Example sentences of "and [vb past] [prep] an [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | It sharpened body swerve , movement and anticipation , and led to an immediate improvement in results . |
| 2 | This marked the only occasion when a sequel won a Best Picture Academy Award and led to an ill-advised third instalment in 1991 . |
| 3 | Though in the statement it was mentioned that statistics from other countries were too unreliable to say that pro-divorce legislation increased the instability of marriages and led to an ever-increasing number of breakdowns , Archbishop McNamara was already preaching by 6 May that divorce ‘ makes stable and permanent marriages more difficult for everyone ’ ( Irish Times , 7 May 1986 ) . |
| 4 | The case had received massive publicity and became symbolic of the institutionalized racism and brutality alleged by many to exist within the LAPD [ see pp. 38091 ; 38139 ] , and led to an independent commission of inquiry [ see pp. 38329-30 ] . |
| 5 | I contacted the North Devon District Health Authority and asked for an extra-contractual referral to be made for this operation . |
| 6 | Play eventually restarted , after what seemed like an age , and meandered to an early finish , but the freak accident served to relegate other matters — the remaining overs , a protracted row involving the England players and team manager and a cameraman attempting to capture the stretcher scene on film , and even the imminence of both countries announcing their World Cup squads — to items of secondary importance . |
| 7 | For that to be followed by the Welsh squad members being introduced by the crowd one-by-one in almost American Super Bowl style , and succeeded by an impassioned Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau led by an operatic soprano under spotlights on the half-way line , is likely to induce , ere long , too high an emotional state within crowd and players . |
| 8 | As concern grew about this situation , particularly in the heartland of Soweto , parents came together in community groups with students and progressive teachers , and agreed upon an organized return to classes . |
| 9 | Funny because he was forty and not very clever and lived in an English suburb called Wimbledon . |
| 10 | He had no financial reserves , and lived in an unfashionable part of London . |
| 11 | One of the boys in question leaned forward and drawled in an upper-hive accent , ‘ Shame , having to hack off one 's pinkie to say sorry to one 's boss for a blunder . |
| 12 | Over at Galaxy Crossroads 5 , they see the place where Johnson paused to have an Embassy Mild and a can of Fosters , and bumped into an old nutter who thought he was the devil . |
| 13 | ‘ This time we pinpointed the English dangermen and concentrated on an eight-man push at every scrum . |
| 14 | She looked to Alexandra disgustingly spry and healthy , rosy and refreshed after an excellent night and full of happy anticipation at hearing of the dinner party . |
| 15 | They show an African head and the story behind these is that during a battle in the 15th century , when all the Pucci adults were killed , an African slave hid a baby of the family under her garments and fled via an underground passage , thus saving the Pucci line and earning herself a place in the family 's heraldry . |
| 16 | For elders with histories of secure attachments , a diminished capacity to desire new attachments may be accepted sagely as age-appropriate — or feared and rejected as an unwelcome sign of old age and impending death . |
| 17 | They went up a long hill and came to an imposing arched entrance . |
| 18 | Erika and Karl got out of the warmth of the car into a crystalline coldness , walked up an avenue lined with bare trees and came to an enclosed garden . |
| 19 | As all the alarming possibilities ran through her head , she gave a loud gulp and came to an abrupt halt . |
| 20 | The car ahead of them squealed to a halt , crashed backwards across the road into a stone wall , and came to an abrupt stop . |
| 21 | She carried the glass back to the sitting-room , and came to an abrupt stop when she saw Luke standing by the window , reading the paper , which she 'd left open at the horoscopes . |
| 22 | ‘ There were only about 15 varieties available then , but I did some research and came across an American monograph written before the Second World War that listed 250 . |
| 23 | They shared a common concern to explain the events that had changed the lives of themselves and their families , and came from an intellectual tradition that stressed causes and the analysis of social events at the macro level . |
| 24 | Gels were dried and autoradiographed with an intensifying screen . |
| 25 | For information acting as a historical record , it may not be necessary to carry out periodic examinations to determine if the data require updating ; for example , where an evidential/security ‘ log ’ of all messages sent and received by an electronic messaging system is being maintained . |
| 26 | Never mind the fact they were as comfortable as wearing two fibre-glass tubes filled with iron filings , and stank like an incontinent old sheep dog when wet , they were natural wool and so considered correct . |
| 27 | He corrected an error in Riemann 's work and showed by an ingenious example that the scope of the new theory was not quite so great as some had claimed . |
| 28 | Marianne settled herself comfortably beside Dane , and turned with an apologetic little smile . |
| 29 | However , as I could now see , a vast area behind the shops had been cleared of housing and turned into an enormous shopping centre . |
| 30 | Owned and bred in Ireland by Major Eustace Loder ( she was foaled only two years after Sceptre ( see pages 18–19 ) ) and trained at Newmarket by Peter Purcell Gilpin , she made her racecourse debut in the British Dominion Two-Year-Old Plate at Sandown Park in June 1903 and turned in an electrifying performance to win by an official margin of ten lengths — though some put the correct distance at nearly a hundred yards ! |