Example sentences of "and [noun sg] [vb past] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She confessed that the bitter jibes and over-exposure led her to the precipice . |
| 2 | Ant : You do n't like school discos " cos your mum turned up at the last one at nine o'clock to take you home , and Fungus announced it over the mike . |
| 3 | She often used to say she could n't believe how some people behaved , and the promiscuity and drinking shook her to the core . |
| 4 | Screens of holly and ivy sheltered her from the deepening winter , but now the forest became a black and frozen place . |
| 5 | A coal fell out of the fire , making them both start , and Breeze replaced it with the exaggerated care with which we perform these trivial tasks , when our thoughts are far away . |
| 6 | French and Ukrainian , mathematics and chemistry bored him to the point of insanity ; only in music and English could he hope to get decent marks . |
| 7 | The seas smashed into his back , wind and water clubbed him off the seat on to the cockpit sole . |
| 8 | He learned the truth about the cuttings , closing his eyes when he thought of her sitting in the attic , her long day done , painstakingly writing for O'Connor the articles whose brilliance and feeling told him of the intellect which lay behind her beautiful face and emphasised again what he had thrown away . |
| 9 | You were told at the time you did , and Councillor told you at the time that th it was totally inadequate was the children 's budget , so how can you expect more money from the Government when your sense of priorities is so blatantly wrong on the money that you 're already handling . |
| 10 | Eventually Lady Laetitia and Tick made it to the minstrels ' gallery . |
| 11 | My mum and dad drove us to the airport in the torrential rain and wind . |
| 12 | The quarrel between faith and unbelief touched him for the first time and unsettled his mind . |
| 13 | His goal and guidence helped them to the Premier League . |
| 14 | One way and another , Attlee looks better with every passing year — a kind of benevolent public school master , whose sense of duty and justice raised him above the sectional partisanship of class or party . |