Example sentences of "and [vb past] [pers pn] in [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus it might be that the old English case of Woodhouse v Brotherhood 1972 ] ICR 186 would be decided the same way under the Directive , because the facts , as found in that case , were that the transferee employer used the factory and the machines to produce different products from those made by the transferor and sold them in different markets . |
| 2 | This was quite a long passage for us , but we were lucky with the weather and made it in one leg . |
| 3 | Avoiding Richard , who got to his feet as soon as he saw something to be carried , she kicked open the top of the Arctic and flung them in golden handfuls onto the glowing bed of fuel . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | This group were aware of the injury and described it in neutral terms of sensation . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Sometimes a descendant has resurrected the bookplate of an ancestor and used it in later books , if necessary cutting off the original name . |
| 8 | After he had been held incommunicado for a month his family were allowed to visit him and found him in good health . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | After a moment , she sat up in the cluttered bed and regarded him in mock annoyance . |
| 11 | He could mend any broken toy , and make things too — I remember he made a great big rocking-horse for Hilary , and painted it in all sorts of marvellous colours . |
| 12 | To furnish the interior authentically , the owner sought out period items — panelled doors , chimney pieces , etc — from local buildings that were to be demolished and installed them in appropriate positions . |
| 13 | It was n't just Frank they were looking for , if they had n't shot him already and buried him in some bog . |
| 14 | She 's got her stocking feet right up between his legs and cuddles his feet in her ample bosom , having previously removed his shoes and socks and displayed them in sideways V-sign on the little shelf at the window . |
| 15 | Thanks to their extensive plagiarism from the Old Testament , Clement argued , Plato and the Greek philosophers had found out many true things and expressed them in beautiful language . |
| 16 | They will have sorted bricks and arranged them in neat piles ( sorting and setting ) . |
| 17 | She made coffee in a dented silver pot and served it in dark-green cups with gold rims and gold handles , cups she 'd stolen from home . |
| 18 | I put down my lunch and followed him in frantic pursuit . |
| 19 | Nazie , now of 155 Maxwell Drive , Pollokshields , and Ali , now of 2 Redhills , Lennoxtown , struck Mr McCallum , of 16 James Gray Street , Pollokshields , Glasgow , with hockey sticks and killed him in nearby Nithsdale Road on 6 August , 1991 . |
| 20 | He held her by the shoulders and kissed her in continental fashion on the cheeks . |
| 21 | Jessamy stood in the doorway and watched him in angry astonishment . |
| 22 | Sister Cooney stood and watched it in mild amusement , before turning and walking thoughtfully inside . |
| 23 | One was from the Arisleus Vision : ‘ With so much love did Beya embrace Gabricus that she entirely absorbed him in her own nature and dissolved him in inseparable atoms . ’ |
| 24 | The Doctor had filled his pockets with Dream B. He pulled out the rocks and placed them in small piles . |
| 25 | Casually it beat the fish into stillness on the branch and swallowed it in one gulp . |
| 26 | I did this experiment in four frenzied weeks in 1984 with a fanatically hard-working , Warsaw-based autoradiographer , Margaret Kossut , and repeated them in more detail the following year with a neuroanatomist from Budapest , Andras Csillag , who helped identify the anatomical structures in which Margaret and I had found the changes . |
| 27 | Cadfael stooped and took it in both hands , and lifted it , and it parted from its setting without trailing a blade of grass or a torn edge of moss . |
| 28 | He reached for the case and took it in both hands . |
| 29 | And did you in due course , go to the flat ? |
| 30 | The low sun touched the gentle white curves of the plateau with gold and bathed them in undeserved serenity . |