Example sentences of "[noun pl] and [vb past] [adv prt] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Disconcerted , the young reporter re-crossed her shapely miniskirted legs and sat up straighter . |
| 2 | Tumilty , who was anxiously awaiting news of today 's Harp Senior League decider between Bann and Holywood , scored one of the goals and set up two others as George Blackwood 's squad moved to the top of the table overnight . |
| 3 | Most African countries have , however , suffered economic crises and carried out economic structural adjustment in the 1980s . |
| 4 | Raspberry vinegar makes a wonderful salad dressing but is also used extensively in nouvelle cuisine for sauces and trickled over soft fruits ( sometimes with a little black pepper ) . |
| 5 | With the help of donations and grants we have restored some of the lost opening hours , continued to purchase books and carried out urgent conservation work ; and we celebrated twenty years of exhibitions at the Heinz Gallery . |
| 6 | It was followed by the educational ‘ comic ’ , Orbit ( published by the Commission for Technical Education and Vocational Training ) , which was sold through schools and came out three times a term . |
| 7 | ‘ Thus we wind up this wonderful year , ’ wrote Horace Walpole on 30 November as the news of Quiberon arrived , the phrase heard on all lips and picked up that Christmas by David Garrick in the aptly named pantomime , Harlequin 's Invasion : |
| 8 | It would review risky areas and lay down appropriate safeguards , ensure compliance with accounting requirements , act as the filing authority and provide advice for trustees , employers and scheme members . |
| 9 | We flew round corners and bounced over cobbled junctions , ignoring traffic lights and scattering innocent pedestrians , speeding through puddles and swerving to avoid the steaming manhole covers . |
| 10 | They write the programmes , devise the repertoires and set up standard operating procedures without which the financial , welfare , military and economic management tasks of government would not be administratively feasible . |
| 11 | Later , while Sybil dispensed orange juice in plastic beakers and handed out pink wafers biscuits , David joined Rachel on a moss-covered bank where she had sat down to rest . |
| 12 | But when I mentioned that there was a legendary tunnel that ran from the battlements of Beaufort down through the sheer rock to the bottom of the Litani gorge , they leapt to their feet and bounded up one of the staircases . |
| 13 | As for white-water rafting , where an inflated craft shot between boulders and bounced over foaming rapids , the mere thought was enough to cause an inward quiver of fear . |
| 14 | Her mum 's 30-year-old wedding dress , altered to fit Joanne , was ruined at the cleaners and came back two inches shorter than when it went . |
| 15 | They had emphasised agitation on the concrete issues of electoral reform and discrimination in housing and employment , but NICRA originally operated as a body which made representations on the broad issues of civil liberties and took up individual cases of infringement of rights . |
| 16 | He saw a man crying for help with his face burned off , had to crawl over the dead and injured to reach the flames and brought out six bodies , including a child . |
| 17 | Adam leant over and wrapped his arm round the back of her head , protected her from the flames and blocked out any further damage to her . |
| 18 | Instead they should restrict access to plants , control contracts and set up local industries to capitalise on biodiversity . |
| 19 | THIS TIME last year a crew of 50 descended on Caroline and Roger Shapland 's 17th-century Oxfordshire farmhouse , cut down the holly bush at the end of their drive , ripped up their carpets , removed their light switches and took over all but one of their bedrooms . |
| 20 | Archbishop Fisher and Archbishop Garbett of York started to look around for scholarly clergymen and hovered over various names , ail of whom taught then or had taught in universities . |
| 21 | Then , Labour was accused of holding the tax timebomb , with secret plans to raise taxes and put up national insurance contributions . |
| 22 | ‘ We talked a lot of times and got along great . |
| 23 | Lister was then at the height of his struggle against infection in surgical operations and took up this observation in experiments with bacterial cultures . |
| 24 | The object-oriented database developer , Object Design Inc is aiming to become a $100m company by 1995 , and to do so , has expanded its direct sales operations and set up European headquarters in the UK . |
| 25 | Farnham , on the other hand , gave us four weeks and sold out two months before opening night , for the whole run . |
| 26 | In 1963 Takayanagi proposed models for polymers containing separate phases and carried out experimental studies on composites made up from a hard polymer and a soft rubber . |
| 27 | Anyway , I came to this old cemetery and against one wall was this kind of beehive grave affair and someone had broken into one of the graves and pulled out this baby 's coffin and smashed it open . |
| 28 | We could have held out for another three years and got over all the changes and benefited financially , but I do n't believe finance is the be-all and end-all of everything . |
| 29 | They received close to 250 applicants and picked up five . |
| 30 | If they surrender they expect to be stripped of uniforms and weapons and sent back naked . |