Example sentences of "[adj] and [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Stravinsky , if more detached and calculated a piece , equally engages the senses here in the incisiveness of Zimmermann 's playing , his thrust , his fullness of sound , the quiet restraint he shows in the concerto 's plaintive moments . |
| 2 | Silent , humourless and reserved , Haig was also shrewd and ambitious and had unbounded self-esteem . |
| 3 | Alex , who had given me the cigarettes , was Scottish and had been at Lille for three days ; he had deserted from the Military Police in Germany , and thought that French food was nowhere as good as Glaswegian . |
| 4 | This was risky and proved to be an extremely ill-advised tactic . |
| 5 | Van Gogh stayed with the Rev. Jones from July to December 1876 and continued to write copiously and regularly to his beloved brother , Theo , also to his parents . |
| 6 | It had been painted in 1876 and showed an older and more ethereal poet , his head rising , as is common with Watts 's portraits , from a vague dark column of a body into a spiritual light . |
| 7 | It had been built in 1876 and consisted of a whole succession of low-roofed , dormer-windowed , gabled buildings . |
| 8 | Burntisland shipped 190,000 in 1876 and jumped to over 500,000 tons by 1880 . |
| 9 | Charles White , the celebrated Manchester surgeon , was born in 1728 and received his anatomical training in London at William Hunter 's academy in 1748 . |
| 10 | Nabiyev completed a two-day visit to Iran on June 30 and went on to Pakistan , returning to Tajikistan on July 4 . |
| 11 | A majority of 10 EC Foreign Ministers rejected the Netherlands draft at a meeting in Brussels on Sept. 30 and demanded the reinstatement of the earlier Luxembourg text . |
| 12 | Justin Lekhanya , who seized power in 1986 from the then Prime Minister Chief Leabua Jonathan , was himself led into the studio of Radio Lesotho by troops on April 30 and made to broadcast his own resignation as Chairman of the six-member ruling Military Council . |
| 13 | Madani and Belhadj were detained on June 30 and accused of organizing an " armed conspiracy " . |
| 14 | Below the Foundation Stone a later tablet was unveiled on 3 April 1960 to commemorate T W T Jackson who was born in 1895 and died in 1956 . |
| 15 | These , and a series of 2–2–2 type machines with inside cylinders , continued to be built until 1895 and hauled the principal express trains . |
| 16 | He will soon find , for instance , the stranger in the furnace with Shadrach , Meshach and Abednego ( Daniel 3 ) , and even the Mount of Transfiguration when Moses and Elijah conversed with the transformed and glorified Jesus ( Matthew 17:1–8 ) . |
| 17 | But the appeal of the romantic movement does not explain why those who were not party to it , such as Michael Faraday , who was a visionary and wrote beautifully , have been completely written out of conventional histories of 19th century Britain , as if he ( and David Brewster and Thomas Henry Huxley and the rest ) were just peripheral figures , keeping things ticking along so that statesmen could make grand decisions and the widening of human understanding could be left to poets . |
| 18 | His only friend is the tubercular and crippled Ratso Rizzo , who dreams of getting to the sunshine of Florida one day . |
| 19 | He had intended to learn French and had brought with him a set of books asserting that you could teach yourself French in two weeks , but he did n't open them . |
| 20 | Others , including the Queen herself , by her own later account , were happy that it was so French and had so little Iranian personality to it . |
| 21 | She had long given up the tussle with French and lapsed into straight English ( which Therese , damn it , was supposed to understand ) . |
| 22 | Lucille felt friendless in an enemy country , but then was relieved to see the Dowager Countess of Mauberges who , like so many other Belgian aristocracy , thought of herself as French and wanted the world to know it . |
| 23 | Later he was sorry for this and taught himself to read hymns and easy accompaniments . |
| 24 | McLeish decided he was not going to get much more out of this and went on to check , gently , what Francis Morgan had done with the weekend . |
| 25 | I remember one team who were deeply affronted by this and went away and never came back . |
| 26 | So he stopped and he listened to this and went to have a look , see what was going on . |
| 27 | bannister he went like this and went |
| 28 | Mum , Tim is making me drop this and hurt the fish . |
| 29 | I thought about this and came to the conclusion that it seemed a very good philosophy . |
| 30 | Preston thought about this and came to no satisfactory conclusion . |