Example sentences of "and the [noun pl] [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Miss Fogerty , who was in charge of the infants ' class , added her own warnings when she regained the classroom , and the infants approached their morning 's labours in a suitably sober mood . |
| 2 | I knew it , and the mechanics knew it . |
| 3 | The theatre is quite spectacular , with the seating arrangement and the plays performed there are of a very high standard . |
| 4 | She did not look at Giles at all as she spoke and the sentences piled one upon another , without restraint , like a flow of thought ; there was even a low level of enjoyment in the sense of release . |
| 5 | On the east , an open stream ran down the Steine to the sea , an area where the fishermen dried their nets and the inhabitants dumped their refuse ; it was near the outlet that Russell built his house , now the site of the Albion Hotel . |
| 6 | Last week they started breaking the wild three year olds and goodness , Raimundo and the grooms adored it , treating it like some macho game . |
| 7 | The mods were already into this music and the skins adopted it as their own . |
| 8 | The large man 's friends rose from their table and the waiters formed themselves into a solid phalanx , and all hell broke loose . |
| 9 | Well if you were that close and the lights started you 'd probably get across . |
| 10 | And the consequences made her shudder . |
| 11 | When he failed , he returned and the youths repeated their attacks , battering the woman , not named by police , with clubs and sticks . |
| 12 | The pretence that statutes merely declared existing law was dropped ; they occupied areas of national life which before they had only occasionally entered ; they became far more precisely drafted and the judges interpreted them a good deal less freely ; they were , by the reign of Elizabeth , the outcome of a definite and recognized procedure . |
| 13 | Dick and the nurses told him that , even after the pre-med , they had to chase him round the ward to get him to remove his shorts . |
| 14 | I was fifteen , and the nurses treated me as though I should n't have been there . |
| 15 | The results were announced at a special awards luncheon at The Savoy and the girls received their trophy in front of an audience of top chefs and leading personalities in the catering industry . |
| 16 | As he moved his way down on to the beach , he clumsily knocked the stones and the girls saw him and rushed to the rocks where they picked up not clothes , but sealskins which they wrapped around their bodies and then dived back into the sea . |
| 17 | Lady Southdown rose to her feet and the girls followed her out of the room . |
| 18 | He also had a small stable of girls working the docks , specializing in the new boats to put into harbour , and the girls had their instructions to discover details of the shipment … and there was always a bonus if they discovered an interesting cargo . |
| 19 | All the same he seemed popular backstage and the girls liked him , but he did n't seem to bother much about them . |
| 20 | It was the same very year and the girls loved it all . |
| 21 | They found candles in the box , and the girls lit them . |
| 22 | The drums suddenly paused and the columns shouted their great war cry . |
| 23 | He heard my father had died and the doctors said they needed to see me . |
| 24 | ‘ I was taken to Arrowe Park Hospital where I spent four hours having scans and the doctors said he seemed to be OK . |
| 25 | Once the superbike race was over McCallen presented himself again for examination and the doctors gave him the all clear for the Regal 600cc race . |
| 26 | He liked to live in company with another ; Bo-Bo had only negative virtues but , he had to admit , he would be lonely when she died , and the doctors gave her no more than a year . |
| 27 | Esther was treated with anti-coagulant drugs , and the doctors monitored her kidneys , which they feared might have been damaged as a complication of the toxaemia . |
| 28 | From a musical box in the base issued a thin , clear parody of last night 's music and the monkeys tapped their feet . |
| 29 | ‘ The letter simply thanked me for what I had done and the senders signed themselves only as Berend 's Family . ’ |
| 30 | The number of Conservative MPs in Scotland was reduced from 21 to 10 , and the Conservatives lost their last seats in Newcastle upon Tyne , Bradford , Manchester and Leicester . |