Example sentences of "and [vb past] with [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Soon one could ignore it , except now and then when the fire seemed to take a huge breath and glowed with a sudden fierceness which sent sparks flying crazily up the chimney .
2 Nothing could be more splendid than the decoration of the Cathedral — velvet and ermine — gold and silver — flags and hangings of all colours were combined and harmonized with the splendid costumes of the Clergy , the uniforms civil and military , and the magnificent dresses of the ladies .
3 The East Gate of Karak Eight Peaks lay several miles inside the pass through a broad side valley paved with ancient stones and studded with the ruined tombs of Dwarf ancestors .
4 For band shifting , the corresponding oligonucleotide was labelled by using T4 polynucleotide kinase and γ- 32 P-ATP and annealed with the complementary chain .
5 The restaurant changed , as did the maître d' , but he still watched like a hawk and swooped with a pained query if you did n't savour every mouthful or tried to hide a tough end of meat under your lettuce .
6 To that , also , the King had given a great part of his attention , but when , late in the spring , word came of the sighting of ships from Normandy in the Clyde , he left his wife and household at Perth , where they had stayed a full week , and rode with a small retinue westwards to meet them .
7 And the peedie fairy came back and lived with the old wife been afore .
8 The northern sky was resplendent in stars of unbelievable intensity and flickered with a bizarre display of the Aurora Borealis .
9 Thus , as down in the laboratory annexe Ari struggled and swam with a new sensation , above her head , Tammuz Malamute plundered the willing body of Zambia Crevecoeur , causing the building to reverberate with sexual emissions of several different types .
10 The kinematics approach recognizes that the mechanism is constrained in such a way that only a prescribed motion is possible ; a mechanism that is randomly assembled and disassembled with no known input conditions is hardly a mechanism and is impossible to analyse by any method .
11 The man stripping off his helmet as he strode down the room was tall and broad-shouldered , and moved with the leashed power of the hunter .
12 She felt him lace their fingers together and trembled with a strange mixture of excitement and trepidation .
13 My son , Robyn visited me and peered with a concerned , academic interest , and we came closer together than ever before .
14 Chandler defeated GM Malich , formerly of East Germany , and drew with the Russian GM Victor Chekhov .
15 Put all the cake ingredients except the chocolate liqueur in a mixing bowl and beat with a wooden spoon or with a food mixer until light and fluffy .
16 The mirror was veined with gold and misted with the scented steam of the bath from which she 'd just emerged .
17 Its benevolently smiling head fell off and bounced with a sickening crunch from the beam projector into another of the statues , knocking it off the deck of the float and into the canal .
18 headquarters , left strict instructions about what news and reports should be channelled to his home number immediately , and what could wait , and drove with the exaggerated care and deliberation of sleeplessness back towards the village of Comerford , uncomfortably in transition to a suburban area , where he , and the unhappy parents of the boy Boden , lived within three doors of each other .
19 He ran , and came with the front rank to the perimeter path and the low wooden fence .
20 Gels were dried and autoradiographed with an intensifying screen .
21 Startled , she turned and recognised with a swift sinking sensation the tall figure of Richard Blake .
22 He saw the flicker of doubt in her eyes , and added with a husky laugh , ‘ I 'm not saying I do n't want you .
23 Increasing amounts ( a:0,25 , b:0,5 c:1 , d : 2 µg ) of DNA extracted from wild type ( W ) or mutant strain ( H ) were loaded on a membrane and hybridized with the nuclear probe rDNA 45S ( Nuc. ) , or with the mitochondrial probe , srRNA , ( Mit ) .
24 Madeleine came up to see me last Monday for a couple of days and arrived with a sore throat too , so she had a well deserved rest after the excesses of their very social Christmas and life and also encouraged me , the weather and the throats keeping us indoors , to do some MUCH needed turning out .
25 But the saloon , where we ate , as well as drank our aperitifs , was spick and span , and shone with the polished mahogany and brass of a house-proud owner .
26 Thinking of the provocatively slow way she might later take off her shiny red boots , dark hair falling down over her placidly unconcerned face as she bent to remove them , thinking of the longer , slower flow of her otherwise quick young body as she discarded her clothing bit by bit and turned with a sudden smile of submission towards his already rumpled bed , he was also holding in to himself and caressing within himself the glass-cased ideal of a woman — a Princess — who could be worshipped without being touched by bonily clutching fingers , who could transform him without being stickied by any of his bodily fluids .
27 Lesley had begun to gather up the remaining cups , but at the mention of Charlotte 's name she put down the tray abruptly , and turned with a startled smile .
28 Marianne settled herself comfortably beside Dane , and turned with an apologetic little smile .
29 The raider , who masked his face with a tartan scarf , forced Mr Bridgeman to open his safe and escaped with a large amount of money .
30 SCHOOLBOY Anthony Charlton told yesterday how he plunged head-first down a 100ft quarry — and escaped with a sprained ankle .
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