Example sentences of "[adj] and [vb past] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then scratchmen Scott and Monaghan , along with Downey ( Clann Eireann ) , broke clear and opened a small gap . |
| 2 | Patients were seen weekly and kept a daily symptom diary . |
| 3 | The post was very interesting and involved a good blend of research , teaching and clinical work . |
| 4 | Police have accepted their officers were in the wrong and sent a written apology to the family . |
| 5 | Joanne was 4 years old and attended a private nursery in a private housing estate within a large city . |
| 6 | He was illiterate and possessed a limited knowledge of English , and had a partner who was unscrupulous ; he was utterly vulnerable , a lamb to the slaughter , taken in by a rotter . |
| 7 | ‘ That is , he was pockmarked , devious and smiled a great deal when he was in trouble . ’ |
| 8 | He glimpsed the enemy overshooting and banking steeply away , half-rolled and took a snap shot at a dappled D-V , then saw Finlayson behind it and yet another D-V behind him . |
| 9 | The first well , with a 700-metre horizontal wellbore , was successfully geosteered through the predicted 8–10m layers , guided by a detailed sedimentological model framed by 3D seismic and proved a technical success . |
| 10 | In such areas the landscape was as much medieval as in the open-field lands but it was very different and had a different pattern of settlement within it . |
| 11 | Fair-haired , he was clean shaven and had a strong face . |
| 12 | Sanchez cupped the coal of the joint and took a long toke . |
| 13 | The plaintiff was the stepdaughter of the deceased and had a close relationship with him . |
| 14 | He said he was feeling sick and numb and had a crushing pain . |
| 15 | I remember nothing there except a girl in the top class , who was fair-haired and had a bright complexion , and I see her now in my mind 's eye outstretched , lying upon her back on the floor . |
| 16 | They were most amenable and forwarded a corrected contract without delay . |
| 17 | The Nutcracker suite in this charming 17th-century inn is so called because the low-ceilinged doorway has an exposed beam which has caught out the unwary and cracked a few heads in its time . |
| 18 | Then her heart stopped aching and did a painful jerk . |
| 19 | It was dark and had a tiny window . |
| 20 | After a bit we both found the grammar rather monotonous and tried a little conversation so that my English would benefit too . |
| 21 | The taxi driver said that the man was well-dressed and had a black beard and pale face . |
| 22 | His face was chalk-white and wore a dazed expression , and the uniform he was wearing was crumpled and torn but thankfully he did n't appear to be badly injured . |
| 23 | He was shrivelled , wispy-haired and had a pronounced squint . |
| 24 | The moon , a half moon polished thin at the edges , swam low and gave a little light . |
| 25 | The main reaction to the resolution was that it was too weak and lacked a general objective for the Conference Group to pursue . |
| 26 | In the end , the Know Nothings , led by Senator Jesse Helms , managed to force Washington 's Corcoran Gallery to cancel a 150-picture Mapplethorpe retrospective and started a full-scale attack on the kinds of artistic projects which the National Endowment of the Arts ( no radical force ) reluctantly and sparingly backed . |
| 27 | the State both harassed the wealthy commoner with unpredictable exactions when he was alive and claimed a large proportion of his self acquired movable property when he died . |
| 28 | No shots were fired by the robber who was white , 6ft tall and wore a blue duffle coat with the hood up and a balaclava , gloves , light-blue trousers and white trainers . |
| 29 | The man is described as 5'9 ’ -5'10 ’ tall and wore a brown leather bomber jacket and the costume mask . |
| 30 | These flaps gradually grew larger until they met the nasal and became a single sheet of metal , with slits to allow vision and holes for breathing . |