Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] [verb] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And er when it come to a vote to try and get anything passed or changed the wee branches were solid voting for the national agreement . |
| 2 | and I both shouted and told the younger pupils to move back and get into a single line . |
| 3 | As her subjects prepared for action , she encountered and noted the physical hardships that prevailed , notably the intense cold . |
| 4 | As her subjects prepared for action , she encountered and noted the physical hardships that prevailed , notably the intense cold . |
| 5 | She felt constrained to sit and light-headed when she rose and crossed the long boards to fold back the shutters and open the windows wide . |
| 6 | Glen Coe Still on conservation issues , it came as a pleasant surprise to many when the news leaked that the Countryside Commission for Scotland , who built and own the controversial visitors centre on National Trust for Scotland ground in Glen Coe , had recommended that the centre be moved . |
| 7 | They staggered and slithered the hundred yards or miles to the fence , sweating into clothes already soaked , swearing breathlessly . |
| 8 | Sounds as if the guy is suffering from Hemingway Syndrome : ‘ computers may see their silicon lives flash before their eyes , so to speak , just before they die , ’ Prodigy Services Co suggests , reporting that physicist Stephen Thaler of McDonnell Douglas Corp has been playing with neural networks as a way to speed diamond crystal growth but while by day , he created and trained the neural nets , by night , he began annihilating them to see what would happen , randomly severing links , and when between 10% and 60% of the links were destroyed , the network regurgitated nonsense , but as it approached death , 90% of the connections severed , it generated distinct values that had been trained into it , and at times even output ‘ whimsical ’ states , where it would generate values that were neither trained nor ones that would appear in a healthy net , says Thaler , who thinks it may say something about near-death experiences for humans — ‘ It may not just be fancy biochemistry , ’ he suggests . |
| 9 | Thus the dark matter would be spread around in a way that mimicked but exaggerated the initial fluctuations . |
| 10 | A similar problem was also found with sentence 13 , whereas sentence 12 crashed while printing the bracketed parses . |
| 11 | Dave Preece introduces a technique for laminating that he first used when shaping the curved runners on a sled |
| 12 | ‘ I — I — ’ She gulped and grabbed the intrusive fingers which had begun to slide to her breast . |
| 13 | The Brett-Jones Report , eleven years later , reiterated and reinforced the principal points of the Wells and Eve Reports , and recognised the enormous changes that had occurred in the intervening years . |
| 14 | Using FMEA [ Failure Mode and effect analysis ] , we identified and quantified the main places where contamination was getting in . |
| 15 | ‘ Shit , ’ she murmured and punched the same digits . |
| 16 | The patrol pounced and grabbed the surprised Germans , only to discover that they also had no water with them . |
| 17 | He attacked and defeated the British forces which Riothamus had brought to the Loire in support of the emperor . |
| 18 | First they systematically attacked and occupied the chief strongholds held by Viscount Aimar and his vassals : Excideuil , St Yrieix and Pierre-Buffière . |
| 19 | After this Rome became a republic which steadily expanded and absorbed the adjacent peoples and countryside . |
| 20 | Athelstan turned and left the grisly bodies and walked back up Cheapside towards the Holy Lamb of God . |
| 21 | She grinned and left the two men alone . |
| 22 | It was then that the electromagnetic forces became important , as they governed and determined the chemical compounds on Earth and the way they reacted with other elements . |
| 23 | Sheltered by the land , we walked and explored the sandy coves and bays along the way , watching with fascination as the tide , with a truly frightening speed , engulfed the beautiful beach at Threecliff Bay . |
| 24 | The researcher who took her call asked where she worked and made the usual jokes about glowing in the dark when Moira said Scottish Nuclear . |
| 25 | He said that on one of his voyages , he passed a floating island thronged with demonic blacksmiths who forged and hammered the evil souls of assassins ! ’ |
| 26 | And then the silly little girl went and believed the glib tales she was told by the great Australian male , did n't she ? |
| 27 | All that crap about ‘ I do n't know why I lurv you but I do ’ was bollocks 'cos he then went and said the same things to the scum . |
| 28 | David Howell missed the opening game he was playing golf in Scotland where he went and won the British Boys Championship |
| 29 | David Howell missed the opening game he was playing golf in Scotland where he went and won the British Boys Championship |
| 30 | No doubt there were medieval men , and women too , who took and applied the clumsy generalizations of this tradition literally . |