Example sentences of "[adj] and [vb past] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sky was clear and studded with stars , The three-quarter moon lit a silver path across the inky water . |
| 2 | Haig Thomas and I arrived in Addis Ababa on 8 September 1933 and stayed with Dan and Chris Sandford on their farm at Mullu . |
| 3 | Economic Ministers of the six-member Association of South-East Asian Nations ( ASEAN ) met in Kuala Lumpur , Malaysia , on Oct. 7-8 and agreed on proposals for economic co-operation arrangements , to be submitted to the ASEAN summit meeting scheduled for late January 1992 in Singapore . |
| 4 | Yvonne was slim and muscled in shorts and T-shirt . |
| 5 | The strange brooding power and expectation in some of Moore 's statues is this emotion , carved and chiselled into stone . |
| 6 | Sales of land began about 1540 and continued until Stuart times . |
| 7 | And he was ever so pleased — puffed and strutted like Joe Brown had a serious rival . |
| 8 | His eyes were brown and dulled by drugs , his temperature , and anxiety . |
| 9 | At least 54 people , including several children , died when the DC-10 split in half and exploded at Faro Airport . |
| 10 | The six other chelas were all illiterate and came from villages . |
| 11 | It lies on a prominent gravity high on the east shore of Lough Neagh : perhaps not surprisingly , it found no Carboniferous and passed from Permian into Lower Palaeozoic grits . |
| 12 | The chapel at St Mary 's Priory of the Little Sisters of Pity was cold and damp and smelled of candlegrease and incense . |
| 13 | Although a Rural Leases Bill designed to benefit tenants was placed before the Cortes , it was only half-heartedly pursued during 1932–3 and sank without trace when Azaña resigned from office in September 1933 . |
| 14 | Graham Bamford , 48 , from Macclesfield , Cheshire , emptied a can of petrol over himself , flicked a lighter and exploded in flames in London 's Parliament Square as MPs in the nearby House of Commons debated the Bosnia crisis on April 29 . |
| 15 | And gambol with the natives : penguins and southern seals , charming and unafraid of mankind in this frozen and beautiful world . |
| 16 | The time-path to period t + 18 is summarised in Table 2 and graphed in Fig. 9 . |
| 17 | She saw him look down at her and saw that his skin was raw and flayed in places ; the arm of flesh and blood was scraped and scorched and the silver arm on the other side was reflecting the tremendous heat , so that it was copper coloured and glinting and must be causing him immense pain . |
| 18 | As the Temple was desecrated , according to the most probable chronology , about December 1 67 and reconsecrated about December 164 , we must take it that the correct interpretation of Daniel is the latter , amounting to about three years , which is in rough agreement with the " time , times and half a time " of the previous chapter . |
| 19 | The HRD practitioner should stress that this statement is not a list of short-term objectives and should monitor the writing process carefully to ensure that the statement is sufficiently detailed and focused on behavior . |
| 20 | In December 1984 a Constituent Assembly ( elected the previous July in preparation for a return to civilian government ) drafted a new constitution based on that of 1965 ; this was approved in May 1985 and came into effect in January 1986 . |
| 21 | The first of these was ‘ From Coping to Confidence ’ , published in 1985 and intended as guidance for staff working with students who have moderate learning difficulties . |
| 22 | The breeze was chill as always , but she scented something different and faltered between steps . |
| 23 | More recently the roach seemed to disappear , the bream , tench and carp became more prevalent and grew onto specimen size . |
| 24 | At the time , Davide found the two women funny ; they shrieked at one another and squealed like animals at the slaughter themselves . |
| 25 | On the first day of a two-day visit to the United Kingdom , de Klerk saw the UK Prime Minster , John Major , on April 22 and appealed for help in winning investment . |
| 26 | The present chapel was built by William Middleton in 1825 and opened by Bishop Peter Baines on May 18th. 1825 . |
| 27 | There was brawn , a meat boiled with sugar and cloves , thickened with cinnamon and ginger and garnished with boar ribs . |
| 28 | The first Lome Convention was signed in February 1975 and came into effect in April 1976 ( see pp. 27050 ; 28047-48 ) ; its successor , Lome II , was signed in October 1979 and came into effect in January 1981 ( see pp. 30700-02 ) ; and Lome III was signed in December 1984 and became fully operational in February 1985 ( see pp. 33485-87 ) . |
| 29 | It was warm and sprang to life immediately . |
| 30 | The counterpart to Burke 's General Armory is Papworth 's Ordinary of British Armorials , published in 1874 and reissued in London in 1985 . |