Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [adv] the [adj] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Pretty Boy Floyd , Woody Guthrie caught poetically the awesome and terrifying instrument through which corporate officials economically harm others . |
| 2 | Flowered Up 's co-manager Terry stars in Rude Boy as a wayward yoof put on the straight and narrow by Joe . |
| 3 | Gagarin epitomized both the pre- and the post-emancipation interests of the gentry . |
| 4 | These analyses examined both the immediate and the more fundamental causes for urban disturbances . |
| 5 | Stanley 's , moving the ball wide with crisp facility , stretched their lead to 18-0 when Rees broke down the left and crashed over with muscular help from Watkinson . |
| 6 | But their defence could do nothing as winger Sharpe burst down the left and opened them up with a devastating cross . |
| 7 | Ralph Bryant read out the hundred and seventh psalm the following Sunday at the morning service in St Saviour 's , and the congregation listened with rapt attention to those words which applied so directly to the men and boys who were to sail in the Russell that day : |
| 8 | Stephen pulled down the blind and sat at his father 's desk , opening one drawer after another . |
| 9 | Lord Swinton rejected both the American and Canadian positions . |
| 10 | Although it had been obscured by the emphasis put on the military and diplomatic struggles within the Arab world and in the international arena ever since 1967 , the centrality of the people under occupation in the national struggle could no longer be disregarded . |
| 11 | Roy 's string of hits included Only The Lonely and Pretty Woman in a 25-year career . |
| 12 | As much as three up after 11 holes the Spaniards lost both the 12th and 13th to pars but held themselves together coming down the stretch to win a priceless point . |
| 13 | But this ‘ naughty nineties ’ flavour reached even the stolid and respectable Low Countries . |
| 14 | Debbie disappeared just the same and then rang to ask for the money . |
| 15 | As it happened , in the first book , Mrs Curdle paid her final visit to the place , but her grandson Ben took over the fair and continued in the old lady 's footsteps for several years . |
| 16 | Unfortunately , Foucault did not realize the extent to which nineteenth-century naturalists rejected both the Cuverian and the Darwinian perspectives . |
| 17 | Finance Ministers and central bank governors noted especially the central and important role played by the IMF and the World Bank group institutions in the move towards economic stabilization and reform in central and eastern Europe and in the implementation of the strengthened debt strategy . |
| 18 | United 's other young star , Chrissie Allen raced down the left and set things up for goal number 4 . |
| 19 | The winger broke down the left and pulled the ball back from the byline for Ripley to sidefoot the ball into the net . |
| 20 | ‘ Mrs Glegg had doubtless the glossiest and crispest curls in her drawers , as well as curls in various degrees of fuzzy laxness . ’ |
| 21 | Contrary to popular belief , it was not merely by chance , or even more crudely , by a game of Russian Roulette , that our ancestors singled out the edible and medicinal plants from those that were poisonous . |
| 22 | Charles and Diana sent back the bland and unadventurous vegetarian dish , a taste of the lacklustre state of the royal marriage . |
| 23 | In the last few years , though , she had realized that Dad enjoyed both the grumbling and the cooking , ironing and cleaning . |
| 24 | Whatever expectations his parents had of him , Valentin grew up the best-balanced and the least ambitious of their children . |
| 25 | Their public defence is that the system brought together the industrial and political arms of the labour movement : abandon the block vote and you betray Labour 's parentage . |
| 26 | When the franchise reform of 1907 virtually ruled out the possibility of exploiting Duma elections for propaganda purposes among the peasantry the party boycotted both the Third and Fourth Dumas . |