Example sentences of "and [vb past] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | BRAVE Princess Diana put two weeks of torment behind her yesterday … and beamed this smile of relief . |
| 2 | They took a prominent part in the repulse of the Austrian attack in this sector in June 1918 , and countered this attack by raids on Austrian positions , in which they took several hundred prisoners . |
| 3 | The English church owed much to Gaul , and shared many of its features . |
| 4 | Subsequently we became lifelong friends , sailed many miles together and shared many adventures . |
| 5 | That is to say , Libyans whose families had settled in the cities some generations before were perhaps exempt from this process ; but the majority of Libyans made their history in the same way , and shared this picture of the past . |
| 6 | They were working at about the same time as Turner and Constable and shared those artists ’ concerns in relation to painting directly from nature , which Dahl described as Naturvei — nature 's Way . |
| 7 | Having escorted Felicity Suvarov around St Mark 's cathedral , Julia had gone back to the Danieli hotel and shared some lunch with her . |
| 8 | He has expanded police powers , limited the formation of new parties , marginalised the old opposition and criminalised some types of political dissent . |
| 9 | It 's enough to make you drive all the way to south-west France and strew some beetroot on the lanes . |
| 10 | Douglas , disappointed , had of course been prepared for this also , and wasted little time in cursing . |
| 11 | He was waiting for her outside and wasted little time in virtually hustling her outside to where his car was waiting for them . |
| 12 | This exile might have been permanent had Swegen not died in February 1014. Æthelred was invited back , and wasted little time in expelling Cnut and his army from their Lincolnshire base . |
| 13 | But yesterday as they gave the clenched fist salute of the Spanish republican army and planned another ceremony next year , they smiled a smile of inner satisfaction at having taken part in a fight which they had no doubts was well worth fighting . |
| 14 | In fact , of course , I did criticise them , although out of fear of my father I took the easier route and voiced that criticism upon my mother . |
| 15 | Now Botswana could not cut itself off from South Africa during the long years of apartheid but Botswana did make clear that it opposed apartheid and voiced this very strongly and much to the annoyance often of the South African government . |
| 16 | Closing my eyes , thinking that it might be either the sun or the Pernod , I waited a few seconds and chanced another look . |
| 17 | He brought back his foot as far as it would go and channelled all its hydraulic power into a forceful throw . |
| 18 | I shut myself off from the female race and channelled all my energy into my work . |
| 19 | The Labour government elected in 1974 decided to concentrate its housing resources on the needs of the inner city areas and coupled this with changes in the basis of the rate support grant which disadvantaged rural local authorities . |
| 20 | The Comintern Plenum of 1932 had reappraised the " Social Fascist " policy and lessened some of the hostility to Left Social Democratic members though the former antagonism against Left Social Democratic leaders was retained . |
| 21 | A conducted tour of the house by the whole family , brought him at last to the top floor where his bedroom was proudly displayed , which , though huge and filled with awesome furniture of hideous elaboration , impressed him less than the meticulous care with which his soldier servant — batman was apparently a naughty word in the Guards — had unpacked his belongings and laid all essentials neatly in the right places . |
| 22 | Here , it tore away trees , soil , and gravel , and laid all bare , many feet in depth , to the naked rock . |
| 23 | So she waited till your brother was born , and laid all her spells on him . ’ |
| 24 | I embroidered a design and laid some flax on a scarf , and put it through the needles . |
| 25 | Research by other scientists showed that birds spent more time on the nest and laid more eggs when peckable objects were attached to the wall beside it . |
| 26 | Then she moved about a yard to her right and laid another one at the edge of the roof with the yellow head pointing outwards . |
| 27 | Yakovlev realized this , and recommended that party men be sent out in large numbers from Moscow and the guberniia towns . |
| 28 | In a contentious paragraph , which was opposed by Tite and Wilson , the Report said that the Committee had examined Pennethorne 's scheme , as well as those awarded the first three places on the Foreign Office list , and recommended that ‘ preference should be given to the successful competitors ’ . |
| 29 | The Jay Committee reported in 1979 and recommended that nursing staff working with the mentally handicapped should be replaced by holders of a new social work qualification , that numbers of staff should be doubled and care transferred from hospitals to homes . |
| 30 | The 1966 ALPAC committee report on machine translation systems concluded that human translation was superior in terms of speed , accuracy and cost , and recommended that funding be curtailed . |