Example sentences of "and [vb past] [pers pn] [adj] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | They crowded round the Bookman , apart from Mr Rumback who had fallen asleep in all the excitement , and asked him hundreds of questions all at once . |
| 2 | In these heady days , Gould 's greed surpassed even his own bounds and made him capable of an ungentlemanly lack of sportsmanship . |
| 3 | And made him one of the leading authorities on the fourteenth century , which was arguably the most terrible century that had ever been , at least until the present one . |
| 4 | This enabled him to tell old jokes as if they were new and made him one of the ‘ all time great ’ story tellers . |
| 5 | ‘ So we set to work on the pictures , enormous ones and little gems which would all go in the modern interior , and made them full of off-white and near-pink . ’ |
| 6 | There were several questions I would have liked to have put to them , but had I done so I would have altered the environment for them and made them hyper-conscious of their limitations . |
| 7 | The immediate popularity and novelty of ITV 's programmes forced the BBC to review its output and made it aware of the need to survive in an increasingly competitive environment . |
| 8 | Her eyes lit up when she opened it and found it full of farthings . |
| 9 | The pool that had been so jarringly empty when I took my premeditated dive into it with Terry , I fell into with Toby and found it full of champagne . |
| 10 | He had worked so long on it and filled it full of malicious remarks at Gina 's expense . |
| 11 | The occupying forces set up a puppet government and proclaimed it independent of Russia . |
| 12 | ‘ The Professor came to see me yesterday evening , and told me all of it . |
| 13 | Miss Harker recoiled from the small spidery apparition , but recovered quickly and granted him one of her smiles . |
| 14 | The man in the room withdrew his arm and shook it free of slivers before turning the gun around ready for use . |
| 15 | After the second or third week of starting his course , Leonard asked to speak to Professor Dudek , and showed him some of his own poetry . |
| 16 | Dr Griffiths spoke first and showed us some of his own cine films of steam runs mainly in the 1970s . |
| 17 | He explains : ‘ This is because Alex Ferguson helped me on my way in football when I was 14 years old , and taught me most of the things I took with me from Aberdeen . ’ |
| 18 | GEORGE HERRINGSHAW/ASP Bryan Gunn : ‘ Alex Ferguson helped me on my way in football when I was 14 years old , and taught me most of the things I took with me from Aberdeen ’ |
| 19 | Walking carefully he crossed the room and pulled it clear of what lay beneath it . |
| 20 | Maggie asked breathlessly , sitting wide-eyed and making no move to stop him when his hands went to her hair and pulled it free of the restraining band . |
| 21 | She felt comfortable in casual clothes and wore them most of the time , but she found herself wishing that , just for once , she had put on something rather more dressy . |
| 22 | He reached down , gripped the limp corpse of the driver by the blood-sodden collar of its coat , and heaved it clear of the car one-handed . |
| 23 | Kate smiled , making them conspirators , and offered him one of her menthol cigarettes . |
| 24 | Then he found her mouth again and gave her another of those butterfly-light kisses . |
| 25 | Some were real scrambles and gave me hundreds of grey hairs . |
| 26 | But though he had taken all my poetic power , and gave me some of his in return , he still remained himself , his own man , his own poet . |
| 27 | Ruth put the shell away in the safest pocket of her waterproof , and gave him one of the chocolate bars . |
| 28 | I Dreamed more bullets into the gun , and shot him full of more lead . |
| 29 | Unless of course the chaps in the secure wing of Rampton Psychiatric Hospital have at least decided that the old boy is an outstanding danger to modern life and pumped him full of Largactil . |