Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] and [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The old program may be recovered with the OLD command provided no new program lines have been typed in or deleted and no variables have been created . |
| 2 | Within a few days most of the patrols had either been killed or captured and the enemy occupied their rendezvous at Bir Fascia . |
| 3 | Thoresby 's contents were duly auctioned or removed and a major historic ensemble was completely dispersed . |
| 4 | Then the fit passed or paused and a voice said tightly but proudly , ‘ Hugh Sixsmith ? ’ |
| 5 | Instead of wingnuts the easel has nobs which can be easily loosened or tightened and a ratchet handle which keeps the easel stable . |
| 6 | Instead of wingnuts the easel has nobs which can be easily loosened or tightened and a ratchet handle which keeps the easel stable . |
| 7 | The relationship between citation and use is particularly complicated , and it is not yet known what factors determine which items in a collection will be read or cited and the relative importance of age among them . |
| 8 | The line numbers in the list may be constants or calculated and the " unwanted " ones are skipped without calculation . |
| 9 | She neither bowed nor smiled and the words were grave but her eyes , he thought , seemed to gather all that was left of the best of the sun . |
| 10 | Everyone laughed and clapped and the music started to play . |
| 11 | It works through meanings , certainly , or not without meanings in the ordinary sense , and fuses the old and obliterated and the trite , the current , and the new and surprising , the most ancient and the most civilised mentality . |
| 12 | The vehicle had been stolen and recovered and the number plates have been . |
| 13 | Inert , mute , untouchable , she seemed uncanny and prodigious to Rosa , who wanted her to protest the hectic fury all around her , to come alive and give a sign , as , below her , the volunteers hauling the lumbering shrine on their backs on poles criss-crossed and tethered grew more obstreperous and howled and the crowd pressed up and obstructed their laborious way ahead ; after three turns around the piazza they at last reached the platform in the middle , only a little distance from the Duomo they had left , and the sweat-streaked bearers put down the skewed tower on which the Madonna stood , and tumbled to their knees . |
| 14 | The woodwork , once painted white but now faded to a dingy cream with a grey deposit in the crevices , was chipped and scuffed and the pattern of leaves and flowers on the stair carpet had long since been reduced to a brownish blur . |
| 15 | Arms salesman ; okay the Avenger the Equaliser the Total Fucking Nutter went for the legs too but still , and the editor spiked , and the rapist-lenient judge raped and the pornographer poisoned and stroked and the man who was so callous about the bloodshed in the Iran/Iraq war forced to watch his penned animals die like cattle like soldiers like cattle and then bled to death in his own private fountains of blood and the businessman who put profits before safety and not only helped kill a thousand people but then tried to get out of paying the survivors and dependants any compensation gets his own gas explosion — blevey is the technical term apparently — and fuck me whoever he is ( assuming he is a he ) , he 's got a sense of humour or at least irony why he 's produced what 's almost a snuff video effectively a snuff video if you mean brain-death anyway it 's the closest anyone will admit to ever having seen or found one even the Obscene Pubs Squad who 've been looking for years but although everybody assumes they exist nobody 's ever seen one until old gorilla man comes along and just makes his own , specifically to warn off any other porn merchants thinking of dealing in snuff ! |
| 16 | It is envisaged that these arrangements shall remain in force until initial expressions of interest have been received and analysed and a decision taken regarding the handling of the next stage of the formal sale process . |
| 17 | They are well preserved and maintained and the rampart walks are accessible , giving interesting views into the town and out over the surrounding countryside . |
| 18 | She sat back on her heels and watched with pleasure as the flames surged and roared and the twigs sparked and crackled up into the wide opening of the chimney . |
| 19 | Her arm throbbed and burned and the bruised cheek ached intolerably . |
| 20 | ‘ One firework somehow went wrong and exploded and a fragment hit the baby . |
| 21 | Adolf Hitler 's ruthless occupation policy across Europe and the discovery of the concentration camps ensured that Germans were loathed and hated and the destruction they suffered was seen as deserved . |
| 22 | The revolver bucked and flared and the figure before him leaped and fell back with outflung arms . |
| 23 | The existing building has been carefully restored externally : the brickwork on the Holyrood Street elevation was cleaned and repaired and the render on the rear elevation was largely replaced and painted white . |
| 24 | Forests are destroyed , cattle reared and slaughtered and the land left infertile . |
| 25 | The fire was burning steadily , the flame of the oil-lamp dipped and bobbed and the sweet smell of incense filled the air . |
| 26 | ‘ This played for at least 10 minutes and finished and the phone went dead . |
| 27 | She 'd been wanting to slip away today , away up the river and over the hill to a clear pool where the girls swam and giggled and the boys shifted like shadows among the trees . |
| 28 | Her period then came early and flooded and the symptoms were severe enough to warrent a new prescription ( the Staphisagria was n't helping ) which came out to Millefolium . |
| 29 | The lads on the shore cheered and waved and the wives , mothers , daughters , and Ranald , sighed in resignation . |
| 30 | All the salient points of Upton Sinclair 's story were dealt with in the film : the struggle of immigrant families , the careless methods in the food factories , the strike and riot following a 20 per cent wage reduction , and above all the main themes of the distinction between employer and employed and the ‘ wide and bridgeless chasm ’ between rich and poor . |