Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] and [vb pp] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He opened his eyes , his consciousness hazed and slowed by the kif he had smoked , and focused with difficulty on the watch on the bedside table . |
| 2 | As executive producer of the mini-series version of Shogun , broadcast in the '70s , he ensured that each episode began and ended with a shot of the paperback edition on of the novel with his name in big letters . |
| 3 | BGS 's involvement in the Geotechnical Control Office marine fill study continued and increased as the Hong Kong government expanded the search for offshore sand and gravel deposits . |
| 4 | While still centred on Greek tragedy and associated topics , the plan began and ended with a wide range of other subjects from Buddhism to modern culture and education , from Schiller and Goethe and their drama to the generalities of " art " , " religion " and " science " ; the Greek items went from " Dionysus and Apollo " to " Plato against art " , via the central " music and drama " The plan contained no Greek items unrelated to tragedy , or the birth and death of tragedy , which makes it the earliest of Nietzsche 's plans to define the scope of the Greek material as eventually realized in BT . |
| 5 | Armour glinted and dazzled in the sun ; banners bearing the gules and lozenges , lions , wyverns and dragons of the noble houses , fluttered in the faint summer breeze . |
| 6 | Aunt Margaret 's curly , black handwriting skipped and hopped on the paper because Melanie 's eyes were so tired . |
| 7 | The canvas overhead snapped and cracked in the wind , the supporting poles quivering with the strain . |
| 8 | She eased on her jacket when the taxi came and sprawled on the back seat , watching the garlands of Christmas lights slung across the streets . |
| 9 | The landlord turned and spat into the dirty rushes . |
| 10 | Thunder rumbled and echoed in the stairwell . |
| 11 | Two cream crackers with Flora margarine , followed by one fresh apple diced and eaten with the skin on if possible after it has been well washed . |
| 12 | Antoine Bloye is not simply the story of the life of a father recounted and explained by a communist narrator for the edification of a son . |
| 13 | It was postmarked Manchester , the paper was poor , and the writing scrawled and dipped across the stained envelope . |
| 14 | The creature writhed and grimaced in the most horrible manner , malignance imprinted in its every contour . |
| 15 | The anger surged and dropped like an errant tide . |
| 16 | as if the father spoke and acted through the son . |
| 17 | A junk-shop , where a withered , pale woman sat and knitted by a paraffin stove among broken old things — pitchers , candlesticks , a few books , a sagging chair , a limping table , a chipped enamel bread-bin full of cracked saucers . |
| 18 | My mother used to tell me how Grandmother scrimped and saved during the summer months so that precious golden sovereigns could be put away in a padlocked wooden box to ensure survival during the next winter . |
| 19 | Outside the Barbican , the National Gallery is mounting ‘ Edvard Munch : the Frieze of Life ’ ( 12 November to 7 February ) which focuses on the cycle of paintings of that name which the artist codified and modified over the years . |
| 20 | ‘ A 20th century Paladin ’ , cried US News World Report , a magazine that seldom let itself get too excited ; ‘ He stands alone as the sacrificed knight in the Iran-arms gambit , a true believer steeled and scarred by a lifetime of have-gun-will-travel missions . ’ |
| 21 | One must remember that Galileo was part of the Renaissance , the centuries-long ferment accelerated and intensified by the invention of printing in the middle of the 15th century . |
| 22 | A commercially-produced greetings card , with a colour photograph of a handsome and well-muscled man blindfolded and tied to a pillar , had clumsily printed across it : You made me love you . |
| 23 | Use a fine-tooth saw and cut at the shallowest angle possible . |
| 24 | A second later — and I mean one second — the derailleur sheared and jammed in the rear wheel , leaving me pedalling air one moment and swimming in a pile of dead leaves the next . |
| 25 | And yet , she thought , as they picked their way gingerly along under the stooping eaves of the alley that led to the rear of St Chad 's church , to avoid the running kennel thawed and filled by the morning showers , the finger of God had intervened in her life only yesterday , and might again lean down to point out for her an acceptable and fruitful way . |
| 26 | In the nineteenth century , Italians and Alsatians heading for the New World arrived and departed via the great Paris terminals . |
| 27 | The steward turned and spat on the ground . |
| 28 | ‘ The simple case , ’ said Nikos , ‘ is that the matter began and ended with the Zikr . |
| 29 | Fuchs went to jail leaving behind him a world shocked and horrified by the prospect of atomic warfare . |
| 30 | A siren wailed and faded into the sounds of general traffic below prompting them to action . |