Example sentences of "and [adv] [vb past] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Rooney grinned and nervously ran a wet hand under his cap , smoothing his tousled hair .
2 She ogled the portrait of Beau Brummell , and intimately massaged the full-length marble statue of George IV .
3 The incoming government proposed to diversify Codelco 's production and vigorously opposed the new law , from which the article restricting Codelco 's operations was ultimately removed .
4 They championed measures for the relief of Quakers in 1696 and after 1710 , and vigorously opposed the Occasional Conformity Bills of 1702 – 4 and the Schism Bill of 1714 .
5 As lord mayor ( 1732–3 ) he co-ordinated the City 's opposition to Walpole 's excise bill in 1733 , and vigorously defended the raucous jubilation that accompanied its withdrawal from the Commons .
6 Encouraged by the Labour government of 1964–70 and the attempt of the Industrial Reorganisation Corporation to restructure parts of British industry , GEC took over AEI and English Electric and successfully reorganised the ailing electronics industry during the 1960s by rationalisation , elimination of duplication and elimination of excess capacity .
7 The government replied with the introduction of the ‘ Two Bills ’ , against seditious meetings and treasonable practices , and successfully aroused the contending arguments of conservatives and radicals throughout the land .
8 Last year , the Texas delegation in the House sided with American Airlines against repeal and successfully blocked the relevant bill .
9 Rolling in the grass , he doused his fiery overalls and luckily suffered no severe injury .
10 The train stopped , and instantly passenger after passenger mounted the roofs , and thence saluted the Royal company with a united shout of welcome .
11 ‘ What am I supposed to do ? ’ he said in an aggrieved tone but ( fortunately , Nutty thought ) a misguided girl in puce trousers hit him over the head with a handbag and he launched himself instantly at his aggressor , being no respecter of the female sex , and thereby deflected a fair amount of Jazz 's opposition on to himself , the girl 's screaming indignation making her plight quite plain .
12 The past approach — for instance , where they analysed statistics in terms of travel-to-work areas and lumped West Belfast and its massive levels of unemployment in with other areas and thereby diluted the whole thing down to 12 or 13% in the Belfast travel-to-work area which extended from Larne to Downpatrick — was n't helpful .
13 One was a technological convergence which raised productivity levels in European and Japanese industry and thereby diminished the absolute superiority of US industry .
14 As the labour market tightened , faster product wage growth limited the expansion of the backward sector , and thereby ensured an elastic labour supply for the dynamic modern sectors .
15 They had second thoughts and eventually challenged the legal effectiveness of the memorandum .
16 Many others joined the SPD , and eventually had a major influence on changing its policies back into a more radical line than the Bad Godesberg programme .
17 The trail strayed round and eventually reached the small clearing .
18 His second son John West Wilson was a resident agent in Gothenburg and eventually became a naturalized Swede .
19 Her brother , Merfyn , began training with his uncle as a motor engineer and eventually became a technical journalist .
20 Slatter also served on the county committee for 30 years , edited the club handbook , and eventually became an Honorary member of both Buckinghamshire and the Minor Counties Cricket Association .
21 The school later moved to Gower St , was granted a royal patent , and eventually became the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art .
22 He founded an airline and eventually controlled the American company , TWA .
23 Typical summer weather marred and eventually curtailed the outdoor events , but in spite of this the day was a great success , with more than 800 attending .
24 By the time the foal had tottered and swayed and nuzzled at Firelight in all the wrong places and eventually found the right spot to have a slurp of milk , Nails was surprised to see that it was beginning to go light .
25 Mandy Rice-Davies and Christine Keeler 's revelations about the seamy underbelly of England 's public life rocked the government and effectively ended the Tory Party patriarchy : ‘ The upper-class … image of Mr Macmillan himself had acted as a catalyst for all the aggression that was to unleash the New England of Mr Wilson and the Beatles . ’
26 The 1981 Transport Act enabled private investment to be introduced into the subsidiary companies of British Rail and effectively denationalized the British Transport Docks Board .
27 She returned with her new boyfriend on 17 March and effectively snatched the little boy , leaving the three little girls behind with their father .
28 The suit , the subject of a lengthy and embarrassingly explicit story in the San Jose Mercury News last week , charges that Michels repeatedly groped , propositioned and forcibly kissed the three women , all mature adults , at work .
29 America was fascinated by the Russians ' presence in their prettiest city , and duly ignored the real significance of what was going on .
30 But he dismissed such gloomy thoughts as he followed Angelina in full-skirted blue walking dress up the stairs to the top of the keep , and duly admired the magnificent view .
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