Example sentences of "and [vb past] [verb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bernard 's father had been a builder , his two elder brothers were house painters ; his older sister was married to a carpenter : another just left nursing to be married ; his two younger sisters were still at school and planned to go to college against their mother 's wishes . |
| 2 | This was the real fear behind the arguments about the declining calibre of the new county councillors compared with that of the magistrates of Quarter Sessions ( Dunbabin 1965 ; Dearlove 1979:Ch. 4 ) : ‘ democratic alterations were widely believed to be dangerous , and expected to lead to extravagance , inefficiency , or even rapacity and disorder ’ ( Dunbabin 1963:227 ) . |
| 3 | Free trade in industrial goods with Turkey was to develop by end-1995 under an agreement initialled in Geneva in mid-October and expected to enter into force in April 1992 following the completion of signature and ratification procedures . |
| 4 | In Phillips v. Brooks ( 1919 K.B. ) a rogue called North entered a jeweller 's shop , selected some items including a ring and asked to pay by cheque and to take the ring with him . |
| 5 | I enjoyed the lessons a great deal , and became fascinated by Greek . |
| 6 | It seemed that the detailed pattern of the embryo was laid down in the egg and became partitioned during cleavage , thus supporting Weissman 's claim . |
| 7 | The Danish invasion took place in A.D. 787 , and one Danish ruler , called Egbert , succeeded as King of Wessex , in A.D. 802 ; becoming overlord of Cornwall and Devonshire in 815 ; then King of Kent in 825 , and became known as King of the English , in 829 . |
| 8 | After independence in the 1820s , an expanding plantation economy removed the forest and became dominated by coffee and bananas , with a dangerous reliance on a few exports . |
| 9 | This view seems a little extreme and in Asfar v. Blundell ( 1896 C.A. ) it was held that dates , which were under water for two days and became impregnated with sewage , had perished — i.e. in a commercial sense . |
| 10 | In the abstract the Free City arrangements might have worked , but they failed to take into account the hostilities they provoked ; failed to take into account the fears and prejudices unleashed by the sudden alteration of patterns of trade and allegiance ; and failed to take into account the long years of humiliating Polish partition , Prussian Polenpolitik and the rise of revolutionary Russia . |
| 11 | Nelson argues that the failure of other reviewers to come to the same conclusion was because they used vague definitions of depression and failed to take into account the severity of the disorder . |
| 12 | Germans were confidently walking in the streets when the alarm sounded but they did n't take it seriously and failed to go to air raid shelters . |
| 13 | Fujimori , justifying the air force action , said that the C-130 , one of many used to support US anti-drug operations in the northern Upper Huallaga Valley ( the world 's largest single source of coca ) , carried no markings and failed to respond to radio and visual warnings . |
| 14 | The man has convictions for violence and failed to return from home leave three weeks ago . |
| 15 | If your saint is to remain here now , then even if Tutilo escapes the sheriff 's law , if Herluin takes him back to Ramsey they 'll make him pay through his skin for what he attempted and failed to bring to success . |
| 16 | One article which had been revised and resubmitted appeared in proof partly returned to its original form and partly left in the resubmitted form . |
| 17 | In the beginning there was carbon , and after several generations of Super Novae there was the solar system and then there were a whole lot of trees and they all fell down plonk into bogs and got turned into coal , and that led to the dinosaurs and that led to the mammals and that led to humans and that led to the miners . ’ |
| 18 | I done that twice , and got put on report for it . |
| 19 | Anyway , a few of us had a drink in the hotel that night , and apparently there was a fight ; this was after I got drunk and got put to bed . |
| 20 | I think he went to visit my mother and got incarcerated by accident . |
| 21 | There we found Capt. Warr and party , all very tired and fatigued owing to lack of food and water for four days . |
| 22 | The domestic skills I had acquired at school and perfected looking after Father when Mother died , were not skills valued by Helmut . |
| 23 | He went behind the settee and pretended to go to sleep . |
| 24 | Summoning up all my courage , I entered San Esteban and its overpowering gilded Churriguera altar seemed to welcome me like a long-lost friend as I dipped my hand in the holy-water stoup at the door and knelt to pray in front of Claudio Coello 's heavenly blue painting . |
| 25 | But anyway , I put the pills and the gin firmly aside , turned out the light again , and tried to go to sleep . |
| 26 | Finch groaned and tried to go to sleep . |
| 27 | Because it 's designed that way , with tiles coloured and crafted to live in harmony with both history and local environments . |
| 28 | The Boundary Commission should be set to work immediately and told to report in time for new constituencies to be in place for the next election — to bring fair representation across the United Kingdom , ensuring that a vote in Scotland is no longer worth more than one in England , or a vote in one constituency worth more than one in another . |
| 29 | There are few better punishers of poor opposition than Rick Smith , who when given a freer role and told to forget about defending , responds by slaughtering teams single-handed . |
| 30 | His eyes narrowed as he looked at her , and seemed to glow with fury , their brown tint lightening almost to gold . |