Example sentences of "and [vb pp] [prep] [art] [noun pl] with " in BNC.
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| 1 | Drake , on the other hand , the piratical darling of Good Queen Bess , returned from a transglobal raiding adventure with a holdful of Indonesian spices , and paraded through the streets with his crew bedecked in the captured finery of the most astounding oriental silks and damasks ever to have been seen in England . |
| 2 | When Alexander the Great ( 356–323BC ) was invading the cities of India he found therein may sacred snakes which were kept in caves and worshipped by the Indians with great devotion . |
| 3 | ‘ Why not ? ’ he said carelessly , and made for the stairs with the care of someone not absolutely steady on his feet . |
| 4 | He gambolled over the four fences on the run towards the turn for home on the first circuit , and made towards the stands with a commanding lead . |
| 5 | Only in A.D. 73 , decimated by starvation and threatened by the Romans with a large-scale general assault , did the defenders of the citadel commit mass suicide . |
| 6 | He just draws some rays , converging at appropriate foci for the lenses and reflected from the mirrors with equal angles of incidence and reflection . |
| 7 | He was wearing old plaid trousers , over-large and loose as pantaloons , and tied at the ankles with string . |
| 8 | Mother and baby lie side by side : Mrs Williams , represented as wearing day-clothes , is propped up on her right elbow , staring adoringly at her deceased infant ; the latter is wrapped in a fine close-fitting linen shroud , drawn up over the feet rather than under , and tied at the knees with a fairly broad linen band . |
| 9 | A Celtic deity associated with their craft was Tanaris ( or Taranis ) , the sky god , responsible for lightning and thunder and equated by the Celts with Jupiter . |
| 10 | Zeinab had no great love of Copts but she was n't having anyone attacked in the entrance of her building and pitched into the youths with such fury that they ran off . |
| 11 | long-range tanks , non-jettisonable and fitted under the mainplanes with auxiliary pumps to pump fuel into the main tanks . |
| 12 | Milk was a local produce from Fauchon 's , Marsh Farm , this would be delivered around Lower Halling by hand-cart loaded with a churn and buckets and dispensed from the buckets with a half pint measure into jugs placed on windowsills , and covered with beaded doilies to keep out flies and dust . |
| 13 | A still more disturbing example occurred when the family of Servet Sayan , interrogated at the Second ( Criminal ) Branch of Istanbul Police Headquarters in March , made a formal complaint to the public prosecutor stating that Servet Sayan had been suspended by the arms , and beaten on the testicles with a stick , resulting in a punctured scrotum ( a medical report described a 2.5 cm wound at the base of the penis ) . |
| 14 | The crop is raked towards the fence from either side and loaded onto the wires with a fork , starting with the bottom wire , until there is no room beneath the second wire . |