Example sentences of "and [vb past] [adv] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No further information seemed to be forthcoming and Rose still had tight hold of the ring . |
| 2 | Scottish kings were rarely powerful enough , or could muster an army large and united enough to keep permanent guard along the frontier against major English invasions . |
| 3 | Instead of playing a leading role in the new monetary union , we shall be semi-detached from it — robbed of our full chance to shape its institutions , suffering economically because of the uncertainty , and condemned always to follow monetary union , never to lead it . |
| 4 | Teachers using Fast Forward find the material is already under control and organized ideally to ensure rapid progress . |
| 5 | The Dutch sellers now relied upon a clause ( clause 13 ) in their contract of sale with the buyers and claimed therefore to have proprietary rights entitling them to have priority over the buyers ' other creditors . |
| 6 | But what Sue saw and heard there bore little resemblance to the popularly-held view of the Spencer family . |
| 7 | They wandered parks and gardens and fed already overfed white pigeons in the Plaza de América . |
| 8 | Brenda Pridmore , recently appointed Clerical Officer/receptionist at Hoggatt 's Laboratory , pushed the marmalade across the breakfast table and began methodically slicing thin strips from the white of her fried egg , postponing , as she had from early childhood , that cataclysmic moment when she would plunge the fork into the glistening yellow dome . |
| 9 | Their peers shared such conceptions and served mutually to reinforce each other . |
| 10 | Susan 's arm was so painful next morning and looked so inflamed that Breeze , as soon as she had foraged for some breakfast , went down to the village to find the doctor . |
| 11 | Or : ‘ Your forefathers worked hard , fought hard , and died hard to make this Empire for you . |
| 12 | It was founded in 1989 , and grew rapidly to employ 15,000 people by mid-1991 with a turnover of US$300,000,000 . |
| 13 | The bridges were awesome in their fragility and ill-repair : loose plates of iron rattled and slipped away to reveal brief visions of dark and menacing deeps , filled no doubt with crocodiles , man-eating fish and swimming snakes . |
| 14 | Those who had not participated in training courses were often very traditional in their farming and had probably lost all motivation for change . |
| 15 | She looked disappointed , so Toby had obviously disarmed her with his usual charm , and had probably promised some expenses , too . |
| 16 | Given leave to speak , he said he had gone into the church to help , and had simply obeyed such orders as were given to him , and he knew nothing of where the saint 's coffin might be at this moment . |
| 17 | Yet Labour had a double advantage with the electors : its leaders had served with complete loyalty in the coalition , and had thereby secured valuable experience of government , mostly , to be sure , on the home front ; but the party in Parliament had also by its single rebellion in 1943 made it clear to all that it was dissatisfied with the coalition 's progress towards social reform . |
| 18 | After hearing several witnesses , including Aviv and the Observer 's reporter John Merritt , who had interviewed him in November 1989 , Magistrate Judge Ross found that Aviv had divulged at least part of his report to Merritt and had thereby waived work-product protection . |
| 19 | He had originally charged only 10% back in 1946 , at a time when he was principally concerned with much lower-level searches , and had frequently experienced total losses when he had been unable to complete an assignment satisfactorily . |
| 20 | Instead of biopsy specimens , gastrectomy specimens were investigated for 10 patients : five were untreated and five were being followed up and had finally to undergo total gastrectomy . |
| 21 | What particularly incensed the good bishop was that Passelewe as a Forest judge had ordered the arrest and imprisonment of clerks as well as laymen , and had thus flouted clerical privileges . |
| 22 | It was true that Ludens , though regularly visiting Pat , had seen very little of Jack and had scarcely exchanged any words with Alison or Franca . |
| 23 | The whole of the party were in excellent health and had well tried each others stamina in walking up mountains etc. etc. but having so many interesting objects in view they had allowed no difficulty or danger to impede their progress . |
| 24 | As head of the National Reconciliation Commission in peace talks with the URNG [ see pp. 37372 ; 37527 ; 37707 ] , Serrano had promised to finalize a peace agreement with the guerrillas if he became President , and had also promised economic reforms . |
| 25 | Pte Macaulay had served with the 3rd Battalion Parachute Regiment for 15 months , and had just completed six months of his tour of duty in Northern Ireland at the time of his death . |
| 26 | Wallace , in fact , now closed down the Nissan , and had just taken third position when the rain fell . |
| 27 | They contained a large middle class , which together with dissatisfied refugees and war workers from the fighting zone in the World War , had often expressed dislike of central intervention , and had even encouraged local autonomy . |
| 28 | By the age of 12 , she was only the size of an eight-year-old and had already undergone two operations to straighten her legs . |
| 29 | The NEC believed that there had to be changes and had already begun wide-ranging consultations . |
| 30 | Many , of course , had brothers or older friends in the Rowdies group and had already had some experience of ‘ hanging around ’ with them in other social arenas away from the terraces . |