Example sentences of "and [noun pl] [conj] [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | But it was the glory of Sgurr an Lochain , faceted and sculpted in ice and snow and with golden light gleaming from its snowfields and cornices that entranced me . |
| 2 | She sampled calamares and boquerónes and dipped her bread in the marinade . |
| 3 | Bradbury delivered a lecture to the Royal Institution of Great Britain on Nature-Printing : its Origin and Objects and published it in 1856 . |
| 4 | Failure of heirs , or the survival only of heiresses , was exploited by the king himself for the benefit of his own sons , who expected endowments and titles as befitted their rank and who by virtue of their birth played a leading part in aristocratic society . |
| 5 | They recorded information on the circumstances of the death and the symptoms and signs that preceded it on a form that included both an open history of the final illness and screening questions for the presence of common symptoms , followed by the application of appropriate modules with precoded answers . |
| 6 | The particular forms adopted by Greenfield , Hildyard and Olson can be related to the social formations and institutions that generated them , in this case specific academic institutions , just as in oral societies statements about truth are expressed and validated in terms of such complex forms and institutions as witchcraft , religion , cosmology and ritual . |
| 7 | As such , the continued separate attitudes of Nottinghamshire miners towards the working practices implemented by the NCB ( see Krieger , 1983 ) point to the fact that the Dukeries culture has lasted long after the events and institutions that created it , and provide a basis for appreciating why Nottinghamshire was different in 1984–5 . |
| 8 | At just over six foot , with thick curling brown hair and eyes that owed their startling blueness to his Irish ancestry , Tom was used to being the object of female appreciation whilst being slightly puzzled by it . |
| 9 | Talbot thanked him , rose , washed the sleep from his face and eyes and made his way to the admiral 's quarters . |
| 10 | The General wore white tie and tails that accentuated his normal elegance . |
| 11 | Understood the dreams and images that tormented him , the listless refusal of his shrouded days . |
| 12 | Because someone told you something and your imagination got to work , generating negative thoughts and images that gripped you . |
| 13 | There 's one thing , best shot 's he played in that innings down at Hove and it was a short boundary , it was a good deal shorter , in fact this one we have here at Lord 's in this match , is a six over cover off good old Lester Piggott who was steaming downhill there at Hove all arms and legs and eased him over for six . |
| 14 | The next day , before a meeting with the United Nations electoral observer team , Ortega parted the sea of cameramen and journalists and approached me . |
| 15 | The agent stopped struggling and hung there , aware of the pain in his wrists and the rasping against his skin , but even more conscious of the massive welts and blisters that covered his throbbing hand . |
| 16 | Thereafter , the defendant must have pulled down her pants and tights and stabbed her private parts a number of times . |
| 17 | That is getting away from the old system whereby the County Council held a vast store of advisers in Macclesfield House , stacked up , and schools that needed them requested them and off they went , but schools in fact that wanted perhaps a different sort of advice , was n't able to get it from Macclesfield House , and could n't buy it outside because it did n't have the money to do so . |
| 18 | Fortunately his friends repurchased his goods and chattels and presented them to his wife ; they also paid off what he owed . |
| 19 | But instead , she had let him drive her back to the flat ; had stood by in mute acquiescence while he 'd ransacked her drawers and cupboards and packed her a bag . |
| 20 | The five of us ate Jonjoli ( which tasted like seaweed with onion ) and chips and drank lots of Russian Manavi wine and chatted to several rowdy locals , who gave us bunches of flowers and told what they thought about living in Georgia . |
| 21 | middle of his half-eaten plate of fish and chips and pushed it away . |
| 22 | I bought some Liquorice Perfections after my pie , beans and chips and sucked them on the bus to Thurso . |
| 23 | For example , the 1986 Act removed the right to benefit for most 16- and 17-year-olds and made it a requirement that claimants pay 20 per cent of their rates/poll tax and 100 per cent of their water rates . |
| 24 | In the 1920s America had witnessed some of the problems of the modern world that was emerging after the First World War ; the confusions and uncertainties that revealed themselves became more acute as prosperity suddenly came to an end in 1929 . |
| 25 | He saw the tree rise up off the stage and did not see the rope and pulleys that raised it . |
| 26 | We took out the Magellan global navigation system , borrowed ADF radio , life-raft and vests and packed our bags . |
| 27 | He cleaned my clubs and shoes and returned them to the Inn 's store room ready for the next round of golf . |
| 28 | The explosion blew out the windows and door , and shattered the banks of units , sucking up a whirling storm of glass and wires that whiplashed their arm-covered heads . |
| 29 | They had grasped her by the wrists and feet and dragged her to the neighbouring room . |
| 30 | Frankie had scrubbed his hands and feet and dampened his hair with water to make it lie flat and tidy against his head . |