Example sentences of "[adj] and [adv] [vb past] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was only ten years old and certainly saw no fear . |
| 2 | My plea was wholly contained in the events barely a day old and swiftly took the Bench and the entire Court through the squirt of 174 cannon shells , the wounded , the flight engineer 's heroic effort in repairing the devastated controls twice , his treatment of the wounded and his immediate award of a DFM , which he had been celebrating . |
| 3 | AUSTRALIAN Mutual Provident , the Australian insurance company bidding £1.1bn for Pearl Group , yesterday reiterated that its 605p per share cash offer was generous and fully valued the company . |
| 4 | Sharpe urged the black stallion on , but the footing under the rye was treacherous ; the soil was damp and still held the shape of the plough furrows , and the stallion could not match the Frenchman 's speed on the paved road . |
| 5 | ‘ Are you suggesting that Barney made up his mind to kill Angy and cold-bloodedly chose a method that would throw suspicion on someone else ? |
| 6 | Troops loyal to President Gnassingbe Eyadema again disrupted the transition period [ see also p. 39041 ] when a 100-strong force occupied the National Assembly building on Oct. 22 and successfully demanded the unfreezing of the assets of the Rassemblement du peuple togolais ( RPT ) , formerly the sole legal party , led by Eyadema , which had been dissolved in August 1991 [ see p. 38379 ] . |
| 7 | Throughout his life Blumlein was a trustworthy and loyal man with a passionate interest in the arts , music , and aviation — he held a private pilot 's licence from 1929 and often flew a biplane or Moth . |
| 8 | I 'd applied for Mastermind in three previous years but was unsuccessful and even had an audition in 1989 . ’ |
| 9 | Everything needing a temporary home found its way into the stable and then became a permanency . |
| 10 | She 'd have let him get in as deep as possible and then started the pressure … |
| 11 | I wanted to tell him calmly that I knew perfectly well that it was absurd and quite understood the point of his questions . |
| 12 | The East Lothian man took the third set 7-1 , came from 1-4 down to take the next 7-4 and then opened the decider with three singles . |
| 13 | Monckton Milnes , a good memorialist but a forgettable poet , visited the lake in 1838 and later wrote a poem about the tragedy , taking a more honour ably sentimental line towards it than had the morbid locals : |
| 14 | The most widely acclaimed of these has been John Rawls 's A Theory of Justice , which was published in 1971 and rapidly assumed the status of a contemporary classic . |
| 15 | Beatrice knew that and bitterly resented the influence of her greatest rival , his mother . |
| 16 | Thomas Cook changed all that and practically invented the tourist industry single-handed , although his first efforts were often financially unrewarding and he kept his ‘ day ’ job as a printer . |
| 17 | Well , we got through it all , I can scarcely believe that I came through all that and thoroughly enjoyed the excitement of it , and was not in the least bit sea-sick . |
| 18 | So as naturally as anything , Judith switched to Spanish and greatly impressed the customer as well as pressing upon him the need to provide proper facilities for his ladies . |
| 19 | When he found it , he tapped along the feed pipe at random and then gave a couple of good , square bangs on the connectors before he tried the starter button . |
| 20 | Greece applied for membership in 1975 and finally became a Member State on 1 January 1981 . |
| 21 | Cook was appointed agent for Nile passenger traffic by the Khedive of Egypt in 1870 and eventually had a fleet of seventeen large vessels and about thirty-three smaller dahabeeyahs and pinnaces . |
| 22 | She completed victory by taking the tiebreak 7-5 but not before she lost her serve to 5-5 and then saved a set point at 5-6 . |
| 23 | For its next reincarnation , I rearranged , revised and slightly augmented the text of the Queen article , replacing the new introductory essay with the original one from Nova , and in 1969 published it in booklet form under the title Syllabubs and Fruit Fools . |
| 24 | I remember a recent visit to India where I hardly ate meat at all and never saw a chip . |
| 25 | Although neither very efficient nor popular with the other staff , Cabon made herself useful and soon had the run of the office and was able to look at all the files , amongst which she found one relating to the proposed voyage of the Rainbow Warrior into the nuclear test area . |
| 26 | In Europe the ravages of war had to be made good and then came the enlargement of universities , government institutes , and industrial establishments . |
| 27 | The more samples taken , the smoother and less stepped the representation will be and the better quality of the sound . |
| 28 | Mountain sorrel Oxyria digyna and tufted saxifrage Saxifraga caespitosa typify highly variable species ; the colder and more exposed the site , the darker , more heavily pigmented are the stems and leaves ( Savile , 1972 ) . |
| 29 | But then again , the Golden Höfner was the flagship of the company 's electric hollow-bodied range between ‘ 59 and ‘ 62 and naturally became a platform for showing just what could be done . |
| 30 | And as more and more of these areas were given over to cultivation , crop-raiding increased and so did the toll of human lives . |