Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] an [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the time you 've booby-trapped your car , or hired an armed guard for it , walked miles , found the crag and avoided the most polished routes you might not consider it worth the hassle . |
| 2 | It is uncertain whether he composed this song himself or adapted an existing poem to the mocking , sentimental tone that was his and was already regarded as typical of Dublin . |
| 3 | Managed or coached an amateur team . |
| 4 | Were the sites ancient inter-tribal meeting places , later sanctified by a religious presence , or did an existing sanctuary attract trades because of the volume of people attending ? |
| 5 | The flies were troubling them and they blew through distended nostrils , or shook their heads , or stamped an impatient hoof . |
| 6 | This action is available if , at the time of the conversion , the plaintiff was in possession of the goods ( The Jag-Shakti [ 1986 ] 1 AC 337 ) or had an immediate right of possession of them . |
| 7 | However , many academic courses have or had an implicit point of reference in school-teaching , and many are organized in institutes or professional or subject associations . |
| 8 | Luke laughed , reaching out to tilt her chin and look into her eyes with an expression on his face that made an immediate shudder run down her spine . |
| 9 | In a move that revealed an unusual lack of ego and a large amount of common sense , he suggested that his friend , another drummer , Julian Sowa , would do a better job . |
| 10 | She would never be a great beauty , he knew , but she had a natural charm and personality that lent an extra depth to her character , and he imagined that this would have been how his mother would have looked at a similar age . |
| 11 | Of course , that created an extra burden . |
| 12 | I want to recount an experience that has stayed with me ever since it happened , something that transformed an uneventful journey home from work . |
| 13 | Even six months ago , that seemed an impossible dream , but now , who knows ? |
| 14 | But matters are mended with the arrival of the crates — antiques that epitomised an antique land , brief monuments to the old Angola . |
| 15 | However , Mr Major said he will retain the system of political honours — and that provoked an angry reaction from Labour . |
| 16 | Faye had said that of course she was welcome to browse through the large collection of beautiful books on painting and sculpture that filled an entire wall of bookshelves in the studio , and she had begun to learn something about the Renaissance , Impressionism , and modern Australian painting . |
| 17 | In the 82nd minute , Hateley guaranteed Rangers ' win with a goal that heralded an unfortunate end to the night for Dykstra . |
| 18 | Our findings agree with a previous study that showed an increased absorption in active ulcerative colitis after the colonic administration of 5 1 Cr-EDTA . |
| 19 | Central government has neither conducted a national survey of illegal drug use nor developed an adequate system of monitoring known cases other than those identified by medical practitioners-who are anyway partial and negligent in their notifying practices . |
| 20 | THE house was built on a rectangle that surrounded an inner courtyard and Maggie 's steps dragged a little as they walked into this . |
| 21 | Both , when smiling , underwent a total transformation that illuminated an unsuspected streak of gaiety in their characters as successfully as it illuminated their eyes . |
| 22 | Director of architecture , planning and estates Philip Eyton-Jones said that required an annual maintenance budget of more than £11mfar more than Clwyd has been allocating . |
| 23 | As Guthrie foresaw and wrote to me after attending an early performance : I feel confident that Gloriana will survive and be considered a great work … that disastrous miscalculation of opening it to an audience and on an occasion that required an all-star Iolanthe will set it back twenty years . |
| 24 | He was slight and short-sighted , with a gentle smile that belied an amazing toughness and an ability to withstand cold that was to beggar our belief . |
| 25 | The second of our reviews of the 1991 Woodworker Show covers the turning competitions that included an ornamental turning section this time |
| 26 | It meant the US Tour and that meant an attractive career for me as well as him , I hoped . |
| 27 | He smiled , his narrow lips curling in a way that sent an immediate shiver of unease along her veins . |
| 28 | They seem neither to have conceptualized their experience of time nor formed an abstract idea of history . |
| 29 | Some were wrapped in special plastic sheets that formed an airtight cover around their bodies ( or certain parts of the body , most often the belly and behind ) , so that the skin perspired all the more readily and the women , or so they believed , would lose weight more quickly . |
| 30 | The others were waiting expectantly , five subhuman looking creatures encased in pitch black rubber wet suits with continuous flipper-like boots , and hoods that formed an evil-looking cowl around faces streaked with black camouflage paint . |