Example sentences of "[vb past] and [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | 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 . |
| 32 | Nevertheless , he faced rebellion , possibly a challenge from a rival aspirant to the throne , in 761 when , after a three-day conflict , he defeated and slew a certain Oswine , who is otherwise unknown , at Eildon on 9 August ; and in 765 the annals record that he lost the kingdom of the Northumbrians at Pincanheale on 30 October . |
| 33 | On 26 August he abdicated and recognised the Democratic Republic of Vietnam . |
| 34 | 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 . |
| 35 | 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 . |
| 36 | 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 . |
| 37 | She recognized a Mousterian and Upper Palaeolithic presence in Kurdistan ; in the Judaean cave of Shukbah she found and named a new Mesolithic culture , the Natufian . |
| 38 | 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 . |
| 39 | He hooked and landed an enormous conger eel , whilst fishing from one of the boats in the harbour . |
| 40 | 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 . |
| 41 | Luce surfaced and took a deep breath . |
| 42 | We also installed and operated the concrete batching and mixing set up for St Mawgan with a site presence backed up from the Plymouth Depot . |
| 43 | Meredith stooped and kissed a faded cheek and smelled the sweet perfume of rose pot-pourri . |
| 44 | Then helped by the last two , he unlashed and lifted the inflatable dinghy overboard from the cabin top , making it fast fore and aft . |
| 45 | Unless there was some incident that diverted and concentrated the general attention , but I noticed nothing . |
| 46 | The collapse of the MacDonald government in August 1931 weakened and divided the Labour Party as effectively as the General Strike had demoralized the trade unions . |
| 47 | He roused and saddled a snoring Philomel and took the road to London Bridge . |
| 48 | Weeks of it because the after the put in all his markings the admiralty came and checked the whole thing then . |
| 49 | A few days later , Grace McNeil , who had just lost a much-loved Rough Collie and had been sent to us by her vet , came and took the young male , Robbie . |
| 50 | He woke late on the Sunday morning after their first week , sent Ingrid back to her Gasthaus , and wandered down to the coffee shop where several of them came and ate a late breakfast . |
| 51 | ooh they came and fetched the old thing |
| 52 | There were also four young ladies who came and gave a brief cabaret of dancing . |
| 53 | It 's the Bāhan , one of the demons the gods defeated In the past , who then reformed and became a lesser deity . |
| 54 | In it , he surveyed and criticised a large number of attempts to reconstruct ‘ the real Jesus ’ , from Reimarus ' Fragments , published by Lessing in the 1770s , to William Wrede 's Das Messiasgeheimnis in den Evangelien ( ‘ The Messianic Secret in the Gospels ’ ) of 1901 . |
| 55 | She gulped and took a deep breath before falling against Nathan 's chest . |
| 56 | ‘ I — I — ’ She gulped and grabbed the intrusive fingers which had begun to slide to her breast . |
| 57 | The 49-year-old Rolling Stone wined and dined the sultry millionaire model at the French mansion behind Jerry 's back , it was said last night . |
| 58 | ‘ This is my window , ’ she added and tossed a haughty look to the rest of the room as if to say , ‘ Are foreigners as stupid as shit , or what ? ’ |
| 59 | The Brett-Jones Report , eleven years later , reiterated and reinforced the principal points of the Wells and Eve Reports , and recognised the enormous changes that had occurred in the intervening years . |
| 60 | She snapped that she was entitled to come and go as she pleased and said an old friend had offered to buy her supper . |