Example sentences of "and [vb past] a [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dealing in government bonds , along with dealing in other securities , moved off the floor of the London Stock Market sooner than anticipated and became a wholly screen-based activity . |
| 2 | During a visit to a local abbey , Sarah Owen made her Promise and became a fully fledged member of the 1st Melrose Pack in Roxburghshire , Scotland . |
| 3 | He was made out to be a hero , and became a fully fledged dealer that day . |
| 4 | This facilitated the regular distribution of heroin along specific channels readily identifiable by users and so ‘ scoring ’ moved off the street and became a less hazardous occupation . |
| 5 | By borrowing Chinese cameras , and gaining access to more sophisticated foreign models that had been ‘ liberated ’ from bourgeois homes by the Red Guards , he gradually mastered the art and became a very proficient photographer . |
| 6 | I agreed and I put him under training for Mosquito , and to the best of my knowledge ( and this is only a guess ) he did over 70 sorties , got himself at least one DFC , if not two , and became a very worthwhile member of the Pathfinder Force . |
| 7 | Griffith was transferred to other work and became a very famous engine designer . |
| 8 | Saga pioneered this market and became a very large company on the basis of it . |
| 9 | PRINCESS Alexandra toured a veterinary centre in Liverpool yesterday — and met a very special pooch called Lassie O'Neill . |
| 10 | PRINCESS Alexandra toured a veterinary centre in Liverpool and met a very special pooch called Lassie O'Neill . |
| 11 | The new frontiers opened up by the development of the sciences through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries have taken them far beyond the model of the machine and revealed a far greater degree of randomness and unpredictability in the fundamental structure of the universe . |
| 12 | ‘ Not long after he contacted me again , said he 'd moved to yet another firm and made a completely different recommendation . |
| 13 | He smiled and made a little admiring gesture with his hand that took in Lepine 's well-cut linen suit , his handmade shoes and silk shirt . |
| 14 | He gained valuable experience over these fences when fourth in the 1991 Grand National , and made a most encouraging reappearance at Sandown . |
| 15 | Then he cleared his throat and made a quite extraordinary proposal . |
| 16 | The ambassador and his wife were very pleasant , and as the Ambassador stood up and made a very impressive speech in Chinese , I thought him a distinct improvement on his confrère in the Hague ! |
| 17 | I never took him again because as we went in the big dog bounded from his mistress ' side and produced a particularly sonorous blast as if in greeting . |
| 18 | Korg seem to have done the impossible and produced a totally digital processor with some absolutely authentic guitar sounds . |
| 19 | I have often shown them how using repetition wisely , they could have halved their labour and produced a more coherent work . |
| 20 | Until the mid-1970s these types of study dominated the field ( Coppock and Duffield , 1975 ) and produced a very useful baseline for further work . |
| 21 | He tried out an elimination diet , and got a reasonably good response . |
| 22 | I had to be very careful going through a couple of blobs of the Renaissance gold where the paint was at its thickest , but I was lucky and got a reasonably clean edge all round . |
| 23 | Because the people of really did n't feel they 'd been consulted , I , I carried out a little survey of my own and got a very good response . |
| 24 | The Zuwaya account omitted Turkish intervention and described a purely stateless struggle . |
| 25 | As we stepped through the portal , we left the late Mughal haveli behind and entered a very different world : inside we were confronted by a gleaming pink boudoir that could have been the dressing-room of a 1950s Hollywood film star . |
| 26 | Bothered about Joan 's health and the overspaciousness of the house , they searched and found a little terraced house almost opposite the Fitzwilliam Museum . |
| 27 | Finally she returned to the information desk where she 'd first encountered him the previous day , and found a pretty young woman sitting there stacking up guide books on Dublin . |
| 28 | She opened it , and found a very small cake with the words EAT ME on it . |
| 29 | Twite ( 199Ob ) examined daily values of the Australian All Ordinaries index between 1983 and 1986 and found a significantly positive correlation between futures returns and the riskless rate of interest . |
| 30 | And promised a really good time . |