Example sentences of "and [noun] [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 By the end of the decade it was Gloucester , not the bishop , who dominated the region and contemporaries knew it .
2 By the end of the decade it was Gloucester , not the bishop , who dominated the region and contemporaries knew it .
3 Galileo had already opened the door to natural philosophy , and Hobbes supposed he was following Gilbert , Kepler , Gassendi , Harvey , and Mersenne , through it .
4 We made the camp and Melanie shot me a smile as she jumped out .
5 He had a winging moustache and a goatee beard but he moved tentatively , uncertainly , and Melanie guessed it was Finn who worked him .
6 We assumed they had taken care of the details and Ayling and Pascoe believed everything was all right . ’
7 But as they walked towards the car park , buttoning up their coats against the frost , footsteps came up quickly behind and Pascoe joined them .
8 At a speed that neither could match Louisa and Horrocks saw him hasten back down the lake .
9 Without saying anything further , Millie turned and went back into the house ; and Ben followed her , there to see Aggie shambling into the room , and although her eyes looked full of sleep , their powers of discernment were indeed wide awake .
10 And Ben raised his eyebrows as Aggie looked at him .
11 He was based in London and Ben felt he would be sympathetic to the subject .
12 Ben ! ’ he called , and Ben stuck his head out of a cubicle .
13 Karen thought of Tony , and Jessica knew it from her face .
14 She sat down to rage silently but in spite of every effort to work herself up rage would not come and honesty forced her to face facts .
15 She had stopped her tears with the heel of her hand , and face-paint smeared it .
16 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 .
17 Then they snapped back to attention and Doyle shook his head .
18 The Ehrenreichs suggest that between 1880 and 1920 in the USA , medicine , law , social work and teaching established themselves as professions , whilst , for example , engineering did not .
19 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 .
20 The shifting , nomadic way of life of the primeval hunter-gatherers , along with their inability to store food and their elementary level of technological development meant that rough egalitarianism and fluid relations of superordination and subordination characterized their way of life .
21 But examination of each one at , for example , Oxford , Bristol and Hull revealed their inapplicability to the Cambridge situation and Green was forced to continue to attempt to negotiate a unique arrangement , whereby both bodies might achieve agreement on a co-ordinated scheme for the development of adult education in rural areas .
22 And Beryl phoned my dad .
23 Right , now , we 've talked about very briefly , touched on the division between university and the city , and obviously the erm differences between the King and Parliament exacerbated what happened in the city .
24 That was understood , and Sabina rubbed her arm to ease the bruising , then began to attend to Catti , puffy from sleep , like a bird with its feathers fluffed up to keep warm ; and then , with a sidelong look at Rosa , began humming ,
25 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 .
26 And Taylor showed his brain is still functioning with a resilient game plan that countered Brazil 's touch-passing and darting spin-offs .
27 Their structures and attitudes alienated me from participating more fully .
28 In the end , Butterworth and Clibber gave their reluctant assent .
29 Waterman hit back saying both Kylie and Jason knew they were successful actors before their pop success and were aware of the dangers .
30 I just do n't know what was wrong with it , I 've work , Jason said Ja we a subject turned to what he wore in bed Ja and Jason said nothing , right but he said when it 's winter I wear my t-shirt and the pants and I cuddle up to my glow worm and we was all taking the mickey out of his glow worm , right so I 've come home and I read the paper and I 'll see glow worm in it , so I cut it out and give it to him and he stuck it up in the factory !
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