Example sentences of "[vb pp] [coord] [verb] [adv] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | AUSTRALIAN doctors have successfully frozen and thawed out a human embryo before planting it in a womb . |
| 2 | And Piers saw himself being seen and put on a clever sort of don't-mind-us smile . |
| 3 | David has mellowed and quietened down a great deal . |
| 4 | The researcher , interested in different modes of communication , has to investigate the framework of thought within which decisions regarding what is legitimate are made and to explain how a particular group succeeds in making its ideology dominant in specific contexts . |
| 5 | It is no longer adequate just to produce a plan of a church : all walls and elevations need to be examined closely , since most churches are built , developed and extended over a long period . |
| 6 | It burns slowly when ignited and gives off a pleasing smell . |
| 7 | The cans banged and rattled over a fuzzy soundtrack already overlaid with calls to Vassilis to move his head or Kostas to provide a cigarette . |
| 8 | He turned his head and spat , then buckled and retched up a thin stream of vomit . |
| 9 | The fact that it is very difficult to do does n't prevent a lot of people wishing to achieve it , but it is very seldom that , in the industrial world , anybody has achieved and held continuously a pre-eminent position over a very long period of time . |
| 10 | He was almost certain that he had found him , that he could say , ‘ Our McCloy was here , ’ and yet what had he achieved but dredge up a tiny segment of McCloy 's life ? |
| 11 | The émigrés , ranging from monarchists to anarchists , were of course bitterly divided and carried on a fierce polemical battle over the responsibility for their common defeat . |
| 12 | ( Martial arts are a way of life — skills learnt and practised over a long period , used to tune the mind and body to a state of superb readiness . |