Example sentences of "[vb past] and [vb past] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of the illustrations were drawn by Lancake ( forty-eight of the first hundred ) , J. S. Miller both drew and engraved a considerable number , while Mynde and Jeffreys appear most frequently amongst engravers . |
| 2 | She stirred as they entered and gave a creaking groan as she began to waken . |
| 3 | Together they designed and supervised a large number of contracts , including the Wye Valley Railway , the Guernsey Tramway , the Cardiff and Penarth Tramway , the East Worcestershire Waterworks , and Totland Bay pier , as well as acting as engineers to the West Bromwich sanitary commissioners . |
| 4 | They designed and built a new tractor mower and turned their former customers into competitors . |
| 5 | I caught and examined a good sample of these . |
| 6 | Charles winced and foresaw a painful visit to the field cashier in Lille . |
| 7 | Queen Elizabeth then rose and made a wonderful speech in reply , and proposed the toast of the Lord Mayor and Corporation of London . |
| 8 | After other speeches condemning Ian Paisley , Terence O'Neill rose and delivered a long statement in which he made it clear that he regarded the defeat of Ian Paisley as a central part of his reforming Unionism . |
| 9 | Then he rose and swore a solemn oath to keep faith , to be true to his lord . |
| 10 | Modern plastics and silicones have made pipe connections so easy : no more messing about with tarred hemp and mortar , which inevitably cracked and leaked a few years later . |
| 11 | Apparently carrion , it moved and stretched a lean back leg , which turned out to be Stripey 's . |
| 12 | Here they built and established a walled city . |
| 13 | ‘ Oh , Ven ! ’ she sighed , and adored him when he bent and placed a tender kiss on her forehead . |
| 14 | So — ’ He stopped and took a deep breath . |
| 15 | He stopped and drew a long breath and I stared at him and said : ‘ Are you serious ? ’ |
| 16 | He stopped and gave a little grunt of triumph . |
| 17 | Urquhart stopped and turned a few yards ahead of her . |
| 18 | We stopped and built a makeshift shelter to get away , as best we could , from snow that filtered its way through every opening to produce melt water that trickled coldly over us . |
| 19 | Luce surfaced and took a deep breath . |
| 20 | Meredith stooped and kissed a faded cheek and smelled the sweet perfume of rose pot-pourri . |
| 21 | Father Kipling stooped and said a few words to them as he passed into the sacristy to vest , and they turned round and looked at Clare . |
| 22 | He roused and saddled a snoring Philomel and took the road to London Bridge . |
| 23 | He woke late on the Sunday morning after their first week , sent Ingrid back to her Gasthaus , and wandered down to the coffee shop where several of them came and ate a late breakfast . |
| 24 | There were also four young ladies who came and gave a brief cabaret of dancing . |
| 25 | It 's the Bāhan , one of the demons the gods defeated In the past , who then reformed and became a lesser deity . |
| 26 | In it , he surveyed and criticised a large number of attempts to reconstruct ‘ the real Jesus ’ , from Reimarus ' Fragments , published by Lessing in the 1770s , to William Wrede 's Das Messiasgeheimnis in den Evangelien ( ‘ The Messianic Secret in the Gospels ’ ) of 1901 . |
| 27 | She gulped and took a deep breath before falling against Nathan 's chest . |
| 28 | ‘ This is my window , ’ she added and tossed a haughty look to the rest of the room as if to say , ‘ Are foreigners as stupid as shit , or what ? ’ |
| 29 | He stirred and took a deep breath in his sleep . |
| 30 | ( 27 March 1770 ) Then in Florence they met and befriended a young violinist , Thomas Linley ( 1756–1778 ) ( PLATE III ) |