Example sentences of "and [noun pl] [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the end of the decade it was Gloucester , not the bishop , who dominated the region and contemporaries knew it . |
| 2 | By the end of the decade it was Gloucester , not the bishop , who dominated the region and contemporaries knew it . |
| 3 | Influenced by these dreams , beautiful mornings seemed to mock her waking despair , but once she had shaken herself free from their shades , sun , sky , trees and birds enveloped her like a benediction . |
| 4 | Their structures and attitudes alienated me from participating more fully . |
| 5 | During the 1920s writers and artists used it as their club and about ten thousand letters arrived there daily for clients who were staying in Paris or elsewhere in Europe . |
| 6 | Data could pop up in boxes around the screen , and in due course graphics , mice and icons led us into the wimps era ( window , icon , menu , pointer ) . |
| 7 | Sides are coming here to block us and Spurs did it very well . ’ |
| 8 | In London , the City Panel of Takeovers and Mergers said it was following the situation . |
| 9 | Richard Dreyfuss was booked one week and on the night of the show a confusion over dates and times led his film company to arrange a business call that linked up Los Angeles , London , Australia and New York and he just had to be there . |
| 10 | However , as shopping still had to be done , schools reached and roads crossed whatever the road width or traffic volume , accident levels continued to rise and living environments to deteriorate . |
| 11 | The key figure here was Cardinal A. Bea , the veteran biblical scholar whose experience and contacts fitted him uniquely to head the Secretariat for Christian Unity , to develop sensitive relations with both Christians and Jews , to bring all this manifold competence to the redrafting of Dei Verbum and the production of Nostra Aetate , and to foster the desired biblical renewal both pastorally within the Church and by ecumenical co-operation . |
| 12 | A transitional coalition government led by Popov and comprising the BSP , the UDF , the BZNS and independents replaced it on Dec. 20 [ see pp. 37865 ; 37923 ] . |
| 13 | Wycliffe had scarcely spoken since leaving the hall and Scales knew him too well to try to involve him in conversation . |
| 14 | Variety artists from the declining vaudeville theatres found new careers , and cinemas interrupted their programmes to relay the " Amos'n Andy " comic show rather than those their audiences ! |
| 15 | Anarchy was over and there now began the reign of one of the strongest kings ever to rule England , one whose territories and titles gave him authority over a great part of north-western Europe . |
| 16 | Clearly many of the schemes and proposals outlined there were to find full or partial implementation in the Butler Education Act , the creation of the Welfare State and a National Health Service , the New Town and National Parks Acts , and the nationalisation of basic industries . |
| 17 | FEDERAL officials yesterday made one arrest in their search for the bombers of the World Trade Centre in New York and authorities said they were looking for other suspects . |
| 18 | All the assets and operations acquired which do not fall within this business segment are treated as ‘ business held for resale ’ in the accounts . |
| 19 | We ate piroshky and bouillon and fragolli told us what sort of morning he had had negotiating the sale of girdles . |
| 20 | Let it grow automatically as new groups of traders and merchants directed their steps there and decided eventually to settle and build there . |
| 21 | Anti-fascists argued that whoever was to blame for the violence , the police and courts treated them more harshly , and the National Council for Civil Liberties certainly produced reliable testimony to back up those claims . |
| 22 | A few cars honked their way through the crowds and cyclists rang their bells . |
| 23 | Poulson and Associates made it clear that they were not a ‘ financial development company ’ but that they could locate a suitable such investor for the scheme . |
| 24 | We are not claiming that personal leadership is all important but rather that Mrs Thatcher 's personality and policies enabled her to take advantage of the constellation of events and ideas . |
| 25 | Their aim was to ensure that contracts were given and policies enacted which favoured their interests in making profits . |
| 26 | A SONOROUS voice from some unseen depth wafts the audience back to the darkest days of the Raj where murky affairs were afoot , when life was cheap , gentlemanly double-dealing was routine and deeds could be done and curses uttered which would pursue a man back to civilisation and England . |
| 27 | He simply said something about it 's being his land and Piers told him we had made a mistake and we all rode off as hard as we could because we were bursting with laughter — ’ |
| 28 | And Piers saw himself being seen and put on a clever sort of don't-mind-us smile . |
| 29 | Jeffrey 's family and supporters suspected it to be a plot hatched by Captain Lake and his friends . |
| 30 | Her friends and supporters showered her with mail . |