Example sentences of "and [vb past] [conj] [pron] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | We all spurred and whipped as we reached the bottom of the hill to keep up pace for the snow underfoot made the going heavy , when both Bowyer 's horse and that of Southgate suddenly took on a life of their own . |
| 2 | While she phoned the switchboard and requested that they page the cardiographer , Michael Barrington the orthopaedic SR arrived and glanced at the shattered stubs of the young man 's femurs . |
| 3 | The child has been shown two sets arranged in one-to-one correspondence , and agreed that they have the same number . |
| 4 | He hummed softly ‘ There 'll always be an England ’ and joked as he shifted the weight of his rucksack ‘ as if on a walking holiday ’ . |
| 5 | When the British columnist Godfrey Winn travelled to Northern Ireland in June 1941 to interview the crew of Smith 's Catalina and found that he had the scoop of a lifetime , he was not able to use it , and based his article instead on Smith 's co-pilot , Flight-Lieutenant Briggs of the RAF . |
| 6 | Dear Guitarist I was just reading Joe Satriani 's article in your mag and found that he suffered the same as myself regarding the tremolo unit on his Ibanez . |
| 7 | She was surprised and offended when he left the room . |
| 8 | In a surprise move , NEC Corp has approached Convex Computer Corp and proposed that it market the Convex C3 minisupercomputers in Japan to plug the gap below its own SX3 supercomputers . |
| 9 | It remains true that , apart from the foral provinces , government became more effective , defined , and concentrated as it approached the subject . |
| 10 | ‘ OK , ’ she nodded quickly , and noticed as she left the veranda that Bill Hamilton had moved closer to his wife 's side and engulfed her slim artist 's hand in his larger , stronger one in a gesture of silent support . |
| 11 | Frau Nordern asked — and blenched when she heard the figure . |
| 12 | In the following year a Sussex doctor Gideon Mantell ( 1790–1852 ) found some large fossilized teeth in a pile of rocks intended for road-mending and noted that they resembled the teeth of the modern iguana . |
| 13 | They are unproven and overexaggerated and they miss the essential point . |
| 14 | Lieutenant Simon Doggett waited at the crossroads and frowned when he saw the blood on Sharpe 's arm . |
| 15 | She saw his eyes go to the coat fixture , and guessed that he knew the jacket hanging there belonged to Travis when he went and took it from its hanger . |
| 16 | Connors lit a cigarette and nodded as he inhaled the smoke . |
| 17 | The report described Than Shwe as one of the " old school " of army commanders and claimed that he resented the " brash , swashbuckling ways of Khin Nyunt and his coterie of younger officers " . |
| 18 | In earlier years , is it true that you attended a Senior Management Seminar as a representative of the International Sports Company , ( Dunlop , Slazenger , Carlton , Litesome ) , and stated that you had the two finest wooden rackets in the world and that you had no intention of following the fibreglass and graphite racket trend as it was all a flash in the pan ? |
| 19 | The pilot repeated this information and stated that he had the airfield in sight . |
| 20 | ‘ Yes , sir , ’ I said , and retreated as he began the ultimate heresy of sloshing Remy Martin 's finest on to rocks . |
| 21 | He told a press briefing that the issue remained under review , and emphasised that he hoped the legislation on unofficial strikes would help to prevent disruption of essential services . |
| 22 | The door to his room had been closed and locked when she visited the mother , and she had not bothered to come to the house when Tatyana committed suicide . |
| 23 | And then , in a very orderly way , and with a strange bell-like tinkling , the coffin broke into a collection of long icicle splinters , that rang and vanished as they touched the earth . |
| 24 | Silvia patted the hyacinth bedspread and giggled as she gave the mattress a little bounce . |
| 25 | It was travelling fast and wobbled as it hit the bumpy piece of road under the railway bridge . |
| 26 | He felt a sticky wetness on his left leg , glanced down and swore as he saw the bloodstain spreading downwards from around the bullet hole in the denim . |
| 27 | The one who was still conscious snarled and swore as she tightened the rope about his ankles , and she shook her head reprovingly . |
| 28 | She menaced me with the extinguisher 's nozzle and , because I knew Ellen did not make idle threats , and because I knew she despised all displays of macho violence , I obediently stepped backwards and watched as she transferred the extinguisher 's aim to Sweetman . |
| 29 | Wes followed me and watched as I opened the boot and laid Duke gently on top of my black working coat . |
| 30 | Then Armagh manager Jim McCorry whipped the 22-year-old student out from the wings , placed him on centre stage — and watched as he took the house down . |