Example sentences of "and [vb pp] [adv] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But she knew then that , plagued and plagued again by the same thought during her fretful waking night-time hours , she just could not leave it . |
| 2 | ‘ It is my opinion ’ , Miss Honey said , ‘ that Matilda should be taken out of my form and placed immediately in the top form with the eleven-year-olds . ’ |
| 3 | The vast majority of these were hastily-assembled hack jobs , pieced together from published sources and fleshed out with the dubious reminiscences of alleged veterans . |
| 4 | Work on the drift deposits of the Livingston and Falkirk areas in central Scotland indicate that sea-levels have risen and fallen repeatedly during the last 13 000 years . |
| 5 | The distribution of raised marine sediments and associated well-marked shorelines reveal that sea-levels have risen and fallen repeatedly during the last 13 000 years . |
| 6 | A couple of Hunters were captured and torn apart by the hysterical mob . |
| 7 | The girls walked in the Rose Gardens and caught up on the past months , discussed the future . |
| 8 | The work reported in this thesis was sponsored by General Accident Fire and Life Assurance Corporation plc and carried out at the Medical Research Council 's Applied Psychology Unit in Cambridge and I thank Alan Baddeley and all at the unit for making the work possible . |
| 9 | Some of these other forms of treatment — even some that are advised and carried out by the medical profession — are the clinical equivalent of the extraordinarily inhuman ( and ineffective ) previous " treatment " of cancer patients by pulling out all their teeth . |
| 10 | The coroner 's jury had even brought in a sensational verdict , that ‘ the murder was organised and carried out by the Royal Irish Constabulary , officially directed by the British Government , and we return a verdict of wilful murder against David Lloyd George , Prime Minister of England … . ’ |
| 11 | Furthermore , there is a general permission for any development in connection with coal industry activities ( as defined in section 63 of the Coal Industry Nationalisation Act 1946 ) and carried out in the immediate vicinity of a pithead . |
| 12 | Our goal is solely to establish whether , in a practical ensemble torn apart by antagonism ( whether there are multiple conflicts or whether they are reduced to one ) the breaks themselves are totalizing and carried along by the totalizing movement of the ensemble . |
| 13 | Had it not been for the activities of Lady Laetitia 's lover , bold Sir Rupert Cartland ( played by an odious young actor who 'd risen to prominence by playing a tough naval lieutenant in a television series ) making with the garlic and the wooden stakes ( a bit of vampire lore crept into the script ) , Lady Laetitia and her father would have been turned into zombies and carried back to the subterranean cave , where they would never be heard of again . |
| 14 | The machinery was of mainly wooden construction and dated largely from the 18th century . |
| 15 | ‘ The Salmon 's Return ’ lay a quarter of a mile up-river , and dated back to the early seventeenth century , a long , low , white-painted house on a terrace cunningly clear of the flood level of the Comer , and with ideal fishing water for some hundreds of yards on either side of it . |
| 16 | Its daring conception , ideal in the highest sense of the word , is based on the purest truth , and wrought out with the concentrated knowledge of a life , its colour is almost perfect , not one false or morbid hue in any part or line , and so modulated that every square inch of canvas is a perfect composition ; its drawing is as accurate as fearless ; the ship buoyant , bending , and full of motion ; its tones as true as they are wonderful ; and the whole picture dedicated to the most sublime of subjects and impressions … the power , majesty and deathfulness of the open , deep , illimitable sea . |
| 17 | The base tray is as deep as the corpse is high , the head section having been fashioned from a separate sheet of lead and soldered on to the main body of the shell . |
| 18 | Each table was fitted with transfusion stands and connected up to the piped oxygen laid on throughout Casualty . |
| 19 | The text to be typeset was displayed as a pattern of dots on a high resolution screen and transferred optically to the photographic paper , digital typesetting was born . |
| 20 | Systems are build from board level products designed and manufactured somewhere in the Far East . |
| 21 | ‘ If you are feeling bored and fed up with the daily routine , give the WI a try . |
| 22 | Amnesty International considers Jampa Ngodrup to be a prisoner of conscience , detained and sentenced solely for the peaceful exercise of his right freely to receive and impart information . |
| 23 | These were quickly taken up and written about in the British context ( e.g. Thomas et al. , |
| 24 | Soaked in noxious-smelling slimy water , and watched only by the sightless eyes of rotting fish , Benny left the cavern . |
| 25 | The house was becoming smaller now and distant , and he had the impression that he was being drawn away from it , and drawn away from the living warm world he had known . |
| 26 | The stone rings and Avenues of Avebury had gone already , broken , burnt and buried early in the 18th century ( almost all those that now stand at Avebury were dug out of their pits and re-erected in the 1920s ad 1930s ) . |
| 27 | They had doubled back and got out of the single-leaf door of the car . |
| 28 | When the explosions eased off a bit , I bade farewell to Pat and got out of the big house as quickly as possible . |
| 29 | Sick with longing for his wife , Diana , and worn out with the public issues of doctoring that had apparently lost her to him , he had agreed . |
| 30 | He was sick of the sound of keys and worn down by the slicing pain . |