Example sentences of "and [noun] [vb past] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Karen thought of Tony , and Jessica knew it from her face . |
| 2 | The Woman gave him one look and then switched off the light and Doyle settled himself in the chair and sat silently in the shadows . |
| 3 | Influenced by these dreams , beautiful mornings seemed to mock her waking despair , but once she had shaken herself free from their shades , sun , sky , trees and birds enveloped her like a benediction . |
| 4 | It was late in the afternoon when we arrived , and Taylor took me for a drive through the town , which apart from the centre had been badly damaged . |
| 5 | Their structures and attitudes alienated me from participating more fully . |
| 6 | That being the case , Ann and I quickly arranged to visit our son , to see his new home — and have a few casts ; and Blair took me to where he had landed his sea-trout , in the sea-pool between Clett headland and Rubha Glas , over the golden sands at Geireann . |
| 7 | Remember when Dad found that puffball up there and Mum did it with bacon — ? ’ |
| 8 | His occupancy lasted until 1 761 , when he sold it to another local clothier , John Cox , in whose family it remained until 1818 when Elizabeth and William leased it for seven years to the partnership of John Cox and Weston Hicks . |
| 9 | You could n't get fatter than he was in gold , and he wanted to give it all away to the revolution ; he was Malatesta 's friend , and Malatesta parted him from his money , sweet and easy does it -all they got for their pains was years of exile and prison , and a few dead policemen . ’ |
| 10 | And Lisa hated herself for that . |
| 11 | It was a statement of fact rather than the opening shot in an argument and Trent accepted it as such . |
| 12 | She pitched forward into the flooded darkness of the interior , and Trent heaved himself after her . |
| 13 | Data could pop up in boxes around the screen , and in due course graphics , mice and icons led us into the wimps era ( window , icon , menu , pointer ) . |
| 14 | They were gradually weaned off the drugs and Valnet treated them with internal doses of essential oils instead . |
| 15 | They were helpless , and Medoc had them at his mercy . |
| 16 | Then between us we carried her to the river and rolled her in and Nour washed himself at the edge of the crocodile pool . |
| 17 | The victory ended a run of three successive defeats , and Shell showed himself to be a relatively undemonstrative head coach prepared to listen to the advice of his assistant coaches and players before calling the big plays . |
| 18 | When she was leaving , John reappeared and he and Sarah accompanied her to the corner of Magdalen Street . |
| 19 | Dark grey eyes , Celtic eyes , were ironic , as was his smile as Giles made the introductions , including Cavell Fielding , and Maria returned it with her own piquantly imperfect smile . |
| 20 | She was nineteen , the age Maria had been when she had first felt the power of Luke 's attraction , and Maria regarded her with ironic envy , wishing she could have reacted as insouciantly , her awe and admiration as impersonal as Penny 's , Luke confined to some remote pedestal along with other out-of-reach heroes , contact undreamed-of . |
| 21 | She confessed that the bitter jibes and over-exposure led her to the precipice . |
| 22 | All these complicated arrangements of status and privilege contained plenty of combustible material . |
| 23 | Mona and Sheila met her at Dublin Airport and the three sisters drove to Great Meadow in Mona 's car . |
| 24 | A transitional coalition government led by Popov and comprising the BSP , the UDF , the BZNS and independents replaced it on Dec. 20 [ see pp. 37865 ; 37923 ] . |
| 25 | Messiahs appeared , as we all know , under the procuratorships of Cuspius Fadus and Antonius Felix , and Josephus decried them as men who deceived and deluded the people by their pretence of having received from God in the wilderness the signs of liberty ( Jos . |
| 26 | Pollensa and Alcudia were in the north of the island and Fernando owned nothing in that region . |
| 27 | The king 's mother and sister took her to their hut and they prepared the finest clothes for her . |
| 28 | I am certain Lorentz and Fitzgerald regarded themselves as realists , interpreting the experiment on the speed of light in terms of Newtonian ideas of absolute space and absolute time . |
| 29 | Although it missed the clarity of the session version , it was still strong enough to make number one in the independent charts and NME picked it as its single of the week . |
| 30 | There was a gradual movement towards the door and Patrick allowed himself to be carried with it . |