Example sentences of "and [vb past] [pers pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | … a round shot struck a seaman at one of the guns near them on the breast and laid him dead on the deck , before he had time to utter a groan . |
| 2 | When they were bulging-full , he stitched them closed with a curved needle and woollen thread and laid them ready in a pile . |
| 3 | Iorwerth reached out of the leaves for him and choked him mute , but the damage was done . |
| 4 | Afterwards he washed the tin out in the stream , splashed water over his face and hands and wiped them dry on a handkerchief . |
| 5 | She prised it out of its little grave and wiped it clean . |
| 6 | Lord Justice McCowan said he found it quite impossible to hold that Mr Hurd 's political judgment — that the appearance of terrorists on programmes increased their standing and lent them political legitimacy — was one that no reasonable home secretary could make . |
| 7 | Duncan slung his small case on to the bed and zipped it open . |
| 8 | He knew he had simplified the matter when he said the six thousand would be sent abroad to the War — simplified it and coloured it blood-red . |
| 9 | She kissed and blessed him and hugged him close , and it seemed to the uneasy watchers that she would after all change her mind . |
| 10 | The grandmother had ‘ a wee shop ’ and the aunt was ‘ a dressmaker , she made dresses and sold them cheap , round about the doors . ’ |
| 11 | The qualities I had cultivated to help me through , such as diligence , such as dignity , such as keeping my peace , had been , after all , weapons which isolated me and made me loathsome . |
| 12 | The sun moved , came on me , and made me erotic . |
| 13 | That is until we stopped for a toilet break in a lay-by , when the howling gale and torrential rain lashed our naked bottoms like a Cabinet minister in a Soho sauna , and made me glad to be back in the car beside the sleeping-bags . |
| 14 | His long silence worried me and made me frightened . |
| 15 | It was despairing and made him uneasy for a long time afterwards . |
| 16 | His abilities impressed A. C. Headlam [ q.v. ] , principal of King 's College , London , who secured lectureships in ecclesiastical history ( 1905–11 ) and patristics ( 1911–18 ) for him and made him sub-editor ( 1903–18 ) and later joint editor ( 1921–7 ) of the Church Quarterly Review . |
| 17 | In these heady days , Gould 's greed surpassed even his own bounds and made him capable of an ungentlemanly lack of sportsmanship . |
| 18 | The hardness of Pharaoh 's heart : several times in these chapters God is said to have hardened Pharaoh 's heart and made him obstinate ( 4:21 ; 10:1 ; 20 , 27 ) . |
| 19 | He called Whittaker to his office the following Monday morning and made him chief trainer , waving aside protests of inexperience and of indignation at Hardy 's sacking . |
| 20 | Pietersen , a kindly man , invited the apparition in and made him welcome . |
| 21 | The tone irritated Carey , and made him impatient . |
| 22 | They also failed to take him seriously , and made him angry , but he has carried on the struggle . |
| 23 | He checked and stood amazed , half afraid to believe , and the colour of incredulous joy flushed through his fairness and made him bright as a rose . |
| 24 | And made him sick . |
| 25 | Had clear rules and made them explicit |
| 26 | Whether , for instance , concepts such as ‘ ethnicity ’ , ‘ class ’ , ‘ politics ’ are ‘ culture-free ’ , that is whether academics have succeeded in freeing them from their narrow everyday cultural uses and made them available for cross-cultural use , is a question of judgement and , ultimately , of ontology . |
| 27 | And the colour was protection because ill fortune weakened its victims and made them vulnerable . |
| 28 | In the summer of 1789 , after Wordsworth had become an undergraduate at St John 's College , Cambridge , a long visit to Dorothy at their uncle 's house in Norfolk confirmed between brother and sister a profound emotional sympathy which remained with them through life , and made them certain that , one day , they wished to share a home . |
| 29 | When they disembarked at Algeciras , the Spanish customs officers searched the car and made them open their luggage . |
| 30 | One county , Kopparberg , has handed over most of its budget to family doctors and made them responsible for buying services from competing providers . |