Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [adv prt] [art] [adj] and " in BNC.
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1 | She picked it up and set it on her knee , then began taking out the yellow and black wooden pieces and setting them on the board . |
2 | As the creatures soared up and down , their laughter began to take on an eerie and mournful tone . |
3 | In 1988 Brazil decided to set up a unified and decentralised health system and this process is now under way . |
4 | Only in this way , Brunner felt , could a theology based , quite properly , on the revelation in Jesus be preserved from operating in a vacuum , and enabled to open up the apologetic and educational perspectives essential to the missionary and pastoral work of the church . |
5 | Man 's increasing domestication meant he became more interested in the appearance of his home , and in the materials he wore to keep out the cold and wet . |
6 | And thirdly , the care and trouble he took to build up a splendid and lovely collection of contemporary , original works of art , to be displayed in schools . |
7 | Even on the assumption that Yusuf Bali did draw up the original and not just the copy , it does not by any means necessarily follow that he was acting as in so doing ; nor , further , does it necessarily follow that if he were acting as he was doing so in his father 's absence from Bursa , much less his absence on the pilgrimage . |
8 | Or maybe a process of natural selection had winnowed out the overworked and discontented , the theoretical and jaded and left the few who were propelled back to the school by the same affection , curiosity and remembered enthusiasm that had drawn us . |
9 | Their influence declined only slowly after the war because British military operations continued around the world as Britain at first struggled to retain her empire , and then , after Suez , fought to bring about a prudent and dignified withdrawal from colonial responsibility . |