Example sentences of "and [vb past] [noun] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He equated a lone tree with a lonely person , and paired trees in the same way that he paired humans . |
| 2 | There is an annual profit bonus on liquor sales : this is pensionable and averaged £800 in the last financial year . |
| 3 | With this announcement the powers which had occupied and divided Germany after the Second World War effectively accepted the inevitability of early German unification , although the statement contained no indication of the four powers ' preferred timetables for unification or for the two-plus-four negotiations . |
| 4 | A SALESMAN turned detective and led police to the bloodstained body of the pregnant wife Marie Wilks , the M50 murder trial heard yesterday . |
| 5 | On May 13 , 1990 , some 1,000 Palestinians , who were escorting the body of a guerrilla who had died in police custody , ransacked a police post near Jordan 's northern border with Syria and attacked members of the Jordanian secret police , the Mukhabarat . |
| 6 | February 20th , 1920 : It was on this date that Adolf Hitler gave up painting and became spokesman for the newly-formed Nazi Party . |
| 7 | Peter Brooke , who left the firm to enter politics in 1979 and became Chairman of the Conservative party , set up the firm 's British base in prestigious but not overtly showy offices in park Lane . |
| 8 | This philosophy , which became known as the ‘ Carter doctrine ’ , persisted into the presidency of his successor and became part of the conditioning material at play in later Washington reflexes . |
| 9 | It was not until the French Revolution that democracy ceased to be a mere literary word , and became part of the political vocabulary . |
| 10 | Situated at the head of the Cuckmere valley , on an impressive site in the heart of the Weald and protected by the great bend of the Cuckmere River , this site was chosen for an Augustinian priory in the 13th century and became part of the religious life of the time . |
| 11 | Africa joined up with Asia via Arabia and became part of the huge continent that we now speak of as the Old World . |
| 12 | In this " process of corporate bias " , what had once been merely interest groups crossed the political threshold and became part of the extended state . |
| 13 | The mill was powered by water and became part of the Royal Powder Mill in the eighteenth century . |
| 14 | In other words the candidates most likely to be nominated if they so wish will be those who were nominated and became TDs at the previous general election . |
| 15 | He went to the University of Durham to study geography on a Navy scholarship and became secretary of the junior common room and college treasurer . |
| 16 | They passed it on 19th April when it obtained the Royal Assent and became law with the short title , The Public Offices Extension Act 1859 . |
| 17 | He moved to London where he worked as a gardener with the Greater London Council and became editor of the Irish Militant . |
| 18 | Edward 's brother Edmund of Lancaster ( Crouchback ) married Blanche of Artois in 1275 and became governor of the northern French comté of Champagne on her behalf . |
| 19 | Suh Kyung-won was an activist in the farmers ' movement and became president of the Catholic Farmers Association in 1982 . |
| 20 | In 1965 he was made an honorary fellow of the Australasian College of Surgeons and became president of the International College of Surgeons . |
| 21 | Paul Cook , professor of laser technology at Brunel and inventor of a laser system which detects causes of night blindness and other eye defects , recently formed and became president of the British Science and Technology Trust . |
| 22 | He was highly respected in his field and became President of the British Society of Hypnotherapists in 1972 . |
| 23 | In recognition of his work on thin films and terrestrial magnetism he was awarded the Royal medal of the Royal Society in 1891 and became president of the permanent committee on terrestrial magnetism and atmospheric electricity of the International Meteorological Conference in 1896 . |
| 24 | He was appointed in 1884 assistant locomotive , carriage , and wagon superintendent of the Waterford , Limerick and Western Railway of Ireland and became superintendent in the following year . |
| 25 | There is a growing awareness of the disadvantages to employment and industry that a return to the discredited and failed policies of the Labour party would create . |
| 26 | Putzi Hanfstaengel , Hitler 's former friend who had fled his own country , presided and read passages of the nordic Edda . |
| 27 | Arran himself had joined Beaton and the dowager at the end of 1544 , when they ‘ promised and made bond to the French ambassador , that the French king shall have the young queen , to marry where he list … and also that they shall at the spring of the year , send both the young queen and the old ( Mary of Guise ) into France ’ . |
| 28 | and made maps of the silenced mineworkings . |
| 29 | The Democratic candidate made a clean sweep of the states in New England ( the first time since 1964 ) and made inroads into the southern states which in recent years had been solidly Republican . |
| 30 | This evaluation was directed towards the educational process and made use of the psychometric approach . |