Example sentences of "[noun pl] and [vb past] [adv prt] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Rae rifled through the jumble of cassettes and hauled out seven unmarked possibilities . |
| 32 | In 1967–68 , the Council 's Training Panel looked at the problems and set up two sub-committees to be concerned with the practical training element of sandwich courses in arts and social studies , and in science and technology . |
| 33 | The World Bank has postponed payment of a loan to Thailand to complete a large dam across the Mool River , 570 kilometres northeast of Bangkok , until the government has analyzed independent environmental-impact studies and carried out new assessments of its own . |
| 34 | In the course of this work , the investigator identified the location of two faults and thought out suitable modifications to the code , although there was no directive to apply the modifications immediately . |
| 35 | Got dressed ( glanced out of the window — hot again ) , made up ( Gothic again ) , sat on the edge of the bed and took out my envelope of dreams and scribbled down last night 's dream . |
| 36 | I have destroyed many pages and crossed out hundreds , no thousands , of words in order to arrive at an imaginative sympathy ( though not , of course , an explicit approval ) with Miller as he walks down this long , gently curving terrace of dilapidated Edwardian houses . |
| 37 | When Liza seemed surprised , even put out , at this , she hastily altered her arrangements and made up two single beds in the larger room overlooking the sea . |
| 38 | Desire kindled in Riven like a coal , and he remembered times when he had held that body 's twin in his arms and searched out all its secrets . |
| 39 | His infant son 's personal companion , Sir David Lindsay , was made Lyon King of Arms and carried out major diplomatic missions , but is best remembered today for his wry attacks on the corrupt and greedy nobles in Ane Satyre of the Thrie Estates . |
| 40 | Inside the pump-house there was little more to do , but they smashed the transformer oil pipes with sledge-hammers and threw down some tar baby incendiaries . |
| 41 | They dusted and polished the furniture , washed the floor , cleaned the windows and hung up new curtains and cleared out all the cupboards . |
| 42 | It was in the War Academy that Valenzuela learned how to detain , interrogate , and exploit the fears of prisoners — while psychologists looked for weakness in the young draftees and weeded out those who seemed sentimental . |
| 43 | Mind you , Ralph did go the whole hog with it : he got Gaby Sturmer as PR doing photographs and write-ups and turned out some lovely leaflets . |
| 44 | Afterwards she parted the curtains and came out naked to lift the unsleeping , finely aware child back into bed , to lie between her and the man lying open-mouthed in post-coital sleep . |
| 45 | They dusted and polished the furniture , washed the floor , cleaned the windows and hung up new curtains and cleared out all the cupboards . |
| 46 | Grandma laboured for years with her frames and turned out all the mats for the house . |
| 47 | England A paceman hit his second half-century in successive matches and snapped up two wickets before bad light and rain ended play early . |
| 48 | Concerned about the risk of an accident during the transport of this fuel to Sellafield , the group organized petitions and marches and sent out inflatable dinghies to harass the arriving ships . |
| 49 | Scarcely daring to breathe , I lined up my telephoto lens , pressed against a tree to steady my hands and shot off several frames . |
| 50 | The Accounting Standards Board is obviously responsible for setting accounting standards and took over all the extant SSAPs from the Accounting Standards Committee . |
| 51 | In 1991/2 Titaghur also wrote off old debtors and wrote back old credit balances . |
| 52 | Needless to say , Liverpool are aiming to better their first round performance in appalling weather when their side was reduced to 10 men and went down 4-2 . |
| 53 | Niggers ate children and ran around naked and plastered their skins with dog-dirt . |
| 54 | Pilger was certain that Sutton 's accent dropped several social degrees and ended up strong south London . |
| 55 | To prepare for the role she followed the Method actors and sought out suburban wives on Long Island . |
| 56 | He then put down the instruments and held up powerful hands . |
| 57 | Saturday was the day when she and Cissie rolled up their sleeves and turned out enough pies and bread to last the whole week , more often than not with the dubious help of Richard . |
| 58 | The thing reportedly could n't find its critical paths and gave off false signals that everything was hunky-dory when it was n't . |
| 59 | I actually talked to my fellow students and built up some relations with people , which , if not quite friendships , at least satisfied the definition of acquaintance . |
| 60 | During the next two days I advised on industrial relations problems in catering , computers and property services and sent back three more folders of work to my line manager . |