Example sentences of "and the [adj] [noun pl] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ She knew all our problems and the best ways to solve them , ’ said Mrs Lawson . |
| 2 | Rape clearly contravenes international law and she cites the 1907 Hague Conventions , the '49 Geneva Conventions and the '77 Protocols to make her point . |
| 3 | He caught his breath as the black fringes of her lashes swept upwards and the golden eyes met his . |
| 4 | Occasionally the Dwarfs will try to drive the Goblins out , or the Goblins will find some tunnel which leads them into the Dwarf tunnels , and the two races battle it out beneath the mountains . |
| 5 | The pictures , together with the museum staff and the two guards accompanying them , were turfed off from the train because the guards lacked permits to carry weapons on Latvian territory . |
| 6 | This small fish , new to science and a member of the family called sleepers , swims upside down using some of its fins to hold onto the leaf , and the other fins to propel it through the water . |
| 7 | He had a wild hungry eye , and the other boys believed him . |
| 8 | The procedure followed at Stowupland with the twelve-furrow work was similar to that already described for the ten-furrow : the head horseman , or first baiter , laid the top and the other horsemen followed him , each ploughing a round at least on a stetch . |
| 9 | And the other men saw him , and some would have sniggered at the fall that would follow such arrogance , and a few would have suffered in the knowledge that defiance brings only pain and punishment , and for one or two or three the young man who ambled erect in the first rank was a donor of comfort . |
| 10 | The man came back from the bank in a van and the other men stopped it at the gate and grabbed the money . ’ |
| 11 | His prediction excited the people in their thousands and the Dutch authorities found it necessary to explain away the Jayabhaya legend . |
| 12 | His talents , his wealth , and the changing times raised him to the court of assistants of the Levant Company from 1644 to 1648 , and in 1645 Parliament appointed him to the Goldsmiths ' Hall committee , through which Royalists redeemed their sequestrated estates by paying compositions . |
| 13 | Why should we not derive from them an understanding which includes a knowledge of both the individual causes of particular social phenomena and the holistic forces underlying them ? |
| 14 | We know that if , in the introduction of the council tax , the Government inflict on the British people what they did with the poll tax — the £10 billion that it has cost us , the increase in VAT to manipulate it and the innumerable changes to make it more acceptable — local government and the British people will face the same sort of inadequacies and misery . |
| 15 | There we dropped off one hunter and his labrador , and collected two others who had been there for several days , totally alone with their guns , their butane gas stove , the deer and the eternal forests surrounding them . |
| 16 | So we would get a screaming phone call from one of the local nurseries , and ten minutes later a howling , sopping bundle lands on the doorstep and the welcoming buti scoops it up , sick and nappies and all . |
| 17 | The clientele going in and out of the place wore all-enveloping robes , but their posture and the expensive cars suggested they were somewhat richer than most of the people who lived in the neighbourhood . |
| 18 | After this , God and the Fifth Monarchists sent her to Cornwall to preach , until she was arrested on 23 March 1654 , and imprisoned in Plymouth , then Portsmouth , and finally Bridewell in London , accused of witchcraft , madness , and whoredom . |
| 19 | The contrast between the tactile and the visual metaphors makes it plain how the latter encourage assumptions very characteristic of Cartesianism , that the clear and distinct ideas reflect things unaltered in the mind like brightly lit objects in front of our eyes . |
| 20 | There was a kind of savage irony in his voice , and the dark eyes seared her . |
| 21 | My preoccupation with the scenery of the Highlands and the western fiords leads me to feel that I should really be elsewhere , say in Glen Nevis or Torridon . |
| 22 | All of these observations of correlations between ERPs and different kinds of behaviour , including phenomenological reports , may tell us something about mental representations and the cognitive processes generating them , but they can tell us nothing about whether these representations and processes are conscious or unconscious . |
| 23 | Benson declared his availability for this year 's Ireland matches and the Irish selectors deemed he should play for Munster , the weakest of the six inter-pro teams . |
| 24 | In her fear , donkeys blundered into her , boys brushed past , and the small children followed her , dark-eyed at this curious middle-aged pink stranger , hurrying aimlessly . |
| 25 | The 3 main parties regard Cheltenham as a glistening prize , although the Tories and the Liberal Democrats say it 's a two horse race . |
| 26 | Riders from the Empire sent word to Bretonnia , Kislev , and the southern kingdoms warning them of the inevitable approach of the armada . |
| 27 | This is very clear , for example , in the beautiful crystalline Hommage a J. S. Bach ; not only do the stencilled letters and the graphic marks enable us to reconstruct the musical subject matter of the still life , but the painting as a whole seems to become an analogy of its musical connotations . |
| 28 | This time it is for real and The Black Crowes know it . |
| 29 | It was always cold on Monaghan Day , the traditional day poor farmers sold their winter stock and the rich farmers bought them for fattening . |
| 30 | On the basis of our experience and the conflicting findings reported we feel a ‘ typical patient ’ syndrome for Dieulafoy 's disease remains speculative . |