Example sentences of "and [adv] [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The perpetual spring Schorne had divined for his parish in time of drought came replete with gypsum , Epsom salts , and carbonic acid , and thereby lent considerable support to his posthumous reputation , principally as a healer of rheumatic and eye afflictions , but with an occasional talent in respect of dead oxen , the drowned , and the consolation of ‘ wretched , lonely boys ’ . |
| 2 | They appeared in parts over five years from March 1755 to June 1760 and eventually made two folio volumes . |
| 3 | It was mentioned by many of the Greek philosophers and writers , including Aristotle , Plato , and Seneca , and eventually drove pleasure-loving Epicurus , who was plagued by gonococcal stricture , to suicide . |
| 4 | To complete the picture of railways in this area one should add that the quite successful Leominster & Kington Railway was opened in 1862 and eventually had various extensions and branches , some of which were already under discussion when Kington was reached . |
| 5 | They queued up , and eventually got two cups of strong steaming hot tea . |
| 6 | In 1854 the Revd Andrew Reed [ q.v. ] , a friend of Little 's , established the Royal Hospital for Incurables , and Little became medical examiner and a member of the governing board . |
| 7 | The pre-1974 sub-regional tier , the Hospital Management Committee ( HMC ) , was responsible for running a hospital or a group of hospitals and rarely had specific responsibilities to ensure that the needs of a defined population were met . |
| 8 | Twenty-four swimmers , including staff from Manchester 's Gorton and Levenshulme Branches , took part and altogether completed 1,018 lengths , each worth at least £1 . |
| 9 | At the bottom , where the hotel drive met the highway , he halted and was watching the traffic on his left when Fabia , traces of amusement still on her face , looked to the right and suddenly felt all amusement vanish . |
| 10 | In 1904 Wolverton absorbed the Stony Stratford company ( No 7 ) and so became two companies strong . |
| 11 | And so began this friendship of 35 years , between the older and the younger man ( Layton is 20 years senior to Leonard ) ; between the master and the apprentice . |
| 12 | It was white , and so gave optimum visibility on the screen . |
| 13 | Perhaps the terms of reference were slightly vague , but the NZRFU probably considered that their lads deserved a break , and so gave general permission for the expedition to Italy . |
| 14 | In fact , Hunter saw Chaplin as ‘ the Dickens of the films ’ and so gave another reminder of how the whole world of silent movies was moulded in the idiom of the great Victorian writer . |
| 15 | Pompeii lay in verdant , wine-growing country and so gave special prominence to Venus , goddess of fecundity , Hercules and Bacchus . |
| 16 | I asked Gary and he said he 'd packed it in ages ago , and so did young Bean . |
| 17 | Miss Vine 's budgerigar Beano died that night , and so did old Miss Trimm , a favourite teacher once in Dynmouth Primary , whose declining years had tricked her into believing she 'd mothered another son of God . |
| 18 | So we went and had and there was a little space , you know normal bit bigger than average and a little hooked thing and it opened up and down came some steps and we went up with trepidation I must say . |
| 19 | Oh on the stage , yeah , but in films she came in later and only had small parts and never made |
| 20 | Our house was small and only had two rooms . |
| 21 | And only got one sprout ? |
| 22 | He was the gentleman , of good character and with important friends , and only got seven years . ’ |
| 23 | The fact that the system cost around £300,000 as compared to a traditional suppliers offer of £2.5 million and only took three months to design , install , train and make fully operational reflects well on the technology — even though the paper itself failed . |
| 24 | We were consistent throughout the competition and only conceded one goal in spite of playing a man short in the qualifying rounds . |
| 25 | The FA-MAS was a compact weapon which was no longer than a man 's arm and only weighed eight pounds ; it held a magazine of twenty-five rounds and could fire automatically , on single shots or in three-round bursts . |
| 26 | We electro-fished the 3.5 mile stretch from Hartshill to Nuneaton and only found four zander . |
| 27 | The vast and highly mechanized modern industry of printing , which can be found in every town and city in the kingdom , has been dispersed during five hundred years from this one spot which ought to be holy ground to the industrialist as well as the Christian . |
| 28 | But so few local breeds had undergone any kind of specialized breeding to improve the stock , and the Western animals had to attempt to catch up with their long-established and highly pampered Oriental counterparts . |
| 29 | Of course , our bodily forms and somewhat disorganized working systems were in contradiction to their understanding of the correct codes of policing . |
| 30 | He ascertained that it related to the evidence and not to the law , but he did not find out what the problem was and merely gave general guidance . |