Example sentences of "[noun] and [adv] [vb past] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anyone else would be going on about softly wooded fissures and sweetly mounded hills . |
| 2 | Aunt Margaret came to the girls ' bedroom and unhandily undressed Victoria , although she could perfectly well undress herself . |
| 3 | She had always pitied Kathleen and never liked Cormac , who had not tried to protect his sister , but now as she lay awake at night she saw him for what he was : a pitiable victim of his mother 's obsession . |
| 4 | Born in a small council house in Viewpark in 1944 , he rose through the ranks of local schools football and almost joined Manchester United as a teenager before Celtic stepped in . |
| 5 | To quantify more accurately the inhibition of c-Myc-induced apoptosis by Bcl-2 , we caused Rat-1/c-Myc-ER and Rat-1/c-Myc-ER/Bcl-2 cells to arrest in phase G0 by serum depletion and then activated c-Myc by addition of β -oestradiol . |
| 6 | When the British began to capture his slave cargoes he suffered heavy financial loss and regularly threatened Suakin until he was killed in 1900 . |
| 7 | Shortly before seven in the evening Joe opened his eyes and immediately recognised Michael . |
| 8 | She shut her eyes and boldly said hen and hen . |
| 9 | He did n't drink much himself as a rule and neither did Lane , but tonight was the night for it . |
| 10 | On the distribution side , it has been building greenfield warehouses on the Continent and recently paid £10m to buy a facility in Warrington out of receivership . |
| 11 | They came back though with a clever free-kick from John Moncur just after the break and then had chances to win it … |
| 12 | They came back though with a clever free-kick from John Moncur just after the break and then had chances to win it … |
| 13 | He was short but built like a bull , with a thick neck and heavily muscled shoulders . |
| 14 | Even from the kerb in the gloom the guard 's shrugs and humorously uplifted eyes are visible as he declines to telephone the duty officer , ring a British Committee office empty at this time of night , break the sacred sleep of anyone else on the telephone list . |
| 15 | Before people could generally read , learning was by word of mouth and much took place in the countryside along the paths , particular truths being imparted at certain places , which thereby took on special significance . |
| 16 | Bob Hoover 's well-known P-51D Mustang Old Yeller had a reserve of $1m and only reached $500,000 in the bidding . |
| 17 | Tall and elegant , her silver-grey hair styled into a smooth bob , she stood in the doorway and coolly surveyed Rachel with the same steady , grey-eyed gaze of her son . |
| 18 | In the presidential elections held on Feb. 2 , 1986 [ see p. 34350 ] , Oscar Arias Sánchez of the social democratic National Liberation Party ( Partido de Liberación Nacional — PLN ) won 52.3 per cent of the vote and duly took office on May 8 . |
| 19 | The party arrived at Gatwick in a grey transit van instead of chauffeur-driven cars and quietly skipped customs regulations . |
| 20 | Ford placed enormous faith in its tiny Zig and Zag concept cars and so did GM with its Impact electric two-seater . |
| 21 | Anarchy on a smaller scale is provided by photographer Kurt Buchwald who set up a ‘ Photography Forbidden ’ sign in front of innocuous subjects and then took photographs to see what happened . |
| 22 | Nicknamed Cold Turkey , it was used to ferry supplies and personnel from the mainland to the New Guinea battlefields and also took part in the Nadzab landing which , at the time , was the world 's largest airborne troop assault . |
| 23 | But thoughts of the administrative foul-up were far away last month when Mr Wright handed over Darlington 's peace offering and also gave sets of Kwik Cricket to schoolchildren at two Bridgetown primary schools . |
| 24 | far back in my life so I can recall my first piece of actual writing , I have a scrapbook at home and I look at it regularly , it had my first pieces of work in it , I usually drew pictures and then wrote things , my first piece was on A four and I have drawn a table , my mum and myself , I was holding a , I wrote one sentence and it was surprisingly literate this is what I wrote , it is my party and I wait for my friends to come , I did many pieces of work |
| 25 | A Chinese official questioned by a reporter shrugged his shoulders and merely said China did not approve of the meetings . |
| 26 | A month later , the NATO Council met in Lisbon and surprisingly ignored US atomic capabilities . |
| 27 | He was removed from that medrese and then became muderris there a second time " with the condition that it should be included among the and that his should become in his [ proper ] time in accordance with the custom in similar medreses ' . |
| 28 | His big hand enclosed hers , ruthlessly prised her fingers from the key and insolently took possession of it . |
| 29 | Mushtaq , bowling with the breeze behind him , dispatched Hick with a perfect legbreak and then hit Smith 's stumps as he tried to glance , a round-the-legs dismissal almost to rank in shuddering significance for England with Peter May 's notorious ‘ b Benaud 0 ’ at Manchester in 1961 . |
| 30 | Born in Elgin , and educated at Aberdeen University and Manchester Business School , he began his career with Alcan Aluminium and later joined McKinsey & Co . |