Example sentences of "[adv] and [vb past] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I went inside and saw a beautiful work which the artist had done on the other side . |
| 2 | Ripley beat Paul Parker on the left , cut inside and hit a low cross to the near post . |
| 3 | She heard a shuffling inside and gave a small sigh of relief . |
| 4 | I wrote to say so and received a courteous reply from the producer , who said , ‘ I 'm interested in the DIY approach you suggest and in our next series perhaps we 'll look at this more closely . ’ |
| 5 | On his way out he cocked a leg swiftly and directed a powerful jet against an immaculate trouser leg . |
| 6 | Some general practitioners have even banded together and threatened a wholesale withdrawal of funding unless the local hospital provides dermatological services in the community . |
| 7 | To get around this limitation Lotus Microsoft and Intel got together and invented a special type of memory — expanded memory or Lotus-Intel-Microsoft ( LIM ) memory . |
| 8 | His podgy , clean-nailed fingers locked together and formed a vaulted shrine over the few pages of notes that contained my Mother 's life . |
| 9 | I said good-bye to Uncle John and Aunt Janie , gathered my few belongings together and bought a one-way CPR ticket to Vancouver . |
| 10 | The Princess gathered her things together and wrapped a tatty shawl over her sari and cardigan . |
| 11 | Well not necessarily that , I mean , people buy when they go , I mean , I 've always just gone straight away and got a nice bit bottle of booze and er |
| 12 | Martin watched the child flick it gently away and made a mental note to see the landlord about getting the house stoved . |
| 13 | He moved into a flat 100 yards away and remained a frequent visitor . |
| 14 | The prioress smiled , turned away and opened a small coffer . |
| 15 | At the age of 9 years , moved on , she was accompanied by her good friend , at their new school , Stonham Aspel. was more fortunate than some as the such-like of and : they were moving away and faced a strange school and strange people . |
| 16 | By the time I reached Tintern I could go in straight lines easily and had a right wrist the size of a tennis ball that was painful to touch and crackled ominously when I flexed it . |
| 17 | He went indoors and returned a few minutes later with the shoe box . |
| 18 | It was some music he 'd never heard before , but he turned it up loud anyway and took a deep breath and settled back into his seat . |
| 19 | Perhaps there are also genes that have broken out of the sperm/egg ‘ proper channels ’ altogether and pioneered a sideways route . |
| 20 | The cord rolled a little and found a new position . |
| 21 | Hrun counted the bowmen slowly and made a brief calculation . |
| 22 | He flung aside the door he was suddenly lying beneath , stared up bitterly and ran a black shirt-cuff across his bloodied nose . |
| 23 | It also reflected the society 's work effectively and gave a helpful analysis of expenditure in the summary accounts . |
| 24 | What he did n't tell us was that the boats were tied very loosely and had a disturbing tendency to drift apart as you were in the process of climbing from one to another . |
| 25 | She took it gratefully and sipped a small amount , but it was stale and she handed it back . |
| 26 | A book , British Sign language a beginners Guide , by Dorothy Miles , a deafened writer , poetess and actress with close links with the FDA , was published by the BBC contemporaneously and proved a great success . |
| 27 | Bracewell visited a specialist yesterday and had a painful-looking array of tubes removed from his nostrils ! |
| 28 | POLICE are urging old folk in Cleveland to be on their guard after young conmen tricked their way into the home of a deaf , 87-year-old woman yesterday and stole a small purse containing a diamond ring and an opal ring . |
| 29 | Incidentally Irish international lead Martin McHugh skipped in the game yesterday and earned a 17-17 draw with fellow Irish international John McCloughlin . |
| 30 | Incidentally Irish international lead Martin McHugh skipped in the game yesterday and earned a 17–17 draw with fellow Irish international John McCloughlin . |