Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] and [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ‘ enlightened classes ’ failed to appear and respond to a creed forged in their supposed interests : the propaganda of luces could no more create in Spain a bourgeoisie in the French image than the propaganda of free trade , half a century later , could create an English middle class . |
| 2 | Dacourt stopped speaking and gaped like a carp . |
| 3 | Consequently , and inevitably , all junior officers were drafted there to do their stint in the overcrowded , overheated and noisy halls of the new airport which seemed to expand and change in a bewildering chaos of new cement and plaster board overnight . |
| 4 | Not since she 'd tossed and turned with a soaring temperature at the start of the glandular fever had she endured such a ghastly night . |
| 5 | However , out of its ruin , yet composed from its constituent parts , a new machine began to thrive and grow with a power of its own . |
| 6 | He began shouting and screaming in a total panic . |
| 7 | And when father came and took mother for his wife , to live with her and to take care of her , the little egg began to grow and grow into a real little baby . |
| 8 | The siren began to waver and died on a single drawn out discord . |
| 9 | A tragic process began to unfold and faced with a entrancement they could not understand , officials made a series of misjudgments that would end in an even greater loss of life . |
| 10 | And then he began to laugh and scream like a man who was mad |
| 11 | I stayed in a flea-ridden inn whilst outside the sea began to seethe and boil under a sudden black storm . |
| 12 | All these constituents needed fusing and moulding into a unity in his mind . |
| 13 | Six months ago I started smoking and put on a lot of weight because I was constantly nibbling . |
| 14 | His mouth kept opening and shutting like a mechanical shovel , but no words — not even a direct appeal to the Lord Jesus Christ to be excused this experience on health grounds — passed his lips . |
| 15 | He even managed to stand and walk in a new way . |
| 16 | She managed to escape and ran to a lorry parked nearby where she banged on the door to attract the driver 's attention . |
| 17 | John learned to read and write at a local school . |
| 18 | The defendant did leave and worked as a milkman for a competitor of his former employer . |
| 19 | ‘ I had to sit and listen to a lot of boys acting as over-privileged plonkers , ’ said Ms d'Argy Smith , whose magazine forked out £1,000 to back the end-of-term debate . |
| 20 | The ceremony was thus quite depressing when I had to sit and listen to a boring , unknown , dreary , old codger who was ‘ GIVEN ’ an honorary degree — which course did he attend ? |
| 21 | I used heavy orange nylon fishing-line for the string , wound round a specially made drum for the winch , which I had strengthed and fitted with a chest-brace . |
| 22 | The High Street had been left to the pimps and the down-and-outs , and in the ancient College grounds where once the Black Friars had taught and studied in a universe made of crystal spheres , there was only the clang and clatter of brake couplings and buffers . |
| 23 | He had chartered and paid for a Learjet from the Hansa operation two weeks before for the same trip , LaGuardia to Acapulco . |
| 24 | For a moment there she had looked and sounded like a rockhard loan-shark reclaiming an ugly debt . |
| 25 | And he had looked and behaved like a wild Indian , Carew thought with a feeling of wonder . |
| 26 | She had come and gone like a shadow . |
| 27 | The diagnosis was complicated as four days earlier a 14 year old boy from the same school had collapsed and died after a short illness of severe diarrhoea , which proved to be due to a fatal Salmonella enteritidis infection . |
| 28 | When all the hot bitterness in him had cooled and congealed into a hard and reasoned purpose , and he had command of his face and his voice , he sent for his secretary , and dictated a letter to his council at Westminster . |
| 29 | Then , just as if the world had frozen and stopped for a moment , she saw the woman in the driving seat , face white , eyes glassy with shock , the mouth stretched in a grimace which looked like terror . |
| 30 | The temporary nature of her job , staying only a few weeks at any one place , meant she had met and worked for a wide variety of men . |