Example sentences of "and [vb past] [pron] [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This time I did see because he had uncannily identified one of my private sources of shame and voiced my own concomitant mantra . |
| 2 | Moore won an FA Cup winners ' medal with West Ham in 1964 , and led their successful European Cup Winners ' Cup campaign in the next season . |
| 3 | He took a long swig , put the glass down and wiped his mis-shaven upper lip contentedly . |
| 4 | In that answer , he said absolutely nothing until my right hon. Friend the Chancellor pinned him down and asked what positive extra policies the Labour party would commit itself to . |
| 5 | She joined the Women 's Social and Political Union and became its joint honorary secretary . |
| 6 | Tony was one of the undoubted stars of the review and became my invaluable right-hand man . |
| 7 | Martin Marietta Corp has damaged its credit rating with Standard & Poor 's Corp with its decision to buy General Electric Co 's aerospace unit for about $3,050m , most of it in the form of new debt : the agency cut its rating on the senior debt to single-A from single-A-plus , and affirmed its A-1 commercial paper rating . |
| 8 | Doug McGilvray , Weldex 's managing director , said that at a stroke , the move had removed its biggest competitor in Scotland and doubled its own crane-hire fleet . |
| 9 | A contingent headed for Plymouth and met their first serious resistance at Trematon Castle by Saltash , held for the King by Sir Richard Grenville . |
| 10 | You see — ’ she looked up once more and met his direct blue gaze ‘ — you think I wanted to marry you , that I planned it all , but you were wrong , I did n't . ’ |
| 11 | In the evenings , after tea was cleared away and washed up and her aunt had tucked Victoria into her cot , Melanie sat in the kitchen and read her own old books . |
| 12 | He moved fast and confidently , but when he had gone only three hundred yards he began to feel breathless , long before he should have done , and realised what that one shot might have done . |
| 13 | It brought her four children who opened up the world for her and unlocked her own narrow viewpoint — though not enough , as events were to show . |
| 14 | Bolger took office on Oct. 28 and announced his new 18-member Cabinet on Nov. 1 , using the occasion to stress that he expected all Ministers to observe the tradition of collective responsibility . |
| 15 | The team was formed just over two years ago under the tuition of Margaret Charlwood and made its first public appearance at Crystal Palace in November 1981 . |
| 16 | Despite the lecture she 'd been reading herself , excitement had put colour in her cheeks and made her clear golden-brown eyes sparkle . |
| 17 | In 1926 he built studios at Elstree and made his first tentative move into production with The Woman Tempted . |
| 18 | He learned the moves of the game at four years old , and made his first competitive appearance in Vienna two years later . |
| 19 | After eight years practising and perfecting he sent off for a plan and made his own Appalachian dulcimer — and it was better than the one he was given . |
| 20 | It was founded in 1874 , and admitted its first female student in 1948 . |
| 21 | Jay progressed though local congresses , and experienced his first big success at the Whitley Bay tournament where he came second in the under-nine events at the age of seven . |
| 22 | He reached into his pocket and produced her small black bag . |
| 23 | The preceding decades had been dominated by the old-style realism of the regionalist novel , which reached its high point in the 1920s with the publication of José Eustasio Rivera 's The Vortex ( 1924 ) , Ricardo Güiraldes 's Don Segundo Sombra ( 1926 ) and Rómulo Gallegos 's Doña Barbara ( 1929 ) and produced its last major work , Ciro Alegría 's Broad and Alien is the World , in 1941 . |
| 24 | George moved to Liverpool and produced his first documented work , a wax portrait relief of Henry Blundell [ q.v. ] of Ince , the connoisseur and sculpture collector . |
| 25 | Nor can Hewlett be dismissed as having been lucky and got it right first time : it did n't . |
| 26 | Jim struck just before half-time for his first goal , and got his second three minutes from the finish . |
| 27 | Now he put together his own group from the bored teenagers who frequented his shop and invited his old art-school colleague Jamie Reid to join the plot . |
| 28 | Sharpe borrowed a shako from one of the troopers and used its flat round top as a writing desk . |
| 29 | At exactly the right moment , just when Julia 's nervousness had reached its height , he looked up and fixed his prominent grey eyes on her , his handsome regular features flushed with temper . |
| 30 | The men turned and entered her paint-peeled front door . |