Example sentences of "and [vb past] [adv] [art] [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then she dried her tears and read aloud the epigraph Orwell had chosen for Homage to Catalonia to make sure her voice would not betray her . |
| 2 | He turned from Bristol without regret and entered again the West Somerset landscape of coast and hills over which , very soon , he would become a persistent and delighted explorer . |
| 3 | Telford drove piles in behind the lock walls and bolted together the iron plates to make the lock both stable and watertight . |
| 4 | Bolt Head , the gangster who financed and masterminded both the Robocranker project and the computer generated hologram , meets the Robocranker after his defeat and offers him a new body in return for operating one of his machines … |
| 5 | William Thomson , later Lord Kelvin , was elected to the chair of Natural Philosophy at Glasgow in 1846 at the age of twenty-two , and organized there a physics laboratory for students . |
| 6 | Firing shots in the air they descended on the station and carted away the metal ballot boxes , substituting three of their own . |
| 7 | Sister Annunciata caught the priest 's eye and held up a packet of tea , but he shook his head and pulled aside the blackout curtain at the foot of the circular staircase . |
| 8 | The miners used rock drills and compressed air to drive through hard rock and the level had a hydraulic engine , worked by water from the dam at Sun Hush , which had such a head of water that it developed up to fifty horsepower and worked both the water pumps to drain the deep levels and the winding gear . |
| 9 | At Montmartre , I was disappointed by the Sacré Cœur , and I dared , privately , to categorise it as vulgar ; but , of course , I was quite unused to Second Empire Romanesque , and knew only the filigree stonework of English Gothic , and now the glorious tracery and the flying buttresses of Nôtre Dame . |
| 10 | ‘ Shush , Conrad , ’ Lee said disapprovingly , and cleared away the soup dishes . |
| 11 | Then I took some smaller bombs and planted them inside some of the rabbit holes , stamping down the roofs of the tunnel entrances so that they caved in and left only the straw fuses sticking out . |
| 12 | It was amazing that , after Reaney had broken his leg in '70 and missed both the Cup Final and the trip to Mexico ( as well as the famous end-of-season run in ) , Cooper broke his leg two years later ( at Stoke I think ) and missed the ‘ 72 Cup Final . |
| 13 | The English millionaire folded his singed tents and stole away the insurance money , which did n't belong to him since I had nationalized the paper well before the fire was out . |