Example sentences of "[vb past] and [vb past] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tiny pieces of skin shrivelled and cooked on the red-hot ring and wisps of smoke rose into the air . |
| 2 | In the previous section we described and accounted for the unequal distribution of wealth in Great Britain in terms of the ownership and control of forms of private productive property . |
| 3 | The Shadowlands crumbled and disappeared below the hungry waves . |
| 4 | Dave spun the truck round and we crashed and bumped along the rough track . |
| 5 | It 's a word we use to talk about masses of undifferentiated humanity — like buying a pound of whitebait for your supper , rather than , say , 341 little silver fishes that once frisked and swam in the dappled shallows of the ocean . |
| 6 | It 's a word we use to talk about masses of undifferentiated humanity — like buying a pound of whitebait for your supper , rather than , say , 341 little silver fishes that once frisked and swam in the dappled depths of the ocean . |
| 7 | The ferry was in ; it rose and fell on the swelling Grönsund . |
| 8 | He rose and fell on the sickening see-saw of his terror and delight . |
| 9 | Its legs were splayed out at awkward angles on the rug , and its flanks rose and fell with the deep breaths of sleep . |
| 10 | The Ironclaw Orcs lived around the Iron Rock for many years , and their fortunes rose and fell with the accustomed regularity of Orc tribes . |
| 11 | Over and over again , for twenty-five minutes , the heads rose and fell before the final triumphant cry of Allah hu-Akbar ! |
| 12 | I rose and walked to the other side . |
| 13 | In the open , the smoke from the engine sank and cleaved to the rough grass ( 5 ) . |
| 14 | As Charlie approached the Whitechapel Road , he stopped and stared at the frantic bustle taking place all around him . |
| 15 | She stopped and looked at the other three who were scrutinising her in amused silence . |
| 16 | I stopped and looked at the big house . |
| 17 | As he turned towards the smokers ' seats , Loretta stopped and headed in the opposite direction . |
| 18 | They stopped and wondered at the crude little pageant parked outside the cottage , stroking its paintwork and prying into the winches and traps . |
| 19 | Deciding business before pleasure , she dismounted and walked up the front drive of the vicarage . |
| 20 | Outside the wind blustered and beat against the wooden shutters and the huge sign , swinging on its iron pole , creaked and groaned as if calling out across the darkened , rain-soaked meadows . |
| 21 | Flames and smoke from nearby chestnut-sellers and the bare-chested fire-eaters flickered and drifted into the dark grey sky , and Meredith just hung on to Lucenzo , lost for words , overwhelmed by the volume of sound , the bustle , the glamour , as they walked along beneath the arched walkway of the Procuratie Nuove . |
| 22 | The story of how Meehan and his advisors tried and failed during the next seven years to obtain justice for him in the light of increasing evidence of his innocence and Waddell 's guilt makes sorry reading . |
| 23 | The wind and the rain and the snow still howled and blasted through the ragged aperture where the window had blown out , but the electricity and lightning seemed to have gone . |
| 24 | When she had the hackles high on her shoulders , when she whined and scratched at the back door , then the house was watched . |
| 25 | While in Amritsar he visited and prayed at the Golden Temple , Sikhism 's most hallowed shrine which had been the subject in 1984 of an Army assault [ see pp. 33223-24 ] , in a gesture of reconciliation . |
| 26 | He had greased himself in oil and he had cooked and broiled and yearned for the magic hours of noon and six when he could down a life-saving tumbler of gin and lime . |
| 27 | Winds of a hundred miles an hour or more roared and whistled round the isolated house on the cliffs , tearing at window catches , rattling doors . |
| 28 | It accelerated and moved into the slow lane , as he passed . |
| 29 | He held no office , had no possessions , and came and went from the political arena at times of his own choosing . |
| 30 | While the organisers tried to keep track of all those who attended the conference , many people came and went after the initial registration period . |