Example sentences of "and [vb past] [verb] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | With regard to the industry budget as a whole , there is a cash cut of £16 million in real terms between the net planned outturn and planned spending for the coming year . |
2 | Constituency parties had to be wound up and re-formed to conform to the new boundaries . |
3 | A major life-extension programme was carried out on nearly half the Class 37 fleet , with a number of variants designed specifically for freight haulage and expected to survive into the next century . |
4 | They let us off after our three Santa Clausesses mobbed them and asked to play with the red furry pandas they had clipped to the aerials of their radios , on condition we played ‘ Saints ’ until out of sight . |
5 | Presumably the synthetic oligonucleotide was taken up by the cells and became bound to the complementary sequence on the viral RNA . |
6 | The right of the painter to move around an object and combine various views of it into a single image , first stated in writing by Metzinger in 1910 and elaborated a few months later by Allard , was quickly adopted by most critics as a central feature of the style , and became related to the conceptual or intellectual aspect . |
7 | Practically every device of the movies started as a special effect and became assimilated into the everyday language of film , just like metaphor in language . |
8 | Some of the poems were written down and became known to the outside world before the end of the eighteenth century . |
9 | This was the same fault , as it turned out , which cut off the Bonsor Vein at its northern end , and became known as the Great , or Kernal Cross-course . |
10 | The child climbed out of the cab and became caught in the unguarded pto of the attached implement . |
11 | It was this message which went out in the eighteenth century , and became enshrined in the First Amendment to the American Constitution . |
12 | For example , while the Declaration of Independence in 1776 and the enactment of the United States Constitution in 1787 were illegal under the old legal order , they were validated by , and received their legitimacy and authority from , the People of the United States , who accepted them and agreed to abide by the new constitution . |
13 | Seagram , one of the world 's largest wines and spirits companies , stepped in and agreed to help save the National . |
14 | She was heavily pregnant but she was questioned and made to wait for the next twelve hours without food or water . |
15 | This movement ‘ down ’ from God to man expresses and reveals the character and nature of God himself ; for his being is not separate from his action ; and in the answering movement ‘ up ’ from man to God , we see that human existence itself is grounded upon and made to answer to the divine initiative . |
16 | He was used to sailing with the best and got exasperated with the Soviet crew . |
17 | The second tactic employed by the authorities related specifically to the Snowball campaign and involved dealing with the symbolic fence-cutting as the offence of criminal damage . |
18 | The moment that red ball began to flatten , she sat on a rock and strained to see along the flat road , along the plain leading to Siena , and sure enough she saw a black dot which grew larger and became a single horse and then she stood up and began to run towards it , waving and shouting . |
19 | At half-past five he leant closer to the window and strained to see into the flat opposite . |
20 | He had been beaten , threatened with knee-capping , burned on the neck with a cigarette and invited to jump from the open door of the speeding vehicle during the journey to the quarry at Furnace on Loch Fyne . |
21 | Hebbert joined him and moved left to the obvious beetling crack and groove line he had spotted from below — omitting to pause and wonder why this particular line soared up straight as an arrow , on a route called Curving Crack ! . |
22 | She sat Nicandra down on her own chair , the chair that always smelt , in a hesitating way , of Nannie 's bottom , and knelt to take off the laced boots — Maman held to a rather Chinese theory on the suppression of growth ; the white kid boots were on the small side and not often replaced because they were French , very expensive , and not obtainable from Start-rite . |
23 | The plan therefore built on the proposals put forward in 1937 by Sir Charles Bressey and Sir Edwin Lutyens for London 's traffic , and proposed to add to the two already partly-built outer ring roads ( the North and South Orbital and the North and South Circular ) with two corresponding inner rings — ‘ the fast traffic ring-road an |
24 | She twisted herself and tried to see through the buckled plate again . |
25 | He squirmed uncomfortably on the damp stone , and tried to look on the bright side . |
26 | She pushed her inner chaos to the back of her mind and tried to concentrate on the coming day . |
27 | Distant creaks and groans echoed eerily along dark corridors and seemed to expand into the circular chamber . |
28 | Eight riders galloped from cover and came thudding across the cleared land towards the settlement . |
29 | ‘ Punishment enough , I think , ’ he said softly , as his hands traced a deliberately sensuous path over the clinging wetness of her shirt and came to rest for the briefest of moments on the raised outline of her breasts . |
30 | Then he kicked and came to rest against the far wall . |