Example sentences of "and [noun sg] [vb past] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The movement broke the spell , and a hubbub of laughter and shouting replaced the silence as one woman after another jumped gleefully into the pool . |
| 2 | By the time the work had finished two internal walls had been completely destroyed and Crook took the decision to set fire to the flat in the hope Langbaurgh Council , which owns the block , might rehouse him . |
| 3 | So they stood and their hands clasped at the baggage rack above their heads , and Millet saw the eyes of a fellow traveller flit to the girl 's features as if they were staring at those magazines on the high shelf behind the newsagent 's counter . |
| 4 | After accidental drain removal , the abdomen distended rapidly and ultrasound showed the presence of ascites . |
| 5 | The Matra-Ford proved even more reliable the following season , as car and driver swept the board with six wins which gave Stewart the first of his three world titles , winning by 26 points from Jacky Ickx ( Bel ) . |
| 6 | And Dad and Mum staked the claim so they have Galactic rights . |
| 7 | A change of wind and tide forced the abandonment of this plan , and the marauders had no more luck at their next port of call , Kirkcaldy , for again the wind changed , thanks , it was asserted , to the prayers of the townspeople , gathered on the beach under their minister . |
| 8 | The resulting interchange of ideas and expertise redefined the terrain of moral problems . |
| 9 | Brunel , no less committed than Hitchcock to an ‘ artistic ’ direction for British films , was later unstinting in his praise of a man who ‘ by his faith and support set the pace at a time when we most needed it ’ and credited him with contributing ‘ very considerably to the renaissance of the British film production industry . ’ |
| 10 | On 23 February , FIDE , the World Chess Federation , announced that the 1993 championship would take place in Manchester , but both champion and challenger rejected the decision and have announced they will play each other outside the jurisdiction of FIDE under the auspices of a new body , the Professional Chess Association . |
| 11 | Morale on the shop floor was higher than it had been for a long year and an unhealthy atmosphere of optimism and hope pervaded the plant . |
| 12 | Philip Wooler 's brace and bit won the £139 worth of Koch honing system for second prize . |
| 13 | Beardshall and coworkers have shown that suppression of H pylori with tripotassium dicitratobismuthate and metronidazole decreased the response of gastrin to gastrin releasing peptide stimulation . |
| 14 | This history and experience shaped the way he was perceived by others . |
| 15 | He also printed and part published the Liverpool Chronicle and Marine Gazette . |
| 16 | The conventional Georgian houses each side of it were as high , but its neo-classical facade in Portland stone and brick dominated the terrace and the whole square , inalienably a part of them , yet looking almost arrogantly unique . |
| 17 | When , after 1880 , we began to see emerging new philosophies to provide the intellectual underpinning for the foundations of the welfare state that were being laid between 1880 and 1914 , Mill might have supplied the economic doctrine , but the conceptions of order and progress utilized the methods , if not the ideologies , of the social evolutionists . |
| 18 | The smell of oil and brine permeated the castle , making Ajayi think of old harbours , and ships . |
| 19 | Cock and click went the super-gun . |
| 20 | Thomas Cook 's confidence and enthusiasm set the pace . |
| 21 | By July the crops were strong and healthy-looking , wild flowers of every colour and description carpeted the hay fields and filled the air with their scent . |
| 22 | Analysis of variance showed the following : ( 1 ) the CCPR decreased between the ileum and distal colon ; ( 2 ) the CCPR decreased between 16 and 32 weeks ; ( 3 ) dimethylhydrazine and small bowel resection increased the CCPR and calcium decreased the CCPR independently of one another ; ( 4 ) the CCPR interacted with dimethylhydrazine x small bowel resection , calcium x dimethylhydrazine and interacted between the site of bowel and calcium , dimethylhydrazine , small bowel resection , and dimethylhydrazine x small bowel resection ( p=0.014 to p<0.001 ) . |
| 23 | However , the realisation that New York and other US centres were losing potential business with accompanying employment and income encouraged the authorities to permit the establishment of International Banking Facilities ( IBFs ) in December 1981 . |
| 24 | He was worried about Kylie 's future welfare and insisted that Waterman and Co explained the problems he , and Jason for that matter , would face when it all ended . |
| 25 | Unemployment and recession increased the decay of inner city social systems , and helped pave the way for the drug-fuelled despair of the late Eighties . |
| 26 | AGED 14-16 : Traditional classics such as Eliot 's Silas Marner , Hardy 's The Mayor Of Casterbridge and Jane Austen 's Pride And Prejudice set the tone here , though there is still room for William Golding 's classic Lord Of The Flies . |
| 27 | This meant that profit and loss became the criteria upon which the majority of industry had to operate ( the defence industry being the exception ) . |
| 28 | By contrast , Anderson 's Flesh and Blood suggested the cinema as its inspiration , with an all-woman troupe elaborately costumed in clinging silver lamé . |
| 29 | As far back as 1977 , the Pack Report on attendance and truancy highlighted the limitations of attendance rates for measuring pupils ' attendance . |
| 30 | Anyway , Filmer and Daffodil left the races together in what looked like her own car , with a chauffeur . ’ |