Example sentences of "[verb] and [vb past] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the guns were still being fired , a Syrian tank came lunging up the shattered street where we had just been walking and entered the tiny square . |
| 2 | The Samaritan stopped , helped and rescued the unfortunate traveller . |
| 3 | All too often the old system created barriers to work and penalised the thrifty . |
| 4 | Right : Philip designed and made the circular dining table using smoky blue glass |
| 5 | In 1826 he was appointed resident engineer to the London docks where , over the next nine years , he designed and executed the Eastern dock , with the associated warehousing , entrance locks , bridges , and other works . |
| 6 | The son of King George III , as Prince Regent , was renowned as a connoisseur of elegant living and of art treasures , also architecture and was the patron of the architect , John Nash , who designed and built the famous Regent Street crescent in London 's West End , and other developments around Regents Park , also the equally famous Brighton Pavilion . |
| 7 | Okland was interviewed in one of the papers on why Frank was included and mentioned the strong Turkey game and also spoke about Frank not playing in Leeds : ’ Frank not playing is strange . |
| 8 | As her subjects prepared for action , she encountered and noted the physical hardships that prevailed , notably the intense cold . |
| 9 | As her subjects prepared for action , she encountered and noted the physical hardships that prevailed , notably the intense cold . |
| 10 | This sudden fame impressed and disturbed the whole school , including the teachers , who called Charlie ‘ Girlie ’ . |
| 11 | She felt constrained to sit and light-headed when she rose and crossed the long boards to fold back the shutters and open the windows wide . |
| 12 | Corbett rose and gulped the cool night air . |
| 13 | From Semer Water I crossed the road and followed the track above the river Bain through summer meadows , by stiles , some of which were gated and had the rubber soles from wellington boots for hinges . |
| 14 | Task Force Atlantic also attacked and seized the main military prison , freeing some 48 prisoners who had been arrested by Gen Noriega after the abortive coup against him on October 3 . |
| 15 | En route we fried and ate the well tenderised cod — this was filmed with plenty of zizzle track — and I drank to the loss of another illusion in the Scotch that will never be seen in Saudi Arabia . |
| 16 | It is a happy custom of this House that , on this occasion , the Leader of the Opposition congratulates those hon. Members who moved and seconded the Loyal Address . |
| 17 | They stopped and examined the half-inch gap between Armstrong and the pink Zephyr . |
| 18 | As they approached and noticed the unlit chillim , one of them passed us her tinder , commenting with a smile that they 'd got here just in time for all of us : they needed a smoke , and we needed a light . |
| 19 | Harsh treatment by the Romans over the next two years transformed the refugees into a people fighting for survival , and in 378 they defeated and killed the Roman Emperor , Valens , at the battle of Adrianople . |
| 20 | On 26 August he abdicated and recognised the Democratic Republic of Vietnam . |
| 21 | I expected him to continue , but he knelt and pushed the rusty metal through the brightly coloured rope that bound the fortune-teller 's waist . |
| 22 | Thus two developments could threaten this society of thrifty peasants , most of whom could read and write : the division of holdings — a process that custom prevented in the Basque Provinces — and an assault on the commons that created and sustained the municipal community and the egalitarian society . |
| 23 | Sounds as if the guy is suffering from Hemingway Syndrome : ‘ computers may see their silicon lives flash before their eyes , so to speak , just before they die , ’ Prodigy Services Co suggests , reporting that physicist Stephen Thaler of McDonnell Douglas Corp has been playing with neural networks as a way to speed diamond crystal growth but while by day , he created and trained the neural nets , by night , he began annihilating them to see what would happen , randomly severing links , and when between 10% and 60% of the links were destroyed , the network regurgitated nonsense , but as it approached death , 90% of the connections severed , it generated distinct values that had been trained into it , and at times even output ‘ whimsical ’ states , where it would generate values that were neither trained nor ones that would appear in a healthy net , says Thaler , who thinks it may say something about near-death experiences for humans — ‘ It may not just be fancy biochemistry , ’ he suggests . |
| 24 | And over all hummed and shimmered the warring coloured adverts for Spiderglass and Madreidetic and Usines du Rhône with a dozen others belting out music and olfacts that dizzied her to nausea . |
| 25 | Before this , the judges themselves , and especially the Master of the Rolls , whose responsibility it was seen to be , considered and made the necessary recommendations to the Department on the staffing and other administrative arrangements of the courts . |
| 26 | The air-gargoyles gently sucked and puffed the aromatic smoke into strange curlicues as if sketching the features of potential daemons which might lurk outside the hull . |
| 27 | For 400 years after this the Romans enslaved , organised and civilised the enormous area of their known world , which encircled the Mediterranean and stretched from Spain in the west to the Black Sea in the east , from Britain in the north to Egypt in the south . |
| 28 | I join the hon. Member for Copeland ( Dr. Cunningham ) in paying tribute to my right hon. Friend the Member for Worcester ( Mr. Walker ) and my hon. Friend the Member for Thanet , South ( Mr. Aitken ) , who proposed and seconded the Loyal Address . |
| 29 | Detectives are working on the theory that he could have arrived home to find his flat in Bisley Court , Darlington , being ransacked and paid the ultimate price . |
| 30 | We also installed and operated the concrete batching and mixing set up for St Mawgan with a site presence backed up from the Plymouth Depot . |