Example sentences of "and [vb past] [vb pp] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had championed the cause of the poor for many years in a series of investigative articles , and had highlighted the terrible conditions in which a large proportion of the ordinary Dublin people lived . |
| 2 | She had conquered this feeling sufficiently to allow her to accept visits from her friends , and had overcome the apologetic murmurs that used to assail her as she opened her bedroom door ; she felt , in part , absolved by the wonderfully institutional shape of her room , which was on the third floor of a large block in the middle of Regents Park . |
| 3 | There were others ( such as Howard Teicher , who had gone on the trip to Tehran and had seen the spare parts in the back of the plane ) who were ‘ not in all the boxes within the boxes but some element of the box ’ . |
| 4 | Basil now knew his secret , and had seen the real Dorian Gray . |
| 5 | It must have seemed a pardonable exaggeration in the political rhetoric of a young man who had joined the British Fascisti Ltd on 6 December 1923 and had seen the brave hopes of the movement degenerate into a crackpot collection of factions and rivalry by the 1930s . |
| 6 | The exercise had made the public familiar with the coalition and had given the local branches of the three parties experience in working together for a common purpose . |
| 7 | By this time I had joined the Scouts and had reached the dizzy heights of Patrol Leader . |
| 8 | She was due on March the nineteenth , and had reached the twenty-eighth week of her pregnancy . |
| 9 | This had been there for thousands of years and had defeated the British Raj 's efforts to move it . |
| 10 | Constructed " on a large scale " , she was en route from her birthplace in Scotland to London , and had steamed the 120 miles from Milford Haven against a head wind at an incredible 10 knots . |
| 11 | He also enjoyed staunch support from both Salisbury ( 12 ) , who stayed 82 minutes to help add 73 for the seventh wicket and Tufnell , who was 10 not out at the close and had become the fourth England player in the match to better his previous best Test score . |
| 12 | The rest of my family was made up of three sisters — Sal , the eldest who was five and knew when she was born because it was in the middle of the night and had kept the old man awake , Grace who was three and did n't cause anyone to lose sleep , and red-headed Kitty who was eighteen months and never stopped bawling . |
| 13 | I realise now that we were trying to find an interest for ourselves and had done the classic thing of looking for it in a new environment which actually involved more adjustment and less ease than if we had stayed where we were . |
| 14 | I really did n't intend to join this regiment , in fact I was making efforts to rejoin the Yeomanry , who are out here [ his former regiment had landed in Algeria as part of the 6th Armoured Division in the First Army and had supported the 1st Guards Brigade in the battle for Tunis ] , but the C.O. of this regiment chose me by interview and I had to go , being only a very small cog in the wheels of war . |
| 15 | By the time we lowered ourselves over the bergschrund and had descended the soggy snow of the glacier , the sun was dipping below the satellites of Mt Blanc . |
| 16 | By the finish of yesterday 's race he was 35 seconds ahead of second placed Gerhard Berger — and had covered the equivalent distance of London to Manchester in a little more than one hour and a half . |
| 17 | Item — somehow de Craon was involved in all this and had bribed the unwitting Father Reynard . |
| 18 | And had followed the same pattern afterwards . |
| 19 | We 'd received a campaigns update from central office and had registered the big box pile up campaign with that campaign coordinator . |
| 20 | Tennants had lived in and around the village for many generations and had served the small community as farmers , millers and blacksmiths . |
| 21 | At the close of the 1990–91 season 's business , Phil Barber was Palace 's longest-serving current player and had joined the select troupe of men to have played over 250 games for The Eagles some fourteen months previously , so that is fair to say that there has seldom been a more popular fellow to wear the Palace colours . |
| 22 | Because in that instant she had fired the ship 's rear guns and had blasted the other ship 's nose section into particles . |
| 23 | ‘ But ’ , as Mrs Napier George Sturt described in her Life of Charles Stun , ‘ these paintings had been the delight of Sturt 's leisure ; he was devoted to ornithology , and had collected the rarer specimens at great trouble and risk , and at no price would he part with the folio . ’ |
| 24 | She had bought a pretty pine desk , and had scoured the antique shops until she found the perfect eighteenth-century light-mahogany chair to go with it . |
| 25 | While at Kedleston , he had already started altering the earlier , formal landscape and had made the upper lake . |
| 26 | Then the lady told her brother that the little tailor had rescued her from her sleep and had killed the black artist and had won her hand in marriage . |
| 27 | Through Roszak 's influence he had read Thomas Merton and Kenneth Rexroth , the anarchists Paul Goodman and Alex Comfort , and had absorbed the new literature of the civil rights movement , Liberation magazine . |
| 28 | He had been involved with Buddhism to the point of almost becoming a monk , and had formed the mixed media troupe called Feathers , after studying mime under Lindsay Kemp . |
| 29 | These accusations were denied by the government , the BSP , and the Soviet ambassador , Viktor Sharapov , who at a press conference on Aug. 26 said that his only contacts with the government and the BSP had been official ones at which he had delivered the statement of the State Committee for the State of Emergency ( the Soviet coup leaders ) and Gorbachev 's subsequent repudiation of it , and had discussed the forthcoming visit to Moscow of a Bulgarian economic mission . |
| 30 | Many had great dents in them , as if they had been drawn through fences and over walls , and had taken the rough side of the hill . |