Example sentences of "and [noun pl] [vb past] [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | It would not have been surprising if Eva 's many gifts and accomplishments had brought the temptation to pride . |
| 2 | Resignations and retirals had reduced the staff but the deficit was made up by C. H. Dinham , M. Macgregor , J. E. Richey , H. H. Read and G. V. Wilson being recruited between 1909 and 1914 . |
| 3 | Turner 's Automatic Points were installed at the Robin Hood junction , and cars coasted to take the corner for Anerley , but continued under power for the straight road to Penge . |
| 4 | Missionaries and preachers strove to switch the focus of hatred from the God of Change to the products of change dwelling in the interior . |
| 5 | Short stay charges and places in premium car parks have risen and drivers caught flouting the rules face a hefty £30 fine . |
| 6 | Horses and chariots had helped the Hyksos pharaohs to gain ascendancy in Egypt . |
| 7 | Boyfriend Garry Curtis , of Bedhampton , Hants , dragged her to safety — and rescuers arrived to find the couple , who had fallen out at a party , kissing and hugging . |
| 8 | ‘ American House and Gardens came to photograph the house and asked if we could provide 350 of these plates for their best advertisers . |
| 9 | He considers attempts by county councils to set up ‘ industrial liaison groups ’ through which firms were able to express their concerns over planning processes and procedures , and planners tried to influence the behaviour of firms . |
| 10 | The consultants and registrars undertook to see the X-rays and examine the patient , document appropriate treatment and countersign the request forms during the pilot study and until the training had been completed . |
| 11 | Both the Augustinians and Dominicans sought to combine the qualities of actives and contemplatives in their way of life and teaching ; they stressed the need for penance and man 's dependence on God 's grace for that illumination of understanding through faith and love that they believed was knowledge of God . |
| 12 | A possible explanation for this is suggested by the secondary case study ( West , Chapter 3 in this volume ) where it was reported that there were indications that heads of departments and years tended to bear the brunt of the review activities . |
| 13 | Only elves and trolls had survived the coming of Man to the discworld ; the elves because they were altogether too clever by half , and the trollen folk because they were at least as good as humans at being nasty , spiteful and greedy . |
| 14 | He accused Labour , which has criticised the Tory involvement , of hypocrisy , saying Labour MPs and officials had helped the Clinton camp . |
| 15 | When Sussex gentlemen and townsmen began to question the practices of the church , they found new allies in the Flemings and Frenchmen who fled for asylum in the 1540s from persecution by Catholic monarchs abroad . |
| 16 | Friends and relatives continued to circle the liner in small boats ; a fox terrier , sent on ahead from Germany , was rowed out each day and held up towards the rail and its distant owners . |
| 17 | After the first decade of Alexander I 's reign censorship became progressively more heavy-handed , and under Nicholas I travel to the West was curtailed and efforts made to prevent the import of seditious books . |
| 18 | Because the event ( the jump ) is known in advance , the effects of practice and mastery could be assessed , and efforts made to influence the coping process . |
| 19 | At a microscopic level , the range of factors and substances behaved to influence the interactions between neurones has been greatly widened . |
| 20 | Finns began to express an interest in Karelia , acquired by the USSR following the Winter War ; and the Estonians and Latvians began to query the status of their boundaries with Russia . |
| 21 | Experiments and observations failed to resolve the controversy . |
| 22 | ‘ There was no-one in the car and cattle had churned the ground so much that we could not with certainty detect footprints in the vicinity of the car 's entry into the water . |
| 23 | But in the event , most of the speakers and delegates appeared to relish the challenges that lay ahead . |
| 24 | Debris and tiny bodies circled like a halo of scurf , brightening periodically as those metal shards and corpses tilted to catch the sunlight of space … |
| 25 | However , similar racial themes and stereotypes had entered the account of capitalist enterprise in Southern Africa , and this enterprise was serious , not for fun . |
| 26 | Respectable society and intellectuals had shunned the movies because they saw no need to take them seriously . |
| 27 | The solicitors moved in , volunteers answered phones , typed documents , and novices learnt to operate the computers and word-processors . |
| 28 | Doubters , sceptics and Benthamites sought to dissolve the mystery in the clear light of reason , but succeeded only in creating a vacuum that was equally disturbing . |
| 29 | The spokesman said the Council of Mayors of Arab Towns and Villages refused to accept the Bosnians even after it was given the text of a message from the vice president of Bosnia approving the flight . |
| 30 | A good many boys and girls had joined the crowd now and shouts of laughter broke out as a few of them came out from the gate in the kitchen-garden wall , their hands full of ripe peaches , their chins dripping with juice . |