Example sentences of "and [vb past] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On abortion , the Committee accepted the medical view that any abortion entailed danger to life and health and recommended only a clarification of the law to allow therapeutic abortion on health grounds . |
| 2 | As he took his handkerchief out and wiped away the water that was still dripping from the front of his hair , a voice said , ‘ I would n't drink that if I were you ; the cows wash in it just round the corner . ’ |
| 3 | Willie peered in the window and wiped away the mist his breath was making on the glass . |
| 4 | The librarian fetched a checked duster , and wiped away the dust , a black , thick , tenacious Victorian dust , a dust composed of smoke and fog particles accumulated before the Clean Air Acts . |
| 5 | Er er but the second time the police came and asked quite a lot of questions about it . |
| 6 | In the first day of the war , the Americans and their allies had flown hundreds of sorties against Iraq , dropped thousands of pounds of bombs and met virtually no resistance . |
| 7 | Then she dried her tears and read aloud the epigraph Orwell had chosen for Homage to Catalonia to make sure her voice would not betray her . |
| 8 | Copies were to be sent to all sheriffs , who were to publish them to the people ; others were to be kept in all cathedral churches and read twice a year . |
| 9 | Furse set out to create a Service which would be ‘ a corps d'elite to which … the best type of man … will feel it an honour to belong ’ , and in time and according to his lights , he brought practice into line with theory and made good the boast that those whom England sent out to govern the colonial empire were her finest sons . |
| 10 | It was there to be used , insofar as you had it ; and when you were short , you worked a little harder , and made good the deficiency . |
| 11 | Jenny Pitman 's Do Be Brief stepped onto a racecourse for the first time in the first division of the Christmas Pudding Novice Hurdle and made quite an impression in beating Sailor 's Luck , but not half as big as his stable-companion Egypt Mill , who looked something special in landing the second division by 10 lengths . |
| 12 | The gardener narrowed long , grey-blue eyes and made never a move . |
| 13 | There at Bruges negotiations , which had been initiated by the papacy in 1374 , foundered on the issue of sovereignty over Aquitaine and produced only a succession of fitful truces until April 1377 . |
| 14 | The tip slid through the tweed and penetrated about a quarter of an inch into the fleshy part of the leg . |
| 15 | In 1969 he formed a committee to raise funds and got together a band of volunteers who transformed the churchyard . |
| 16 | She turned in a swirl of nylon jersey , and flung wide the door to the study , where the subsiding glow of the fire still burned . |
| 17 | An enquiry , chaired by Mrs Justice Butler Sloss , was set up in July 1987 and reported exactly a year later ( DOH , 1988 ) . |
| 18 | On another occasion , a cow made a mad dash from a herd being driven along Crane Bridge Road , managed to dive onto the slope leading to the old ford by the bridge , took off in the Harnham direction and swam almost a mile before the drovers caught up with her . |
| 19 | She does high-impact classes 2-4 times a month , dabbles in Callanetics and swam once a week for a month . |
| 20 | The Luggage yawned , and moved forward a fraction of an inch . |
| 21 | The area of paper is decreased slightly each day and moved nearer the door . |
| 22 | He turned from Bristol without regret and entered again the West Somerset landscape of coast and hills over which , very soon , he would become a persistent and delighted explorer . |
| 23 | Gloucestershire clothiers in 1756 " laid the chain four or five yards longer on the bar " and stopped altogether an allowance of two shillings the price which they had been paying for " stopping " ( repairing ) the cloth . |
| 24 | And it helped that Grant never let us down financially , and phoned home every day . |
| 25 | Telford drove piles in behind the lock walls and bolted together the iron plates to make the lock both stable and watertight . |
| 26 | Marc wore a non-commital expression , and as soon as they were seated he reached inside an inner pocket and drew forth an envelope . |
| 27 | Their other recommendations were radical and changed completely the face of juvenile justice in Scotland . |
| 28 | Robert referred to the recommendations and suggestions made by Alison Precious and Karen Jessop after the time they spent working on the reception desk and mentioned particularly the question of resiting the switchboard . |
| 29 | He told her of the visit to the farm , reminded her of the discovery of the swan and the bird 's skull ( though he knew this was taking a chance after her first , alarming reaction to the news ) , and mentioned again the note and the feather in his room . |
| 30 | In 1798 Caballero , ‘ the enemy of enlightenment ’ , swept the intellectuals and ‘ Jansenists ’ from office and instilled anew a fear of France and progress in the court . |