Example sentences of "and [noun] [vb past] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But MacLaren , who watched the ball very carefully , Kemble and Yates came to the assistance of their county to give the home side a 28-run lead on first innings . |
| 2 | ‘ We are all great Cluedo fans and Melanie suggested to the girls that we all hunt for clues , ’ he said . |
| 3 | She detailed Amy to take them into the interview room and give them tea and stay with them , and she and Ben went alongside the trolley into Resus . |
| 4 | The rain grew heavier and thunder rumbled over the mountains . |
| 5 | My husband took off his underpants and Jessica sat in the car with them wrapped round her the rest of the way home ! |
| 6 | Dimly she saw the Great Tower peak in a cone of white flame ; Adam seemed not to move , but Fand and Liban fell , and Fincara staggered before the sheeting fire . |
| 7 | Feet raced across the yard , scattering gravel , and Doyle burst through the door . |
| 8 | The term ‘ hall ’ includes all the rectangular timber buildings whose only remains are the postholes and beam-slots dug into the subsoil . |
| 9 | His staff car and driver waited in the farm yard . |
| 10 | We went into Julia 's room , and Holmes looked at the windows carefully . |
| 11 | Harry and Lillian subscribed to the movie trade papers and began tracing the film 's grosses as it climbed upward towards an eventual $40 million . |
| 12 | Flagellation and other exotic practices formed part of its creed and Rasputin entered into the spirit of these with enthusiasm . |
| 13 | As soon as she climbed off the coach , she burst into tears , and Mum took in the situation at a glance . |
| 14 | The next day when Pete and Mum went to the shops Mum had to buy fruit and vegetables from the green-grocer . |
| 15 | Yeah and Mike 's seen him like that and mum went round the ward and she made all the beds to help them and all , we had to bribe them to look after him , but was he looked after in the end , on Saturday I said look , I said do n't fucking come over here and tell me my dad 's gon na be turned in a minute I said because a minute is a minute , I said but when you come over here three and a half hours later to my dad that 's like three years , he 's in excruciating agony , he wants to turn him when you tell him you 're gon na turn him |
| 16 | Jeanne and Germaine went to the Dôme or the Rotonde regularly at aperitif hour to meet Modigliani and Roger Wild ( who was to become Germaine 's husband ) . |
| 17 | 1960 : another unpredictable quirk of history , Sartre 's preface to Aden Arabie , and Nizan returned from the grave . |
| 18 | It was too dark to see the line , and Trent called to the man on the rod to keep it pointing at the Zodiac . |
| 19 | In the winter spanners and hammers froze to the hands . |
| 20 | Industry and agriculture flourished in the war years though both came under great governmental control — a new experience for " free enterprise " America . |
| 21 | These pictures show some of the things that happened when Fateha , Louise , Anthony and Marlon went to the carnival . |
| 22 | This was more than three times the normal fare , and the astonished Annamese stood between the shafts of his vehicle staring after Joseph in amazement until he and Chuck disappeared inside the palace . |
| 23 | An early-morning mist hung over Branchester , the cathedral rising up like some ghostly fairy-tale palace while cobwebs glistened on iron railings and moisture dripped from the branches of the lime trees that fringed the roads . |
| 24 | Heg and Biff sat on the edge of the open grave sucking their unlit pipes . |
| 25 | She and Miki took to the stage again with Ministry , Miki sporting a rockerific white flying V. If I can remember correctly , Howard our manager was by this time on all fours with a bottle of tequila clutched firmly between his mitts — but this is what we pay him for . |
| 26 | Large trees grew from the interstices of the stone and sheep brouzed on the edge of every precipice . |
| 27 | Currently concentrating on Sparc-based hardware , Lucid has an agreement with NCR Corp that will see its compiler technology and Energize ported onto the Intel 486 under Unix SVR4 and SCO Unix : compilers have already been ported to the IBM RIOS chip , and Lucid has its eye on Hewlett-Packard 's PA-RISC . |
| 28 | Currently concentrating on Sparc-based hardware , Lucid has an agreement with NCR Corp that will see its compiler technology and Energize converted for the Intel 80486 under Unix System V.4 and Santa Cruz Unix : compilers have already been implemented for the IBM Corp Rios chip , and Lucid has its eye on Hewlett-Packard Co 's Precision Architecture RISC . |
| 29 | Suddenly , it seemed , the war was over at last , and Churchill announced on the wireless that 8 May would be Victory in Europe Day . |
| 30 | It was not something you took to the doctor — until Valium and Librium arrived on the market . |