Example sentences of "[vb past] and [adj] " in BNC.

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1 To one side , just in view , stood a magnificent funerary couch , the grey stone of its side engraved with images of gardens and pavilions in which ancient scholars sat enthroned while the women of the household wove and prepared food , sang or played the ancient p'i p'a .
2 Grandma Smith had always looked the same — grey hair straggling — pinafored and old
3 Queen Elizabeth I is said to have died after seeing her fetch ‘ pallid , shrivelled and wan ’ .
4 I discovered them there , shrivelled and dead , forgotten and unnoticed , two weeks later .
5 Superb RAC listed and friendly run guest house within easy walking distance to Conference Centre , Palace Pier , Lanes and shopping centre .
6 The boy — Anton knew him by sight but not his name — twitched and rolled and jerked and strained and foam bubbled from his mouth .
7 Scotch beef comes from Smithfield Market , fresh each day , boned and minced .
8 ‘ … a pulpy magma , fluffy , puffy and dripping , within which alternatively gaped and closed air holes , pustules , pimples , alveoli , cankers and ventricles … ’
9 She also painted and drew and this , inspired by comics like Topper , developed into caricaturing .
10 But there were no more parties in that house of the half-dead , just the old place containing one transformed and one broken person .
11 At the time , ’ she twined and untwined her fingers , ‘ there did n't seem to be any choice .
12 There were different sorts of T-shirts , each with an image and a slogan or comment on the status quo , some of which Malcolm designed and some of which were designed by Bernie and Malcolm together .
13 Emma started work at the age of fourteen for the London Ladies ' Co-operative Guild , a group of professional women who designed and decorated glass tables .
14 and something bared and complex as a bud
15 The anatomists who described and classified species were only peripherally interested in how the organisms functioned within their environment .
16 All 27,000 dismissed and striking workers would be permitted to return to employment in the same job and at the same grade and wage as at the beginning of the strike , provided that they returned to work in the period from Jan. 31 to Feb. 6 .
17 The floor of these forests was , at best , only sparsely vegetated and great areas may have been entirely without any living leaves .
18 It was not like some of the valleys they had seen so far , sparsely vegetated and arid .
19 At one extreme was the highly capitalized and specialized agricultural industry of Denmark , and at the other the huge latifundia of Andalusia or south Italy , with their poverty-stricken swarms of landless peasants working for day wages when they could .
20 Moreover in much of the 1980s profits rose and nominal interest rates fell ( at least until 1980s ) , which could be expected to favour borrowing rather than equity financing .
21 Tendrils coiled and uncoiled , seeming to exist one moment yet not the next .
22 Yeah , it 's really notice you can change it , cos what it does is it , oh hell you can edit the colours of everything so if , if you ca n't understand , cos sometimes it goes over itself , like grey means normal writing , yellow means bold and underlined and pink
23 Between 1850 and 1914 population doubled , urban population tripled and national income more than tripled .
24 Her father Barry said : ‘ She said the boys were skating on the ice , it cracked and one of them fell in .
25 The samples analyzed on a 1.2% agarose gel , the fragments purified and sequenced .
26 She plugged and unplugged that cross-wired old switchboard with the ease of someone switching on the radio .
27 But I mean they phoned and that so , he can nae have been
28 But Senora Chamorro back-tracked and offered talks ; the former left wing President welcomed the move .
29 But such aspirations may easily be frustrated when managerial priorities are that a local population of mentally handicapped people is routinely visited and monitored and that recurrent crises are dealt with by team members .
30 Aggressive behaviour is to be not only discouraged but monitored and disciplined : the public regarded as consumers , customers and paymasters of policing , not potential villains or troublemakers .
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