Example sentences of "and [conj] [pron] [adv] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The slope up to the castle was winding and steep , and where they now stood was cast in shadows . |
| 2 | He was appointed to the Survey in July 1889 at the age of twenty-seven , and went to the Northern Highlands of Scotland , where he learned geological field techniques from the experienced surveyors B. N. Peach and C. T. Clough [ qq.v. ] , and where he also developed a lifelong fascination with Pre-Cambrian metamorphic rocks . |
| 3 | There was n't much welcome to overstay in the various snack parlours where he lingered ( and where he moreover imagined himself unfavourably recollected from his previous TLM vigils , holding with both hands the creaky Styrofoam container , and watching the light pour past the office windows . |
| 4 | In 1692 he published a Pharmacologia , an early work on drugs and medicines , which showed his wide botanical knowledge and where he gratefully acknowledged help from Sloane , Ray , Sherard , Doody and Petiver . |
| 5 | We tried to hope that they were going to release Franky and that they simply did n't want the rest of us to get angry and depressed . |
| 6 | Some scholars have assumed that the Minoans worshipped a Great Goddess , the Mediterranean ‘ Magna Mater ’ , and that they later divided her up into a series of more specialized divinities . |
| 7 | There were twenty five thousand , I , I would n't like to see twenty five thousand on that ground again , because I , I used to smoke at the time and we were packed that tight in the ground I could n't even get my hands down to my pockets to get a cigarette out , so the erm after the first few games they started to draw at home and then they seemed to lose the impetus and that they still held a good position in the league , but the following season Liverpool were in the second division at the time , and I , I went to that match and Walsall scored first through Colin and er , they went on to beat us six-one in the end . |
| 8 | It seems that Freud did regard most religious beliefs as unjustified by experience and by reason , and that they therefore required an explanation in terms of psychoanalysis . |
| 9 | Kit Widdows admitted to a little gentle crusading taking place here , being convinced that people would be more likely to be encouraged to come to church when they saw people enacting something that had a meaning for them and that they obviously enjoyed doing rather than being approached by someone knocking on their door . |
| 10 | He assured her that he was unhappily married , never had sex with his wife though they slept in the same bed , and that they often thought of divorce . |
| 11 | Mr Allen Abramson , a London University anthropologist who has studied initiation rituals , said that most societies used them to mark important developments in a person 's life , and that they often involved pain or privation . |
| 12 | We know that , in general , the literati became the bureaucratic agents of the established political order and that they always took it for granted that hierarchy is part of the natural order of things . |
| 13 | Nevertheless , friendship was important , and that they now had in full . |
| 14 | More specifically , his experiments showed , he claimed , that the cells always developed according to their relative position within the embryo , and this sense of position required that there be a self-organizing coordinate system which told the cells their position and that they then knew what to do . |
| 15 | Opposition MPs claimed that there had been only one small bookmaker in favour and that everyone else had either objected or been neutral . |
| 16 | The guitar was described as a 1967 Fender Strat but I have since discovered that it was made in 1974 and that I therefore paid about £250 over the asking price . |
| 17 | It was for these reasons that I was unable to accept any of the submissions advanced on behalf of the applicant , and that I therefore concluded , in agreement with the other members of the Appellate Committee , that the appeal should be allowed . |
| 18 | I can claim that I did , and that I never breached that trust , assuming that I had any information of a sufficiently intriguing character to make it worthwhile betraying a friend . |
| 19 | Another poem that I have dated in the typescript ‘ December , 1957 , Plaza de Anaya , Salamanca ’ , is one I was able to write for myself , and that I never showed to Dana . |
| 20 | David was n't very happy about me being so blunt , but I think in a way it made him realise that I was really straightforward and that I really did care . |
| 21 | They claimed that the ruling nullified the government 's argument that it had no liability for the death of the Palestinian because it was an act of war , and that it effectively restored the government 's response to the intifada to the status of a police operation . |
| 22 | This is not to say that practice was unsatisfactory : rather that it was highly variable and that it mostly had little to do with PNP , despite the Authority 's intentions and despite its being written into the job specifications of PNP appointees . |
| 23 | At the same time the West German government stated its suspicions that the Chilean government was concealing deeds occurring in the colony and that it thus shared responsibility for " the reported tortures , maltreatment and denial of personal liberties " said to be taking place there . |
| 24 | In a press conference in Rabat on Aug. 14 Hakim said that the attitude of the Algerian government , and specifically of Defence Minister Khalid Nezzar , had changed , and that it now recommended that a " rapid settlement " with Morocco be found . |
| 25 | WG claims that it overpaid for Alkar by almost £2m , and that it subsequently poured £11.2m into the company in an attempt to rescue it . |
| 26 | Romania 's Foreign Ministry had said on Jan. 18 that the organization had " lost its raison d'être " , and that it too favoured its dissolution . |
| 27 | On Oct. 1 , the head of the sixth IAEA inspection team , David Kay , said in Bahrain that Iraq would have developed a nuclear weapon within 18 months had the Gulf war not intervened , and that it still possessed the technology to manufacture a nuclear weapon within five years . |
| 28 | It is a clear indication of the quality of Vic Rouse 's goalkeeping ability that he succeeded the great Roy Bailey between the Palace posts , then went on to set up a club record 238 Football League goalkeeping appearances ( since exceeded only by the invincible John Jackson ) , and that it then took another goalkeeper destined for the 1st Division in Bill Glazier to oust him . |
| 29 | The court ruled that there was sufficient evidence for a sixth charge , of complicity in the execution of seven Jewish hostages in 1944 , but that this was not a crime against humanity since it was not part of a " methodical extermination plan " , and that it therefore fell under a 20-year statute of limitations for the prosecution of " ordinary " war crimes . |
| 30 | They told us that he had insulted most of their friends , and that he dearly loved a political argument . |