Example sentences of "and [prep] [num ord] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were in their early thirties , so 1 did not feel too out of place from the point of view of age , and at first no one took any notice of me , as if they thought I was just another mature student . |
| 2 | And so to war , and at first a very strange war , On either side it appeared that no one wanted to start the bombing war which in our way had been our long time plan — in fact the Trenchard theory that fighters are for defence , bombers for offence . |
| 3 | The previous Government , however , had already pointed to the need to revitalize urban economies , and at first the shift was more rhetorical than real . |
| 4 | I could n't carry her , but she dragged easily enough , and at first the shingle was hard enough to walk on . |
| 5 | Now I trod softly , and at first the man did n't hear me . |
| 6 | He struck a fine short iron over the bunker and right into the heart of the green at the 12th , and at last a putt found its mark from perhaps eight feet . |
| 7 | The complex factors involved have finally been established , and at last a truly effective anti skin ageing treatment has been created — Tuenda by RVB . |
| 8 | As she filled in the forms for him , the girl in Despatch , big and black and at last a friendly face , told him she was from Mississippi , and sure as hell she hated Greeks , Athens , moussaka and retsina . |
| 9 | She watched through a crack and at last a nurse came out of the tiny office and went to the lift . |
| 10 | Now thanks to Housing Association , I 've got my own totally modern two bedroom home , and at last a big helping hand onto the property ladder . |
| 11 | Chapman said later that Cleese , his writing partner at Cambridge and afterwards on the Frost , Marty Feldman and At Last the 1948 shows , ‘ was still in a state of shock ’ . |
| 12 | And at last the darkroom door swings open |
| 13 | She now came under the giant umbrella of the Royal Family and at last the palace was able to give her full protection . |
| 14 | And at last the roistering procession when the castle ladies escorted her to her room . |
| 15 | Once a grass-snake slid across the path in front of her and made her halt sharply with a startled cry , but she went resolutely on again , and at last the trees began to thin out and the patch of sky in front of her widen . |
| 16 | The Brownie Guider put her fingers in her ears , and at last the Brownies stopped talking all together . |
| 17 | There is a long pause and at last the voice says . |
| 18 | This ended the controversy and at last the Sutton villagers were able to be buried in their own churchyard . |
| 19 | Then came the terrible sense of disbelief and at last the dawning realization that she would never be held in his embrace , breathe in the scent of his cigars or hear his kindly voice ever again . |
| 20 | Turkey seriously set about reform under Abdul Hamid and at last the sultan of Zanzibar abolished slavery in 1897 . |
| 21 | Frantic parents continued to hassle and swear and at last the stoat grew tired and bounded off into the cover of a pine tree windbreak . |
| 22 | Feeling the whole blueness shutting in on her , walls running with cyan drops whose stench was acrid and bile , she wrenched and wrenched at the straps and at last the curving bottle came free . |
| 23 | It was agreed and at last the meeting ended . |
| 24 | And at last the tears came . |
| 25 | It was soon hidden by a mushrooming of peach and golden clouds , and at last the sun showed its rim like the rind of an orange . |
| 26 | The body bold to come across the clearings and at last the the fox is really there . |