Example sentences of "[adj] and [vb past] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So maybe the Indians understood this and tipped up the raft because they were trying to kill Father Firmin ( me ! ) so that Father Antonio would survive and baptise them . |
| 2 | Uncle Basil was amused by this and rigged up a device like a stone age " Comeback tennis " only with an old composition cricket ball . |
| 3 | You accomplish this and set up the cups again . |
| 4 | Despite warnings of impenetrable ice , the crew of Knox-Johnston 's boat , the Suhaili , found the fjord clear and continued up the more problematic Watkins Fjord , dodging icebergs to reach the starting point for the climbing section of the expedition . |
| 5 | Both country 's leaders were from the same generation Clinton is 46 , Major 49 and came up the hard way , she added . |
| 6 | W H Smith acquired it in 1903 and carried out a major expansion and refit in 1907 . |
| 7 | Stephen Galway grabbed a superbly crafted winner with 11 minutes on the clock after a bizarre own-goal and cancelled out the Scot 's opener . |
| 8 | The Soviet parliament voted the address unconstitutional and set up a special committee , dominated by Communist hardliners , to send a formal appeal to the Russian parliament . |
| 9 | It is difficult to define accurately what it was like for , although it still exists , it has been damaged , altered and restored so the original design has been obscured . |
| 10 | At 3.00pm we staggered onto the summit after endless moves of II and III and guzzled down the orange juice . |
| 11 | He would attempt the impossible and set up an airline from scratch in three months . |
| 12 | On the first note of the following eight-bar break I took the first step , missed the second and somersaulted down the rest , orchestrated by drum rolls and cymbal crashes as the rest of the band dissolved into discord . |
| 13 | Despenser , made chamberlain of the king 's household in the autumn of 1318 , was son of an old servant of the king who was also called Hugh , but the young man was greedy and tactless on a scale which surpassed Gaveston and alarmed and alienated particularly the lords of the Welsh Marches ( where he laid claim to extensive lands ) and drove them into uneasy alliance with Lancaster . |
| 14 | Duncan and Lisburn 's Neil McGrann were side by side after 50 metres , but it was the Ards swimmer who produced that little bit extra and came home a comfortable winner in a time of 1.10.13 . |
| 15 | Guruji took over the building in 1963 and hung out a simple sign with the inscription Manasik Chikitsa Kendra — ‘ Centre for the Treatment of Mental Illnesses ’ . |
| 16 | But Mrs Porter 's back was turned as she unplugged and packed up the vacuum cleaner , and the very private smile Tom telegraphed across the room to Belinda told her more than the most sweetly worded compliment could have done . |
| 17 | He came to Europe in 1948 and returned again the following year when his familiar blue and yellow Maserati was a regular sight at Grand Prix on the continent . |
| 18 | ‘ Be a dear and put out the cat ’ , ‘ This train timetable may help you ’ and so on . |
| 19 | Although the family ties were not very close , we have always been very friendly and spent quite a lot of time together . |
| 20 | However , if it was too weak and watered down a version of Presbyterianism for the Scots , it none the less proved far too rigid and alien for the majority of the English laity . |
| 21 | His attitude was childlike and brought out the full force of her anger against the vultures waiting beyond the door . |
| 22 | Improv provides business an professional users with a unique set of capabilities for dynamic viewing and analysis , and , for building spreadsheets that can be easily reused , modified and shared over a long lifecycle . |
| 23 | Rain lifted each and saw how the dark blobs of their shadows stretched to magnified shapes as she held and turned them . |
| 24 | However , the Government 's approach , conditioned by the sole objective of reducing expenditure , was far too narrow and attacked only the soft underbelly without reaching the heart of the problem . |
| 25 | Instead it capped the advanced further education pool for 1979–80 and set up a Working Group to examine the future management of the pool . |
| 26 | By the time Mary was ready to go , her uniform was dry and showed only a faint mark or two . |
| 27 | Furious that a rare kind word from Nathan Bryce could so easily demolish the façade of efficiency and confidence she had worked so desperately hard to maintain , she blinked hard and sucked in a deep breath . |
| 28 | She never moved as I nipped hard and winkled out the offending obstruction . |
| 29 | Heavy dark green velvet curtains were partly drawn across these and allowed only a single column of light to enter the room . |
| 30 | She claims her alleged victim was confused and made up the whole story . |