Example sentences of "and [prep] [pos pn] [adj] [noun pl] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When morning came she was too ill with the poison to move and despite her weak protests he told her he would watch over her , for no eagle should be prey to gull or crow . |
| 2 | In the recent past Stephen has been a rebel hero , and despite his good intentions he is pressurised into rejoining the terrorist cause . |
| 3 | It was to hot for practising anyway and despite our limited preparations we won both matches in St Thomas and Tortoal quite comfortably . |
| 4 | It has sixteen acres of pasture and an acre of most attractive and interesting gardens laid out on three levels — the top layer has very fine views across a valley over miles of rolling farmland , and amongst its beautiful trees it boasts a ‘ Parrotia Persica Pendula ’ , twenty feet high and ninety feet round . |
| 5 | A woman standing next to her thrust a baby into her arms , and with her usual politeness she stayed holding it long after she would have liked to go away . |
| 6 | And with my own eyes I saw the stalled clock at Treblinka … |
| 7 | We go back a long way , me and God , and from his first words I could tell that this was going to be a difficult call . |
| 8 | This most unpleasant task was completed yesterday , and from our new positions it was possible to see the beginnings of conflict between the Croats and the Titos , which ended in the wounding of some 30 to 40 Croats after which the shooting died down . " |
| 9 | A gurgling burn looms before you and in its cool streams you immerse your weary feet . |
| 10 | And yet that high broad forehead was his , the little tilted nose was his , his the pointed — although in her case , flat — ears , and in her huge eyes he saw his own little ones . |
| 11 | Under succeeding Labour governments in the 1960s demands for planning became more obtrusive in political rhetoric and in their practical aspects they involved the promotion of industrial reconstruction whether through mergers in the private sector or yet more reorganisation within the nationalised industries . |
| 12 | We did our jobs , we fell into bed exhausted , and in our off-duty moments we got away from the camp as much as possible . |
| 13 | But Eleanor too had to travel a great deal , and in his earliest years it was almost certainly Richard 's nurse who provided love and security on a day-to-day basis . |
| 14 | Hogarth also lived there , but he was often at his business address in Leicester Fields , and in his latter years he became ‘ Sergeant Painter ’ to the King . |
| 15 | They 're out for a laugh , I mean Charlie wo n't even tell me who he fancies because erm he says , you know , he said to me , you know , and in , in , in , and in his exact words he said you 've got to be really stupid to tell anyone anything in this place and I said yeah but I 'm not a proper Haileyburian I 've just come in , you know he goes yeah but you 're gon na get that way |
| 16 | And in his yellow eyes I could see only hate and evil . |
| 17 | He was famous simply because he happened to be the Prince of Wales ; and in his darker moments he felt that charities and organizations only wanted him because of his name . |
| 18 | Smith suffered periodically from gout — in 1720 he wrote that the drawing of a sketch ‘ at this time has occasioned me to make many a wry face by reason I could neither sit nor stand to do it ’ — and in his later years he put on weight : ‘ It is unlucky that Mr. Smith is grown so unweildy , ’ commented Dr George Clarke [ q.v. ] of All Souls College , Oxford , in 1730 . |
| 19 | His wife looked like a film star and sounded like a docker , and on their previous visits I 'd managed to remain invisible while checking in her mink and his Crombie . |
| 20 | Mr and Mrs Singh kept most of their official correspondence between the pages of their telephone directory and on my weekly visits we sorted out the milk tokens , rates demands , post office giros , all of which made linguistic demands which were beyond the level of their competence . |
| 21 | She pulled away and walked ahead of him along the corridor , hearing the measured tread of his footsteps as he followed , and to her over-sensitive ears they seemed to match exactly the pounding , thudding beat of her heart . |