Example sentences of "[verb] and [vb past] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Blue light , and silver and bronze , streamed and bounced and danced through tall windows . |
| 2 | His canonry was not of Oxford but of Kobe , of the Anglican Church in Japan , but it was the Oxford Diocesan Clergy Cricket side which he captained and ran for 25 years . |
| 3 | Although occasionally Nizan 's assessment of a writer fluctuated over a period of time ( Gide , Giono , Mauriac ) , although on occasions Nizan was simultaneously attracted and repelled by individual writers ( Mauriac , Drieu la Rochelle , Celine ) , the bottom line was always a clear differentiation between a progressive and a reactionary attitude to culture . |
| 4 | Her nails were torn and rimmed with black , as filthy as the rest of her . |
| 5 | ‘ What 's this fellow doing here ? ’ she shouted , puffing out her hastily improvised dark veil which rose and fell with each indignant gasp . |
| 6 | The lamp , a psychedelic icon , contained a brightly coloured waxy substance which rose and fell in strange blobs . |
| 7 | The Scarabae rose and went like some collective creature , some sort of amoeba with Ruth its glowing heart , into the drawing room . |
| 8 | He knew that the archer would have to load and winch his bow , so he rose and ran with all his force , clearing the trees , almost breathless as he stumbled up the muddy causeway leading to the main abbey gate . |
| 9 | One of the plates dropped and broke into two neat sections . |
| 10 | Even though , forged before the introduction of recoil mechanism , they bounced back and had to be relaid after each shot just like cannon of the Napoleonic era , the elderly French 155s cracked and thundered with remarkable accuracy . |
| 11 | They have a curved section at the end of the lower blade which enables individual stitches to be lifted and snipped with absolute precision . |
| 12 | A relieving officer was attacked and robbed on successive days ; the Ampthill House of Industry was stoned and the High Constable knocked down . |
| 13 | Police are appealing for witnesses after Thomas McKeowen , 48 , of Mattison Avenue , Whinney Banks , Middlesbrough , was brutally attacked and robbed by two youths as he opened his front . |
| 14 | The fact that three of these families had been moderately wealthy in Palestine and had managed to acquire the same social status in their exile — that they behaved and looked like millions of middle-class couples in Europe , or indeed in Israel — only compounded my error . |
| 15 | They bantered and argued with each other , laughed raucously , became angry and fell into sulks , changing moods as quickly and as unpredictably as children . |
| 16 | A strong SNP showing in Stirling was largely responsible for his success , while the Liberal vote there was dramatically squeezed and fell by eight per cent . |
| 17 | After emptying and washing each well , 100 µl of sample or standard ( diluted 1 in 80 in phosphate buffered saline , pH 7.2 , and containing 0.1% Tween and 0.5% bovine serum albumin to prevent non-specific protein binding to the plate ) were added and incubated for one hour . |
| 18 | I was within half a mile of Darrowby with the lights of the little town beginning to wink between the bare roadside branches when a car approached , went past , then I heard a squeal of brakes as it stopped and began to double back . |
| 19 | They stopped and looked at each other and James laughed . |
| 20 | We stopped and looked at each other , then shook hands . |
| 21 | Balcha was a Gurage by origin ; as a boy he had been wounded and castrated in one of the many battles which Menelik had fought while subduing the southern tribes . |
| 22 | He whipped off the rag which the wind caught and blew against one of the spiked heads . |
| 23 | The disulphate ester of ursodeoxycholyl-β-aminobenzoic acid ( PABA-UDCA ) was synthesised and compated with PABA-UDCA for its use in detection of intestinal bacteria . |
| 24 | He stopped with his hands full of water ; it dripped and fell in little runnels on the earth , but he did not notice . |
| 25 | After taking the final Examination the following year he trained and worked for six months as an Assistant Solicitor with a general practice in Hull . |
| 26 | There was a long promontory thrusting out to sea , with a deep inlet to either side where the tide sucked and swirled among fallen rocks . |
| 27 | On 28 September 1911 Hermann Jochade , secretary of the International Transport Workers ' Federation in a letter to its secretary Arthur Cannon expressed his surprise at the branch 's actions , and noted " I have myself investigated the workings of the National Sailors ' and Firemen 's Union , as I have done with other unions connected with the International Transport Workers ' Federation in Great Britain , and have pleasure in stating and testifying that the Seamen 's Union is one of the best organised and conducted of all unions I have made enquiries into . |
| 28 | The rampart shook under our weight and the ice all over the bog cracked and broke on both sides . |
| 29 | Originally a single large volume , the Book of Kells was repaired and re-bound in 1953 in four volumes . |
| 30 | What ought to remain is a technique for learning , and a grasp of intellectual principles that may be applied and reapplied in different circumstances . |