Example sentences of "and [adj] [vb past] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet each vision arose from the same landscape , and each had its own particular beauty and power . |
| 2 | There were many conflicting interests within nineteenth-century society , and each developed its own interpretation of evolutionism . |
| 3 | And discontented left her hated Bed . |
| 4 | At best , it could be agreed that some people defined the national interest one way and some defined it another way , and each side was equally well-meaning ; only some had pushed their patriotism beyond the law , so keen were they , while others had stopped and thought . |
| 5 | Some of them received high command in the mid-fifteenth century , and some introduced their own characteristics to the fighting of war . |
| 6 | But he was still at an experimental stage of his thinking , and this enabled his political opportunism to come into play . |
| 7 | Not being a cancer expert , my information about the enemy was scant , and this seemed my weakest point . |
| 8 | She was superb throughout , counselling me to stay out , and this made my eventual decision all the more poignant . |
| 9 | Swan seemed unwilling to fly very close to these creatures from another world , and this made it impossible for Little Billy to see them clearly . |
| 10 | Fitzosbert 's sunken cheeks were liberally rouged and this made his bulbous grey eyes seem even more fish-like . |
| 11 | Strangely enough , at no time did I have real doubts that I would be elected , and this determined my public attitude during the three successive ballots that were necessary . |
| 12 | I admit , I was quaking with fright and this had its usual effect on Old Shallot : weak legs , wobbly belly , heaving chest and total panic . |
| 13 | The walk took only ten minutes and this allowed her two glorious hours sitting quietly by herself in a cosy corner devouring one book after another . |
| 14 | Kendall was able to check his results to an extent , since much of his data related to villages whose location was known , and this gave him some confidence in suggesting the locations of the lost villages . |
| 15 | When someone discovered something , they had to explain it to the others , and this reinforced their own understanding . |
| 16 | The CDU , led by the apparently undynamic Helmut Kohl , increased their vote to nearly 49 per cent and this restored their leading position in the country , but the SPD ( 43 per cent ) and FDP ( 8 per cent ) retained their majority in the Bundestag . |
| 17 | He was willing to go to confirm in an emergency at very short notice and this earned him some long-lasting gratitude . |
| 18 | He devised a special programme , teaching the girls a new song and dance called The Little Gypsies and this earned their usual encore . |
| 19 | She became aware that her beige Sunday suit was looking a trifle out of fashion , compared with Mrs MacDonald 's burnt-orange outfit , and this confused her still more . |
| 20 | He had said that he regarded all-round cancellation as the only fair solution to inter-Allied debts , and this remained his basic position throughout . |
| 21 | The attainment of his majority would naturally have heralded a larger and more independent following , but Gloucester 's early influence was in areas where there was an established network of royal servants and this shaped his developing retinue . |
| 22 | The attainment of his majority would naturally have heralded a larger and more independent following , but Gloucester 's early influence was in areas where there was an established network of royal servants and this shaped his developing retinue . |
| 23 | All but a few households in Britain relied for heating on solid fuel fires in the principal room , and few considered it necessary to heat bedrooms or bathrooms continuously , even in winter . |
| 24 | However 384 , 387 and 397 failed their annual inspections on 12 October 1951 and on 9 January 1952 , the remainder were withdrawn and moved to Penhall Road scrap yard to meet their fate . |
| 25 | Crowds of more than 700 filled the club at the weekends and under-eighteens had their own room , so bands usually played two sets a night . |
| 26 | all farmers and all got their own families like er surely he had a fairly good shop when he . |
| 27 | But being in a place so bright , fast and brilliant made you vertiginous with possibility : it did n't necessarily help you grasp those possibilities . |
| 28 | Breaks of 106 , 68 and 55 put him 4–0 ahead before Murphy managed to claim his first frame . |
| 29 | The ways cards made spending — and overspending — so easy and painless made it difficult for people not to treat the plastic rectangles as money . |
| 30 | He asked me if I was English , and 1 told him Irish . |