Example sentences of "and [vb past] in [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clare had planned so often the details of her own wedding , so often pictured herself , radiant in a long , white dress with train , leaning on her father 's arm , advancing with a slow , fragile step down the aisle towards Mark , handsome and smiling in morning dress , while the organ pealed and the candles and flowers blazed , and the guests beamed and whispered in the crowded pews — that she felt a surge of pity for the girl who would have nothing to remember but this sordid little ceremony . |
| 2 | All that is most sensible and clearheaded in the Catholic church will meet in Rome on May 17 to celebrate the beatification of Mgr Josemaria Escriva ( 1902–1975 ) who founded Opus Dei , the unecstatic religious movement which may yet save Christianity from the sex therapists . |
| 3 | These deposits are then borrowed and lent in the usual way . |
| 4 | He touched her arm , beckoning her down to his glittering eyes , and asked in a rattled whisper , ‘ Miz Boss Lady , you like see Joy 's cock ? ’ and was nearly knocked over by her abrupt straightening . |
| 5 | But almost immediately , she resumed her composure and asked in a steady voice : ‘ Will you come up and see him ? ’ |
| 6 | Champagne was already on ice , and best crystal glasses shimmered and winked in the fading sunlight . |
| 7 | The industrial machine that we have followed so far has been the philosophies of the Enlightenment embodied and incarnated in the economic mode of capitalism . |
| 8 | Though the big R100 BMW has been designed as much for cross-country work as for the road , the wheels bucked and skidded in the grey waterlogged soil as Trent fought the handlebars , weaving between scrub bush and clumps of hagara grass . |
| 9 | Swifts jinked and swooped in the enclosed space with the grace of dolphins . |
| 10 | Cell pairs were removed , placed on nutrient agar and incubated in a warm ( 40-C ) oven . |
| 11 | It was loose and tumbled in a dark brown cascade over her narrow shoulders . |
| 12 | The bones were mixed with sediment and tumbled in a rotary tumbler in three stages . |
| 13 | Ackroyd enjoyed a quiet bachelor life and lived in a small house by the crossing . |
| 14 | Eileen remembers Selina as a bubbly girl who helped to scrub the floors of the tourist office , made her own clothes and lived in a small cottage . |
| 15 | When I was a pine and lived in a cold climate |
| 16 | For a century , the typical UK employee was male , engaged in manual factory work , and lived in a large industrial city or town — with many implications for leisure and health patterns . |
| 17 | Funny because he was forty and not very clever and lived in an English suburb called Wimbledon . |
| 18 | He had no financial reserves , and lived in an unfashionable part of London . |
| 19 | Outside , the bright lights and multicoloured signs blinked and gleamed in the cold darkness . |
| 20 | It dipped and fluttered in the chilly air , its wings drab and flaky . |
| 21 | He looked a dangerous striker and got in a good header which I think you got to the right and got your hand to ? |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Despite the ominous row of trespassing hatchbacks , we saw nobody on the ridge at all , and luxuriated in the surprising solitude that one should n't expect so near a town like Fort William , which grows more like a Highland Gorbals every day . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 depths of the ocean . |
| 26 | Joe Fitzgerald was so much older and moved in a different circle , and on the few occasions that Sarah had seen him he had shown no interest in her , but she liked him and knew that he enjoyed reading and poetry as much as she did . |
| 27 | They 'd danced to Michael 's band and her glossy pink trousers flashed and moved in the dimmed lights , and he had felt elated and mildly drunk , and had lost most of the inhibitions he 'd had about dancing , until it became clear to his confused brain that the drummer , who had soft dark hair and was probably a potential Celtic supporter , was getting on so well with Amanda that perhaps they should move on elsewhere , and he swayed out of the room , pushing her in front of him , and bumped into someone at the door , and had realised it was the man in the raincoat , only he was in a dark suit and a tie with geometric designs . |
| 28 | Theodora made her way up the chancel , genuflected briefly and knelt in the silent pew , praying for ‘ the soul of thy servant , Paul , his family and all who worship here ’ . |
| 29 | He showed her one , from the doorway , where the great plaster-covered beam had cracked right along the front wall of the house , pressed down by the roof , and sagged in a filthy , green-stained vee almost to the floor . |
| 30 | Afterwards they went to a nightclub and danced and smooched in the smoky blackness , cleaning their throats from time to time with champagne . |