Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] of [noun] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is better to judge him on his reappearance run at Chepstow when , despite being 11 kilos overweight , according to trainer Martin Pipe , he easily disposed of Run And Skip , with Little Polveir beaten out of sight . |
| 2 | The single dead Prussian infantryman , his uniform already looted of food and coins , lay by the bridge . |
| 3 | The systems of communication of our primate ancestors presumably consisted of words and short sentences ( but what I have to say would hold even if only gestural sequences were involved ) . |
| 4 | I still dreamed of food and the convivial , outdoor feast , but I no longer took full part in the proceedings . |
| 5 | In April 1102 the pope still spoke of homage and investiture in equally uncompromising terms , but by the end of the year a change of emphasis is observable . |
| 6 | Thirty days after symptom onset , he still complained of weakness and myalgia , but his pneumonia had been cured , his oral candidosis had disappeared , serum p24 antigen was undetectable , HIV-1 antibodies were detectable by EIA and WB , CD4 and CD8 counts were 343/L ( 26.7% ) and 516/L , respectively , and his platelet count was 285×10/L . |
| 7 | She obviously thoroughly disapproved of holidays and spent all her time polishing the plastic . ’ |
| 8 | In the main , they both consisted of boys and young men who were rather more reluctant to join in the ritual chanting and singing and were even less keen to get mixed up in the aggro . |
| 9 | Two years ago , she nearly died of pneumonia and a blood disorder . |
| 10 | For he often smelled of scent and powder which had been transferred to him from one or other of his dolly-birds . |
| 11 | The men and women I met often spoke of regret and loss — not a nostalgia for the past , those glazed memories that falsify the hard history of the working people by claiming that the past was better . |
| 12 | She found him uncouth and dirty and he often smelt of abattoirs and of the chicken carcases or sides of beef he had been painting . |
| 13 | She turned and walked the long clicking walk down the floor ( the shop strangely quenched of sound and movement ) , tugged back hard on the glass door and with a shake of shiny hair had passed into the random straggle of the street . |
| 14 | Cramped working positions were a fact of life for miners in the narrow seams , but other trades too complained of cramps and " craft palsies " including saddlers , sawyers and nail makers . |