Example sentences of "[noun sg] and [vb past] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Corbett nodded , rose and moved away ; he emptied his bladder and went to a nearby stream to bathe his hands and face in the cold clear water . |
| 2 | But at that moment their creaking conveyance gave a sudden fearsome jerk and came to a dead stop . |
| 3 | The second had primary biliary cirrhosis and died from a variceal bleed while under review . |
| 4 | They decided to scale down the experiment and worked with a thinner piece of palladium , an 8 cm × 8 cm × 0.2 cm sheet rolled into a cylindrical shape , and also lowered the current to less than 0.2 amps instead of the 1.5 amp current that blew up the block . |
| 5 | She darted into her bedroom and reappeared with a cut-glass bottle of a very expensive make . |
| 6 | But last night Livingstone tracked his Newton Aycliffe rival and surged into a winning lead 200 metres from the finish . |
| 7 | All went well for the outing until at one particularly reverent moment , the young son of the party stood on his seat and inquired with a loud voice : ‘ Dad , where are all the hypocrites ? ’ |
| 8 | Madame then settled back in her seat and fell into a deep sleep for the rest of the journey , full of good food and wine , and liqueurs , while Ellie stared back out of the window and tried to make some sense of all that had just been said , and all that had just happened . |
| 9 | They dressed with distinctive plainness and aspired to a simple integrity expressed in behavioural terms defined with the authority of Scripture . |
| 10 | Shocked Andria raised the alarm then jumped in her own car and drove to a local beauty spot in Runnymede , Surrey . |
| 11 | On another occasion she climbed over dustbins and went through the fire exit of a Knightsbridge store , while once she and Carolyn abandoned her car and jumped on a red double decker bus to evade photographers . |
| 12 | They tipped the contents of one oil drum into the car and threw in a burning rag . |
| 13 | React To Rhythm , Superreal , and Spooky are all a sophisticated hybrid of US and European influences , shot through with a dub sensibility and turned into a driving , expanded hypnodance sound . |
| 14 | She emptied in half the tin and threw in a lighted match for good measure . |
| 15 | The female detective glanced around the canteen and spoke in a confidential whisper , her eyes drilling into Pargeter 's so as to miss none of her reactions . |
| 16 | Tim considered them , glanced back at his shelves , noticed a gap and pounced upon a rectangular block of tikka masala sauce . |
| 17 | We tarried awhile to watch Messrs Anderson and Rowe perform doughty deeds with caber and shot on a pleasant summers day . |
| 18 | No-one thought then that much would come of the idea , but just two years later it was picked up by Margaret Thatcher 's review and emerged as a central plank of the restructured NHS . |
| 19 | She had collar-length , straight , ash-blonde hair , parted on one side and spoke with a southern Irish accent . |
| 20 | Inspired by the arrival of The Beatles to play the guitar , he bought a cheap Harmony electric and a Kalamazoo amp and dabbled for a few years before joining a high school covers band , playing soul , rock and a good deal of Hendrix . |
| 21 | This threw growing numbers on the Poor Law and added to a rising poor rate . |
| 22 | Next morning he popped his royal head out the window and inquired of a passing native where he was ( it had been a heavy night before ) . |
| 23 | When it seemed that the sound and whatever it emanated from was about to overwhelm us , the engine and coaches of an express train appeared in the left-hand window and whizzed past a few feet from the front bumper . |
| 24 | Then she realised he was referring to their escape and drew in a shaky breath of relief . |
| 25 | He parked the machine and announced to a stunned crowd that he had just retired . |
| 26 | The bones were mixed with sediment and tumbled in a rotary tumbler in three stages . |
| 27 | They rounded a spur and came upon a small encampment — three or four rude tents , with matting walls and black roofs made from goats ' hair . |
| 28 | The local children used to play in the cutting and had for a long time fancied the hut as a den or HQ for their games , but the hut was always locked by a large padlock securing a hasp that was red with rust but still secured the door . |
| 29 | Two of these survived the arduous voyage round Cape Horn in the middle of winter and arrived to a grand reception in London . |
| 30 | But I am long on stamina and waited for a red-breasted merganser aimlessly doing nothing under the cliff on which lay the dozing duo . |