Example sentences of "and [vb past] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | New York : THE United States ' worst winter storm of the century killed at least 66 people and paralysed the east coast of the country , closing motorways and airports and leaving millions without electricity , officials said last night . |
| 2 | Eudo summoned all his strength , as if he could stand the pain no longer , and whispered a name . |
| 3 | One of the businessmen sniggered and whispered a comment to his neighbour , who burst into raucous laughter . |
| 4 | These cars once graced the highways of mid-America and cruised the strips of countless towns and cities across the United States . |
| 5 | He fought Christ 's battles there for ten years — it must have been like our brave missionaries now going into the wildest and most uncivilised parts of Africa — because the pagan King Morken was his enemy and envied the fame of Kentigern . |
| 6 | Eardwulf met and countered a succession of threats from rival aethelings in the first years of his reign . |
| 7 | Groups from Long Sela'an are still blockading Samling 's logging roads , declaring that the company has scared away the game and polluted the rivers . |
| 8 | Aluminium poisoning became famous in Britain when on Wednesday 6 July 1988 a 20-tonne lorry-load of aluminium sulphate was poured into the wrong tank at Lowermoor treatment works and polluted the water supply of Camelford in Cornwall . |
| 9 | Two years later he joined Simon of Montfort when the latter returned to England and reimposed the Provisions . |
| 10 | I think he expected that to be the end of it , since he continued to be surprised and concerned every time lesbianism came up , in whatever form , over the following seven years . |
| 11 | A third party should be entitled to assume that a person in an authoritative position within an organisation is competent to bind the organisation , and the organisation should not be able to plead violation of an internal rule unless ‘ that violation was manifest and concerned a rule of its internal law of fundamental importance . ’ |
| 12 | The commercial settlement was with the South Western Regional Health Authority and concerned an alkali silica reaction — concrete cancer — in the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital . |
| 13 | The tenant argues … that , inasmuch as the tenant 's obligation to pay over the deposit on the execution of the lease was an obligation to secure the performance of covenants which touched and concerned the land , it was an obligation inextricably associated with covenants whose benefit and burden would pass with the reversion in the lease respectively . |
| 14 | The origins of this legislation were particularly protracted , and concerned the question of rural amenities ; ‘ town and country ’ now became the customary title for Planning Acts . |
| 15 | From January to July my contacts with the family were infrequent and concerned the progress of the two older boys . |
| 16 | Francis & Francis and concerned the police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 . |
| 17 | I think that I must assume the existence of some person in the defendants ' employment who accepted and appropriated the money with a full knowledge of all the facts , particularly the discussion which had preceded the institution of the action , and the pending of the action itself , who knew and realised that the right of the defendants to receive the money was at the moment sub judice , and indeed on the point of coming before this court for decision . |
| 18 | The eight youths had each drunk up to 15 cans of lager and shared a bottle of Pernod before rampaging through the village of Alverstoke , Hants . |
| 19 | He found that they were suddenly eating pizza and jokingly said oh they might have got him one , so one of them used a police car to take him to the nearest all night pizza place and then he walked back to the airport and waited , having done a deal with the one taxi driver who was there , and he and shared a taxi , arriving home c. 0215 and then proceeded to have a meal of a MASS of pasta and sauce previously made by me , and of a type which both boys always ask day in day out when here or there ! |
| 20 | A down-at-heel English journalist , Charles Beadle , lived nearby and shared a passion for gardening with Beatrice . |
| 21 | Maddison and Shearer arrived at the Dell from their native north-east at the same time and shared a house when they were virtual unknowns . |
| 22 | They left Oxford in 1921 , with seconds in modern history , and shared a flat in London while establishing parallel careers . |
| 23 | Riven blinked , and shared a glance with Bicker . |
| 24 | Tudhoe St Charles primary school won four of the six events in the last cross-country race of the season for youngsters from Spennymoor and Ferryhill , and shared the honours for two other events with Rosa Street school . |
| 25 | I have been helped by mentors , women and men , at various stages in my career and I have a very strong network of people who have given me advice and support when I 've needed it and shared the ups and downs . |
| 26 | I would be honoured if you sat a while with us and shared the ch ‘ a . ‘ |
| 27 | We danced , and shared the can of champagne . |
| 28 | Every member was both producer and owner , all provided labour power and shared the products of their labour . |
| 29 | A specially trained team tortured a single victim ; each member of the team reinforced the others and shared the responsibility . |
| 30 | Britain was a member of SEATO , the US alliance organisation in the region , and shared the US interest in containing the Asian spread of communism . |