Example sentences of "[vb past] and the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The relatively cheap and rapid transportation it provided and the elasticity of capacity the companies boasted gave a powerful boost to the mass holiday-making industry . |
| 2 | As the crane strained and the barge listed over , the crowd eagerly peered , perhaps expecting something macabre , but soon dispersing when the smelly chunk of concrete emerged . |
| 3 | But in the cabin , the parcel tray bounced and the instrument binnacle zizzed . |
| 4 | No respiration was visible , the eyes were closed , the mouth gaped and the paws were rigid . |
| 5 | I had another examination and found I was 8cms dilated and the midwife would feel the buttocks and a foot ! |
| 6 | Another problem is the sheer eclecticism of progressive rock , both in terms of the variety of sources on which it drew and the range of styles contained within the genre . |
| 7 | The Super Sportster Z had won every race it entered and the shareholders go a good dividend . |
| 8 | I lose the damn thing and crash blindly against him , but he skips backwards , and as the mist clears I see his eyes blazing and his teeth bared and the gun is comfortable in his hand and pointing at my chest . |
| 9 | W. Anker Simmons presided and the following were present : Messrs A.J. Rawlings , A.R . |
| 10 | Mr W D Irwin presided and the hymn : ‘ We give immortal praise — ‘ , used at the opening of the 1891 church was again sung . |
| 11 | As the owl hooted and the night train called , Erika was already slipping into the state where the real world fades and the dreamworld begins , thinking of Fritz and that last , subtle touch of two hands . |
| 12 | Perhaps understandably , in view of the problems he encountered and the opposition of some members of the county council , his concern was to establish prestigious links between village colleges and the University of Cambridge in the provision of adult education rather than with the much less regarded WEA . |
| 13 | She winced and the colour shrank out of her cheeks and then reappeared in two hot spots high on her cheekbones . |
| 14 | They are well preserved and maintained and the rampart walks are accessible , giving interesting views into the town and out over the surrounding countryside . |
| 15 | The plane crashed and the plaintiff was injured . |
| 16 | She rose and the apron made a tissue-paper sound , ‘ And we have to bear in mind , Miss Thorne , that for many people a hospital of this kind is not the answer . |
| 17 | What does stand out is the way in which absorption patterns were changing as real incomes rose and the inability of domestic industry to match these patterns in terms of resource use and productivity . |
| 18 | Reports of rectal isolates of Neisseria gonorrhoeae also rose and the male to female ratio for patients with rectal gonorrhoea changed from 0.3:1 during 1988–9 to 2.6:1 in 1990–1 . |
| 19 | He half rose and the Bishop , looking round , found a chair higher than his wife 's stool and sat on it . |
| 20 | In Pest-Buda , the cannons thundered and the whole city celebrated . ’ |
| 21 | The positive cDNA clones were plaque purified and the Bluescript phagemid ( Stratagene ) rescued . |
| 22 | I phoned and the man that I needed to speak to was not there , he 'd been seconded to the Himalayas or something , he was only coming back erm , in the middle of January , I was in , erm , November or whatever it was , I was giving a few days ' grace , and then I was going to call . |
| 23 | Lee , startled to see Philip , moved and the helmet which he had on the back of his head fell off on to the flagged floor . |
| 24 | Sometimes people or Men changed for a moment into some semblance of shape , but then they moved and the mist drifted and they were gone as if they had never been . |
| 25 | At last something moved and the door opened . |
| 26 | He moved and the slaves cowered back , as if , thought Nuadu , they had witnessed the next part before and feared it even more than the mutilating of the boy . |
| 27 | Well I suppose a very junior clerk , the first job I was given was , well it 's unheard of in this day and age but what they had was what they call a bundi clock and there every driver and conductor had got a key that was inserted in this clock and on it was his personal number , well when he reported for duty , he inserted this key into the clock , turned the handle and stamped on to a piece of paper , a roll of paper , his number and the time he reported and the next day it was my job to go through and record from this piece of paper how many minutes they were late f reporting for duty and if they erm were more than , I think about three or four minutes we had to send them a memo telling them , that 's how things were in those days that people were , they toed the line or else . |
| 28 | Arms salesman ; okay the Avenger the Equaliser the Total Fucking Nutter went for the legs too but still , and the editor spiked , and the rapist-lenient judge raped and the pornographer poisoned and stroked and the man who was so callous about the bloodshed in the Iran/Iraq war forced to watch his penned animals die like cattle like soldiers like cattle and then bled to death in his own private fountains of blood and the businessman who put profits before safety and not only helped kill a thousand people but then tried to get out of paying the survivors and dependants any compensation gets his own gas explosion — blevey is the technical term apparently — and fuck me whoever he is ( assuming he is a he ) , he 's got a sense of humour or at least irony why he 's produced what 's almost a snuff video effectively a snuff video if you mean brain-death anyway it 's the closest anyone will admit to ever having seen or found one even the Obscene Pubs Squad who 've been looking for years but although everybody assumes they exist nobody 's ever seen one until old gorilla man comes along and just makes his own , specifically to warn off any other porn merchants thinking of dealing in snuff ! |
| 29 | There were virtually no drugs to be had in Teheran in those days ; the doctors dithered and the family prayed around the bed . |
| 30 | While the Republican politicians dithered and the more violent partisans of the Popular Front vented their anger and frustration on people they considered to be right-wing , ecclesiastical properties and captured rebels , the insurgents entrenched themselves in the positions they had managed to take . |