Example sentences of "and [verb] [pers pn] [prep] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.

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31 None the less , it is broadly speaking true that the Church had exalted the monarch in the tenth century , and abased him in the twelfth ; that the Church had taught obedience to him in the tenth century when ancient rights of resistance to a king who broke his subjects ' rights and liberties still flourished ; and that in the twelfth century Church and people exchanged ideas about the bases for the right of resistance .
32 They were tremendous , and outplayed us in the first half .
33 He was running on three legs and holding me in the fourth .
34 At the Art College , after a preliminary course in the first year , students choose their area of practical specialisation and pursue it to the fifth year , when they work full-time at the College with no timetabled commitments at the University .
35 With the ground packed to capacity and the home team needing a valuable point to avoid relegation , Dundee played to win , eventually dismantling Saints and sending them into the Second Division .
36 In 1223 Richard was once again in the retinue of William Marshal and followed him over the next few years into Wales , Ireland , and Brittany .
37 The first indication that anything was wrong came three months after I had let the tank up and stocked it for the first time .
38 Caroline , in her Souvenirs intimes , remarks that ‘ Fëlicitë and her parrot really lived ’ and directs us towards the first Trouville parrot , that of Captain Barbey , as the true ancestor of Loulou .
39 Sheppard modelled the statue in 1911–12 and exhibited it for the first time in 1914 .
40 But two years of severe drought in the region have prompted suggestions to give the project a higher priority and to build it over the next two years rather than the next 14 , as originally planned .
41 Maisie grabbed his arm and steered him towards the next gallery .
42 ‘ We had set a target of £600,000 to cover buying the equipment and running it for the first couple of years , ’ she said .
43 Another advantage of the gens system was that you could keep the fortune you had amassed in one incarnation and use it in the next .
44 And then as he turned and walked away he took the blackjack , which had come out of his pocket in the same handful , and tossed it into the first unblocked drain that he saw .
45 We got him to come and fix it before the first session .
46 On 6 March 1992 more than 35 agents of the Mobile Military Police cordoned off four blocks of Guatemala City and violently rounded up the street children , handcuffing and beating them before dumping them in a van and taking them to the 2nd precinct police station .
47 After the meeting a lot of people wanted to talk to Karen and ask her about the last few days .
48 Well it was a large double-fronted house and it was sand-bagged all round and there were tables and to er , administer , you know , wardens in the unevent of air raids which they used to do and they used to patrol the streets looking for lights to see if pe my nan actually got fined once cos she , she event inadvertently went into a room and put the light on and forgot she 'd left the curtains open and an air raid warden happened to be around she , she got hauled into court and fined five pounds for that , er she er I , I once I was just thinking the other day just telling a friend of mine , they had an actual practice air raid once and in some old buildings in the Burchells and we as kids had to go and lie in there and wait till we 'd got a tag on and what would happen to us a label and they took us to the first aid post in , an ambulance came and picked us up on a stretcher and took us to the first aid post in Road .
49 I was n't sure , I said , but soon , very soon ; I 'd phone and tell him within the next couple of days .
50 However jewel-like the good will may be in its own right , there is a morally significant difference between rescuing someone from a burning building and dropping him from a twelfth storey window while trying to rescue him .
51 Mr Colman if I might add that re- orientation has brought with it the need to change our pricing strategy and therefore rather than going package by package right through the whole thirty four , we 're actually trying initially on the engines to go in one bang to price everything on the engines and do it in the next few months .
52 Chile has also signed mutual tariff-cutting agreements with Argentina and Bolivia , last year doubling its exports to one and increasing them by a third to the other .
53 When he stood Godfather in Fowey , custom demanded that on the way to the christening he should carry the traditional cake and offer it to the first person he saw .
54 For a time he offered his services to Louis VII of France and accompanied him on the second crusade as papal legate in charge of the Anglo-Norman contingent .
55 Dr Groome had hooked Susan up to Yggdrasil and floated her in the third tank .
56 With a quick reflex action he caught the tompaw , a short stout wooden handle with a steel claw set in the end , and thumped it into the first deal of the day .
57 He wanted to dissipate it and leave her with a last impression of him that was not totally unpleasant .
58 Take it from the liquid , sprinkle it with oil , press it between two plates and leave it until the next day .
59 And to insert it between the third and fourth word can change the meaning rather dramatically .
60 Cumbria 's Dave Swanson opened up a lead over Paul Dugdale after 5K , and stretched it into a 16-second victory .
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