Example sentences of "and [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He particularly admired the beautiful white spikes of Itea and recommended it for late flowering , a quality which also applied to Clethra alnifolia . |
| 2 | Madame raised her crackling voice from the large brown desk where she presided in the hall beyond , and asked them with unusual largesse if they would like some refreshment . |
| 3 | Then he built a double-skinned oak door and studded it with fat-headed iron nails from the nearby , long defunct Presteigne nail-making machine . |
| 4 | clenched , Benny lifted her foot above the instruments and lowered it with extreme care towards the handle of the scalpel . |
| 5 | In the time I was there she did pencil out a few passages , and got me to red ink a lot more . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Jim Smyth of the Ulster Workers ' Council emphasised and re-emphasised it with particular skill and persistence . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | First and foremost , Borland have taken the Windows interface and used it to good advantage . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | I have pricked my first blister , squeezed out the fluid , and dabbed it with surgical spirit . |
| 13 | After he had been held incommunicado for a month his family were allowed to visit him and found him in good health . |
| 14 | He blinked and regarded me with confused surprise . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | After a moment , she sat up in the cluttered bed and regarded him in mock annoyance . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The Minoans built cisterns or water tanks and lined them with water-resistant plaster . |
| 19 | The internal structures and emotional attitudes of the party at this time coincided exactly with his own mental state , and provided him with intellectual strength and emotional security . |
| 20 | I have no idea how I was , although Jack and my relieved director assured me that the audience had just been coolly first-nightish and we , the cast , had stayed calm and thawed them into real pleasure and ultimate Rejoycing . |
| 21 | Then she went to the sink and filled it with lukewarm water and made the water frothy with soap-powder . |
| 22 | Despenser , made chamberlain of the king 's household in the autumn of 1318 , was son of an old servant of the king who was also called Hugh , but the young man was greedy and tactless on a scale which surpassed Gaveston and alarmed and alienated particularly the lords of the Welsh Marches ( where he laid claim to extensive lands ) and drove them into uneasy alliance with Lancaster . |
| 23 | I put off going to the doctor but I wish I had n't because my GP immediately knew what was wrong and told me about carpal tunnel syndrome . |
| 24 | Her teacher was white — indeed , all the teachers were white — and told them with great pride that she came from England . |
| 25 | And studied her with deathless agape . |
| 26 | They were the sport of rich noblemen who hunted and ate them with terrific enthusiasm — until there were none . |
| 27 | He plucked and ate them with surprising sensuality , sucking out the juice and spitting the pips into his left hand . |
| 28 | ‘ When Napoleon besieged Jaffa , ’ Damiani said , ‘ my ancestor Anton Damiani interceded on behalf of the Muslim population and protected them from French anger — we have an official certificate from the sharia court to this effect . ’ |
| 29 | Charnos have taken the microfibre story and turned it into different leg looks — shiny , matt and suede — using the softer , finer handle and textures now available , the products can achieve that smoother than silk feel . |
| 30 | As the more doggedly political of the two , Reid in particular despised Richard Branson as an ‘ entrepreneur hippie ’ who had sold out everything that was exciting and subversive about the Sixties and turned it into big business . |