Example sentences of "[adj] and during the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lutyens joined their practice as a young man and was much influenced by Peto , who was brilliant , eccentric , energetic and funny and during the later part of his life became increasingly keen on garden design . |
| 2 | The weather was cold and windy and during the photographs my hat blew off several times . |
| 3 | There is a tradition that the cattle of eastern England have Scandinavian origins , but the West of England influence was strong and during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries Devon blood was widely used in Norfolk ( especially , of course , by Coke of Holkham and his tenants ) , though it did not necessarily have a direct influence on the future Red Poll . |
| 4 | " The neighbourhood was not very populous and during the first three days our visitors were few , some children from the village below , a gypsy woman or two with dark eyes , who carried of a few halfpence , and perhaps a chance passer by . |
| 5 | Mr Miller said : ‘ The violence was renewed and during the course of it Mr Wray was struck on the side of his face by Youngs who had in his hand a heavy hammer . ’ |
| 6 | Picasso was also throughout his life astonishingly prolific and during the Cubist years produced between three and four times as many works as Braque . |
| 7 | Gus , a civil engineer , had been finding the job situation pretty difficult and during the period of the Namibia tour and during the World Cup was on the unemployed roster . |
| 8 | Sixty percent of the population of London alone were made homeless and during the war there were sixty million changes of address . |
| 9 | A person who is entitled to the temporary possession of a chattel and who delivers it back to the owner for a special purpose may , after that purpose is satisfied and during the existence of his temporary right , sue the owner for conversion of it ; a fortiori he can sue anyone else . |