Example sentences of "and [vb past] of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was red and smelled of perfume . |
| 2 | The floor of the barn was cold stone and slimy and smelled of engine oil and damp cereals . |
| 3 | Much more so than the place she had visited in London , which had been dark and smelled of incense . |
| 4 | The chapel at St Mary 's Priory of the Little Sisters of Pity was cold and damp and smelled of candlegrease and incense . |
| 5 | Dimly lit , permanently blacked out , they had become dirty and dingy and smelled of neglect . |
| 6 | At the end of his tirade he seemed curiously tired , and emptied of invective . |
| 7 | Halberds would also be easy enough to manage , and although the pike was normally eighteen feet long and made of ash , there are records of women engaging successfully in pike-pushes . |
| 8 | They might be sorted according to any combination of these , such as things which are ‘ green and made of metal ’ , but such sophisticated sorting is seldom within the range of the very young child . |
| 9 | Etching vessels should be shallow , tightly-closing and made of polythene or similar soft plastic . |
| 10 | It had suddenly found itself desperately short of a special washer — waxed and made of felt — that is a vital bit in the detonation process inside the RAF 's latest 1,000lb bombs . |
| 11 | The table he sat at was circular and made of pine or what Hilbert and Adam 's father had called deal . |
| 12 | The box was a musical one and made of silver . |
| 13 | Everything smelled and tasted of asphalt , petrol , car exhaust and sweet ice-cream . |
| 14 | And Rose of course . |
| 15 | I did not have to pretend that he was a great man : by his acts , his understanding , and his solicitude , and by the example he set and maintained of standards higher than those of his fellows , he showed himself to be one . |
| 16 | The story was obliquely based on the death of Philip 's father and told of miners digging their way to their trapped workmates . |
| 17 | He revealed details of the royal couple 's unhappy marriage and told of Diana 's bulimia . |
| 18 | It is recorded of a Bishop , who was a strong Sabbatarian and disapproved of Sunday trains , that he was puzzled by statistics showing that train accidents were no more frequent on Sundays than on weekdays . |
| 19 | The tide appeared to be shifting back to this higher test for in two cases ( at least ) the courts expressly adopted that criteria and disapproved of Lord Hewart C.J. 's formulation . |
| 20 | Of the late Cdr Boakes , however , we can report that he contested 28 Parliamentary elections , tried unsuccessfully to prosecute Prince Philip for careless driving ( and the Queen for aiding and abetting ) and disapproved of fireworks and homosexuals . |
| 21 | And gambol with the natives : penguins and southern seals , charming and unafraid of mankind in this frozen and beautiful world . |
| 22 | Treatment for all these patients was standardised and consisted of correction of dehydration by the administration of World Health Organisation glucose oral rehydration solution supplemented by parenteral fluids where necessary . |
| 23 | It was chaired by the ubiquitous Beaverbrook , and consisted of Lords Cranborne and Leathers ( Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs and Minister of Transport , respectively ) , Sir Stafford Cripps ( Minister for Aircraft Production ) , and Sir Archibald Sinclair ( Secretary of State for Air ) . |
| 24 | In that last respect , however , they were like practically everyone else on the island , which may in itself be a reason why we should not be quick to decide that their behaviour lacked political significance , and consisted of antics . |
| 25 | Now that Cadfael came to think of it , less than usual had been seen and heard of Jerome for the past few days , ever since the evening when he had been discovered on his bed , quaking and sick with bellyaches and headaches , and been soothed to sleep by Cadfael 's stomachics and syrups . |
| 26 | Pre-empting an expected attack , Yeltsin praised the decision of the Fifth Congress [ see p. 38537 ] to grant him extra presidential powers , and warned of chaos if they were removed . |
| 27 | Some , including the eldest , Robert , were to be famous for recusancy , whilst others , like Clement , were convinced Puritans ; Nicholas [ q.v. ] was indicted and acquitted of treason in 1554 . |
| 28 | It was in that confusing time when half the articles were informed by feminism and talked of career and independence , while the rest still showed a very rigid ideal of feminine beauty . |
| 29 | Miss Brighteyes was a debutante who , to her host 's grief , drank lemonade with her caviare and gossiped of dresses and weddings while she ate terrine de foie gras . |
| 30 | He gave , and demanded of others the highest standards of performance . |