Example sentences of "and [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | He stirred a pot of paint , dipped a brush in the paint , bent forward and applied it in slow strokes to the sheet of card in front of him . |
| 32 | This group were aware of the injury and described it in neutral terms of sensation . |
| 33 | In the mid 1970s , for example , the police fell out with a number of crime reporters and charged them in separate proceedings with a variety of criminal offences . |
| 34 | Speed played well , Dorigo looked like he was on drugs the way he was running around — at one point Breacker ( Headless chicken ) was thinking he had got past Dorigo/Speed and running towards the corner flag — Dorigo went into overdrive and caught him within 3 strides from a standing start ! ! |
| 35 | The orgasmic bellowing began when I got the car into a slide as the track began to get wet with rain and caught it with opposite lock . |
| 36 | It achieved temperatures over a million degrees and sustained them for several milliseconds . |
| 37 | If we look at Pound in 1927 and 1928 , when he instituted from or through Paris his periodical , The Exile , and sustained it through four issues , we get the impression of a man yawing about without direction , as at no time either earlier or later in his career . |
| 38 | We identified the postcode areas of patients and categorised them into three groups — namely , urban , rural , or mixed . |
| 39 | Jim Smyth of the Ulster Workers ' Council emphasised and re-emphasised it with particular skill and persistence . |
| 40 | He was a man of profound education , but having acquired it himself he treasured words and used them with unique skill and often with a strange individuality . |
| 41 | First and foremost , Borland have taken the Windows interface and used it to good advantage . |
| 42 | He was a bright boy , good at his lessons , but she told him that cleverness was only a virtue if you worked hard and used it to good purpose . |
| 43 | Peter founded the navy out of virtually nothing , recruiting officers and sailors in the same way as for the army , and used it to good effect against the Swedes . |
| 44 | UN relief flights to Juba — known as " Operation Lifeline Sudan " — were halted temporarily on July 21 , after Sudanese government troops had boarded a UN plane and used it for one week to transport troops and military equipment . |
| 45 | Sometimes a descendant has resurrected the bookplate of an ancestor and used it in later books , if necessary cutting off the original name . |
| 46 | Hollins , a cotton broker who was ignorant of the fraud , bought it from B and resold it to another person , receiving only broker 's commission . |
| 47 | I have pricked my first blister , squeezed out the fluid , and dabbed it with surgical spirit . |
| 48 | Two men appeared in front of him , and he caught her wrist and jerked her to one side , raising his sword . |
| 49 | After he had been held incommunicado for a month his family were allowed to visit him and found him in good health . |
| 50 | He suddenly thought of the hat she had lost , searched for it , and found it among some leaves on the ground . |
| 51 | Suddenly there was a flash of lightning and a roll of thunder and the heavens burst sending us scuttling into the woods for shelter , but it was n't long before the rain got through and drenched us with miniature Niagaras that came cascading down from the broad leaves . |
| 52 | He blinked and regarded me with confused surprise . |
| 53 | A family of brothers , fathers and uncles on the front table took an instant dislike to me and , slamming their pints on the table , sat back with arms crossed and regarded me in stony-faced silence . |
| 54 | He stuffed his hands in his trouser-pockets and regarded her with enigmatic eyes . |
| 55 | After a moment , she sat up in the cluttered bed and regarded him in mock annoyance . |
| 56 | Paraded in my immaculate " dhobied " drill I presented myself to my commanding officer who glared at me , and dismissed me with these words : " I am astonished that you have the gall , Mahaddie , to apply for a pilot 's course … if anyone is foolish enough to ever recommend you , you would only kill yourself , and probably others , Good day ! " |
| 57 | But Joffre thought Lanrezac lacked fighting spirit and dismissed him on 3 September . |
| 58 | He completely misjudged the question , and his translation was ignored by churchmen as well as by the editor of the influential Monthly Review , who had been irritated by Smart 's angry response to earlier criticism , and dismissed it with short shrift . |
| 59 | ‘ They acted as judge and jury and suspended me for ten weeks without a trial . |
| 60 | Elizabeth Woodville turned and drew him to one side . |