Example sentences of "and [vb past] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | BRAVE Princess Diana put two weeks of torment behind her yesterday … and beamed this smile of relief . |
| 2 | They took a prominent part in the repulse of the Austrian attack in this sector in June 1918 , and countered this attack by raids on Austrian positions , in which they took several hundred prisoners . |
| 3 | That is to say , Libyans whose families had settled in the cities some generations before were perhaps exempt from this process ; but the majority of Libyans made their history in the same way , and shared this picture of the past . |
| 4 | Having escorted Felicity Suvarov around St Mark 's cathedral , Julia had gone back to the Danieli hotel and shared some lunch with her . |
| 5 | It 's enough to make you drive all the way to south-west France and strew some beetroot on the lanes . |
| 6 | Douglas , disappointed , had of course been prepared for this also , and wasted little time in cursing . |
| 7 | He was waiting for her outside and wasted little time in virtually hustling her outside to where his car was waiting for them . |
| 8 | This exile might have been permanent had Swegen not died in February 1014. Æthelred was invited back , and wasted little time in expelling Cnut and his army from their Lincolnshire base . |
| 9 | But yesterday as they gave the clenched fist salute of the Spanish republican army and planned another ceremony next year , they smiled a smile of inner satisfaction at having taken part in a fight which they had no doubts was well worth fighting . |
| 10 | In fact , of course , I did criticise them , although out of fear of my father I took the easier route and voiced that criticism upon my mother . |
| 11 | Closing my eyes , thinking that it might be either the sun or the Pernod , I waited a few seconds and chanced another look . |
| 12 | I embroidered a design and laid some flax on a scarf , and put it through the needles . |
| 13 | The 1966 ALPAC committee report on machine translation systems concluded that human translation was superior in terms of speed , accuracy and cost , and recommended that funding be curtailed . |
| 14 | Yakovlev realized this , and recommended that party men be sent out in large numbers from Moscow and the guberniia towns . |
| 15 | The Jay Committee reported in 1979 and recommended that nursing staff working with the mentally handicapped should be replaced by holders of a new social work qualification , that numbers of staff should be doubled and care transferred from hospitals to homes . |
| 16 | Then he left them and joined a small local firm of advisers , contacted me again and recommended another insurance company — Scottish Amicable . |
| 17 | We needed and expected that money . |
| 18 | There was obviously some sort of sexual element to it but I just did n't know what to do next and expected this man , who was about two or three years older than me , to , in some way , tell me or indicate to me and so I followed him without talking to him . |
| 19 | They would press for the international allocation of quotas , as well as mail and air freight , and expected some Commonwealth and European support . |
| 20 | I drank my tea , and attacked another chocolate eclair . |
| 21 | He said that Dodman had been suffering from a mental illness which could have affected his behaviour and asked that Dodman be sent for psychiatric help . |
| 22 | They gawped at Min and asked each other what on earth it was . |
| 23 | The link between German agreement to EMU and their demands on political union was made explicit , and became another condition for their agreement . |
| 24 | The controversy , like the 1986-87 international airport scandal [ see p. 35766 ] , pitted the Prime Minister 's two sons , Lester and Vere Bird , against each other and became another aspect of the ongoing struggle to succeed their father as Prime Minister . |
| 25 | When he came back , they sipped their coffee and avoided each other 's eyes . |
| 26 | ‘ It 's two years since I last lined up on a grid , ’ Vitor said , ‘ and since then I 've refused to give interviews and avoided all contact with the media . |
| 27 | Kevin tried a few years ago and failed this time … he aims to make history … and if he does we 'll be there … |
| 28 | Since Raymond-Berengar was married to the been of Aragon and ruled that kingdom in his wife 's name , he might have taken the title of king , but refused to do so , saying that it was better to be known as the greatest count rather than the seventh greatest king . |
| 29 | Charles and Frances joined the exodus to the bar and met another couple coming towards them . |
| 30 | Her philosophy of life changed when she was 17 and met this girl who was from a really weird and fucked-up background , but who was ‘ so positive ’ . |