Example sentences of "and [noun prp] [adv] [vb past] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shorthorns and Highlands also helped in the nineteenth-century improvements , and today the Salers is often crossed with the Charolais . |
| 2 | ‘ And Doyle never referred to the fact that he 'd seen the Asian girl near to Charlie 's ? ’ |
| 3 | Now at Thorsbury she and Victoria often rode to the fields to watch the men labouring and when it was clear that the work of leading and stacking the corn would soon be at an end , she kept the child entranced with stories of the Harvest Suppers of her youth . |
| 4 | The regime perhaps had little choice but to win support by making grants of land which might otherwise have gone to augment royal resources , and Mortimer and Isabella rapidly ran through the very substantial treasure inherited from Edward II . |
| 5 | Benstede and Corbett then sat at the edge of a table directly beneath the great dais just as a chorus of trumpets brayed . |
| 6 | ‘ God it was awful , ’ he said , and made them laugh and accept what he said , and Barnett never asked for the certificate this time . |
| 7 | In response to his instructions , the maid pulled up a chair for the little girl , and Artemis carefully sat on the edge of it , her legs still too short to reach the floor . |
| 8 | By now they were almost halfway down , the drop not so far as it had been , but it was still a long way and Maggie almost crept to the slight shelter of the rocky bank . |
| 9 | And Rennie later shone with the bat , his score of 38 in 42 balls included five fours , and together with Tony Meehan ( 57 ) showed Northern the way home from 45 overs . |
| 10 | Mandeville and Santerre soon returned from the trees ; the latter had a crossbow in his hand , Bowyer 's corpse sprawled across the saddle bow . |
| 11 | Relations with Ukraine and Moldova further deteriorated over the weekend after a visit to Russian strongholds in both republics by Mr Alexander Rutskoy , Russia 's Vice-President . |
| 12 | In the late 1960s and the early 1970s , Greimas , Todorov , Genette , and Barthes all argued for the autonomy of narrative theory with respect to its object . |
| 13 | Lydia put a mug of tea in front of her master and then took herself off to the dairy , where she and Martha unashamedly listened at the door . |
| 14 | Johnson and Boswell later bantered on the matter , each playfully accusing the other of being the one the woman feared — ‘ the wicked young fellow , the wild dog ’ or the ‘ terrible ruffian ’ fortunately accompanied by ‘ a civil decent young man ’ . |
| 15 | Jan and Gabriel immediately rode after the thief . |
| 16 | The doors swung open , and Caroline almost fell into the room . |
| 17 | The Drenthe , Hollander and Zeeland eventually disappeared into the Meuse-Rhine-Yssel . |
| 18 | Anne and Sarah saw Terry off at the station , and Anne tactfully went to the station bookstall while Sarah and Terry said goodbye . |
| 19 | Messrs Hoult and Cowan also went through the report with Mr Barnes but concentrated on the financial crisis , rather than mentioning fraud and malpractice , a decision which Bingham finds ‘ surprising and unfortunate ’ . |
| 20 | The second came when Bennett and Carter both went for the ball , which bounced off the pair of them and again into the net . |
| 21 | Luxembourg was admitted as the 22nd DAC member ; Greece and Turkey also participated in the meeting . |
| 22 | His pal May and Atkins also deejayed on the show , playing an electric mix of house and European electronic music they 'd got into in high school when all the other kids were listening to the Gap Band and Prince . |
| 23 | Of the 12 members of the European Communities ( EC ) , only Portugal and Greece now remained outside the ERM . |
| 24 | The BBC and IBA meekly complied with the ban , which further underlines the lack of constitutional protection for freedom of speech in British law . |
| 25 | Wasteland , half-hidden behind hoardings , came into view and Tony soon arrived at the site which had held the theatre . |
| 26 | Sex became a way of life , a way of bonding and learning , and Jarman rapidly rose to the pinnacle of sexual and social acceptance . |
| 27 | One day , a pilot named Flt Lt Mort had a sick navigator and Mac eagerly jumped into the gap , in spite of various people protesting to him that he must be mad to fly with a man who had a name like that . |
| 28 | At the Aug. 6 UN Security Council vote on the imposition of wide-ranging sanctions on Iraq [ see below ] , the Yemeni permanent representative abstained , and Yemen again abstained on the vote at the Arab League Cairo summit . |