Example sentences of "and [pers pn] [adv] [vb past] [that] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The audience held its breath … and I secretly prayed that the manager would support me — unlike her counterpart at the Philharmonic Hall who earlier this year asked a young disabled woman to leave the hall because she ‘ offended ’ the visiting conductor . |
| 2 | Surreptitiously , I tried it , it did n't work , so I placed a coin on the palm of my hand , still it did n't work and I then discovered that the magnet was only made of wood . |
| 3 | The IRA did not operate in the area and I subsequently learned that the local paramilitary commanders were confident that their members were not responsible . |
| 4 | She and this animal treated each other with mutual contempt , like an old unhappily married couple , and I always thought that the only reason he did n't bite her or she have him put down was that they disliked the rest of the world even more than each other and would have been even more miserable and lonely than they were in their trap of hostility . |
| 5 | Mrs Bouverie knew this , and she also knew that the Loxford mothers despised her for meeting a child of ten . |
| 6 | And she also knew that the reason for her pettiness was because she feared that Silas was disappointed in Doreen 's refusal to help at the barbecue . |
| 7 | She had the feeling that this morning 's events would have been faithfully reported by Marie and she sincerely hoped that the girl did not add to her earnings by serving as a waitress here . |
| 8 | Then the funeral was held up for a few days , and we soon realised that the effect was indeed cosmetic and nothing more . |
| 9 | So that created a problem and we then found that a number of people were leaving Brothers to seek their fortunes elsewhere because the work that they liked to work on and you know traditionally they 'd been on it for years , er was no longer there and er subsequently there was a slip in the numbers employed . |
| 10 | So far as my honourable friend er is concerned he is right erm and we indeed suggested that the staff federation should be affiliated to the council of civil service trade unions to enable staff who belong to the federation to gain access to the facilities available to unions affiliated to the C C S U. Sadly , sadly the civil service unions did not feel able to accept this proposal . |
| 11 | When they came out the club went mad , and they honestly believed that the crowd thought they were good . ’ |
| 12 | In the two weeks following , he had numerous conversations with Hugh Fraser — who , of course , made common cause with him over Biafra — and they jointly decided that the document should be provided to the press for publication . |
| 13 | The Prince found something subtly annoying about Sharpe 's sardonic face , and he even suspected that the Englishman was deliberately trying to annoy him . |
| 14 | Law knew that " a year 's peerages have been hypothecated " even before he became leader , and he probably knew that the party could not do without this source of income . |
| 15 | And he also insisted that the crisis is to deep that there have to be important changes at the top within the union : ‘ There must be less politics , more work … |
| 16 | Whatever date one ascribes to the letter , Remigius conceived of Childeric 's power in terms of Roman provincial rule , and he also thought that the clergy had a right to advise , even though the ruler might be barbarian and pagan . |
| 17 | Erm and he then saw that the political authority of the landlords as the backbone of all the other systems of authority . |
| 18 | Out of his family 's travails he helped to make a fastness of domestic security — Cis , Ifor and the barricades of brothers , sisters , cousins , aunts , ever-open houses … out of the outwardly unpromising landscape of a war-battered , low-waged steel , coal and chapel culture he took a fine voice , musical knowledge , a skill in many sports , a love for learning : and he never forgot that a few shillings would and did make the difference between dignity and pity , poverty and decent comfort . |
| 19 | In an obituary , Seamus Heaney wrote , ‘ There was about him a delicate wildness , and he often thought that the hare , about which he had gathered so many entrancing stories , was his proper , total animal . |
| 20 | In post-war years , the Balloons remained in the war-time green livery long after the single-deckers , and it generally assumed that the 25 Coronations of 1953 were intended to replace them . |
| 21 | In Wyatt v Kreglinger and Fernau [ 1933 ] 1 KB 793 the restraint was contained in a letter dealing with the plaintiff 's retirement rather than in his contract of employment and it effectively said that the defendants would pay him a pension if he refrained from working in the wool trade . |
| 22 | And it soon emerged that the government had systematically arranged breaches of the Drinking Water Directive that would stretch into the next century . |
| 23 | He later remarked that if the government was to fulfil its role it should not be affiliated to any party , and it therefore followed that the Premier should not belong to any party either . |
| 24 | The Grammar School at Wigan was almost equidistant between London and Glasgow , and it naturally followed that the bulk of the passenger traffic passed in the middle of the day . |