Example sentences of "and [vb pp] [prep] a [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The beginnings were slow and limited to a few sectors where differences in labour costs were important . |
| 2 | His soldiers were very fierce and his lettuce garden was surrounded by a deep ditch and guarded by a thousand sentries day and night . |
| 3 | But what must astonish us , I think , more than the details of violence is that the only charges brought as a result of this death were against three men who were charged with assault and punished with a 20 shillings ' fine , with the additional requirement that they should pay the doctor 's bill on the dead man . |
| 4 | Dragging with them seventeen unwieldy brass cannon from Edinburgh castle , they took Norham castle on the south bank of the Tweed , and pressed on a few miles to Flodden in Northumberland . |
| 5 | This same attitude has underlain much of the industrial conflict during this century , and was to Tawney , and others , a ‘ disgrace even it was explicable in terms of the evils sown and ripened in a 150 years of capitalist morality , ( see Norman Dennis and A. H. Halsey , English Ethical Socialism , Clarendon Press , Oxford , 1988 , p. 163 ) . |
| 6 | With primers described by Jiang et al and synthesised on an Applied Biosystems DNA synthesiser a 157 bp fragment of the K-ras gene was amplified containing codon 12 . |
| 7 | Finally the head roared ‘ Time 's past ’ , whereupon it fell to the floor with a tremendous noise and shattered into a thousand pieces . |
| 8 | To return to the offending nettle ( Urtica dioica ) or , it too had its uses : Martin Martin noted that in Skye ‘ the tops of nettles , chopped small , and mixed with a few whites or raw eggs , applied to the forehead and temples by way of a frontel , is used to procure sleep ’ . |
| 9 | Some of these programs belong to the Shareware scheme which means that they can be used and evaluated for a few weeks , and you pay the registration fee only if you continue to use them . |
| 10 | There she stood , in a dove-grey suede dress , looped and hung with a dozen necklaces of amethyst and rock crystal and pearl , her thick black-grey hair piled heavily , pinned with silver , attending a party in the very house where as patient she once in many hour-long sessions had disclosed to Liz on the ground floor the very secrets of her murderous mother 's heart . |
| 11 | The men and women ( eleven in all ) who met here and talked for a few hours and went their unremarkable ways , were the descendants of the impassioned few Roxborough had gathered around him in the dark days following the failure of the Reconciliation . |
| 12 | He looked very serious , and thought for a few seconds . |
| 13 | ‘ May I still have the interview with you which you promised ? ’ she asked straight out — and thought for a few seconds , as he looked sternly at her , that she had blown it , and that he had taken the strongest exception to her reminding him of his promise . |
| 14 | And towards morning , when the snow turned again to rain , the whole hillside under which they were camped had become furrowed and scoured by a hundred brooks scurrying and leaping downwards into the river valley , till the level of the flood crept up towards their outposts , and its tributaries carried down into it everything movable that came in their way , including some of the hobbled horses , and the wreckage of tents , and drowned men . |
| 15 | On the minus side , the economy is small , unbalanced and concentrated in a few sectors , particularly electronics , financial services , textiles , whisky and oil . |
| 16 | She says a woman on an earlier expedition had snow blindness and as soon as she came down to a lower altitude , she was put on a drip and recovered in a few days . |
| 17 | Patrick awoke briefly during the night and lay awake , confused and troubled for a few moments until he realized where he was . |
| 18 | As originally laid there was also a single line curve from Lower Church Street towards Sutton , but it was rarely used and removed after a few years . |
| 19 | Urquhart opened the exercise book and skimmed through a few pages with furious concentration before stuffing it in his coat pocket with a grunt of satisfaction . |
| 20 | Another item that really suffers when seen dry , but once in the tank , wet and covered with a little algae , comes into its own . |
| 21 | Instructions for the folding part of the handle referred to an earlier model with a spindle ; but the wingnut handles were obviously fixed by a bolt , and released by a few turns when the handle needed to be folded for storage . |
| 22 | Red-faced and embarrassed , Mr Aird cleared his throat and launched into a few bars from Jean Sibelius Finlandia . |