Example sentences of "[vb past] and [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tiny pieces of skin shrivelled and cooked on the red-hot ring and wisps of smoke rose into the air . |
| 2 | The Frasque , that had seemed so desiccated and invulnerable , shrivelled and burned at the Capellans ' slightest gesture . |
| 3 | The self-inflicted pain goaded him into a furious spasm , but as he strained and thrashed against the wicker walls in the darkness all he achieved was the sense that the basket had not yielded a millimetre . |
| 4 | A lecturer visiting a student on teaching practice tells of being mistaken for a parent and being kept standing in a cold corridor while behind a closed door the head shouted and screamed at a tearful child . |
| 5 | " Come on , lads , round the track ! " he shouted and pointed to a broad earthen path which circled the park . |
| 6 | Fran shrugged , turning her face away from his calculating scrutiny , studying the way the moonlight bounced and sparkled off the water with a fixed expression on her face . |
| 7 | Sir John Menzies was part of that , by his marriage to Atholl 's daughter , and Atholl dined and intrigued with the Lord Advocate when he went to Edinburgh for the season . |
| 8 | In the case of this well-liked fatherly brigadier , it was common knowledge that , although he would accept his chauffeuse 's six shillings , he would then pay all other expenses in order that she would be wined , dined and accommodated in the same style as himself . |
| 9 | They entered and asked for a room for the night and a meal of cold meat and beer , which they ate in the bar . |
| 10 | Regression coefficients and their standard error were calculated with a CYBER 855 computer for those variables which entered and remained in the regression equation . |
| 11 | They disembarked and stayed in a tavern near the Tower for the rest of the day . |
| 12 | She grieved for her father and worried about Maggie , but most of all she fumed and cried over the affair with James Halden . |
| 13 | Their ecological dominance and biological success for the past 80 to 100 million years may stem from the fact that they were the first group of predatory social insects that both foraged and lived in the realm of rotting vegetation on the ground . |
| 14 | BELOW : Guard , , society membership secretary is pictured with the carriages he designed and built for the railway . |
| 15 | They grumbled and stirred like a waking kraken . |
| 16 | Our data is collected , validated and checked by a 120 strong team — using multiple sources to ensure reliability . |
| 17 | A type 2 statistical error is possible in a clinical study of 17 patients , but our observations were very precise and carefully validated and agree with the results of a recent much larger study from Australia . |
| 18 | A rare chance to see our experiences as women validated and endorsed on the big screen in a powerful and yes , entertaining movie about a subject that matters profoundly to us . |
| 19 | In the previous section we described and accounted for the unequal distribution of wealth in Great Britain in terms of the ownership and control of forms of private productive property . |
| 20 | It was postmarked Manchester , the paper was poor , and the writing scrawled and dipped across the stained envelope . |
| 21 | His eyes were still lingering on the curves hidden by the black material that caught and shimmered in the light as she moved . |
| 22 | It caught and twisted at the heart , and there was no armour against it . |
| 23 | Someone threw a bunch of red roses , which he caught and put on the bar . |
| 24 | He opened his eyes , his consciousness hazed and slowed by the kif he had smoked , and focused with difficulty on the watch on the bedside table . |
| 25 | The Shadowlands crumbled and disappeared below the hungry waves . |
| 26 | They hooted and waved at the boats as they whizzed by . |
| 27 | One of them , Prof John Sargent , was among a band of eminent researchers in Britain , the United States , Canada , Italy and France who were bullied , cajoled and encouraged by the Odones to help in producing treatment that would save their son 's life . |
| 28 | Himmler winced and said to the girl , ‘ Leave us . |
| 29 | Dave spun the truck round and we crashed and bumped along the rough track . |
| 30 | It 's a word we use to talk about masses of undifferentiated humanity — like buying a pound of whitebait for your supper , rather than , say , 341 little silver fishes that once frisked and swam in the dappled shallows of the ocean . |