Example sentences of "[vb past] [coord] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And er when it come to a vote to try and get anything passed or changed the wee branches were solid voting for the national agreement . |
| 2 | And all the rime you knew that you would never take the risk of getting shot which this involved or have the necessary patience to carry it out . |
| 3 | The Samaritan stopped , helped and rescued the unfortunate traveller . |
| 4 | and I both shouted and told the younger pupils to move back and get into a single line . |
| 5 | Right : Philip designed and made the circular dining table using smoky blue glass |
| 6 | In 1826 he was appointed resident engineer to the London docks where , over the next nine years , he designed and executed the Eastern dock , with the associated warehousing , entrance locks , bridges , and other works . |
| 7 | Watt was not alone as an engineer and canal-builder , and his work laid the foundations of the industrial north of England , together with Thomas Telford of Dumfriesshire , greatest of the early civil engineers , William Symington , who designed and built the first steamship in the world as well as giving poet Robert Burns a rough ride during its promotional voyage on Dalswinton Loch , Henry Bell and his Comet , Nasmyth , there is nae doot that the Scots have a very special genius . |
| 8 | Donald Healey , who designed and built the first Healeys in the 1940s , also worked on the new design details . |
| 9 | The son of King George III , as Prince Regent , was renowned as a connoisseur of elegant living and of art treasures , also architecture and was the patron of the architect , John Nash , who designed and built the famous Regent Street crescent in London 's West End , and other developments around Regents Park , also the equally famous Brighton Pavilion . |
| 10 | As her subjects prepared for action , she encountered and noted the physical hardships that prevailed , notably the intense cold . |
| 11 | As her subjects prepared for action , she encountered and noted the physical hardships that prevailed , notably the intense cold . |
| 12 | She felt constrained to sit and light-headed when she rose and crossed the long boards to fold back the shutters and open the windows wide . |
| 13 | Corbett rose and gulped the cool night air . |
| 14 | It was never still and no two waves rose and broke the same way . |
| 15 | It suggested that they shared some sort of secret , but of course they did n't , and when he rose and drained the last mouthful of his second cup of coffee before placing the delicate china cup back in its saucer she could only follow his lead , feeling certain that the relaxed mood was broken . |
| 16 | En route we fried and ate the well tenderised cod — this was filmed with plenty of zizzle track — and I drank to the loss of another illusion in the Scotch that will never be seen in Saudi Arabia . |
| 17 | It is a happy custom of this House that , on this occasion , the Leader of the Opposition congratulates those hon. Members who moved and seconded the Loyal Address . |
| 18 | They have noted that many of the men who built and ran the Fifth Republic cut their teeth in the RPF . |
| 19 | Glen Coe Still on conservation issues , it came as a pleasant surprise to many when the news leaked that the Countryside Commission for Scotland , who built and own the controversial visitors centre on National Trust for Scotland ground in Glen Coe , had recommended that the centre be moved . |
| 20 | They stopped and examined the half-inch gap between Armstrong and the pink Zephyr . |
| 21 | As they approached and noticed the unlit chillim , one of them passed us her tinder , commenting with a smile that they 'd got here just in time for all of us : they needed a smoke , and we needed a light . |
| 22 | Harsh treatment by the Romans over the next two years transformed the refugees into a people fighting for survival , and in 378 they defeated and killed the Roman Emperor , Valens , at the battle of Adrianople . |
| 23 | He staggered and fell the last few feet and finally collapsed on the mud and grass of the bank . |
| 24 | They staggered and slithered the hundred yards or miles to the fence , sweating into clothes already soaked , swearing breathlessly . |
| 25 | On 26 August he abdicated and recognised the Democratic Republic of Vietnam . |
| 26 | I expected him to continue , but he knelt and pushed the rusty metal through the brightly coloured rope that bound the fortune-teller 's waist . |
| 27 | Thus two developments could threaten this society of thrifty peasants , most of whom could read and write : the division of holdings — a process that custom prevented in the Basque Provinces — and an assault on the commons that created and sustained the municipal community and the egalitarian society . |
| 28 | Sounds as if the guy is suffering from Hemingway Syndrome : ‘ computers may see their silicon lives flash before their eyes , so to speak , just before they die , ’ Prodigy Services Co suggests , reporting that physicist Stephen Thaler of McDonnell Douglas Corp has been playing with neural networks as a way to speed diamond crystal growth but while by day , he created and trained the neural nets , by night , he began annihilating them to see what would happen , randomly severing links , and when between 10% and 60% of the links were destroyed , the network regurgitated nonsense , but as it approached death , 90% of the connections severed , it generated distinct values that had been trained into it , and at times even output ‘ whimsical ’ states , where it would generate values that were neither trained nor ones that would appear in a healthy net , says Thaler , who thinks it may say something about near-death experiences for humans — ‘ It may not just be fancy biochemistry , ’ he suggests . |
| 29 | And over all hummed and shimmered the warring coloured adverts for Spiderglass and Madreidetic and Usines du Rhône with a dozen others belting out music and olfacts that dizzied her to nausea . |
| 30 | I join the hon. Member for Copeland ( Dr. Cunningham ) in paying tribute to my right hon. Friend the Member for Worcester ( Mr. Walker ) and my hon. Friend the Member for Thanet , South ( Mr. Aitken ) , who proposed and seconded the Loyal Address . |