Example sentences of "and [noun] [vb past] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | My husband took off his underpants and Jessica sat in the car with them wrapped round her the rest of the way home ! |
| 2 | His staff car and driver waited in the farm yard . |
| 3 | As soon as she climbed off the coach , she burst into tears , and Mum took in the situation at a glance . |
| 4 | Industry and agriculture flourished in the war years though both came under great governmental control — a new experience for " free enterprise " America . |
| 5 | Amid tight security the Presidents of the United States , Colombia , Peru and Bolivia met in the Colombian Caribbean resort of Cartagena and signed on Feb. 15 the Cartagena Declaration , pledging their governments to intensify and co-ordinate efforts to curb the consumption , production and trafficking of cocaine . |
| 6 | Dunedin was to be overshadowed , but not surpassed in elegance , by the vast new stations at Auckland and Wellington completed in the 1930s . |
| 7 | He shrugged off his British Warm greatcoat and Steiner took in the badges of rank and red tabs of a staff officer . |
| 8 | On 17 September Bevin and Acheson met in the State Department ; Acheson stated that the American government had decided it was necessary to proceed with a peace treaty within the near future . |
| 9 | So Gloria and Maudie set off one way , towards West Ferry Road , while Ruth and Sarah went in the other direction . |
| 10 | His beard and teeth got in the way . |
| 11 | Just as " every clerk 's " unanimity of opinion directs the laughter of " " every wight " " at the end of the Miller 's Tale ( 3847 – 9 ) , the text of the Reeve 's Tale brings its readers to view and laugh at the miller and his family through the clerks ' perceptions , their attitudes and their frame of reference : We may particularly note , for instance , how the incongruous " " par compaignye " " that Nicholas and Alison put in the mouth of the unfortunate John recurs in this urbane rendering of the family 's vulgar cacophany , and how the somewhat different " " melodye " " recalls the " " revel " " and the " " melodye " " that Alison and Nicholas enjoy . |
| 12 | Sheila had not moved from the settee , and Morse stood in the doorway looking back at her : ‘ Do n't you know ? ’ |
| 13 | Unwontedly , Lewis was philosophising as he and Morse sat in the canteen at St Aldate 's : ‘ Amazing , really : you get all these statements and alibis and secret little meetings , and then really , in the end , it 's just — well , it 's just the same old story , is n't it ? |
| 14 | It is thus possible , indeed common , for each of two rival lineages to claim , as the British and Germans did in the First World War , that ‘ God is on our side ’ . |
| 15 | FIVE-year-old survivor John Tomlins still does not know that his brother and sister died in the ferry tragedy . |
| 16 | That night , Ted and Jim met in the local pub to discuss the situation . |
| 17 | Classic Warbirds by David Stubbs is an overall look at the warbird scene , with coverage of Reno , detailing the much-modified machines that participate in the air races each year ; Duxford 's Classic Fighter display of 1990 ; warbird training on the T–6 Texan and an excellent section on the B–17s , Mustangs and Messerschmitts used in the move Memphis Belle . |
| 18 | Libyan aid comprising baby food , medicine and milk came in the wake of an official request by Iraq on Feb. 9 asking the UN to send a fact-finding mission to investigate Iraqi claims that allied forces had bombed a factory producing baby milk formula on Jan. 21 . |
| 19 | The growth of industrialisation and Nonconformism resulted in the collapse of the old traditionally supported customs and public charities . |
| 20 | The day of the Agricultural Fair approached and passions rose in the village . |
| 21 | Already the ranks of the creative arts had been woefully thinned ; Braque badly wounded , Léger gassed , Derain unscathed but reduced to decorating shell cases ; Péguy and Alain-Fournier had been killed , and Apollinaire wounded in the head . |
| 22 | And Hilderbridge lay in the sunshine , its slate roofs all turned to planes of silver , its spires sharp needles , as if a silversmith had made it and dropped it in the valley between the meadows and the moor . |
| 23 | There were heats , and Jefferson ran in the first . |
| 24 | During a subsequent march of some 200,000 pupils backed by the teachers ' union FEN in Paris on Nov. 12 , police held back while cars were burned and shops looted in the seventh arrondissement , but finally intervened with tear gas and water cannon to prevent marchers approaching the presidential palace ; 234 police and a number of journalists were injured and 83 people were arrested . |
| 25 | A dynastic struggle between Jagellonians and Habsburgs drew in the Croat magnates , who generally supported the Habsburg cause . |
| 26 | At once a faint impression of medieval city spires and domes appeared in the right-hand corner . |
| 27 | ‘ I stretched out in the back of the Mini and Rex travelled in the front with Willy at the wheel . |
| 28 | Only he and Veronica left in the game . |
| 29 | Perhaps the greatest deficiencies in the relationship between education and industry occurred in the training and recruitment of middle management . |
| 30 | After prolonged negotiations both at the UN and in the Gulf , the UN proposals were finally agreed although military operations continued into 1988 and fighting continued in the waters of the Gulf . |