Example sentences of "and [noun] [coord] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gwrych Castle was offered rent-free by Lord Dundonald — who also made a grant towards rates and taxes and paid half the cost of repairs — a necessarily generous offer since the castle had been uninhabited for over fifteen years . |
| 2 | I walked up to Nat , Aldo , Jimmy and Ben and said , " Can somebody teach me to ride ? " |
| 3 | Then , as suddenly as lightning streaks through the sky , they 'd disbanded , scrabbled for their ropes and karasos and disappeared , shrieking , into the forest . |
| 4 | She peered at its various buttons and dials and wondered if it were possible to wreck it by unintentional mis-setting . |
| 5 | These suggested changes in organization , assessment and teaching and recognized the key role of teachers . |
| 6 | For Clarke , football hooliganism developed at the intersection of these trends : the fans have now taken the traditional values of toughness , masculinity , local identity , collective action and partisanship and made them part of the game 's new , more spectacularised style . |
| 7 | Animal dung is spread by birds , devoured by insects , bacteria , and earthworms and mixed intimately into the topsoil . |
| 8 | Changes in the organisation of the economy have affected the relative social situation of men and women , shifted their relations of dominance and subordination and altered the significance , materially and ideologically , of the family . |
| 9 | The coeliac patients were originally diagnosed according to the procedure recommended by the European Society for Paediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition and had all been on a complete gluten free diet for at least five years and did not present symptoms indicative of active disease . |
| 10 | It may consist of a tape-slide sequence which can be shown to classes and groups or viewed singly by individuals , and conveying a particular unit of information or stimulus ; it may , on the other hand , be half a term 's work programme for a class , meeting twice weekly for an hour and three quarters each time It may appear as a number of elements in a schedule of work which also includes directed teaching , use of text book , and practical formal exercises , as well as enquiry work , the consultation of sources , and a problem-solving exercise involving the study of a filmstrip in relation to a work-sheet or a passage in a novel . |
| 11 | They did a great deal of damage to vineyards , roads , bridges and houses and threatened the villages of St Alfio , Fornazzo and Macchia . |
| 12 | A week afterwards fascist youths instigated the so-called ‘ Mile End Road Pogrom ’ , when despite the presence of 2,000 special constables at a nearby communist victory rally , a gang of hooligans smashed windows of Jewish shops and houses and assaulted all those designated as Jews that they could lay their hands on . |
| 13 | After the president 's office had released his controversial decree without any reference to a ‘ special order ’ of rule — the provision that had most alarmed the legislature — observers said it was not clear whether he had revised the decree to meet the demands of the Constitutional Court and parliament or had exaggerated its harshness in his weekend speech . |
| 14 | A more stylish and dramatic return to English tradition came about through the Arts and Crafts Movement , which stood for integrity and truthfulness and believed whole-heartedly in the use of local craftsmen and materials . |
| 15 | Susan had evidently found some coal and sticks and had lit the range ; then the heat had overcome her , and she had toppled over — and her jumper had caught fire . |
| 16 | In chapter 2 we turned our attention to the various types of bonding between atoms , ions and molecules and saw how the bonding related to the structure and properties of matter . |
| 17 | Before leaving the ground floor , make your notes and sketches and set out the approximate costs of making good the defects and of any necessary alterations . |
| 18 | But on closer examination he was forced to admit even he may have been wrong , and he demanded that the PWL stable looked after its young charges Kylie and Jason and prevented them from destroying their lives . |
| 19 | They were baked in bread , cakes and buns and crushed to make juice . |
| 20 | Finally , after he had given them a pledge supported by the oaths of Danish leaders , they completely rejected Edmund 's brothers and sons and denied that they were kings . |
| 21 | That he had a thumb in many pies was undeniable : he served as sheriff in both Surrey and Sussex and had been appointed to head a commission examining the revenues of the confiscated estates of George Duke of Clarence , the king 's brother . |
| 22 | She put down her needle and thread and went on , her voice calm with conviction , ‘ Of course we do not know what God plans for us , so we must be ready to accept His will in all things , but sometimes prayer alone will heal the one who is ill and this is the best way . ’ |
| 23 | Quickly I seized needle and thread and began to insert a few sutures in the vulva . |
| 24 | Lisa was a close friend of Tolstoy and Berdyaev but rejected their Christian ideas . |
| 25 | She folded his discarded jeans and shirt and stowed them in a locker , then turned his sleeping-bag inside out and shook it . |
| 26 | The head lay harmlessly flattened into the grass , but the broken shaft pierced through Cynan 's tunic and shirt and stabbed and splintered against his ribs . |
| 27 | So last year Philips Analytical decided to refocus its attention back onto its existing strengths and expertise and sold its Cambridge-based laboratory instrument business , Unicam , to the US company ATI in April . |
| 28 | Indeed , these appointments both enhanced and stabilized the Church in Deira and Bernicia and defined its character into the eighth century . |
| 29 | But it soon became apparent to the pioneering voluntary organizations that established them , such as the Richmond Fellowship , that patients who had been mentally unwell for years did not miraculously become capable of independent living in a short space of time ; they often needed permanent help and support and coped particularly poorly with changes in their environment and lifestyle . |
| 30 | Meade , who had accused the Osborne administration of corruption and mismanagement and promised to restore honesty and integrity in government , was sworn in as Chief Minister on Oct. 10 . |