Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] [vb past] [verb] and [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the last forty years of the nineteenth century three generations of artists chose to live and work in the area , including Daumier , Daubigny , Corot , Renoir , Cézanne , Berthe Morisot and Pissarro , not to mention Van Gogh , who died at Auvers-sur-Oise in 1890 . |
| 2 | After half an hour 's walking the Age of Dinosaurs had come and gone , and by midday we were deep into the Palaeozoic . |
| 3 | But you get in nowhere without a pass , applications for which are vetted by the Special Branch , and this year hundreds of passes went missing and had to be queued for . |
| 4 | The vast majority of officers learned to grin and bear it . |
| 5 | A group of reporters stood gossiping and smoking nearby , their shoes sunk deep into the muddy field , their faces reddened by the wind . |
| 6 | The huge trees offered shade from the sun , but their deep sprays of leaves seemed to trap and intensify the heat of the day . |
| 7 | The silver paper stars pasted over nipples had peeled and slipped to the bottom of the case , leaving the pouting , overdeveloped girls with gluey smudges on their breasts . |
| 8 | It was only when lapidaries had discovered how to release the fire of diamonds by cutting them at angles devised to admit and reflect the maximum amount of light that the coloured varieties of transparent stones were subjected to the same treatment . |