Example sentences of "and [noun pl] [vb past] [vb pp] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All of Brundle 's simple rules and runes had left the complacent head which believed it knew it all anyway . |
| 2 | They lay together in the same blue-white room , though this time their lovemaking had been gentler and more familiar , as warmth and exploration of each other 's bodies and hearts had succeeded the glorious frenzy of their first coupling . |
| 3 | Both Greeks and Latins had transformed the original Christian message to meet their own condition and both needed to develop a contemplative tradition within this active faith when the time was right . |
| 4 | The old colonial system stood in the way of any attempt to replace an empire based on bullion imports by a mercantilist empire à la Colbert , reserved for Spanish products and feeding the prosperity of the mother-country ; regimentation had failed when interlopers and smugglers had turned the Castilian monopoly into a fiction , when ‘ Spain kept the cow , the rest of Europe drank the milk ’ . |
| 5 | A sustained campaign of legal action and demonstrations had delayed the start-up date until 1986 . |
| 6 | A sustained campaign of legal action and demonstrations had delayed the start-up date until 1986 . |