Example sentences of "and the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do you remember those lovely Himalayas with snow on them in the distance , the picnics out to Wildflower Hall ( Lord Kitchener 's old residence ) , the horrible rock pythons twined round an Indian 's neck ( they were harmless ) , the lepers that bothered Rachel , and the teas at Davico 's ? |
| 2 | The young Beatrice Potter , anonymously living among the textile workers of Bacup , had no doubt that she shared the lives of the ‘ comfortable working class ’ — dissenters and co-operators , a tight community without the casual , marginal or ‘ unrespectable ’ , surrounded by ‘ the general well-being of well-earned and well-paid work ’ , ‘ the cottages comfortable and well-furnished , and the teas excellent ’ . |
| 3 | Let's have a look at some of the closing questions , erm , before we we run out of time and the teas ready . |
| 4 | Located in the Heart of the City 's shopping centre , convenient for Symphony Hall and the I.C.C . |
| 5 | NEWCASTLE UNITED were so bad against New Zealand on Tuesday , said Kevin Keegan , he almost rose from retirement and the dug-out to apply a little first-hand help . |
| 6 | ‘ Well , I know they live near the quay , and the cabbie would know of them ; they are well-known . ’ |
| 7 | But Mel got in the cab and the cabbie never said another word . |
| 8 | Now that he was clear of the hawthorn scent of the hedge and the reek of cattle dung , he became fully aware of what had already been drifting into his nostrils while he was lying among the thorn . |
| 9 | In many regions drought has been less of a problem for lawns this year , and the mowing programme continues |
| 10 | Distributed on the two mezzanine floors are six servants ' rooms , which include the menservants ' bathroom with a water closet and the butler 's bedroom . |
| 11 | Galvone called out , ‘ Come on in , ’ and the butler appeared with a folded sheet of paper on a silver salver . |
| 12 | The door at the end of the room opened swiftly and the butler appeared . |
| 13 | Secure in the knowledge that his mother would be fully occupied for the rest of the evening and the butler would be busy introducing the guests , Patrick pulled off his dressing down and slipped down the back stairs to the kitchen . |
| 14 | Katherine nodded fractionally , and the butler bowed and moved silently from the room , not looking at the younger man . |
| 15 | Bearwood is so designed that the ladies get no closer to the offices than the door between the transverse and the butler 's corridor . |
| 16 | The oblique perspective is , clearly , a notable feature of the mosaics depicting Oceanus ' ( no. 9 ) and the Wrestling Cupids ( no. 20 ) , i.e. other designs in the east which are probably of the later second century . |
| 17 | But I can and said pull that fucking door closed and the knob came off in her fucking hand , she spun round |
| 18 | The model orchard shows how apples and pears were grown in the 1950s compared with modern methods , and the strawberries look as mouthwatering as always . |
| 19 | The egg yolks and the strawberries and the sugar . |
| 20 | If the main wheel is further forward , the glider will have a stronger tendency to weathercock than in the air , and the rudder will be even less effective at preventing this . |
| 21 | Conversely , if the main wheel is behind the c.g. , the directional stability will be less and the rudder more effective . |
| 22 | Most beginners will find it difficult to apply the opposite rudder , because of their ingrained habit of using the stick and the rudder in co-ordination . |
| 23 | Their height is adjustable , and the rudder pedals can be wound fore and aft while the five-point harnesses have lockable inertia reels on their shoulder straps . |
| 24 | Pilot 's Notes ' advice on single engine flying says ‘ the aircraft has a very good single-engine performance and the rudder trimmers are powerful enough to trim out all the foot load at normal cruising speeds . |
| 25 | But there is nobody below decks ; the engine-room was never installed , and the rudder broke off centuries ago . |
| 26 | So , I would want to test the storage tank and pump system ( and the rudder assembly ) before unreservedly recommending the Seayak even for short open sea crossings . |
| 27 | Prisons had now reached a turning point and the Woolf Report into the Strangeways riots had set the scene for dramatic reform , Mr Clarke said . |
| 28 | He had not given his name in Russian and the bunk that was allocated to him was against the wall at the furthest stretch from the narrow band of heat that the boiler might service . |
| 29 | She felt him reach up above his head and the bunk headlight came on . |
| 30 | Literature — above all fiction — has never been a notably gentlemanly profession in Britain , as Dickens and H. G. Wells illustrate ; and the Bloomsbury group had been upper middle-class rather than aristocratic . |