Example sentences of "and [vb past] an [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I sniffed it and whispered an obscene word to it , then I put on my coat and overshoes and walked out of the hotel . |
| 2 | Attempts to reconcile these two decisions have expanded human ingenuity and expended an unconscionable amount of time , effort and paper . |
| 3 | The following Christmas Eve , we enlisted the aid of Addy , our friend and ally , and laid an ingenious Santa-trap . |
| 4 | Representatives from as many relevant agencies as possible met a few times a year , and devised an agreed strategy for the inner area concerned . |
| 5 | Had he not , as everyone knew , single-handedly raised and led an Arab army against the Turks ? |
| 6 | GRAEME Hick threw off his straightjacket yesterday — and led an incredible blitz of World Cup champions Pakistan to clinch the Texaco Trophy series . |
| 7 | He muttered something unrepeatable under his breath and wiped an exhausted hand upwards over his forehead , a distraught gesture which ruffled the short dark hair so that it stood on end . |
| 8 | He produced a book of blank bills and asked an Italian snapper to help him with his expenses . |
| 9 | Our gaze met and became an eternal thing . |
| 10 | She gave us unfailing devotion and became an essential part of our family . |
| 11 | Subsequently he was a pupil of ( Sir ) John Aspinall [ q.v. ] of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway at Horwich and became an assistant manager at their Newton Heath , Manchester , carriage workshops in 1901 and works manager in the following year . |
| 12 | Then the National Front Leader , Dr Mosadeq , who had long been one of the most fiery and articulate proponents of nationalization , was appointed prime minister over the objections of the Shah , and became an extraordinary actor on the stage of the world . |
| 13 | ‘ Histoire de Babar ’ was published in 1931 and became an immediate hit . |
| 14 | During the second world war he played an active role in the opposition to the German occupation , eventually joining the Resistance , and creating the magazine Confluence , which was rapidly banned , and became an early edition of French samizdat . |
| 15 | The plan of a slave ship issued by Clarkson was also extensively taken up and became an antislavery print . |
| 16 | Such methods were increasingly copied and applied within the official investigations of the state itself , and became an important element in its maintenance and extension . |
| 17 | Robert Lovell , a recent Bristol friend of democratic principles , was not so easily persuaded , but before long ‘ totally changed his opinion ’ and became an important convert . |
| 18 | He read extensively in the classics and became an accomplished linguist . |
| 19 | Darwin settled down in London for a few years and became an active member of the Geological Society . |
| 20 | In 1836 Portadown was separated from Tandragee and became an independent Circuit . |
| 21 | Sir Jeremy has been Warden ( Chairman of the Governing Body ) of his old school , Winchester , since 1987 , and became an Honorary Fellow of New College in 1979 . |
| 22 | He was awarded the degree of MD per literas regias at Cambridge in 1669 , and became an honorary fellow of the London College of Physicians in 1680 . |
| 23 | He was in great demand socially and became an admired figure at the Savage Club . |
| 24 | I expected to hate it , but in fact I enjoyed my lectures on English language history and became an enthusiastic advocate of exercises in parsing , syntax and dictation — the very best test of listening comprehension . |
| 25 | The local authority appealed against the orders and sought an interim care order on the grounds that ( 1 ) the justices had erred in law when they had made the order preventing the parents from having contact with each other as contact between adults was not a step which could be taken by a parent in meeting his responsibilities towards his child and thus fell outside the terms of section 8(1) of the Children Act 1989 ; ( 2 ) there had been no application for a section 8 order and before exercising powers under section 10(1) ( b ) of the Act of 1989 the justices should have invited the parties to make representations , and the failure to do so was a material irregularity ; ( 3 ) the justices , having found as a fact that the parents had been in continuous contact and there were grounds for believing that the children would suffer harm , had been plainly wrong in refusing to make the interim care order in respect of both children in that they had failed to have regard to the facts that both parents had colluded over injuries to D. , the mother had lied when she had stated that there had been no contact with the father , the father had been in breach of a bail order there had been a violent incident on 23 November 1991 which had involved both parents , the mother had refused to be accommodated with the children in a mother and baby home , and the mother had changed her mind about the adoption of R. ; and ( 4 ) in all the circumstances the order which would have been in the best interests of the children and which the justices should have made was an interim care order . |
| 26 | He was active in founding the Society of Chemical Industry , and read an important paper at the first meeting of the Liverpool section in 1881 ; he was its chairman , 1889–91 . |
| 27 | On March 22 Traoré broadcast an appeal for calm , and announced an overnight curfew in main centres . |
| 28 | As production increased farmers had a growing surplus over their household requirements and sold an increasing proportion of their crop , reaching 60 per cent in 1985 and in 1988 , and accounting for half of the national marketed production . |
| 29 | The holding-period yield , rh ( assuming that the bond is bought on a coupon payment date ( so that AI = 0 ) and sold an even number of coupon payment dates later ( so that T is an integer ) ) , is calculated using where r i is the rollover rate of interest earned by the ith coupon payment and P 1 is the price at which the bond was sold . |
| 30 | The first accurate annual monitoring of carbon dioxide commenced at the Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii in 1958 and revealed an atmospheric concentration of 315 ppm . |