Example sentences of "and [vb past] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They laughed a little hysterically , and whispered to each other to be quiet and then laughed again , drunk with the joy of touching hands and the scent of their bodies in the dark . |
| 2 | Slowly , they got together at the far end of the house and whispered to each other . |
| 3 | In the dim light the gold and strong colours glittered and glowed with rich intensity . |
| 4 | ‘ High interest rates … have dampened consumer expenditure and impacted on retail spending , ’ says the chairman , Geoffrey Maitland Smith . |
| 5 | So they sat on a blanket and clung to each other , tears streaming down their cheeks . |
| 6 | Within an hour and a half , the Exxon Valdez had eluded the coastguard radar tracking system and plunged at full speed on to the rocks of Bligh Reef , rupturing eight cargo holds , each big enough to house a 15-storey building . |
| 7 | But Mr Salinas 's people are acutely aware that lack of competition and cosiness with the state have resulted in the squandering of billions and led to insufficient capital investment . |
| 8 | Thus as the sale of council houses in the early 1980s produced sizeable capital receipts , and led to substantial capital ‘ overspending ’ , the proportion which could be used to supplement capital receipts was reduced ( standing at 20 per cent by 1987 ) . |
| 9 | These results may also be seen as offering some tentative support to the contention that the greater flexibility now permitted in fee setting , coupled with the ability of architects to establish themselves in a wider variety of organisational forms and to advertise more freely , has essentially lubricated the market and led to greater efficiency . |
| 10 | It used to be considered a deformity in other breeds and led to automatic culling , but in several continental breeds it is now selected for , although it can lead to problems in calving and perhaps fertility . |
| 11 | For the weighing machine operators the new technology had increased communication with the ovensman , and led to smoother production and less pressure from management . |
| 12 | And led to increased instability in the in in the population in the flats . |
| 13 | This , coupled with the corruption and favouritism of many of the officials who administered it , made it widely unpopular and led to much evasion of the obligations it imposed . |
| 14 | Meanwhile the paper imposed a 4 per cent pay deal , sweetened with merit money , an action which further inflamed feelings and led to industrial action and set Monday 9 October as the date when all would be revealed . |
| 15 | In terms of changes , they more strongly believe that the review has changed allocation of resources , improved resources and led to in-service training . |
| 16 | Such restraining views are typical of many that are fully justified by the emphasis upon process studies that characterized the 1960s and 1970s and led to smaller investment of resources in historical studies and to the fear that process studies will not profitably link back with chronological ones — in fact there are many indications that such links are happening again including the way in which physical geographers who have been mainly concerned with processes and modelling are moving towards evolution . |
| 17 | For the last four years of his life he suffered periodic attacks of the same symptoms , which damaged his kidneys still further , and led to high blood pressure . |
| 18 | A combination of the country 's high external debt and recently introduced liberal economic policies has severely increased the numbers of unemployed and led to mass migration from rural to urban areas . |
| 19 | The effects of the economic burden which children imposed were felt first in the middle classes , for a variety of reasons , and led to significant family limitation in the late nineteenth century , as Banks 's ( 1954 ) classic study shows . |
| 20 | Meanwhile , since the early 1980s the movements of home-owners to the South has become increasingly difficult as the pressures for net in-migration from the rest of Britain and overseas has outstripped the rate of new house building and led to massive inflation in the price of houses and land with planning permission ( Champion , Green and Owen , 1987 ) . |
| 21 | After a pause Perkin put his back towards Gareth and his face down near mine and asked with perfect calmness , ‘ Do you know who shot you ? ’ |
| 22 | I turned , and asked with real interest , " What did I hear you call me ? " |
| 23 | She swallowed the mountain that had lodged in her throat and asked with thin sarcasm , ‘ Why , has n't she told you ? ’ |
| 24 | He got on to the internal phone and asked for petty cash , not specifying any amount . |
| 25 | So he turned into Gambrinus 's and sat himself down at a small ironwork and marble table , and asked for some water . |
| 26 | On May 13th , after days of heavy selling by the markets — and heavy buying by Spain 's central bank — the government suspended its obligation to defend the peseta , and asked for another realignment of the system . |
| 27 | As requested I wrote and asked about self-catering accommodation at the conference and I received a reply saying that there 's one house that erm she 's come across that she thinks might be particularly suitable for us . |
| 28 | He told himself that the man was arrogant , self-satisfied , and smelled of after-shave stuff ; Helen was an idiot to let him pester her like this . |
| 29 | The car had a bench seat in the front and smelled of warm leather and old cigarette smoke . |
| 30 | Arty was sitting up in bed , his hair shining from a liberal application of something that looked and smelled like perfumed vaseline and came from a jar labelled Easi-Gro . |