Example sentences of "[noun sg] and [adv] [vb past] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Doddie Weir still has a lot to learn about No 8 play when it comes to back-row moves , witness the occasion against England when he picked up against the wheel and still tried to complete the move . |
| 2 | To begin with I made a rough drawing and then began to place the colours using the nearest equivalent values from a set of 36 Polychromos Pastels : blue violet , No. 137 , lemon , No. 107 and night green , No. 155 , for the mass colouring of the plant ; an African violet , rose carmine , No. 124 , light blue , No. 147 , and blue violet , No. 137 again for the silk scarf ; orange yellow , No. 109 and orange light , No. 113 for the vase and so on , until I had an abstract pattern of colour distilled from the still life subject . |
| 3 | The Court of Appeal held that whether the officer had taken possession was a question for the jury , and that the answer depended on whether he had made his mind up to take possession so that they would not be removed , or whether he had an open mind and merely wanted to stop the driver getting away without being questioned . |
| 4 | The eunuch had made a cursory search and then had reported the matter to Prince Narouz . |
| 5 | The extension of the franchise to all adults created a situation in which political parties had to compete for the mass vote and so had to organise the electorate to support their candidates at the polls . |
| 6 | In its heyday , the company had filled its own site with slag and so had built a bridge over the road and railway so it could shunt more slag into the neighbouring field . |
| 7 | The chartered accountant members , qualified in auditing and therefore well-equipped to understand the technical and professional issues raised by the new regime , are augmented by four non-accountant members . |
| 8 | I was gone for about three hours : scrambling through hedges ; rummaging in undergrowth ; wrestling with tangled nets ; and throwing into a box the indignant ferrets , who after all had done all the work and only wanted to wring the rabbits ' necks . |
| 9 | At first the party leaders resisted such demands as being likely to destroy the party truce and so tried to avoid the public discussion of . |
| 10 | In a small study off the hall , another policeman put the parcel through an X-ray machine and then began to cut the string . |
| 11 | Again it is this incomprehension of social mobility which seems to have caused my ACC to describe an officer who took a degree and then left to become a solicitor as ‘ a bad experience for the force ’ ( and not a gain for society ) . |
| 12 | ‘ First he extolled the virtues of the protector and then proceeded to read a petition which virtually declared myself illegitimate . ’ |
| 13 | He witnessed the success of Dermovate cream in one sufferer and even went to see a Harley Street physician . |
| 14 | ‘ I GOT kicked out of my first band and that weekend I bought a guitar and immediately started recording the first Big Black record . |
| 15 | He should have told Cottee to go and do his talking on the park and perhaps tried to change the team plan to assist his strike-force ( if that 's the right word ) . |
| 16 | Nuclear extracts were either treated ( lane 3 ) or mock-treated ( lane 2 ) with phosphatase and then analysed using the blotting assay . |
| 17 | I took off my cloak and immediately began to thread the fabric through the hole . |
| 18 | Once night had fallen and the manor was quiet , he rose , took out his parchment and again began to fit the puzzle together . |
| 19 | In one classroom , the gunman divided the students by sex to separate sides of the room and then started shooting the women . |
| 20 | In one classroom , the gunman divided the students by sex to separate sides of the room and then started shooting the women . |
| 21 | The more resentful and unforgiving Willie Morgan , was taken to court and then had to terminate a lucrative six year contract after only nine months . |
| 22 | I kept them in the shed and eventually had to put the bikes outside under a tarpaulin when the collection got too large . |
| 23 | Angered by the incident , Blower demanded a written apology and then threatened to take a writ out against McAvennie . |
| 24 | They correctly assumed that the viral DNA had been inserted into the DNA of a normal gene involved in limb development and so had caused a mutation . |
| 25 | But history will record that McLaren solved its problem ( by setting up the car as they had for Spain ) , Hunt was on pole alongside Niki , Niki led the race for eight laps until his engine blew , Hunt then led it but was put under heavy pressure by Depailler , was suffering from the dry heaves inside his helmet and somehow survived to win a race from which Niki garnered nothing . |
| 26 | In the Punjab in India , too , the birth rate went up after spermicides were introduced because people abandoned their traditional forms of birth control and then failed to use the unpleasant pessaries . |
| 27 | Hank made a face at her plump back disappearing through the kitchen door and reluctantly began to transfer the dishes to the sink . |
| 28 | The senator represented a beef-rearing state and never forgot to extol the benefits of a plateful of bleeding home-grown American steak , while in private , as I had learned when he and his wife had chartered Wavebreaker , George Crowninshield rarely touched red meat . |
| 29 | Disturbed by the noise , he scared off the invaders single-handed armed with a musket and then proceeded to defuse the explosives . |
| 30 | The Danish king , however , was not prepared to furnish this , so Philip exacted a large dowry and then proceeded to obtain a sentence of divorce . |