Example sentences of "[vb past] and [verb] in the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Regression coefficients and their standard error were calculated with a CYBER 855 computer for those variables which entered and remained in the regression equation . |
| 2 | Their ecological dominance and biological success for the past 80 to 100 million years may stem from the fact that they were the first group of predatory social insects that both foraged and lived in the realm of rotting vegetation on the ground . |
| 3 | His eyes were still lingering on the curves hidden by the black material that caught and shimmered in the light as she moved . |
| 4 | Glass cracked and splintered in the passage through to the kitchens . |
| 5 | The kidnapper , chased by the shop manager , fled and escaped in the car . |
| 6 | The private detective following them cursed when they stopped and kissed in the middle of the street . |
| 7 | Individual skirmishes flickered and stuttered in the distance . |
| 8 | Daemons howled and gibbered in the ruins of ancient settlements . |
| 9 | When he left school , he forgot entirely about the whole business , forgot about it for a couple of decades , forgot until this thin , tired fellow , looking so very much like his old school chaplain , came and hovered in the drive , the epitome , it seemed to Patrick , of the doubting kind of modern Anglican clergyman . |
| 10 | School came and went in the way that a school day usually lasts . |
| 11 | It was as if his seasons came and went in the phrases he wrote . |
| 12 | Martha and the Muffins and Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark , both Wilson discoveries , came and went in the charts — and still negotiations dragged on . |
| 13 | Wanting very much to hear ( because he was sure that this was a lover calling , from the voice ) , the man used the boxing match as an excuse , and he came and stood in the kitchen doorway with a wet plate and the cloth in his hands , and looked at the television . |
| 14 | Revelation came and sat in the shade of Masquerade 's bows where she plucked two chickens that I suspected had been killed in honour of my return to the island . |
| 15 | I 've got some apples erm I stewed and stuck in the freezer , to make |
| 16 | The chickens ' surviving relatives clucked and scratched in the dirt , oblivious to the drifting feathers . |
| 17 | Sidney Poitier directed and starred in the yukkie A Warm December ; Barbra Streisand played a rebellious housewife in Up The Sandbox , a garish comedy-drama ; and Steve McQueen produced and starred in the brutish Sam Peckinpah heist movie The Getaway , which grossed more than $36 million worldwide despite mixed reviews . |
| 18 | She gobbled and gabbled in the mornings — that was to do with her teeth , not very pretty either . |
| 19 | On his way to the trophy he met and defeated in the quarter finals an up and coming English youngster , one Michael Bonallack , now secretary of the game 's ruling body , the Royal & Ancient , and present in his official capacity at Royal Portrush this week . |
| 20 | One of the greatest gifts given to the spirit of a family is the gift of being triumphant , transcendent , transformed by the creative consequences of suffering , endured and conquered in the presence of God . |
| 21 | She confirmed to McIllvanney that the weather-fax machine and the Loran and the Satnav and the radar and all the other things that hummed and winked and glowed in the night were working properly . |
| 22 | I recall the amazing blue of a field fare 's sunlit back ( drab grey on a grey day ) ; the tantalising glimpses of a secretive water rail which crept and scuttled in the shelter of a ditch ( red bill , black and white striped flanks , richly streaked brown back , bluish-grey neck ) ; and the rusty red flanks of a redwing which shot up in front of me as I walked past willow scrub behind the barrier bank . |
| 23 | Skirting a small lake , they had stared to see a great , grey fisher-bird that stabbed and paddled in the sedge , until a flight of wild duck had frightened them away with their clamour . |
| 24 | Professor Hoskins , perhaps because of the years he lived and taught in the Midland counties , dwells at considerable length on the impact of parliamentary enclosure on the English landscape . |
| 25 | In fact , once the evidence that Minos lived and ruled in the Labyrinth at Knossos has been seen as hopelessly insubstantial , it begins to look as if there might have been no king at all . |
| 26 | During the course of that regression he told me his name , his trade ( he was a cloth merchant ) and the fact that he lived and worked in the Bristol area . |
| 27 | Here we met most of the painters who lived and worked in the neighbourhood , and here many discussions took place . |
| 28 | I fret often for the days when I lived and worked in the countryside , but one sad sight used to be that of herds of demented idiots vandalising the scenery and terrorising nature in their delirious lust for an innocent animal 's life . |
| 29 | " That 's a lie , " Patrick whispered aghast , " my father fought and died in the Rising … " |
| 30 | " Dermot Corcoran fought and died in the Rising , but Dermot Corcoran was not your father ! " |