Example sentences of "and [vb past] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Parents , who have no right to prevent an assessment , must be informed of the LEA 's proposal to assess the child , given the name of an officer of the LEA from whom further advice may be obtained , and notified of the right to make representations ( orally or in writing ) within a minimum period of 29 days from service of notice by the LEA . |
| 2 | The rooms , painted green , were dark and damp and smelled of alien growths . |
| 3 | The car had a bench seat in the front and smelled of warm leather and old cigarette smoke . |
| 4 | It was red and smelled of perfume . |
| 5 | The crypt was damp and smelled of the occupation of the past six nights . |
| 6 | Dimly lit , permanently blacked out , they had become dirty and dingy and smelled of neglect . |
| 7 | They wore long light blue robes and smelled of strange spices . |
| 8 | He told himself that the man was arrogant , self-satisfied , and smelled of after-shave stuff ; Helen was an idiot to let him pester her like this . |
| 9 | Much more so than the place she had visited in London , which had been dark and smelled of incense . |
| 10 | The chapel at St Mary 's Priory of the Little Sisters of Pity was cold and damp and smelled of candlegrease and incense . |
| 11 | The floor of the barn was cold stone and slimy and smelled of engine oil and damp cereals . |
| 12 | He had lost half his command , and failed of winning back Harry for whom he had come . |
| 13 | Shakespeare is the most widely known and read of the classical playwrights and it is for this reason that a piece from one of his plays is nearly always obligatory at a drama school audition . |
| 14 | ‘ It seems he chanced to be staying in Vienna also , and read of the disappearance in the local paper . |
| 15 | She looked in the glass-fronted noticeboards and read of the societies that would be re-forming when term started , and the new committees and the sports arrangements and the practice times , and the appeals for people to join this group and that club . |
| 16 | Perhaps it is this bicameral quality in the American mind that lets the citizen read of the all-out official ‘ war on drugs ’ and ‘ war on terrorism ’ on one page , and then turn the page and read of the CIA sharing a bank with Miami cartels and Abu Nidal , and still go on as if he inhabited a ‘ normal world ’ . |
| 17 | And now , aired and emptied of its clutter , with fresh sheets on the bed and a bowl of roses on the table by the window , the room awaited Iskandara . |
| 18 | At the end of his tirade he seemed curiously tired , and emptied of invective . |
| 19 | It had suddenly found itself desperately short of a special washer — waxed and made of felt — that is a vital bit in the detonation process inside the RAF 's latest 1,000lb bombs . |
| 20 | Note that the average is surprisingly low for the year 1300 ( at the top of the graph ) ; but in this year we know of complaints from the king that the dies were of poor quality and made of soft metal |
| 21 | In the late 16th century there was a short period when , rather than the usual 13 ribs , lutes suddenly sprouted anything up to 37 and made of very narrow strips of yew . |
| 22 | They might be sorted according to any combination of these , such as things which are ‘ green and made of metal ’ , but such sophisticated sorting is seldom within the range of the very young child . |
| 23 | The belt was ( had been ) three inches wide and made of two strips of cowhide sewn together along their edges . |
| 24 | The table he sat at was circular and made of pine or what Hilbert and Adam 's father had called deal . |
| 25 | The massive thighs which emerged from out of the smock were encased in a pair of extraordinary breeches , bottle-green in colour and made of coarse twill . |
| 26 | He realized that one wall of the pit was convex and made of some hard substance . |
| 27 | There are some unusually good things to see inside the church of Saint-Savin : a ‘ Eucharist tower ’ twenty feet and three storeys high , Gothic in style , and made of gilded wood ; two primitive fifteenth-century panels , each containing nine scenes from the life of the church 's name-saint ; a Renaissance organ carried on what is left of a wooden gallery that once ran right across the church , from transept to transept — on the front of the instrument are three articulated mascarons , which moved their eyes and tongues as the organ played , in representation of wretched earthly sinners , grimacing at the intolerable sound of joyful , heavenly music . |
| 28 | The box was a musical one and made of silver . |
| 29 | The dress itself was old-fashioned and made of cheap , unyielding woollen material in a deadly , flat shade of grey , a shade which was a negation of colour , an annihilation of any possibility of prettiness , an ultimately dejected and miserable grey . |
| 30 | The bed was low but wide , and made of the same pale wood . |