Example sentences of "and [vb past] [pron] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This romantic view of the Germanic commune had an unconscious effect on Marx and led him to follow those German historians who were trying to reconstruct an old system which they say as smothered by a newer one . |
| 2 | ( 1981 , 1983 ) believed that the greenhouse warming should emerge from the noise level of natural climate variability by the end of the century , and expected it to become noticeable during the 1980s . |
| 3 | I phoned Annie and asked her to cancel both performances today , and those on Monday and Tuesday . |
| 4 | With this in mind , we searched out one of Britain 's leading exponents of the Gothic bodice-ripper and asked her to inject some life into the first ascent of the Eiger 's north face . |
| 5 | ‘ They 'd never heard of me , surprisingly enough , but they went mad over my work and asked me to do some portraits for them . |
| 6 | Dad kissed me on the forehead and asked me to make another pot of tea and he sat down in his chair and smoked a quiet pipe of tobacco looking happier than he had for days . |
| 7 | He gave Sandison the address and asked him to do three things : check that Maidstone was all right , check that he still had his money and give him back his hat . |
| 8 | The Council commended the existing structure to the Secretary of State and asked him to re-consider this as an option for Lothian . |
| 9 | The United Kingdom pointed out that , by letter of 1 March 1983 , it informed the Commission of the problem created by the registration of Spanish vessels and of its intentions in that regard and asked it to put forward measures which would enable the problem to be resolved . |
| 10 | Er , if they say that er , they should be er , a balance or reserve put in by constituent authorities then we will have the money available to do that , if we did n't then they may have frozen the reserves that are already there and asked us to put some more money in as well . |
| 11 | ‘ Things got a bit out of hand when they rang back and asked us talk live to Gerry . |
| 12 | For some reason the simple outfit accentuated her long legs , and made her appear willowy and lithe rather than just bony and flat-chested . |
| 13 | Nevertheless the memory of his stricken face was somehow disturbing and made her feel guilty — a strange and unpleasant sensation that she tried to banish by taking a final look at her patient . |
| 14 | All the same , the image of his isolation remained with her , and made her feel uneasy and even guilty towards him . |
| 15 | It was n't only Simon she pushed over the edge : in that defiant , violent act she was taking revenge on all those people who had ever hurt her and made her feel worthless . |
| 16 | He respected her and made her feel beautiful . |
| 17 | At least everyone there seemed very nice , they had welcomed Lizzy and made her feel secure and wanted . |
| 18 | And then he took the soap from her , and made her stand still under the pummelling water , while very slowly he soaped her , and used the flannel to take the soap away . |
| 19 | The fullness around her forehead balanced her square chin and the waterfall of glossy brown hair softened her angular bones and made her look younger than usual . |
| 20 | It was fun and made me feel useful and wanted . |
| 21 | It stood , white and opulent , like Swiss snow , and made me feel sticky-palmed and uncouth . |
| 22 | For my good lady loved singing and dancing and made me learn both . |
| 23 | Some feeling like that which had attacked Jim Nesbitt last year and made him marry that girl in Durham , who , to his mind , had nothing going for her . |
| 24 | It was obscuring his vision and made him feel faint . |
| 25 | This speech although , shows Brutus to be very sincere and made him gain great admiration from the other conspirators . |
| 26 | Having spent years in prison under the old régime , years that had taken their toll and made him look well over seventy , he got up every morning now , threw open the windows of his apartment , and breathed in ‘ the good clean air of freedom ’ . |
| 27 | Besides , Botha does not defend , which is not really a problem because he stayed miles from his scrum-half , Du Preez , and made him look terrible with a slippery ball . |
| 28 | At times his language turned crude and made him look foolish . |
| 29 | They concluded that by taking people out of their own homes , however modest , they were being removed from conditions which they knew and made them feel secure into ‘ a new social environment in which priority is given to the collectivity over the individual . ’ |
| 30 | But soon he discovered that politicians were more interesting than colonels so he arranged his soldiers as though they were the House of Commons and made them harangue each other . |