Example sentences of "and [noun sg] [vb past] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The rain grew heavier and thunder rumbled over the mountains . |
| 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 | The next day when Pete and Mum went to the shops Mum had to buy fruit and vegetables from the green-grocer . |
| 5 | Yeah and Mike 's seen him like that and mum went round the ward and she made all the beds to help them and all , we had to bribe them to look after him , but was he looked after in the end , on Saturday I said look , I said do n't fucking come over here and tell me my dad 's gon na be turned in a minute I said because a minute is a minute , I said but when you come over here three and a half hours later to my dad that 's like three years , he 's in excruciating agony , he wants to turn him when you tell him you 're gon na turn him |
| 6 | Industry and agriculture flourished in the war years though both came under great governmental control — a new experience for " free enterprise " America . |
| 7 | An early-morning mist hung over Branchester , the cathedral rising up like some ghostly fairy-tale palace while cobwebs glistened on iron railings and moisture dripped from the branches of the lime trees that fringed the roads . |
| 8 | Canon Mackenzie by upbringing and temperament belonged to the paternal age , which was drawing to a close , and " politics " was alien to him . |
| 9 | A number of commentators have argued that these and other abuses are just as significant in terms of the experience of and damage perpetrated upon the victim ( Macleod and Saraga , 1988 ) . |
| 10 | The tangled web of their past and present balled against the rage of Ruth 's emotions . |
| 11 | For example , one night a youth with distinct working-class dress and accent walked into the station : |
| 12 | FIVE-year-old survivor John Tomlins still does not know that his brother and sister died in the ferry tragedy . |
| 13 | His parents , brother and sister emigrated to the United States when he was a youngster and he was brought up by his grandmother , and it was only the lack of cricket in America which later deterred him from joining them . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The growth of industrialisation and Nonconformism resulted in the collapse of the old traditionally supported customs and public charities . |
| 16 | Gloom and despondency hung over the royal party and Anne was more than a little resentful of having been required to join them in sanctuary . |
| 17 | None the less the electricity industry was fortunate compared with , for example , the coal industry , where politics had long bedevilled management relations with both government and workers , and nationalisation led to the departure of senior managers in larger numbers . |
| 18 | Prince and his followers lived a dissolute and ostentatious life of great luxury , and Prince drove around the neighbourhood in a carriage and horses , accompanied by bloodhounds . |
| 19 | And Na-dene did for the Jews . |
| 20 | Changes in medical fashion and research led to the promotion of fresh air and sunlight as beneficial to health and the Victorian female 's obsession with the maintenance of a pale complexion as a mark of class distinction gradually gave way in the early years of this century , to the pursuit of the sun , in search of a healthy tan . |
| 21 | The gentleness and kindness which they preached as the very foundation of its teaching , and as insisted on by Jesus Christ himself , now stands starkly contrasted with the history of cruelty and violence perpetrated over the centuries in the name of Christianity . |
| 22 | Dawn had begun to break , and daylight crept over the barren countryside . |
| 23 | The storm wind of the Darkfall blasted through the shattered window with a howling roar ; rain and snow gushed into the office . |
| 24 | Gusts of rain and snow flurried through the opened door as the shape scrabbled on the floor . |
| 25 | His position had torn Danjit 's knife-cut again and blood spiralled through the labyrinthine folds of his collar . |
| 26 | Champagne and blood ran down the wall . |
| 27 | The white Straker family had long disappeared , their genes and blood melded into the vigorous bodies of their freed slaves , and only the Straker name lived on to be given new dignity by Bonefish and his family . |
| 28 | He started coughing , and blood spatted across the note-dotted creaminess of his score . |
| 29 | The first hint that there might be a connection between black holes and thermodynamics came with the mathematical discovery in 1970 that the surface area of the event horizon , the boundary of a black hole , has the property that it always increases when additional matter or radiation falls into the black hole . |
| 30 | There is a pretty conservatory where meals are served , a large , colourful garden and several interesting outbuildings such as the 17th-century half-timbered stable block which has been converted to provide four bedrooms , and the cellar , bread oven and fishpond dug by the monks from Bordesley Abbey . |