Example sentences of "and [pos pn] [noun sg] [vb past] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was five one pound bets that we put on between us , I put two on , my wife put three on , and all mine were place bets , and I got the winner and I got the fourth , and my wife got the second , and the other one of hers lost . |
| 2 | I knew what was happening , and my voice expressed the knowledge . |
| 3 | Only the hard work of my back four and my goalkeeper kept the scoreline down . ’ |
| 4 | He was another butcher , you see , he bought the other cart and my father kept the best , this cart you 've got was the best cart , yeah . |
| 5 | ‘ Karl Scholz bought most of the land and my father bought the house and the rest and gave it to me to run . |
| 6 | An aunt lent her house for the occasion , my mother did most of the cooking helped by my sister , and my mother-in-law baked the cake . |
| 7 | And my grandfather married the daughter and he came to . |
| 8 | There my father wore the first pair of plus-fours and my mother had the first Eton crop ( an accident of her father 's home hairdressing ) . |
| 9 | Me and my mother stayed the night at Seve 's place and watched the Open on television . |
| 10 | The whole building was painted the frost white of cake icing and its shine echoed the gleam of the silent Thames behind . |
| 11 | This 1662 Prayer Book retained a number of highly contentious features , such as vestments , the sign of the cross in baptism , kneeling at communion , and the ring in marriage , and its preface dismissed the Puritan objections to such practices as ‘ either of dangerous consequence … or else of no consequence at all but utterly frivolous and vain' . |
| 12 | Worst of all , Christ Church Canterbury was burnt in 1011 and its archbishop murdered the following year after refusing to be ransomed . |
| 13 | The remote monitoring service was originally put on trial about a year ago in the retail sector — one of Granada 's biggest markets — and its success prompted the firm to adopt the scheme company-wide . |
| 14 | Now that feudalism had collapsed , taking with it the traditional form of power , the great lairds had better make themselves rich , he believed , and land and its development offered the only way forward . |
| 15 | It was the geomantic sign and the powerful bull guild which persuaded Bladud to found the first university in the world at Stamford , and its influence made the town prosperous and important in the Middle Ages . |
| 16 | Launched in 1986 , Wisk was the UK 's first heavy duty liquid detergent and its advent revolutionised the market . |
| 17 | It was nearing completion , and its completion embodied the hope of that now familiar wholeness so precious to its author : everything seemed to fit together , all experience could at last be integrated . |
| 18 | A flurry of bangs hit the door and before Allan Stewart could shoot back the bolt gun-butts had burst through the timbers , the bolt and its socket tore the jamb away , and soldiers in blue coats and white breeches were stepping in across the wreckage . |
| 19 | It had no heating , its paint was peeling , and its wallpaper obeyed the rule of the new canon 's parents that it does not show the dirt when it is dark . |
| 20 | But indirectly the growing public awareness of science and its potential shaped the professionals ' world by exposing it to the rough and tumble of political life . |
| 21 | Rebaya and her daughter purchased the materials necessary to men to make incense sticks and again have achieved a degree of financial independence which six months before could not have been expected . |
| 22 | Demeter and her daughter covered the land |
| 23 | Of all the nine , her form is perhaps the least defined , and her inspiration spread the most widely . |
| 24 | Jane and her sister shared the basement rooms off the kitchen , unlike the other two maids , whose rooms were at the top of the house . |
| 25 | She and her sister inherited the Treffry estates in Cornwall from their brother in 1779 , and after her husband 's death in 1786 she lived in the family home , Place , at Fowey . |
| 26 | Soderstrom — who later in the concert jokingly apologised for her scratchiness — was obviously miserable , more miserable than she needed to be , about the quality of the sound she was making , and her misery took the form of distinguished concentration on pitch , so that there were many small uncharacteristic faults in her intonation . |
| 27 | I 'm just like my mum , when it comes down to it , That 's why I quite admired Auntie Muriel , in a guarded sort of way I 'd think , I really should try to be like her , she was so content , nothing ever fazed her , I did n't want to be a farmer , understand , but I did n't want to be like mum either , tied to a feckless man , trying to keep him and me , having to hustle all the time to stop from sinking I fancied myself on a corporate asteroid , settling down with someone who would cherish me and buy me everything I wanted Carmen and her crew had the same ideas , even if they acted like they were going to be bad girls for ever , |
| 28 | Jean Coulter and her friend watched the group in conversation and were impressed by what appeared from across the room to be the relaxed self-control of Joan and Derek . |
| 29 | As he opened his mouth in protest , she lifted her hand to stop him and her elbow caught the card which he 'd pushed into the bin . |
| 30 | It seemed to Frankie that she and her shadow filled the entire room . |