace , the small sitting-room and the kitchen , and so she waited for the sound of another door or footsteps on the stone staircase down to the entrance hall . |
| 24 | And so she got through the week , surviving mainly on humour and philosophy , but occasionally resorting to sarcasm with particularly obtuse patients . |
| 25 | She liked Min and Jo and so she walked past the newsagents smiling , without noticing until she was almost at the next newsagents , which ran out of her newspaper by ten in the morning . |
| 26 | Jessie was already in bed but not asleep , and so she sat on the side of the bed and , her voice just a whisper , she said , ‘ Listen . ’ |
| 27 | And so it continued over the next two years ; more and more presents , each one more costly than the last . |
| 28 | And so it remained until the mid-1950s , by which time controls were as deficient in " moral considerations " as they were on " logical and economic grounds " . |
| 29 | And down they went into the village . |
| 30 | Of twenty-eight new signings for Aston Villa in 1893–4 half never played and only one continued with the club for more than three seasons . |