Example sentences of "and [vb past] [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He slapped his hands together and beamed around the overcrowded cockpit . |
| 2 | It was the morning of Emilia Frere 's departure from the Hall and for a few minutes Louisa found herself alone with the Rector , who fingered the brim of his hat and beamed like the milky sun outside . |
| 3 | The night sky was brilliant and the stars seemed to wink like precious stones against the velvet darkness ; the streets , carpeted by ice and hard snow , shimmered and glowed under the pale moonlight . |
| 4 | Alone , she reached out and clung to the wooden balustrade . |
| 5 | All that is most sensible and clearheaded in the Catholic church will meet in Rome on May 17 to celebrate the beatification of Mgr Josemaria Escriva ( 1902–1975 ) who founded Opus Dei , the unecstatic religious movement which may yet save Christianity from the sex therapists . |
| 6 | This was the theme tune at last month 's revolutionary rallies , where the crowds sang it with great gusto and clapped to the jaunty rhythm of its concluding lines . |
| 7 | He breathed a huge sigh and gazed into the dark water . |
| 8 | When I made no response he turned and gazed at the far line of coral reef that was marked by a fret of white breaking water . |
| 9 | She went up to the bedroom and gazed at the old four-poster , hardly noticing the faded splendour of its blue and gold canopy as she scrutinised the decorated wooden frieze that ran along the top . |
| 10 | Instinctively they had again swung left and plunged into the familiar shelter of the woods . |
| 11 | With a swiftness prompted by desperation she weaved a path through the crowds of guests and plunged into the relative quiet of the old house . |
| 12 | The lorry smashed through a brick wall and plunged into the fast-flowing canal , landing on its side . |
| 13 | She went through the house door leading into the garage , seized a rake and plunged into the cold wind . |
| 14 | In effect it was a return to the conditions of mid-Silurian times , with a corresponding decrease in provincialism , but it lasted longer and led to the fantastic flowering of the Frasnian reefs . |
| 15 | Their later work looked at the smoking habits and health of doctors and led to the crucial evidence that those who stopped smoking eventually lost their increased risk of lung cancer . |
| 16 | From AD 312 ‘ indiction cycles ’ of fifteen years ' duration were introduced by the Emperor Constantine for taxation purposes and led to the Byzantine year being reckoned from 1 September , the date on which each year of an indiction cycle began . |
| 17 | Although the requirement of intervention in the nasal oxygen group was halved , the most extreme example of hypoxia occurred in this group and led to the only termination of the procedure . |
| 18 | The Swiss yearning for independence was soon aflame throughout the cantons , and led to the famous Confederation . |
| 19 | It is , however , a very special kind of autobiography , and may be compared to the accounts of their own lives which the early Methodists were expected to write at the time of their reception into the church : in such spiritual autobiographies divine visitations were singled out for special mention as evidences of God 's grace and power ; they were contrasted with laments over sinful behaviour and backsliding , and led to the culminating moment of conversion . |
| 20 | The collapse of this organisation created a multitude of problems and led to the rapid disintegration of the Soviet Union as a unitary superpower . |
| 21 | This kind of desire for a natural — and ‘ reasonable ’ — religion developed strongly in deism , and led to the same kind of conflict with orthodoxy as with the Bible and miracles . |
| 22 | These deposits are then borrowed and lent in the usual way . |
| 23 | I eventually got back to the switchboard and asked for the neurosurgical bed manager . |
| 24 | This spelt out in more detail what 5 Corps had learned from Maj-Gen Schmidt-Richberg about the approach of the Army Group E forces from the south , and asked for the specific authorization 5 Corps required to accept the surrender of these enormous numbers of fugitives as " formed bodies " . |
| 25 | I remember , for example , being sent for just after I joined the Heavy Organic Chemicals division , and asked by the then chairman of the division , Tom Clarke , to take charge of a company mission to investigate the price of naphtha . |
| 26 | The shop-woman smiled at her and asked after the bereaved family . |
| 27 | Champagne was already on ice , and best crystal glasses shimmered and winked in the fading sunlight . |
| 28 | The critical assets being referred to were the twelve M2D Amphibious Bridging and Ferrying Vehicles operated by the troop , which lay dispersed and camouflaged under the high oak and pine trees of this wooded harbour area , about thirty kilometres south-east of Hamburg . |
| 29 | With its occupants pushed firmly back into their seats , the Turbo R thumped a hole in the air and lunged for the far horizon , covering the quarter-mile in a staggering 14.8secs on the way . |
| 30 | She turned and lunged into the crumbling bank with the torch until it lodged and held still , focused upon the motionless bulk below . |