Example sentences of "and [vb past] [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They laughed a little hysterically , and whispered to each other to be quiet and then laughed again , drunk with the joy of touching hands and the scent of their bodies in the dark . |
| 2 | Slowly , they got together at the far end of the house and whispered to each other . |
| 3 | So they sat on a blanket and clung to each other , tears streaming down their cheeks . |
| 4 | Miles which in Classical times denoted an ordinary soldier had , by the eleventh century , come to mean ‘ knight ’ and led to such forms as Miles Parliamentalis = knight of the shire , and miles agrarius = holder of a knight 's fee . |
| 5 | That sort of language encouraged the many resentments Americans harbour against high culture ( remember the disparagement of Adlai Stevenson as an ‘ egghead ’ ? ) and led to such curiosae as the Chicago attack on an Eric Fischl painting in which a fully clothed boy looks at a naked man swinging a bat . |
| 6 | This , coupled with the corruption and favouritism of many of the officials who administered it , made it widely unpopular and led to much evasion of the obligations it imposed . |
| 7 | But the entire episode promoted anti-union sentiment , not only amongst Conservatives , and led to many cries for legislation on picketing to clip the power of the overmighty trade unions once and for all . |
| 8 | So he turned into Gambrinus 's and sat himself down at a small ironwork and marble table , and asked for some water . |
| 9 | On May 13th , after days of heavy selling by the markets — and heavy buying by Spain 's central bank — the government suspended its obligation to defend the peseta , and asked for another realignment of the system . |
| 10 | Under William and Anne a certain degree of ideological adjustment can be detected for both parties , as the Whigs shed their Country wing and became to all intents and purposes a Court party , whilst the Country platform came to be absorbed within Toryism . |
| 11 | How we laughed and rode throughout that day , |
| 12 | They bantered and argued with each other , laughed raucously , became angry and fell into sulks , changing moods as quickly and as unpredictably as children . |
| 13 | The Secretary shall minute the proceedings of each meeting such minutes to be produced , and read and passed at each sederunt . |
| 14 | A motion was proposed and passed at that meeting , which set out general suggestions concerning a possible way forward . |
| 15 | He could also play a variety of instruments ( and passed on this ability to his children ) and knew songs and melodies which had never been written down — just passed on from ear to ear via generations of Dalesmen . |
| 16 | The huge whorled fingers uncurled and passed on either side of his waist . |
| 17 | Maybe Daine had gone dybbuk and passed into another body . |
| 18 | Then , it is said , Aenarion lay down beside his steed and passed from that age of the world . |
| 19 | I hope you 'll pick out what 's got to come from the East Midlands National airport , can I remind you that a list of that has already been made and passed by this council when there was not a Conservative majority and that had on it about seventy traffic calming schemes bottlenecks 'll be done all over this county which in themselves save accidents and save lives . |
| 20 | He was a brilliant scholar , and lived for some time at ‘ Titeup Hall , ’ Dalton . |
| 21 | In addition to having worked in Germany and the USSR , and lived for some time before the war in France , I was brought up for the first five years of my life in India in a native state where I was the only white child . |
| 22 | Through this work she met and married a dashing test pilot who was the son of a wealthy Boston brain surgeon , had two children and lived in some style on Long Island where Jack spent many holiday breaks , lapping up the upper-class luxury . |
| 23 | They belong to a charmed group known collectively as ‘ the lobby ’ and reviled in some quarters as the slavish lackeys of the Government . |
| 24 | ‘ I messed around with it and got into this thing of splitting up the amps because I always thought that the guitar was a bit flat in mono . |
| 25 | On an individual level I have been supported and validated by many lesbians of Afro-Caribbean and Indian sub-continent descent . |
| 26 | specifically and tailored to that child . |
| 27 | After they had eaten and sunbathed a little , they cleared everything away and moved to another hedge to pick more berries . |
| 28 | ‘ Well , you ca n't do that here , ’ said the Dormouse crossly , and he got up and moved to another seat . |
| 29 | The man eyed Doyle contemptuously then muttered something to himself and moved to another table and sat down . |
| 30 | She was rejected by her family and moved to another town , where she struggled to bring up her son alone and unsupported . |