Example sentences of "and [conj] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He falls asleep with his head on her grave mound , to be taken away in spirit to a strange land where all his grief suddenly fades — and where to his utter delight he sees his lost child facing him , on the other side of a river . |
| 2 | Section 39 Trustee Act 1925 provides that where a trustee desires to be discharged from the trust and where after his discharge there will be either a trust corporation or at least two individuals to act as trustees , then if the trustee by deed declares that he desires to be discharged and his co-trustees consent , he shall be deemed to have retired from the trust . |
| 3 | Even in India , where Owen had served before he came to Egypt , and where in his latter years he had been seconded from his regiment to an Intelligence post on the Frontier , it had been normal practice to purchase information . |
| 4 | Winnie the Pooh by AA Milne ANGELO ABELA ( father of Lucia , 2 ) Why Weeps the Brogan ? by Hugh Scott ( Walker Books , £7.95 ) A nuclear disaster leaves Saxon and Gilbert believing that a buried museum is their world and that beyond its great doors lies only dust and darkness . |
| 5 | As they moved cautiously towards it , Fenella saw that it had opened for them just the smallest sliver and that beyond it were shards of light . |
| 6 | That was guaranteed in perpetuity , and that to me is a very sensible way of the government taking care of the arts . |
| 7 | And that to him seems to be the answer to a problem which at sometime or another must have exercised most of use , and which he explains in the pamphlet which accompanies the display ; ‘ The art gallery , that supposed refuge and den of tranquility , I find a troubled place . |
| 8 | There : people said this and that about him , but no one knew how sensitive he was , how kind . |
| 9 | We shall not be far wrong then if we say that in 1700 about one half of the arable land was already enclosed in the kind of fields that we see today , and that about one half still lay in open field , a landscape which survives today only in patches of a few hundred acres at Braunton ( north Devon ) , at Laxton ( Nottinghamshire ) and at Hazey and Epworth in the Isle of Axholme . |
| 10 | It has been estimated that between 1580 and 1650 London probably absorbed half the national increase of England 's population and that about one in every eight English people lived in London at some stage of their lives ; after 1650 the proportion was as high as one in six . |
| 11 | in the conviction that human rights and basic freedoms are of great significance as part of the all-European legacy and that respecting them is a fundamental precondition for progress in the construction of this peace order , … |
| 12 | Much remains to be learned of their activities , but what is certain is that they had converts in high places — notably Edward Wood ( of whom more anon ) , Leo Amery , and Lord Hailey of African Survey fame and immense Colonial Office influence — and that through their publication of a journal widely respected for its seriousness they kept before the eyes of the political establishment the idea of a new kind of empire . |
| 13 | She felt her hand being placed against his cheek , and then his lips pressing kisses upon it ; she pulled his hand back , and casting all caution to the winds pressed his palm to her own lips , fondling it , examining the scratched and chisel scars on his knuckles until he wanted her hand back again — and the manner in which they took it in turns to kiss hands through the wall became a competition between them to see who could demonstrate the greatest fondness , a competition that Jennifer was now desperate to win because all her instincts were telling her that Tristram was the only man she could ever love , and that through him lay her path to freedom and independence . |
| 14 | Yet more astonishingly we learn that the word of God is made flesh and is one of us and that God himself is tortured to death and that through our suffering and death we can share in God 's suffering and thereby , in some utterly incomprehensible way , in his life . |
| 15 | Nell Anderson knew she was seconds from death , and that despite her desire for it , the moment it was on her was terrifying in its violence . |
| 16 | He could sense that she had travelled far as a vagrant and had seen much and that like him she was in some way returning home . |
| 17 | For it seemed to him that the benches and bin he suddenly saw were bigger than normal and that behind them there loomed not the curves and familiar shapes of the black-painted Victorian Cages , but greater shapes that pointed darkly to the sky as mist enshrouded them in grey and made them seem alive . |
| 18 | Perhaps the most appropriate position is that these rights are necessary , but not sufficient for women 's liberation , and that in their absence things would be a lot worse . |
| 19 | I have always suffered from nightmares , and at first I thought to press one of them into service , believing that dreams speak from some inner truth , and that in their very unlikelihood lies something more plausible to our inner beings than the most prosaic diurnal life . |
| 20 | It may be that p53 or DCC inactivation have no effect until other constraints on cell behaviour are removed — for example by APC inactivation , and that in their absence alterations to p53/DCC are not selected for . |
| 21 | And besides , it occurred to her , her eyes narrowing as she continued to watch him , there was something different about him today , some quality that had definitely not been there yesterday , and that in her initial agitation had eluded her till now . |
| 22 | I remember that my chest swelled with pride the day Mrs Smelley , who owned a boarding house in the Commercial Road , told me that I was a chip off the old block and that in her opinion one day I might even be as good as my Granpa . |
| 23 | Normally I like looking through books — you know , if they got nice pictures and that in them , but I du n no — I just ai n't very interested at the moment . |
| 24 | Churchill , backed by the military leaders , persuaded the President that it was too soon for a direct assault on Europe , and that in its place there should be an Anglo-American invasion of North Africa ( Operation Torch ) to link up with the British Army already fighting the Germans and Italians in the Western Desert . |
| 25 | Anticipations of that rise exercise an influence on present sales for future delivery , and that in its turn influences cash prices ; so that these prices are indirectly affected by estimates of the expense of producing further supplies . |
| 26 | If she was not , then she must have been almost the only member of Edinburgh political society who managed to know nothing about it — and that in itself would be a comment on her political awareness . |
| 27 | George was a local boy from Croydon , and that in itself was a rarity , for virtually all the Palace staff in our first few seasons were professionals from the north of England , whom manager Jack Robson had brought with him from Middlesbrough . |
| 28 | Indeed , if anything , they seem to have been too demoralised politically to organise effectively at anything more than a local level , and that in itself is testimony to the devastating effect of the Kulturkampf and Polenpolitik . |
| 29 | You get a large volume or bulk of food for a small or moderate number of calories , and that in itself is going to necessitate considerably more chewing and take considerably more time . |
| 30 | The more successful it is , the more we are going to be able to offer subscribers , and that in itself should make it even more successful . ’ |