Example sentences of "[vb past] and [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Second to Henry Yevele , Wynford was an architect of genius who transformed and unified English building . |
| 2 | She spent a pleasant few minutes thinking of her small business where she designed and made exclusive wedding gowns for a rapidly growing circle of customers , but Dana 's early-morning phone call refused to be dismissed . |
| 3 | Okidata Microsystems Division , the Japanese giant 's fledgling flight into the US workstation business , crashed and burned last week , taking the remnants of the Mass860 consortium — the Intel Corp i860 RISC supporters club — with it . |
| 4 | Garland crashed and suffered slight burns . |
| 5 | He rose and went next door to find the girl he knew would be sleeping there . |
| 6 | Instead of ringing for the maid she rose and poured more tea . |
| 7 | They often stroked and embraced each other and me . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ The investigation has revealed major defects in the way in which British Rail 's Southern Region signalling and telecommunications department organised resignalling work , and supervised and tested completed wiring . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Once on the first aerodrome , Brueckner stopped and made some excuse about engine problems , saying that he had to try to get a key for the toolbox . |
| 12 | However we stopped and got good directions . |
| 13 | She stopped and looked full face into the mirror , as if , among the distorted outlines of the bar she was standing in as it stretched far into the mirror-room that swallowed it up and pulled it into strange shapes , she was looking for something not apparent in the real room . |
| 14 | They stopped and faced each other . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | As he did all his life , he also found and encouraged new designers and composers . |
| 18 | 1 Egg White 2 tablespoons of Soy Sauce 1 teaspoon of Five-Spice Powder 2 large White Fish Fillets , skinned and cut into thick strips Good Quality Cooking Oil 1 Leek , sliced diagonally 1 Clove of Garlic , crushed 1 Red Pepper , cored and sliced ¼ Cucumber , halved , deseeded and sliced 1 tablespoon of Fresh Ginger , grated |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | However , the advantages for an increasingly enfeebled and menaced Ottoman empire of representation in the capitals of Europe were now too obvious to be disregarded . |
| 21 | Mr Venables disagreed and made some claim about tastebuds and their ‘ overstimulation ’ . |
| 22 | 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 . ’ |
| 23 | For them it was enough that 1 , a Westerner from a God-forgotten , immoral country , believed and made some attempt to practise . |
| 24 | The term 's application to this period originates in the Earl of Clarendon 's History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England produced by a Royalist during the Restoration to celebrate those who ‘ opposed and resisted that torrent ’ — rebellion being unqualifiedly equated with disorderly , uncontrolled catastrophe . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Police officers of various ranks and specialisms came and went all day , checking for forensic evidence relating to the kidnap , intercepting some telephone calls and listening in to others . |
| 28 | Mick came and made some tea and sat her down with a cup in her hands and tried to talk some sense into her . |
| 29 | I 've got a job that I love doing , and er , I also take the view that if I came and did this programme and moaned away at everybody , and er , moaned away about everything , nobody would ring me up , and nobody would listen . |
| 30 | Well , they moved off and then just getting back to sleep must of been half an hour after we 'd and heard this voice shout what you doing ? |