Example sentences of "and it [vb past] [adj] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its lights flickered at random and it made odd beeping noises . |
| 2 | But for all his troubles Stephen , an amiable and gallant king , had managed to hold on to England and it took three strange twists of fortune to transform the situation . |
| 3 | All the old signs appeared : I wanted to be sick , my knees kept quivering , and it took three deep-bowled cups of claret before I could even remember what day of the week it was . |
| 4 | And we went to the one next to it and it had all naked women in it . |
| 5 | Mephenesin was not a good drug : its effects were too short lived , and it had other unwanted effects . |
| 6 | The document argued that a school would be more effective in achieving its aims if they were written down and it suggested six possible aims expressed at a high level of generality , for example : to develop lively enquiring minds … ; to acquire the knowledge and skills relevant to adult life and employment in a fast-changing world . |
| 7 | Compagnie des Machines Bull SA last week announced that it has expanded the number of software and communications products offered under its Distributed Computing Model to the DPX/20 Unix and DPS GCOS systems , and it introduced two new models of the DPX/20 , based on IBM 's Power RISC architecture . |
| 8 | Mossop could not remember the address and it required several false starts and wrong turnings before they located the right house , one grey-dashed end-of-terrace dwelling among the featureless many that spread like silt round the fenced-off acres of pipelines and flares . |