Example sentences of "and [vb past] [det] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The system distracted them from their own businesses and led many of the richest families to ruin , punished for failure to fulfil the Tsar 's expectations . |
| 2 | An art shop in the city of London sold four cotton based portfolios in the first week and doubled this in the second . |
| 3 | It had been the summer home of the Russian monarchy since 1716 and housed some of the greatest imperial palaces and parks in Russian history . |
| 4 | Both were given a free hand to indulge their imagination and produced some of the wittiest and talked about windows in London , several of which featured life-sized stuffed animals or eye-catching visual puns . |
| 5 | She dabbed her lips with salt water again and crumbled some of the roasted chicken neck into her mouth . |
| 6 | He wanted to bear witness to Jesus in this tough spot , and invited some of the nearby Christians to accompany him . |
| 7 | He shook his head and sank more of the strong beer . |
| 8 | Progress was unavoidably slow but they set up and directed most of the subversive organisations . |
| 9 | Tax incentives removed for commercial forestry , but the Government failed to list Scotland 's Flow country under the World Heritage Convention , and rejected most of the 1987 NCC report , which was to ensure new forests did not harm wildlife . |
| 10 | He followed his father into the legal profession and attained some of the highest legal appointments in Scotland , including the posts of Lord Advocate and Lord Justice Clerk . |
| 11 | LOYALIST terrorist groups have murdered four Roman Catholics and wounded another in the past nine days . |
| 12 | in fact he was downright dangerous and ate some of the poor little things . |
| 13 | The grim determination with which Peter the Great restored the army after the disaster at Narva ( 1700 ) , and risked all in the decisive battle against the Swedes at Poltava ( 1709 ) , reflected in large measure his own indomitable , exuberant , ruthless personality . |
| 14 | Those industrial societies which were ( and in a few cases still are ) collectivist and centrally planned , have had to cope with different problems , although they too were affected by economic recession , and faced some of the same difficulties in maintaining economic growth . |
| 15 | This has equipped the army and paid much of the direct cost of the war . |
| 16 | Maggie quickly brought her attention back to the cross-eyed girl and forgot all about the young man . |
| 17 | Adams showed the authority and leadership you would expect from a defender who has won 17 caps at senior level but in World Cup terms the most significant performance came from Gascoigne , who cut out the asides and showed some of the tactical discipline he has to acquire if he is to make the most of his natural talent in international football . |
| 18 | We pottered around the town of Aire , situated on the banks of the River Lys , and admired some of the 17th and 18th century architecture around its quaint cobbled marketplace . |
| 19 | Equally adept as an experimenter , he built high-performance cloud chambers at Liverpool and Aberystwyth , and obtained some of the earliest photographs from which the mass of the meson could be deduced . |
| 20 | Mrs Bauwens , an independent film producer , paid the £10,000 rent on the villa and footed most of the other bills . |
| 21 | As soon as he got his hands on them he cut the sleeves off the grey dress and adapted those of the white one , then stripped off , and donned first the white dress and then the grey one as a sort of sleeveless cowl of a suitably penitential colour and finally the hood and " thus , as far as was then possible to him , he contrived a confused likeness to a hermit " . |
| 22 | There he met Mohandas K. Gandhi , and spent much of the next 20 years acting as a conciliatory intermediary between Gandhi 's Congress Party and the British Government , latterly as a member of Gandhi 's entourage . |
| 23 | For example , at the peak of my running career in 1983 , I tore my plantar fasciitis and spent much of the next three years running at less than 100 per cent . |
| 24 | The plaintiffs ' underlying complaint seems to be that C.M.C. borrowed more than it needed and spent more of the borrowed money than it could afford to spend , with the result that there was a loss for which the plaintiffs have been held personally liable as guarantors . |
| 25 | Some lads near me thought this was n't quite right , and spent most of the first half trying to think up a new Forrester song , to the tune of Monty Python 's ‘ I 'm a lumberjack ’ . |
| 26 | LAURA JOINED THE WRNS IN 1944 FROM MERTHYR TYDFIL AND SPENT MOST OF THE NEXT TWO YEARS IN PARIS AND BRUSSELS . |
| 27 | Tony Wright was in the wrong and landed this into the safe hands of Barnett . |
| 28 | Monteith has painted several of the wooden floors with colourful designs , hung the doors with attractive plaques , and repainted many of the original desks and chairs in cheerful pastel shades . |
| 29 | In contrast , suburban areas increased in relative wealth , developed more local jobs , and intensified many of the socio-economic characteristics of the ‘ safe ’ Conservative constituency . |
| 30 | She was taking off her hat and coat as she spoke ; then going over to her aunt , she bent down and kissed her on the cheek , and followed this with the same salutation for her uncle ; and in response he patted her on the shoulder . |