Example sentences of "[adj] and [vb past] they [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have no idea how I was , although Jack and my relieved director assured me that the audience had just been coolly first-nightish and we , the cast , had stayed calm and thawed them into real pleasure and ultimate Rejoycing . |
| 2 | His body shuddered , and then his tolerance disintegrated and he wrenched his arms free and wrapped them round her , holding her hard against him . |
| 3 | But when researchers cut sections of these rings , ground them down into slices so thin that they were translucent and examined them through the microscope , they found , preserved in the chert , the shapes of simple organisms , each no more than one or two hundredths of a millimetre across . |
| 4 | This virulent loathing of women 's bodies continued during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in the West : any expression of sexual desire by women was considered filthy , corrupt , sinful and marked them as whores , the daughters of Eve . |
| 5 | The Bradford Ukrainian Society was particularly supportive and provided them with dictionaries , contacts and artwork . |
| 6 | She had a huge square jaw and a look of iron self-satisfaction that kept the boredom and loathing intact and extended them to as many other people as possible . |
| 7 | He became suspicious and denounced them at a branch meeting . |
| 8 | Molly congratulated the 16 successful candidates at this year 's examination , presented certificates to those who were present and welcomed them to their first training day as qualified teachers . |
| 9 | American game giants , Nintendo cried foul and took them to court in an attempt to ban Game Genie sales in America . |
| 10 | Avoiding Richard , who got to his feet as soon as he saw something to be carried , she kicked open the top of the Arctic and flung them in golden handfuls onto the glowing bed of fuel . |
| 11 | ‘ I just got drunk and threw them over the wall . ’ |
| 12 | Sara looked sulky and left them to it , and they heard her calling to the old lady with rheumatoid arthritis . |
| 13 | Griffith then took ordinary cold rods of the same glass about a millimetre thick and broke them in tension , finding that they had a tensile strength of about 25,000 p.s.i . |
| 14 | He argues that the traditional forms of representative government , which effectively excluded the popular masses or isolated and controlled them through local notables , is ‘ no longer an adequate instrument ’ . |
| 15 | The females had dropped their young and reared them to the point where they could survive to be next year 's prey . |
| 16 | When the flowers had been made , she dyed them yellow , pink , orange and scarlet and mounted them among evergreen twigs of laurel . |