Example sentences of "[adj] and [vb past] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He wiped them clear and peered inside the smoking gap . |
| 2 | He prepared the altar for Mass , opened the-door and waited for the small trickle of his congregation to enter . |
| 3 | All that is most sensible and clearheaded in the Catholic church will meet in Rome on May 17 to celebrate the beatification of Mgr Josemaria Escriva ( 1902–1975 ) who founded Opus Dei , the unecstatic religious movement which may yet save Christianity from the sex therapists . |
| 4 | Pearce Print was set up in the centre of Northampton in 1979 and moved to the new Moulton Park Industrial Estate until changing its location to Kettering in 1991 . |
| 5 | It was pitch dark and felt like the small hours ; there was no sound of traffic from the road at all , and he was on his own with a vengeance . |
| 6 | For band shifting , the corresponding oligonucleotide was labelled by using T4 polynucleotide kinase and γ- 32 P-ATP and annealed with the complementary chain . |
| 7 | He ducked low and scuttled across the open space between the door and the first row of desks , hoping Spatz would n't catch a glimpse of him , then ran along the corridor between the desks until he came to the end . |
| 8 | At nearly fifteen he was already over six feet tall and towered over the little Irish doctor in front of him . |
| 9 | Small-scale and localized in the early nineteenth century , it became large-scale and increasingly concentrated in several main trawler ports as the century wore on . |
| 10 | Also , since to a large extent the promise of Nazi solutions was false and depended upon the Nazi ability to create the problems it intended to resolve by force , matters in Danzig had to move much more slowly because the city was subject to massive foreign observation through the League of Nations . |
| 11 | He swallowed hard and ran to the back door , pressing himself against the wall beside it . |
| 12 | Develop a system whereby you make sure every sound in every new word is being checked against these and added to the appropriate established list . |
| 13 | Bill joined the BBC as a radio engineer 's assistant in 1932 and went to the fledgling Television service a few years later . |
| 14 | Gregory prefaced his great work , the Decem Libri Historiarum , with the following statement : The cultivation of liberal letters is declining or rather dying in the cities of Gaul , since some things that are good and some that are wicked are taking place , and the savagery of the barbarians is on the loose ; the anger of the kings is sharp ; the churches are under threat from the heretics , and are protected by the catholics ; the faith of Christ burns in some and is cold in others ; those same churches are enriched by the devout and empoverished by the perfidious ; nor can any grammarian skillful in the art of dialectic be found to depict this in prose or verse . |
| 15 | Among dock , river and waterside workers such a movement took place in a number of ports in the 1870s and culminated in the great Liverpool dock strike of 1879 . |
| 16 | He decided to tell the story of William Black to the Down Presbytery which met monthly and consisted of the Presbyterian ministers of a substantial section of County Down together with one lay elder from each congregation . |
| 17 | Suppression of the Communist-inspired 1932 insurgency in El Salvador ( see page 41 ) was truly ferocious and resulted in the complete destruction of the party apparatus and the execution of its leaders ( including the man whose name has been adopted by the current guerrilla movement in El Salvador , Farabundo Martí ) . |
| 18 | Instinctively they had again swung left and plunged into the familiar shelter of the woods . |
| 19 | We accept that the statement that he was ‘ beaten to death ’ whilst in police custody was incorrect and went beyond the original inquest verdict of manslaughter . |
| 20 | He signed for Palace on 8 March 1962 and progressed through the Junior ranks for a couple of seasons . |
| 21 | In both content and form there was a parallel shift from the classical and idealized to the every-day and contingent . |
| 22 | In the novel , Balzac , Stendhal , and especially Zola illustrate a developing modernization in content , in their shift from the classical and idealized to the social and the every-day and finally , in Zola 's case , to approximating the fully contingent . |
| 23 | Nearer the cottage the soldiers had set up an infestation grid , the dull mauve light attracting anything small and winged from the surrounding meadows . |
| 24 | The Wars of Independence which began in the 1290s and lasted into the late fourteenth century changed that situation radically . |
| 25 | Leaving the torch on its ledge , Fernand moved towards the entrance and then stopped , half-turned and gestured to the far wall and the sinister shadow that marked the emptiness below . |
| 26 | When he lifted out the first and looked through the handwritten pages he found that he was holding Henryk Liawski 's personal diary covering odd and irregular dates between 1952 and 1958 . |
| 27 | The first big period of interest in earthen structures in this century began in the 1930s and lasted until the early 1950s . |
| 28 | It was growing dark in the garden , but not dark enough — she was naked and exposed under the wide , open sky . |
| 29 | The truck turned right by the big houses at the south edge of the Common and started along the straight stretch , where we were standing . |
| 30 | 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 . |