Example sentences of "and [noun pl] [vb past] in the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His beard and teeth got in the way . |
| 2 | The day of the Agricultural Fair approached and passions rose in the village . |
| 3 | Today , the Croats insist that the number of Serbs , gypsies and Jews massacred in the camps of the quisling Axis-allied Croatian state was only a tiny fraction of that claimed by the communists . |
| 4 | ‘ Three cheers for Taureg ! ’ came the order and once , twice , three times , hats and caps rose in the air and once , twice , three times the assembled well-wishers roared their approval . |
| 5 | Nevertheless , the republican parliament was barricaded after the Vilnius killings , and tensions rose in the capital , Tallinn , after two bombs exploded on Jan. 21 at factories which were considered centres of Russian worker resistance to the nationalist government . |
| 6 | Black cracks and gaps yawned in the pillars . |
| 7 | Mehta 's assets , as well as those of 30 other individuals and companies implicated in the case , were seized on June 8 ; on June 14 the government announced that it had frozen the assets of three senior bank officials of the State Bank of India . |
| 8 | Around 100 members and guests participated in the programmes , the first of which looked at the future economic development of Scotland while the second examined the social and political circumstances relating to the ambitions outlined in the first . |
| 9 | Her name was She-Who-Is-Alone and she had been looked after by the tribe since her parents and grandparents died in the famine . |
| 10 | In Britain , conflict was most severe prior to the First World War , when the power to call out the police and troops lay in the hands of local employer/magistrate , and occasions like the General Strike of 1926 when fears of a worker revolution were aroused . |
| 11 | It is the story of a philologist ( said to be loosely based on Tolkien , but in fact fairly unlike him : Tolkien recognized some of his own opinions and ideas Lewisified in the character ) who , by a series of mishaps on a walking tour , comes to a house where two sinister scientists , Weston and Devine , are planning a visit to outer space . |
| 12 | A truckload of dynamite and detonators exploded in the village of Thung Maproa in the southern province of Phang-nga on Feb. 15 , killing at least 180 people . |
| 13 | 800 years ago the monks and laybrothers toiled in the Abbey and its extensive grounds . |
| 14 | Schemes were devised by an Inter-Ministerial Committee for Coordination and leaks appeared in the press . |
| 15 | Families manoeuvred and mothers shepherded in the hope of cornering a compartment to themselves . |
| 16 | Some judges and lawyers saw in the development a serious threat to the independent impartial adjudication of disputes by the courts . |
| 17 | Odd creatures and devices scuttled in the shadows . |
| 18 | As competitors and spectators sat in the sunshine on the Royal Canoe Club 's lawn at the finish , slowly unwinding and chatting to friends , some of whom had not been seen for quite some time , the atmosphere was a mixture of international competition and relaxed gentility . |
| 19 | Gascon vintners and middlemen resided in the Vintry ward of London , and Henry le Waleys served as mayor of London in 1273–4 and of Bordeaux in 1275 . |
| 20 | At the first sign we came to , women were bashing wheat sheaves against rocks and men squatted in the dust playing a game with pebbles . |
| 21 | Pipes and cigarettes glowed in the darkness as we settled down for the six-hour passage . |
| 22 | Here are brutally feminine accounts of real-life experiences and traumas relayed in the context of hardcore rap . |
| 23 | Some breeders I rang did n't have any left , others did n't have any chicks of the age I wanted ( and after Barny , I was very wary of buying anything more than a few weeks old ) , and others lived in the Highlands of Scotland or somewhere equally inaccessible to me . |
| 24 | The borderland between gentlemen and others occurred in the region below £20 a year . |
| 25 | All of these developments and initiatives culminated in the government 's consultation paper of July 1987 entitled The National Curriculum 5–16 , which gave notice that the Secretary of State proposed to introduce legislation to establish a national curriculum . |
| 26 | During 1970 and 1971 a series of articles and editorials appeared in the Times on the poor quality of TVZ transmissions , particularly on the Copperbelt . |
| 27 | Old men and women sat in the shade of the doorways , chatting and drinking black coffee . |
| 28 | To make matters worse a kilogramme of oranges and documents bounced in the pocket on my left thigh , reviving pain in the shin which had almost healed . |
| 29 | Undoubtedly however the days of wine and roses came in the season of 1990–91 when Pat was riding for Noel Furlong and Andy Geraghty . |
| 30 | As a result , extensive leaching of ooids and bioclasts occurred in the vadose zone ( early leaching ) , and cementation occurred at deeper levels in the phreatic zone . |