Example sentences of "and [conj] [noun prp] [vb past] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had also confirmed that the affair with David Parkin had been a public secret on the programme for several months , and that Nicola had whispered to several people that she had been promised Jane Pargeter 's job by Blufton . |
| 2 | A very old friend of the family wrote to me when each of my parents died , and from her I had learnt that Sarah had decided to have no more children after Emma , and that Emma had gone to medical school so she is presumably now a doctor somewhere . |
| 3 | Gen. Kassem asserted that Kuwait had been an integral component of the southern Iraqi province of Basra under Ottoman rule and that Iraq had succeeded to Turkish territorial sovereignty over Basra with the dissolution of the Ottoman empire after the First World War . |
| 4 | It was not that her therapist was possessed of unusual wisdom or insight and that Scarlet had learned from her : it was just that Scarlet had discerned her way of thought and her approach to the problems which beset the insecure and so found her entirely predictable . |
| 5 | And that Famlio had come after us to get it . |
| 6 | If , until that moment , Cassie had laboured under the misconception that Bella was an ill-educated , ill-bred and mercenary little tart and that Johnny had married beneath him , as she believed the proper expression to be , then the sound of Bella 's voice dispelled any such comforting illusion . |
| 7 | And although Ross had insisted on regularly visiting his brother and sister-in-law in hospital , it was on Laura 's own slim shoulders that most of the daily problems had fallen . |
| 8 | But if it was , and if Kingdom had come to Rhodes with some sinister intent — to lure Heather away , to abduct her , to seduce her — what of the photographs ? |
| 9 | and if Geoffrey chose to conciliate in aristocratic disputes over property , he was forced to the same resort on matters of crime ; even powerful princes refrained from tough measures against those supporters essential to their own position . |
| 10 | Willis had never known many children , and until Nenna had come to the boats he had rather tended to forget there were such things . |
| 11 | She said it would be a sin if they were turned out when she died , with Mister Johnny the way he is , and after Hepzibah had cared for her so well all these years . |
| 12 | At the next attempt , Odom excluded and when Cheshire had to take on the two Newcastle riders on his own , the result was just the same as in the initial race . |
| 13 | He adored her for it and when Wilson chose to murmur against her interest , saying she could not see how it could be real , he was angry and said she was narrow and selfish , like most women . |
| 14 | Then I did ask myself if we would see this place again ; and when Jaffa started to disappear to our starboard , I remember I said to myself : ‘ If this ship could turn round now , I would return to Jaffa . ’ |
| 15 | So they risked all , and late one night when she heard a low whistle she rose from her straw pallet in the lower scullery and crept out of the house ; and when Tristram had climbed over the wall , she gave herself to him there on the midnight grass with the summer moon blazing down through the trees and the scent of honey wafting up from the silent hives . |