Example sentences of "and [noun pl] [adv] [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The early morning was cool and birds still chattered in the long grasses along the line . |
| 2 | Heavier traffic flows caused by lorries on bridges and roads also added to the ministry 's problems . |
| 3 | Meanwhile individuals and organizations also wrote to my boss complaining . |
| 4 | It was therefore important for him to be well informed about events in his own country and in the political world generally ; and ambassadors sometimes asked in their despatches for news which they could trade with their colleagues from other states since , as one of them told the French foreign minister in 1674 , " You know that in [ diplomacy ] as in other ordinary transactions it is necessary to give in order to receive " . |
| 5 | Creators of film and documentaries sometimes drew upon stock shots , and the actual sequence shown is not always what it purports to be . |
| 6 | From the start of his authority to investigate subversives , in 1939 , the pattern was set : his first raids caught an unlovely bunch of anti-Semites , whose inspiration and weapons both came from a paid FBI informant . |
| 7 | There were several species , most were about the size of those living today but with the dragonflies as with millipedes and other groups that have pioneered a new environment , the absence of competition allowed some early forms to develop to an enormous size , and dragonflies eventually appeared with a wingspan of 70 centimetres , the largest insects ever to exist . |
| 8 | As winter took its hold , banking up the short days , the long cold nights between autumn and spring , thoughts and imaginations often drifted to hunting . |
| 9 | The same good pay and conditions also coincided with the equal opportunities legislation which declared , in essence , that for all practical purposes there is no difference between the sexes . |
| 10 | There were no significant differences in the Health Study between the vitamin A and placebo groups in the prevalence of diarrhoea or acute respiratory infections ; of the symptoms and conditions specifically asked about , only vomiting and anorexia were significantly less frequent in the supplemented children . |
| 11 | The settlements of 1911 had , explicitly or implicitly , opened up channels between local officials of the union and local shipowner associations so that a number of recognised , if not always strictly negotiated and agreed , rates and conditions now existed in different ports which , for the purposes of comparison , the NSFU had now committed to paper . |
| 12 | Slugs , aphids , rats and pigeons also thrived in the mild winters and hot summers between 1988 and 1990 causing considerable crop damage . |
| 13 | Innumerable ovaries and testes seamlessly grafted into place . |
| 14 | Though officials sometimes mentioned that poor peasants owned cattle , ownership was often concentrated and cattle usually had to be hired . |
| 15 | These included some of the plums , nectarines and apricots successfully coaxed by Miller to produce early fruit at Chelsea . |
| 16 | Mills arose in the remote valleys below the moors , and hamlets and villages quickly clustered around them . |
| 17 | Foolishly , the roughness from one who had been so kind was the last straw , and tears suddenly welled into her eyes . |
| 18 | It was all a spoof , but taken for real by many viewers , particularly when cameramen collapsed and scratches mysteriously appeared on a girl 's face which became covered in blood and distorted . |
| 19 | TUC support for a national limitation steadily eroded , not least because a so-called ‘ Top People ’ pay-review inquiry under Sir Edward Boyle recommended large rises for already well-paid professions such as High Court judges and top civil servants , while the police , the armed services , the dentists , and doctors also benefited from substantial salary rises . |
| 20 | The accused would not be present , and misunderstandings sometimes arose between judge and counsel , or between counsel and client , resulting in the accused often receiving a sentence which they thought they had not bargained for . |
| 21 | Debate on the Church went on through half the time available for discussion in the entire session , and revisions still had to be brought back for approval . |
| 22 | She stayed near him till he slept , went out into the dark hall , switched on the light with pride and with the knowledge of what that little act meant , what it had cost , would cost ; she pressed a tiny switch on the wall , and electrons obediently flowed through cables , because the woman in the Electricity had so ordered it |
| 23 | These influxes were all associated with severe weather and numbers otherwise ranged between one and 24 annually , averaging about nine . |
| 24 | Marshall was freed , and detectives even spoke of arresting our reporters . |
| 25 | More important still for Reich was the fact that his wife and children also suffered from his patriarchal authority . |
| 26 | About 10 foreigners were among the victims of political violence in 1989 , with the result that foreign aid workers , archaeologists and tourists increasingly withdrew from or avoided rural areas . |
| 27 | An excellent brigade of about 30 officers and men ably captained by the Works Manager , Mr C.L. Mason , assisted by Second Officer Mr H.H. Coker , has several smart records to its credit . |
| 28 | Writers , artists and Bohemians now lived in some of the tiny terraced cottages facing the quay . |
| 29 | However , Senate President Alain Poher , RPR and UDF deputies and others immediately appealed to the Constitutional Council over the law . |
| 30 | I looked around ; Clinton , Dacourt and others now stood near the main steps of the chateau , Throgmorton with them . |