Example sentences of "[pers pn] [coord] [noun prp] [vb past] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But she had known this encounter was coming ever since she and Florian had attracted the attention of the photographers covering the concert at one of Taipei 's main sports stadiums the previous night . |
| 2 | The fact that she and Hugh happened to fit the bill seemed to give her every opportunity for finding out . |
| 3 | Yesterday , when she and Celeste had watched the Portuguese Grand Prix together , the model had done nothing but drool . |
| 4 | How often she and Frank had spent the day down by the river , fishing for the cunning trout , or lazing in the damp grass , talking . |
| 5 | She and David planned to spend the long weekend alone in Bristol . |
| 6 | She and David decided to catch the bus down into Florence and then try for a taxi home . |
| 7 | Alice was vexed by this remark , since she and Harold had updated the house in many ways , only five years earlier . |
| 8 | To Libby it seemed as though he was marking out boundaries the way she and George had done the winter it snowed ; making footsteps in the dense white stuff , indicating territories . |
| 9 | She and Annie had made the gowns and , although they were of good strong material , befitting the bride 's station and life-style , Lydia 's chestnut-coloured material brought a touch of colour to her normally sallow cheeks , while Martha 's deep maroon set off her fair colouring . |
| 10 | She and Brian went to view the property on a particularly promising April day : blossom in the apple trees , undulating green downs in the background and puffs of white clouds scudding across the blue overhead . |
| 11 | She approached by the same route she and Beador had taken the previous day . |
| 12 | Jonathan 's father owned a villa close to St Tropez , and she and Jonathan had toured the area extensively with friends . |
| 13 | In February and March it was hard going out almost nightly but he liked it and Joan got to know the wives and children of the clergy . |
| 14 | But when he and Slater came to devise the dramatic structure of the libretto , something different resulted . |
| 15 | In 1317 he and Pembroke combined to restrain the most avaricious of the courtiers , Roger Damory [ q.v. ] , in order to placate the court 's leading opponent , Thomas , Earl of Lancaster [ q.v. ] ; and he went on to play a part in the negotiations with Lancaster which culminated in the treaty of Leake in 1318 . |
| 16 | Both he and Athelstan chose to ignore the snorting laughter of Colebrooke . |
| 17 | He and Chuck vied to identify the exotic birds they saw : ibis , kingfishers , herons , white pheasants and once a peacock darted frantically across their path . |
| 18 | It was n't that Ice-T never got to meet the highly desirable Coffy , whose destruction of dope dealers took place to the accompaniment of a Roy Ayers score , but rather that he and Hinojosa failed to obtain the rights to a James Brown track from the movie Black Caesar . |
| 19 | After returning home the night before , he had lain awake for hours thinking yet again about the day five weeks before when he and Sam had found the Spanish cockboat . |
| 20 | Joyce described the scene as he and Mosley tried to leave the pavilion : |
| 21 | A fortnight before Aubrey 's arrival , he and Cora-Beth had watched the stallion , Warrior , cover the new roan mare . |
| 22 | Then , using the boards as if they were giant razor blades , he and Harry began to shave the black foam of insects off Lucy 's skin . |
| 23 | He and Roxborough had survived the calamitous events of that midsummer almost two hundred years ago , but most of their dearest friends had not . |
| 24 | Meaby 's crucial thrust came in the decisive bottom match at the 13th after he and Davies had lost the 11th and 12th and fallen back to all-square . |
| 25 | During their time in London , which was a happy one , he and Grace went to see the Diaghilev Ballet and also Pavlova 's company . |
| 26 | He and Emily had left the bicycles in the room with the dartboard . |
| 27 | In 1956 Simon returned from a Christmas vacation to tell his bemused students that he and Newell had spent the festive season inventing a ‘ thinking machine ’ . |
| 28 | He and Shinwell had told the Central Authority at their first meeting in September 1947 that , while general price rises could be ruled out , they were prepared to look at the possibility of controlling demand at peak times by differentially higher prices for peak use or by mechanical load-restricting devices . |
| 29 | As children he and Nigger had ruled the roost . |