Example sentences of "[vb past] and [verb] by the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why should the same multitude who invoked blessings on the son of David rejoice in seeing him mortified and humiliated by the hated Roman oppressors ? |
| 2 | His face moved continually , different expressions rippling and flowing across it as if he really were a sea creature , moved and swayed by the changing tide and currents in water , in continual motion — flickering from smile to grimace to pain to peace , eyelids half rising to reveal a sea-shell sightless crescent of pearly blue-white , lips parting then closing , breaths shuddering and shivering him as if air were too strong and coarse a medium . |
| 3 | The occasional protests by staff through the years over pay and conditions had usually been dealt with quickly , abrasions salved and healed by the implicit belief that matters would eventually improve , if not tomorrow , then certainly by the day after — and that one was still having more fun than was to be had almost anywhere else anyway . |
| 4 | Every morning Vic drives over the flattened site of his Gran 's house and passes at chimney-pot level the one in which he himself grew up , where his widower father still stubbornly lives on in spite of all Vic 's efforts to persuade him to move , like a sailor clinging to the rigging of a sinking ship — buffeted , deafened and choked by the thundering torrent of traffic thirty yards from his bedroom window . |
| 5 | He was being heckled , jeered and booed by the vast majority , which included several hundred workers who had driven up from the Midlands ' plants to influence the vote . |
| 6 | ‘ But most of all , farewell to all the excesses of Chaos — flayed and tamed by the human multi-mind at last ! ’ |
| 7 | Craig Maskell tripped and upended by the beaten Steve Yates . |
| 8 | I thought that maybe Elsie went under finally sickened and stifled by the righteous attitudes that prevailed at the time . |
| 9 | There were those , again , in Germany as elsewhere , for whom the terms " Hellas " and " liberty " were axiomatically linked : a link symptomatized and strengthened by the warm interest taken by many German writers in the Greek struggle for independence , whose fruition followed in the wake of the French Revolution . |