Example sentences of "and [noun pl] [vb past] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Crossman Block were represented by counsel , Miss Andrews , and solicitors appeared on behalf of the shipowners , the charterers and the buyers of the cargo . |
| 2 | Over at Cheltenham racecourse yesterday history was made as the runners and riders came to post for the first-ever Sunday National Hunt meeting … around thirteen thousand people turned out to watch … and racing hopes , of course , that steeplechasing on Sunday will become a firm fixture … |
| 3 | As he is not a chap to do anything by halves , to get your hands on the eight per cent SGNs you 'll have to go the whole hog and invest in ‘ Work '69 : Terres a Vin ’ , a box containing six special half-bottles ( 1 Muenchberg Riesling ‘ VV ’ , 2 Muenchberg Pinot Gris and 3 Franholz Gewurztraminer ) with handmade labels and capsules pebbledashed with vineyard soil , a piece of rock from each of the three Grand Cru vineyards and a book of Andre 's poems . |
| 4 | An integral part of the ‘ new frontier ’ activities — and therefore of the diversification of higher education — was the widespread development of academic and professional networks , not only through the validation machinery , but also through conferences and meetings devoted to curriculum and subject development . |
| 5 | Britain 's highest profile space commitment was to the ESA L-SAT programme ( later called Olympus ) ; this was the high-power , high-science , satellite from which the French and Germans withdrew in order to prepare ( from 1979 ) to launch their own DBS satellite outside the ESA — for their TVSat and TDF-I efforts . |
| 6 | On Sunday a raid by about 100 agents of the federal Bureau of Alcohol , Tobacco and Firearms erupted in gun battles that killed four police and two cult followers , one reportedly Koresh 's two-year-old daughter . |
| 7 | Partly because if we explicate the concept of requesting , it will be found to be constituted of the very speaker beliefs and wishes listed in part in ( a ) - ( g ) ( see Chapter 5 ) . |
| 8 | Clerks , nobles , knights and merchants rose in wealth , status and dignity through their service in Aquitaine . |
| 9 | Reluctantly , Lucy had packed a small suitcase and had driven the four-hour journey to Hastings , a city situated in the centre of the fertile Heretuanga plains of Hawke 's Bay , where fruit and vegetables grew in abundance . |
| 10 | A circus , billed as the best in Europe , brought a town centre to a halt as animals and performers went on parade . |
| 11 | The face looked none the wiser , and shoulders shrugged into view . |
| 12 | A battleground of historic events and a jungle of eyes watching him out of the gloom , bright eyes and eyes dulled from misuse , flaring nostrils and faded plumage and gaping jaws and once-golden beaks . |
| 13 | Her arms and legs throbbed with tiredness . |
| 14 | I leaned against her wall and gasped for air , and my arms and legs felt like lead weights , like when you climb up out of the baths and all the water 's draining off you . |
| 15 | Overwhelmingly , improvements in roads and waterways happened in response to existing economic pressures and prospects . |
| 16 | The circus elephants brought Witney town centre to a halt today … and very nearly lost their keepers … as the performers and animals went on parade … |
| 17 | The intervals between successive Forest Eyres became longer , but fines and amercements grew in number and amount . |
| 18 | Record proportions of 16- and 17-year-olds stayed in education in England last year . |
| 19 | Waking or sleeping his mind fretted away at the case , images drifted in and out of his consciousness , words and phrases came to mind in a confusing jumble but once , in a doze , it seemed that Beryl was actually speaking to him in her clear , cracked voice . |
| 20 | She was on the executive of the Women 's Social and Political Union and her suffrage speeches and articles appeared in Way Stations ( 1913 ) . |
| 21 | Perhaps for the first time he felt something akin to Eliza 's feelings , as he watched his boxes and bottles winched aboard ship and slowly disappear over the horizon . |
| 22 | THE traditional British breakfast of eggs , bacon and bangers came under attack yesterday on health grounds . |
| 23 | The enormous increase in the demand for lace was largely due to the fashion for lace curtains which came at the same time as a huge house-building programme , and buyers came from home and abroad to negotiate their deals in the Lace Market . |
| 24 | Pockets were emptied of loose change , parcels scanned as if for a malignant tumour and handbags rifled for evidence of evil intent . |
| 25 | In the context of these difficulties , the onset of East-West détente from 1969–70 and the provision of Western technology and credits looked like deliverance itself . |
| 26 | Pietro Miletti appeared , his elegant shoes and trousers bespattered with mud . |
| 27 | Willman and co-workers looked for loss of IRF-1 and several flanking genes in 12 patients with myelodysplasia or acute myeloid leukaemia associated with cytogenetic abnormalities of 5q31 . |
| 28 | Later , he championed the cause of the bards when their schools and teachings came under attack . |
| 29 | Business had thrived in the freedom of the 1920s , yet many of its methods and customs led to disaster . |
| 30 | In subsequent decades the Prussians and Austrians struggled for supremacy over the German soul . |