Example sentences of "[noun sg] and [vb pp] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The dinner conversation had become so hectic , so involving , that when his guests had left he had groped his way into his bedroom and fallen asleep , drained . |
| 2 | She sulked in her white crocheted cardigan and modelled tiny men from the dough of her bread . |
| 3 | Rowse was at that time in London , or I might ( I said ) have asked him to tea and taken some soundings . |
| 4 | South Africa got to the extended West Indies tail , starting with wicket-keeper David Williams at number seven , just after tea and encountered little resistance after that . |
| 5 | Women were granted the vote and given equal citizenship for the first time in the 1950 Constitution . |
| 6 | No one was injured in the blast which wrecked one car and damaged several others at Wood Park station . |
| 7 | When war broke out in 1914 , Harrison was sent to France to join the British Expeditionary Force and regarded this as a heaven-sent opportunity to move away from the subject of the venereal diseases . |
| 8 | Once on the ferry , Amanda and he had gone to the snack-bar and eaten prepacked sausage rolls and washed them down with beer ; she seemed to be able to drink quantities without degenerating into giggles like one or two earlier companions . |
| 9 | Aldermen were indirectly elected by the councillors for a six-year term and comprised one-quarter of the total council membership . |
| 10 | He gave me a pretty cane basket to put it in and I went upstairs , opened the trunk and loaded all the balls I could get into the basket . |
| 11 | ‘ What were you confessing ? ’ she asked , bold as brass , walking up to him in her everyday short skirt and torn black stockings , as if the terrible incident on the stairs had not happened at all . |
| 12 | Once we were out of sight of the village there were no trees except , here and there , thorns dragged sideways by the wind and shorn close by the weather . |
| 13 | But we made rather a mistake on the way back , and we were picked up by an Army lorry and taken to West Friar House on the south side and given hot tea and something to eat . |
| 14 | For exposures from an HBsAg positive source to previously vaccinated employees , the exposed employee should be tested for antibody to hepatitis B surface antigen and given one dose of vaccine and one dose of HBIG if the antibody level in the employee 's blood sample is inadequate ( i.e. <10 SRU by RIA , negative by EIA ) . |
| 15 | In what was construed by observers as a blow to Iraq , the communiqué welcomed the restoration of Kuwait 's sovereignty and omitted any mention of the Western air exclusion zone over southern Iraq . |
| 16 | Yes , there have been some very vigorous objections made by local residents , and that is particularly why the application that preceded this one was refused planning permission because er the objections they made were considered to be well founded by the Planning Committee and supported many of their views . |
| 17 | The moth was still fluttering between the pane and pinned scarlet cotton . |
| 18 | He loosened his rifle in its holster and called Nosey to heel . |
| 19 | Edward promised further help , and a force of almost 5,000 men under the Earl of Salisbury was mustered in March 1373 ; but du Guesclin invaded the duchy and subjected much of it to a French military occupation . |
| 20 | Three new coins have been minted , gold five dollar , silver dollar and clad half dollar . |
| 21 | Other composers , such as Debussy and Janáĉek , so as to heighten the drama , have virtually abandoned aria and written continuous dramatic arioso , which hovers between narration and lyrical expansion as the situation demands . |
| 22 | He was wearing a balaclava helmet , tee shirt and grey pullover with a grey overcoat and worn white training shoes . |
| 23 | While Henry II talked of peace and allowed first Geoffrey and then Henry to pull the wool over his eyes , Richard 's duchy was slipping away from him . |
| 24 | The coup was crushed when Turkish troops invaded from the mainland and occupied northern Cyprus to protect the 150,000 Muslim Turkish Cypriots . |
| 25 | In the time it took you to write this letter you could have stripped the guitar down , sprayed the switch with contact cleaner and fitted new strings — you do change your strings occasionally , I assume ? |
| 26 | She conceived and gave birth to her only child and transferred this intensity of attachment to her daughter , Chloe . |
| 27 | In her letter of 21 August , Ms Greengross referred to the 1989 Family Expenditure Survey which found that 25% of retired people living alone mainly dependent on the state pension do not have a telephone and linked this ‘ poor level of penetration among people who need a telephone most … to the policy of increasing rental and connection charges to the maximum permitted by the retail price index ( RPI ) + 2% price cap , while targeting businesses and heavy residential users for international call rate reductions and volume discounts ’ . |
| 28 | An austere Maronite Christian who commanded the loyalty of both Christian and Muslim brigades in the US-trained and equipped Lebanese Army , Aoun had many friends in the Pentagon but none in the State Department , which saw his ambition to let the Lebanese choose their own government without foreign interference as a threat to America 's interests . |
| 29 | Thieves have raided a widow 's home and stolen ten thousand pounds of her late husband 's jewellery . |
| 30 | Cornered in a garden shed , the frightened cat was caught by the vet and given protective injections . |