Example sentences of "[adj] and [vb past] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The proportion of women working in other people 's homes , i.e. in domestic service , was a component of this and fell continuously throughout the century beginning in 1850 . |
| 2 | Friends have often remarked on this and wondered afresh at the wizardry of the Welsh . |
| 3 | David Jenkins , a brother of Richard and a police officer , undertook to secure this and did so with no difficulty . |
| 4 | The trailing lead got snarled up in a bramble bush but , just before Gazzer reached him , the dog yanked it free and raced away through the dunes , to the thin strip of beach left uncovered by the tide . |
| 5 | She rose and plunged and rolled and staggered and behaved generally in a most frisky fashion . |
| 6 | They were very , very popular and went all over the world . |
| 7 | The chief monument in the country is the Cathedral of Pécs ( Fünfkirchen ) , rebuilt about 1150 and restored mainly in the nineteenth century . |
| 8 | After his death his " rock band " disappeared and was last seen , rumour says , broken and tumbled together in an old wash-house . |
| 9 | By now , other men with microphones were moving among the audience , and so many people were shouting to be heard that George could no longer identify individual speakers as words overleaped one another and blended together into a great cry of confused and frightened protest . |
| 10 | What the figure does not reveal is the shift in the balance that has occurred during the 1980s towards overseas securities , prompted initially by the relaxation of exchange controls in 1979 and encouraged subsequently by the strong performance of some overseas economies and stock-markets . |
| 11 | Miller moved into the flat in 1979 and remained there until the writ for possession in July 1989 , more than once offering to pay rent . |
| 12 | There were some cottage industries which came to take up part of the " space " left by factory spinning , such as straw-hat making and lace making , but they were more localised and tended even by the standards of hand spinning to be low-paid . |
| 13 | Though shoved and pinched and taunted unmercifully by the spectators , the Bisus quietly drummed themselves into a glassy-eyed state , drew their kerises from their sarongs , and proceeded to whirl furiously about the room while trying to twist the blades into their own throats and stomachs . |
| 14 | He was arrested on 25 November 1991 and held overnight in a police cell in Urosevac . |
| 15 | He looked acutely uncomfortable and glanced accusingly at the lawyer , who said : |
| 16 | For the accelerated basic education programme teachers received an extra payment in kind ( afa — see page 133 ) but popular teachers doing literacy work were unpaid and relied heavily on the commitment of young people . |
| 17 | The engine was built at Swindon in 1929 and worked all over the Great Western before withdrawal in 1964 . |
| 18 | Secondly , the gift must be made upon the condition that it is to be absolute and perfected only on the donor 's death , being revocable until that event occurs and ineffective if it does not . |
| 19 | Stand with feet apart , a flag in either hand , the arms straight and pressed close to the body . |
| 20 | Demetriades looked bored and nodded complacently in the pauses . |
| 21 | His lean , muscular body was tanned , presumably from his years in Australia , and while the hair on his legs had turned to gold the triangle of hair on his chest was dark and tapered away to a point at the base of his flat stomach , disappearing beneath the band of his black swimming-trunks . |
| 22 | His eyes , dark and set deep beneath a firm , unfurrowed brow , were sleek and watchful ; one 's first impression that they twinkled with a friendly mirth soon vanished . |
| 23 | His glass eye — he had lost the original when he was cleaning a gun — seemed to swivel further out of true than usual and stared pleasantly at the fire ; the real one looked like a razor . |
| 24 | Sorrel , asleep on the settee , suddenly became alert and looked expectantly in the direction of the kitchen . |
| 25 | Poor old Pengam Moors , the one-time Cardiff Airport which was originally known by the curious name of Splott , is also extinct and remembered only by a pub called The Old Airport . |
| 26 | The Aerosols were almost impossible to stop , and the soldiers and their weapons and equipment were getting burned and melted all over the place until one brave soldier who had clung on to one of the Aerosols as it flew back to its base came back ( after many adventures ) with the news that their base was a breadboard moored under an overhang on an inland creek . |
| 27 | However , the victory in the Lok Sabha election was far from emphatic and owed much to the so-called " sympathy vote " aroused by the assassination of the party 's leader , Rajiv Gandhi , soon after voting had started in mid-May [ see pp. 38175-76 ] . |
| 28 | Briant ignored that and looked instead at a man waving his notebook eagerly from the back row . |
| 29 | The midfield looked strong and tackled hard despite the absence of Batty . |
| 30 | Thereafter , despite the high unemployment years between 1929 and 1932 , trade union membership remained remarkably resilient and recovered sharply during the improving trade situation of the late 1930s and trade unions were drawn more centrally into negotiation with national employers negotiations and with the National government . |