Example sentences of "and [vb past] [v-ing] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On intimation claim forms and front sheets must be prepared accurately and checked giving particular attention to : — |
| 2 | Yesterday Gregory , 35 , appeared before Teesside Crown Court and admitted handling stolen goods . |
| 3 | Work on the site for the stalls began three weeks ago and involved installing individual water standpipes to allow each trailer to link up with a hose . |
| 4 | The parents contended that the shortest route in the case of their 12-year-old daughter was not truly ‘ available ’ because it was isolated and unlit and involved crossing difficult terrain . |
| 5 | The ISA project took five years to complete and involved examining basic auditing principles and essential procedures to ensure that ISAs adequately addressed IOSCO members ' concerns . |
| 6 | He 's been jailed for firearms , fraud and passport offences and caught smuggling 4 tons of cannabis into Australia . |
| 7 | I was 5′ 10½&in in height in bare feet and weighed soaking wet no more than 12½ stone and since I played in the park , usually at open side wing forward , and since I played against genuinely big men , it therefore followed I had to be galvanically quick . |
| 8 | Indian survivors abandoned traditional dress to avoid summary execution and stopped using indigenous languages in public . |
| 9 | It is time we invested seriously in education and training and stopped letting this misery grow worse and worse . ’ |
| 10 | On the following day he condemned it as " illegitimate and invalid " and rejected opening formal negotiations , this position being reiterated in a resolution passed overwhelmingly by the Congress on March 15 . |
| 11 | Several times he tore his hands and barked his shins , and once he missed his footing and came crashing several yards down the slope before he got a desperate grip with fingers and toes and knees , and clung sweating till he recovered his breath . |
| 12 | Reactions were electrophoresed through a 10% denaturing gel and the gel was subsequently dried and autoradiographed using standard procedures ( 12 ) . |
| 13 | There was no answer to her gibe , and , despite the fact that the fumes in the room told her the substance on her hair was likely to blind her if it made contact , she sat up and risked opening one eye . |
| 14 | The solution was found initially using the entire Fab molecule , and confirmed using two half-molecules comprising the constant and variable regions . |
| 15 | Allen , the Hal Far station commander , reported seeing Deacon 's combat and confirmed observing one Messerschmitt crash into the sea ; Deacon was subsequently credited with one destroyed as a result . |
| 16 | The women later sobered up and returned pleading pre-menstrual tension to the governor . |
| 17 | Russia wished to use the Teleuts as a buffer against the Dzhungars , but in the end they were overwhelmed by a superior power and began raiding Russian lands again around 1700 at the behest of their new masters , as did the Kazakhs further west . |
| 18 | He buried himself in books on comparative religion , and began publishing scholarly tracts and books about the goddess . |
| 19 | As the situation worsened more border police entered the area and began firing live ammunition into the crowd . |
| 20 | In the early afternoon the gate finally opened , and the crowd arose as one and began loading each other with boxes and sacks . |
| 21 | She picked up a piece of paper and began drawing little cameo pictures of the bowl of fruit on the sideboard , of the flowers in the garden , bending under the wind . |
| 22 | In Bosnia , the Yugoslav army yesterday seized control of the town of Visegrad and began enforcing military rule after stamping out pockets of resistance by Muslims , Belgrade radio said . |
| 23 | During the 1970s , many fishermen were forced from the anchoveta fishery and the associated use of purse-seine vessels , and began using smaller boats , setting gill-nets to catch coastal fish species . |
| 24 | On hearing this , the brothers ran the two thousand meters back to the start of their rows and began visiting each tree in turn again to empty the cups into their carrying cans . |
| 25 | In 1990 , it established its own Japanese office in Tokyo and began offering technical support on a local basis . |
| 26 | He joined the Kennedy Administration direct from the board of the Ford Motor Company and began sweeping away waste wherever he could find it . |
| 27 | The F2B creaked through a 180-degree turn and began photographing another strip . |
| 28 | The squirrel was sleeping when she entered , but he woke instantly and began making agitated noises , obviously indignant at his captivity . |
| 29 | Mitchell bought it for $250 , and began making regular acquisitions of ancient American gold through dealers , auctions , and private collectors in New York , Zurich and London . |
| 30 | She loved to dress in expensive , eye-catching clothes and enjoyed reading romantic novels . |