Example sentences of "and [vb past] [adv prt] in [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Trust is fortunate that its regional structure was conceived and laid down in the 1971 Act of Parliament . |
| 2 | He had the roads to Ruthyn and Denbigh under his eye from this eyrie , and Mold was not too far for a raid if the weather and the omens were good ; but since his active autumn of last year he had contented himself with holding and consolidating , and swooped down in the occasional raid along the border only to keep his hand in for greater things if the season should indicate the necessity . |
| 3 | PARIS — The French Army , fatigued by khaki , is to get a new ‘ modular ’ uniform designed by Pierre Balmain and made up in a grey-blue colour known as Terre de France . |
| 4 | Once the interlining has been locked in , the two layers of fabric can be treated as one and made up in the same way . |
| 5 | The thorny question of divorce was discussed and argued out in the frankest tones . |
| 6 | Many 's the night I 've walked back late from town and stopped off in the New Earswick hedgerows to supply them some used beer … |
| 7 | She hailed it , gave the Chinese driver her address in a monotone , and sank back in the air-conditioned interior , staring at the white skyscrapers below . |
| 8 | I sat on my bed feeling like the man who got drunk and woke up in the French foreign legion . |
| 9 | We worked our way around the central tier , hands in pockets , and came out in an ornamental garden open to the stars . |
| 10 | We returned from our walk aglow with wind-reddened cheeks , divested ourselves of boots and outer layers of wrapping and flopped down in the deep chairs of the sunset-lit lounge chatting , until David left at around 10 p.m . |
| 11 | But it sprawled and flailed round in the small room and I suddenly realized it was going to attack me . |
| 12 | While the audience in the cinema now accepts a slackness of narrative logic ( though not of narrative drive ) that would have been rare and frowned on in the 1940s , it still expects — even in a send-up — more than token adherence to the rules of the genre or of the individual film type itself : horror , sci-fi , the Spielberg ‘ Indiana Jones ’ series , the Lucas Star Wars series , the Broccoli ‘ James Bond ’ series etc . |
| 13 | Inside-right John Jackson , 23 , came from Clyde for £1,000 , one of Leeds ' largest outlays , and Fred Blackman , described by the Yorkshire Post as ‘ possibly the most stylish and polished back in the Second Division ’ , was bought from Huddersfield Town . |
| 14 | One of the locomotives ( No 73123 ) was named Gatwick Express and turned out in a new livery to match the refurbished Mark 2 stock . |
| 15 | But out he went and plopped down in the rough surrounding the green until , finally , a marshal suggested that he might be trespassing . |
| 16 | They strung a net between two palm trees and bobbed about in an energetic game of four-a-side volleyball . |
| 17 | After a few moments , Sir Henry appeared out of the fog and walked on in the clear moonlight . |
| 18 | Faded now to dirty cream , and thrust down in a crumpled ball to the base of the chest — but still instantly known . |
| 19 | The tramp tossed the empty cup away and shuffled off in the other direction . |
| 20 | Markby ‘ did the honours ’ and settled down in a vast , chintz-covered , feather-cushioned armchair . |
| 21 | Immediately the engine noise grew even louder , drowning out the sound of Delaney 's own voice as he shouted an acknowledgement to the sergeant and settled down in the nearest side seat , strapping himself in . |
| 22 | The weary little hedgehog stumbled into the leafy nest and curled up in a prickly ball . |
| 23 | Gazzer crawled up the bank and lay down in the tall grass , pole-axed by fatigue . |
| 24 | Harvest onions and lay out in a dry sunny spot to fully ripen . |
| 25 | He stopped and went on in a low voice , ‘ I came back early from school and when I came in I saw she 'd been crying . ’ |
| 26 | The music stopped and went on in a brisker six-eight rhythm . |
| 27 | She received the watch and chain from the pawnbroker 's daughter , together with the new pawn ticket and fivepence , and went off in a pleasured state over the transaction , although a little worried that Queen Mary might find out that her naughty niece wanted to show her legs riding bareback on a circus horse . |
| 28 | Sickened by the sterile goals of the middle-class life into which they were born , they gave up everything and took off in a mobile home , fighting to be entitled to educate their two sons themselves . |
| 29 | This system , known as devşirme , began in the fifteenth century and died out in the late seventeenth century . |
| 30 | Several other nuees swept harmlessly down the valley of the Riviere Blanche during the next couple of months , but on 30 August death came again to Martinique , where a powerful nuee blasted out from Mt Pelee and rolled down in a new direction , engulfing the small village of Morne Rouge . |