Example sentences of "and [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The island is savage , blackened , proudly ruined , as if a god had a colossal tantrum and laid it to magnificent , careless waste . |
| 2 | He particularly admired the beautiful white spikes of Itea and recommended it for late flowering , a quality which also applied to Clethra alnifolia . |
| 3 | It broke the concentration of my players and led them into serious defensive errors . |
| 4 | Madame raised her crackling voice from the large brown desk where she presided in the hall beyond , and asked them with unusual largesse if they would like some refreshment . |
| 5 | Then he built a double-skinned oak door and studded it with fat-headed iron nails from the nearby , long defunct Presteigne nail-making machine . |
| 6 | One girl 's facial impetigo had to be painted with ointment that stung the scabs and branded her with unsightly violet-coloured splotches for several weeks . |
| 7 | clenched , Benny lifted her foot above the instruments and lowered it with extreme care towards the handle of the scalpel . |
| 8 | Thus it might be that the old English case of Woodhouse v Brotherhood 1972 ] ICR 186 would be decided the same way under the Directive , because the facts , as found in that case , were that the transferee employer used the factory and the machines to produce different products from those made by the transferor and sold them in different markets . |
| 9 | A good friend of mine , in the same set for physics and chemistry , grew so disturbed that he took some scissors and cut all round the stiff white collars , which we have to wear on Sundays , and made them into little points . " |
| 10 | It was also rumoured that Lloyd George might advocate protectionist policies and Baldwin make have called the general election and fought it on protectionist policies in order to undermine any such move by Lloyd George . |
| 11 | In the time I was there she did pencil out a few passages , and got me to red ink a lot more . |
| 12 | Avoiding Richard , who got to his feet as soon as he saw something to be carried , she kicked open the top of the Arctic and flung them in golden handfuls onto the glowing bed of fuel . |
| 13 | He stirred a pot of paint , dipped a brush in the paint , bent forward and applied it in slow strokes to the sheet of card in front of him . |
| 14 | This group were aware of the injury and described it in neutral terms of sensation . |
| 15 | In the mid 1970s , for example , the police fell out with a number of crime reporters and charged them in separate proceedings with a variety of criminal offences . |
| 16 | The orgasmic bellowing began when I got the car into a slide as the track began to get wet with rain and caught it with opposite lock . |
| 17 | Jim Smyth of the Ulster Workers ' Council emphasised and re-emphasised it with particular skill and persistence . |
| 18 | He was a man of profound education , but having acquired it himself he treasured words and used them with unique skill and often with a strange individuality . |
| 19 | Peter founded the navy out of virtually nothing , recruiting officers and sailors in the same way as for the army , and used it to good effect against the Swedes . |
| 20 | First and foremost , Borland have taken the Windows interface and used it to good advantage . |
| 21 | He was a bright boy , good at his lessons , but she told him that cleverness was only a virtue if you worked hard and used it to good purpose . |
| 22 | She dropped to her knees , and unbuttoned him with quick busy fingers . |
| 23 | I have pricked my first blister , squeezed out the fluid , and dabbed it with surgical spirit . |
| 24 | After he had been held incommunicado for a month his family were allowed to visit him and found him in good health . |
| 25 | Suddenly there was a flash of lightning and a roll of thunder and the heavens burst sending us scuttling into the woods for shelter , but it was n't long before the rain got through and drenched us with miniature Niagaras that came cascading down from the broad leaves . |
| 26 | He blinked and regarded me with confused surprise . |
| 27 | A family of brothers , fathers and uncles on the front table took an instant dislike to me and , slamming their pints on the table , sat back with arms crossed and regarded me in stony-faced silence . |
| 28 | He stuffed his hands in his trouser-pockets and regarded her with enigmatic eyes . |
| 29 | After a moment , she sat up in the cluttered bed and regarded him in mock annoyance . |
| 30 | He completely misjudged the question , and his translation was ignored by churchmen as well as by the editor of the influential Monthly Review , who had been irritated by Smart 's angry response to earlier criticism , and dismissed it with short shrift . |