Example sentences of "and [noun sg] [vb past] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Canon Mackenzie by upbringing and temperament belonged to the paternal age , which was drawing to a close , and " politics " was alien to him . |
| 2 | Gloom and despondency hung over the royal party and Anne was more than a little resentful of having been required to join them in sanctuary . |
| 3 | Dawn had begun to break , and daylight crept over the barren countryside . |
| 4 | Gusts of rain and snow flurried through the opened door as the shape scrabbled on the floor . |
| 5 | His position had torn Danjit 's knife-cut again and blood spiralled through the labyrinthine folds of his collar . |
| 6 | The white Straker family had long disappeared , their genes and blood melded into the vigorous bodies of their freed slaves , and only the Straker name lived on to be given new dignity by Bonefish and his family . |
| 7 | He started coughing , and blood spatted across the note-dotted creaminess of his score . |
| 8 | The first hint that there might be a connection between black holes and thermodynamics came with the mathematical discovery in 1970 that the surface area of the event horizon , the boundary of a black hole , has the property that it always increases when additional matter or radiation falls into the black hole . |
| 9 | Each member country presented a report to the summit , from which desertification , soil erosion and deforestation emerged as the main problems . |
| 10 | Meanwhile , IBM Corp shares plunged $5.50 to $72.50 on the day the company reported a stunning net loss after charges for the third quarter of $2,778m last week and scepticism rose over the prompt promise in the analysts ' call after the announcement that the dividend is safe . |
| 11 | The curtains parted , and light gushed into the dark space . |
| 12 | ‘ To put it bluntly ’ , she wrote , ‘ sexual promiscuity , and even sexual perversion , are almost unavoidable among men and women of average character and intelligence crowded into the one-room tenement of slum areas . ’ |
| 13 | However , as he gazed lovingly over at his beautiful Laura , gently rocking the tiny babies in her arms , he knew that the true definition of his deep joy and delight lay in the collective noun : a pride of lions ! |
| 14 | The ban complied with a request by the head of a judicial commission set up to investigate instances of corruption and abuse perpetrated by the 29-year Duvalier family dictatorship and by successor governments . |
| 15 | Any assessment of the significance of the Glorious Revolution , therefore , must give due weight to the ways in which the tensions between the Church and Dissent interacted with the constitutional conflicts that shaped Restoration politics , and once we do this , the Revolution appears in a fundamentally different light . |
| 16 | His main point was that the marked differences in income and wealth persisted between the social classes throughout the inter-war years had provoked little animus and a remarkably timid response from the working class . |
| 17 | Tess and Angel arrived at the old d'Urberville farmhouse . |
| 18 | It depicts the Virgin and Child enthroned with the young Tobias and the Archangel Raphael on their right and St Jerome on their left and is a preparatory study for the altarpiece of around 1514 , painted in Rome for the church of San Domenico , Naples . |
| 19 | Self-government and independence came to the British colonial territories in Africa in the late 'fifties and early 'sixties — with them all the internal pressures towards reshaping a school system and its curriculum towards new national goals and aspirations . |
| 20 | This antagonism and rivalry existed between the large towns : to take one example , the rivalry of Santiago , the cathedral city , and Corunna , the seaport , was to have a decisive influence on the fate of liberal revolutionary movements in nineteenth-century Galicia . |
| 21 | But the main source of money for releasing the poor and insolvent came from the rich and solvent ; Neild placed advertisements in the newspapers appealing for donations . |
| 22 | The building of the Hellenistic Temple of Apollo at Didyma was begun in the late fourth century B.C. and work continued into the early years of the Roman Empire . |
| 23 | There was a roar of assent and the gathering began to stir and kindle into easier feelings — neighbours muttered to each other and laughter came from the Grandtully part of the crowd . |
| 24 | A number of right hon. and hon. Members ' constituencies include major petroleum production facilities , so I am sure that we all share the concern and anxiety felt by the hon. Member for Falkirk , East ( Mr. Ewing ) . |
| 25 | Fortunately for those who wanted him to continue in Downing Street , his period of incapacity and recovery coincided with the Parliamentary recess . |
| 26 | He reconstructed the present land masses into a single super-continent called Pangaea and suggested that this had initially split into two continents , Gondwanaland ( Gondwana ) to the south and Laurasia to the north , before further rupture and drift resulted in the familiar shape and location of the continents today . |
| 27 | The small town of Alnwick was bustling with people , and Roman drove through the crowded streets slowly . |
| 28 | Evidence from prehistoric ritual sites , such as the painted caves of western and central Europe , suggest that the same or similar traditions of behaviour towards animals and nature existed during the Palaeolithic some 20,000 years ago ( Levine , 1971 ) . |
| 29 | The fineness of the gold began a gentle decline through the tenth century to about 90 per cent , and debasement accelerated during the following century until it took a sudden nosedive in the two decades between 1071 and 1092 , falling from about 70 per cent to a mere 10 per cent . |
| 30 | The reason — the drainage ditches flooded and water overflowed down the main street . |