Example sentences of "[vb past] and [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Garland crashed and suffered slight burns . |
| 2 | Over 90 per cent stated that they frequently supervised and assisted small groups of children engaged in educational activities set by the teacher , and encouraged children by offering appropriate attention and by showing interest in their activities . |
| 3 | In the mid-1960s wage bargaining in the public sector became more politicized and produced frequent confrontations with the central government , regardless of whether it had an incomes policy or not . |
| 4 | However we stopped and got good directions . |
| 5 | There were rainbow clumps of raw colour which sizzled and suddenly coiled into snakelike forms as she approached and lifted serpentine heads to hiss at her ; there were pouring cascades of things that had appeared to be silk or velvet , but which were molten gold when she got nearer and made her remember Fael-Inis and the cascading River and the salamanders . |
| 6 | He was not a lady 's man in the accepted sense , rather he championed and encouraged single women to travel at a time when it was still considered bad form for a respectable young lady to take a shopping trip to London unchaperoned , let alone visit the Continent . |
| 7 | As he did all his life , he also found and encouraged new designers and composers . |
| 8 | There was no moon showing and the gas lamp opposite the dining rooms flickered and cast frightening shadows down the cobbled lane . |
| 9 | Choosing quite deliberately to envisage literature as a " cog and a screw " in an ideological crusade against the combined forces of capitalism , colonialism and fascism , Radek reviewed and assessed foreign literatures in terms of their responses to the major historical events of the early twentieth century . |
| 10 | The meadow began to mushroom with tents and huts and the street theatre erupted into an explosion of living history , the performers flinging themselves to the ground and then leaping into the air as and when the idea occurred and making funny faces all the while . |
| 11 | Winston Thomas , 47 , who became known as the Bus Stop Rapist , had raped two women and assaulted and robbed three others in a two-month reign of terror in Wood Green , north London . |
| 12 | Mada Joyce had , it seemed , no husband but seven children from three different fathers , each apparently blacker than the one before and the latest , who occasionally visited and made half-hearted repairs to the shack , Nana dismissed as ‘ nothing but pure Negro . ’ |
| 13 | There is a fascinating groundswell of feeling on the avant-garde led by Martin Margiela with his elaborately deconstructed and reconstructed flea-market treasures for a fashion that is fundamentally different from the designerisms of the Eighties . |
| 14 | Parthia was by now a remote state , though formidable : the Magi had some of the prestige of the mysterious region from which they came and offered spiritual goods of their own . |
| 15 | And they 're all the new slabs in the pavement , the men came and putting new slabs in . |
| 16 | Just as before she had needed to stay inside the cottage , fearful that she would miss Johnny if he should come , now she needed to be away , out there where her world was still turning , and people laughed and played and did ordinary things . |
| 17 | He played and missed umpteen times . |
| 18 | Two Children and Young Persons Acts , in 1963 and 1969 , legitimized and encouraged these changes in emphasis . |
| 19 | At the Nürburgring , Emerson failed and fell seven points behind Lauda and four behind Jody . |
| 20 | Then he straightened and dusted invisible grains of dirt from the knees of his coveralls . |
| 21 | A Palestinian who stabbed and wounded three Jews in Jerusalem on May 17 was quickly captured by the police . |
| 22 | The Gibraltarians liked to drink coffee in the open air cafés and the women loved to knit — occupations new to the Madeirans but which rapidly became and remain popular pastimes . |
| 23 | Anyway , indisputably well-connected and a ‘ toff ’ and after an initial spat ( very common with Burton , the initial spat with those who later became good pals ) , they became and remained fast friends . |
| 24 | ‘ She lived and found powerful friends . |
| 25 | ‘ Binge ’ diary Week 1 Binged and vomited four times 2–3 Keeping her diary regularly 4 Returned home and told her family about problems with eating 5 Stopped weighing herself so frequently ; binged and vomited three times 6 Ate breakfast for first time 7 Allowed herself to ask for support from friends 8–9 Binged and vomited once each week 10 Expressed her feelings of sadness in the group for the first time 11–12 Ate three regular meals per day ; binges much smaller 13 A week free from bingeing and vomiting 14 A week free from bingeing and vomiting |
| 26 | Thank you to all Q.T 's who have supported the Draw , particularly those who requested and sold more tickets . |
| 27 | ‘ This is a battle we fought and won eight years ago when hospitals in Northern Ireland agreed to stop the sale of cigarettes . |
| 28 | Ruled over by nanny , they had their meals ( sent up on the special china from the kitchen ) , played , fought and started early lessons in counting , music and the alphabet . |
| 29 | Two zipped and flapped lower pockets are complemented by a third map-pocket over the left chest . |
| 30 | The record came to an end and everyone clapped and gave high-spirited whoops and whistles . |