Example sentences of "and [noun prp] [verb] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 Finn looked up angrily and Melanie ran upstairs before the sharp words and blows began .
2 Lassa Java … and Ringa Hustle through to the Greyhound Derby …
3 Weir and Wainwright did well at the line-out and the loose forwards were just as quick and creative as their much more illustrious opponents .
4 On the 20th of March Katherine and Beatrice dined together at the Closerie des Lilas .
5 In the back of the car , Henrietta and Samantha made exaggerated vomiting sounds at the very thought of it , and Jacqueline joined enthusiastically in the pantomime .
6 ‘ Inscrutable bastard , ’ Bodie said , as he and Doyle walked back to the car .
7 He broke off abruptly , and Doyle glanced round as the sleepy shape of Stone 's young son , Nick , entered the room .
8 Bob and Beryl live just off the beaten tracks
9 Grace jumped into the boat , and William pulled hard with the oars .
10 IBM Corp , Hewlett-Packard Co and DEC got together at the Open Software Foundation 's Challenge'93 shindig in Boston last week to demonstrate their implementations of the Distributed Computing Environment .
11 The baby was now cleaned up and Sarah looked down into the bluest eyes she had ever seen .
12 Some nights , me and Sarah went down to the ocean with a few flasks
13 The slide of bodies bathed in perspiration ceased as Luke shuddered and stilled momentarily before moving to kneel over her , surveying her with glittering eyes , his shadow cast over her , and Maria fell back against the pillows with a hoarse sob , wordlessly pleading with him to end the torment , aching for him , needing to feel him inside her , hating him for prolonging her agony like this and resenting the control that enabled him to do it .
14 Erm , if you feel that you are in any way upset by the distribution of schemes in this booklet as it stands , your chance is between now and March to get back to the officers and say , but what about mine .
15 He was dialling when Miles and Frances came in from the kitchen .
16 They changed roles , and Lucie climbed up on the playmaster 's shoulders , his weight hardly bending Garvey 's back .
17 She wondered what her father and brothers were doing at that moment , and pictured Niall and Roger riding in through the castle gate with more stories of escapades , cattle raids , skirmishes , pranks and hunting expeditions ; and so vividly could she imagine them that it seemed that she actually heard their voices , saw their red-cheeked smiles , and smelt the leather of their boots and the steam from their bodies when they came into the big kitchen at the end of a day .
18 What made Nate and the executive committee think that guys like Klepner and Mueller knew more about the European components ’ business than the Europeans ?
19 Adele turned away , apparently satisfied , and Isabel shrank back on the bench , half hidden by Adele 's body as the other girl leaned forward to hear what was going on .
20 Once the ale was finished , Bessie and Edgebone went back into the house to go to bed .
21 Agatha fainted , and Sophie ran out of the house .
22 John and Etty married just before the war .
23 The public inquiry into the National Grid Company 's application to build overhead power lines between Lackenby , Picton and Shipton opens today at the Hambleton Community Centre , Bullamoor Road , Northallerton at 10am .
24 If you were in a wine bar with ferns , mellowed out on red wine and having a really sloppy kissy kissy lovey dovey ooghy woogy dinner with your lover and Blueboy came on as the cabaret , you would go berserk and slash open their gizzards with the cake fork .
25 Horatia fled and Rossmayne went back to the window where he had been standing when the bad dream had begun .
26 Scared pelicans flapped away , and Ellen came up from the galley to see what had caused the commotion .
27 Genius is the bust of Beethoven and Keats dying and Shelley dying and the size of War and Peace and poor old Sartre banging away at his trilogy and Hemingway paring it down to its essence and Monet unable to distinguish colours any more and Picasso staring out at the camera with his chest bare and his eyes blazing and Cézanne snarling like a dog and then walking out of Aix with his canvas and paints on his back to paint that mountain and Byron dying and Pushkin dying and all the rest of it .
28 All the while I stood listening and Frankie sat calmly on the sofa reading his comic as though nothing was happening .
29 The rats fled and Corbett fell back on the ledge , chest heaving , sobbing with anger and fear , his eyes fixed on the grating , praying for dawn .
30 And Offiah scored again towards the end .
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