Example sentences of "and [vb past] [verb] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Education liaison officer Lindsey Walton said : ‘ We were approached and asked to participate in this prestigious scheme and are very pleased to be associated with the schools . ’ |
| 2 | I packed the Scandinavian jersey I 'd worn at Woodbine into the suitcase just in case it jogged anyone 's memory , and got dressed in dark trousers , open-necked shirt and a short zipped navy jacket with lighter blue bands round waist and wrists . |
| 3 | Oh and got to park in main parking lot . |
| 4 | The residents rejected Dr McDonald 's evidence and proposed calling in another independent researcher of their own to survey the factory , saying further investigation of the cancer risk posed by the factory was ‘ essential ’ . |
| 5 | He could hardly keep his eyes open and tried jumping in cold baths to keep himself awake , but only felt cold as well as tired . |
| 6 | It has always seemed to me that in pupils ' day to day work and more specifically in their exercise books , we have a reasonable body of evidence which can be evaluated , probably in the school , moderated , probably by other teachers and headmasters and allowed to count in some way towards the success of pupils . |
| 7 | the recognition that an incapacitated person should be allowed and encouraged to participate in any decision-making to the fullest possible extent . |
| 8 | The children should be given the opportunity to mix with handicapped people , and encouraged to participate in voluntary activities , helping in homes and at social clubs for the handicapped . |
| 9 | The girl sat up again , and began taking in deep breaths . |
| 10 | JOSEPHINE WILLIAMS was introduced to Medau in 1962 by Jean Parmiter and began training in 1963 ; qualifying and commencing teaching in 1966 . |
| 11 | As a result HMS Agamemnon and USS Niagara took their cable on board and began laying in early August 1857 . |
| 12 | She was born in Baltimore in 1915 and began singing in 1930 after moving to New York . |
| 13 | After a moment a girl shyly took them and began counting in twos . |
| 14 | They met in 1968 and began to cohabit in 1969 , although they did not marry until 1978 . |
| 15 | Alicia Penningtion first owned King Charles Spaniels in 1956 and began showing in 1959 . |
| 16 | Margaret Loxton was born in London in 1938 and began painting in 1981 . |
| 17 | They were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in foreign tongues as the Spirit gave them the gift of speech . |
| 18 | Héloise de Rochefort stood very still for a moment , then she covered her face with her hands and began to cry in great , gusty , choking sobs . |
| 19 | At this time , I grew disheartened with the work , and started teaching in secondary school . |
| 20 | In other words , the symptoms were at their worst during the hot , dry summers of the early Eighties and started to improve in subsequent wet summers . |
| 21 | ‘ Go to hell ! ’ she burst out hoarsely and started to fight in deadly earnest , slapping and scratching at him , little cries of panic coming from the back of her throat as her mind flashed back into full operation and she realised with sick fear just how close she had come to the edge . |
| 22 | Then it must have changed its mind , and started to grow in two directions , a narrower tube into the ‘ mouthpiece ’ and a broader one into the ‘ horn ’ , and there is some evidence that the ‘ horn ’ end continued to get wider and longer . |
| 23 | Andrew Puddle , the Wales skipper from Colwyn Bay , won the toss and decided to field in dull conditions . |
| 24 | She twigged what I was driving at … that I suspected Alain had been murdered … and decided to get in first to throw me off the scent . |
| 25 | I would take as one of them the letters in Assyrian characters sent from Persia to Sparta which the Athenians intercepted and managed to translate in 425 B.C. : for surely by Assyria grammata Thucydides must mean an Aramaic text ( 4.50 ) . |
| 26 | In spite of modern climbing gear and boots , present day mountaineering and fell walking in bad weather is still difficult and at times dangerous . |
| 27 | When I left and went to teach in war-torn London , I knew I had been right to make the most of those precious two years . |
| 28 | If a Maori left his tribe and went to live in another district , either through marriage or otherwise , and he and his descendants remained away for three generations , they would forfeit all rights to the land so abandoned ; their claims would become ahimataotao . |
| 29 | In 1970 a large area of bamboo flowered and died resulting in many deaths through starvation in the panda population . |
| 30 | He was slightly built and liked to joke in public about his prominent ears and simian features , though contemporaries were much more likely to be arrested by the large and melancholy brown eyes . |