Example sentences of "[noun] and [pron] [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He must have been radical in religion and he favoured English support for the cause of the Netherlands , possibly being used by Sir Francis Walsingham [ q.v. ] and Robert Dudley , Earl of Leicester [ q.v. ] , to urge this policy on Burghley . |
| 2 | In the end of American officers were rescued by the intervention of one of Khomeini closest associates , Ibrahim Yazdi , who had been with him in exile and who became foreign minister . |
| 3 | After that Nellie and I became close friends and so did her Mum and my Dad . |
| 4 | You were asked to phone in , so , erm , so our phone was out of order , so I had a phone card and it had four units on it . |
| 5 | Tight denims clung to her legs and she wore knee-length leather boots . |
| 6 | In the launderette it was warm and cosy ; here Maggie made friends and fans and she had inconsequential conversations which mysteriously made her a member of the local community in a way she had never been when she had been fighting for the area 's well-being . |
| 7 | He can handle that computer scrabble beautifully , Bobby and he played last night on his own and he scored one thousand , was it three hundred |
| 8 | Mr Turner was the BCR booking clerk at Craven Arms at the closure and he held various positions on other railways after that , rising to the position of stationmaster . |
| 9 | In the election of October 1974 , 25 per cent of the vote went to third-party candidates and they secured thirty-nine seats in the Commons . |
| 10 | And erm we went on an elephant on a safari and we looked for erm wild animals and we saw some rhinos , and that was quite good fun . |
| 11 | But I always wonder , as if a film had been taken from my eyes and I saw new worlds . ’ |
| 12 | Elio de Angelis was his team-mate and he garnered such points as a deeply disappointing Lotus offered , winding up with a single point . |
| 13 | No , I mean , today okay only one goal against Charlton , tremendous performance by Bolder , the post and the bar , but Oxford United do score goals and they took great chances to score goals erm it 's difficult today is n't it . |
| 14 | They are still a great club and they had several internationals out there . ’ |
| 15 | We had the American band , we had the horse guards from London we brought them all up on the train , the horses and the guards and we had wonderful times ! |
| 16 | They disliked having so young a couple in the vicarage and they made that plain . |
| 17 | The point of the story is that when I was using softer rods and he favoured stiffer ones we both caught , relatively speaking , no fewer fish than we do today . |
| 18 | He wore an anorak over a wool sweater with a polo neck and he wore tough cord jeans and walking boots . |
| 19 | She whispered it against the warmth of his neck and he released one hand to spear his fingers in her hair and tilt her face to his . |
| 20 | We had enough , we had a roof over our heads and we had enough food and things like that , but nothing for luxuries or little extras . |
| 21 | Du n no , had to me Theresa were n't ready , did n't expect until eight o'clock , I thought yeah I 've got ten minutes , sitting in my bedroom drinking a cup of tea and I heard this bing |
| 22 | Dad and Liza went inquiring door to door while Frankie and I used this opportunity to see if our bottles were safe in the washhouse . |
| 23 | My lover and I dined last night in Cambridge at the Master 's Lodge of his college . |
| 24 | hit the front of the car and she went that way , and she finished up in the hedge |
| 25 | Gloucester never got themselves into gear and they made hard work of what should have been a straightforward game … in the second half they hammered away at Scottish … all but lived on their line but failed to get over it … |
| 26 | ‘ Supposing he had to plough a field of thirteen acres and he had eight plough-teams working . |
| 27 | With the house came two hundred acres and he added more land later , planting woods which were bequeathed to the nation , with the house . |
| 28 | There was a project that led to considerable extra expenditure in primary schools which was closely steered into the dogmatic application of a version of teaching methods and which had harmful consequences in schools . |
| 29 | They were the Bay City Rollers meets The Hammer Of The Gods — except they did n't dress crap and they had good hair . |
| 30 | The material new facts that have emerged involve new evidence from certain officers who were present on the night of the crime and who witnessed certain things . |