Example sentences of "and [conj] [pers pn] [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | The group of countries where the Swedes felt most alien were Central Europe , Africa and the Middle East , and where they felt less alien was in Latin America , while by far the most important factor was the happiness of the spouse . |
2 | Prior to liability management , banks paid interest on comparatively few deposit liabilities and where they did such rates were not always closely related to market rates . |
3 | When I got into Holloway they have them little forms and they 've got pictures of a body with all arrows and everything , and where I had any bruises the doctor put these marks . |
4 | He was later Head of the Unemployment Benefit Service , which he managed with great skill , and where he made many friends . |
5 | He then retired to a small property near Ryde on the Isle of Wight , where he spent his later years carrying out improvements to the grounds and where he died 14 February 1853 . |
6 | The last years of her life were divided between Bermuda and Plandome , Long Island , where she built herself an Italian-style villa and where she died 29 October 1924 . |
7 | Patiently , I went through the same arguments that I 'd used with Mazzin himself , emphasizing that we did n't want any trouble but would n't tolerate abuse , and that we felt Islamic Jihad did n't want to cause us unnecessary distress . |
8 | And that they registered similar changes when other creatures — insects , spiders and so on — suffered pain in their presence . |
9 | Some historians have argued that nationalism was the outgrowth of the desire by élites to gain economic and political power , and that they manipulated indigenous symbols to this end . |
10 | He took particular care of young players , seeing that they were well-fed and well-lodged and that they sent some money home to their parents each week . |
11 | Complaint was frequently made that excessive numbers of underforesters were appointed , and that they levied oppressive exactions to maintain themselves and the grooms or pages by whom they were accompanied . |
12 | ‘ He told me they had auditioned a lot of people back home and that they had five names in America that they were auditioning , and I was the first that day . |
13 | From a local survey they found that many girls of this age were very frightened in labour , which made it worse , and that they had little idea about coping with a tiny baby . |
14 | But on the whole it seems true to say that the minors and the ladies were at their lord 's disposal , and that they had little chance of resisting what he did ; but that none the less the lords were limited by custom , and even a king would be expected to consult his counsellors when he disposed of an heiress , as Henry I promised to do in his coronation charter . |
15 | They added that they were working for the government undercover and that they had enough evidence to ‘ make the charge stick ’ . |
16 | To those observers looking on it seemed hard to believe that the average IQ of the room 's inhabitants was 149 , and that they had more honours between them than a collection of top class civil servants — and to think that they had been reduced to such a pitiful state as this . |
17 | Some felt their children had been hurt by the family breakdown and that they needed additional care . |
18 | For example , it said I had a daughter called Samantha ( which is not true ) , and it said that I had a Citroen car ( which I do n't — I drive a Renault ) and that I spent three years at the Royal College of Art painting ten-inch red stripes on a piece of canvas and then it quoted me and it said : ' ’ I do n't know why we did it , ’ says Terry . |
19 | You got all in that , English there , English there , English there and English there , and that I had six merit points yesterday . |
20 | I was doing chequebooks and cards , and I had a very good run on them for about four months , but what with taking drugs and that I collapsed one time when I was working out on the street . |
21 | And that I wanted all sorts of things from London . |
22 | I learnt , many years later , that they paid over £30 to have a book of poems printed , and that it sold two copies . |
23 | Samuel Hitching stated that he examined the Coffin carefully and that it had two canvas patches on where there were decayed places in the Wood — he also measured the thickness of the Board and they were only 5/8 of an inch at top and ½ an inch thick at the bottom — the lid was also warped that they could not screw it down properly-One of the bearers also stated that he was afraid it would fall in pieces before they got to the Church with it . |
24 | Gina 's friends told him that this was a ‘ personal canvas ’ and that it had more integrity than conventional beautified portraiture . |
25 | This meant both that the BBC itself was not to ‘ editorialize ’ about the news ( or ‘ matters of public policy ’ , as the Postmaster-General put it in 1927 ) and that it kept strict control over access to the airwaves . |
26 | Fujimori stated that the aid package did not address the all-round economic development needs of coca-growing areas , and that it victimized poor peasants who had no alternative but to grow coca crops . |
27 | It was already clear to Coleman from his analysis of the drugs-related intelligence coming out of Lebanon that the traditional heroin route to the US via Cyprus , Frankfurt and London was used regularly by both agencies , that the traffic was not always in narcotics and that it moved both ways . |
28 | The disadvantages of the Article were that it was perceived as dealing with ‘ representational ’ issues that were out of place in the Convention , that it undercut the position of non-liability of member States for treaties concluded by organisations , and that it placed excessive emphasis on the exceptional situation of the European Communities . |
29 | In it he said that the Scottish financial sector did nothing to help the country 's economy , that it benefited only a selected minority , and that it put little back into Scotland . |
30 | He said we played far to many domestic games , and that he hoped this disater would be a blessing in disguise . |