Example sentences of "and [vb past] [pron] [vb past] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anyway , if such a well-bred person was unlucky enough to be afflicted with one of these ailments , he was more likely to consult some understanding physician privately ; and so it was largely the dirty and damned who attended the special clinics . |
| 2 | He tried to remember what the weather had been like in the last week and realized he had no idea ; like many city-dwellers he had moved from flat to car to office without registering any variation . |
| 3 | He also spoke of an occasion when , dressed in his archbishop 's robes after some function , he had hailed a taxi to go home and realized he had no money . |
| 4 | ‘ We collected 30 bags of rubbish in one day , and realised we had a serious problem , ’ he says ‘ From then on I decided to blitz the village a couple of days every week . |
| 5 | ‘ I turned round one day and admitted I had a problem , ’ he said . |
| 6 | ‘ I turned round one day and admitted I had a problem and booked myself into a clinic . ’ |
| 7 | Anyway , I never thought , I just run out the kitchen and got we switched the electric off , and I just got four buckets of water and chucked it on the bed and then said to Rudy , you know what , we have n't got nowhere to sleep now ! |
| 8 | Her friend came in and said ‘ Reach for the sky ’ and pretended he had a gun and she played along with him right up to the time they left together . |
| 9 | However , as professionals they were not content to act as mere checkers , but felt that they had an obligation to express an opinion of the work they saw before them , and found they had an extraordinary agreement with the views of Burn , much to the resentment of other judges . |
| 10 | General Montgomery , who had been brought back from Italy to take a very prominent part in the ‘ D day ’ operation and the subsequent advance through France , Belgium , Holland and Germany , had been appointed Field Marshall and found himself considered a hero of the people , wherever he went . |
| 11 | She secured her garage door and , having decided to walk round to the front of the building to find out what Naylor was so furious about , she turned around — and found she had no need to go anywhere . |
| 12 | Dr Nick Walters , exercise physiologist at the University of Westminster , tested Margaret on his Futrex 5000 computer , which analyses body muscle , fat and water , and found she had a fat proportion of 28 per cent — well above her recommended level of 22 per cent . |
| 13 | They did a DNA-fingerprint test and found he had a bus-load of people in him , linked it to some guy who was in the toilets under Centre Point the day before hiring rent boys but he did n't want the full business just wanted them to wank into this bottle thank you for your contribution young man every little bit helps going to a good home thank you mind how you go … |
| 14 | He sneaked a look at her , and found he had an excellent view of the back of her head ; she was staring out of the passenger window at the darkening vista of St James 's Park . |
| 15 | And , er , and my father actually looked up the year before and found he knew the S H M , an old school chum , and he sent us a ticket . |
| 16 | Led by this hint they opened the ground not far from the wall ; and not much more than a foot away from the surface they found a leaden envelope which they opened in two places , on the face and breast , and found it contained a human body wrapped in cerecloth : Upon removing what covered the face , they discovered the features , and particularly the eyes , in perfect preservation . |
| 17 | On one of their visits , there was an uncanny , if hilarious , echo of the kind of political and religious turmoil experienced by Olive 's family in years gone by One day they were boarding a boat and noticed it contained a large number of sticks , shaped like rifles . |
| 18 | He picked up the bird and noticed it had a ring on its leg , so he wrote down the number and passed the information on to me . |
| 19 | I went to the shed , got the kite , walked a way along the dunes and assembled it battered a tent-peg into the ground , tied the nylon tcJ it , then flew the kite on a short string for a while . |
| 20 | Then the Philharmonic had some crisis and claimed they needed an extra rehearsal elsewhere . |
| 21 | Why had n't she told a white lie and claimed she had a licence ? |
| 22 | When at length she lifted her head and sniffed he produced a spotless hankie . |
| 23 | I went to Grenoble and discovered they had a small project on the outskirts , which had been a piece of wasteland ; they ploughed it all down , replanned it , had a complete new housing estate , hotel , the lot , in less than five years , where the City Council would be thinking about which bit of land to use , what to put there , how to do it , and ten years later they might think about producing a plan , and ten years after that ( that 's twenty years on ) something would appear . |
| 24 | A BOMB disposal squad was called to blow up a suspect suitcase at Whitby railway station at the weekend — and discovered it contained a cornet and sheet music . |
| 25 | Milcolm McIllvoil being called compared and confessed he practised a charm with a string and some words he spoke within the compass of the string for the rickets possession and any other sudden distemper which he did practice by putting a lint thread to his breath and repeating the following words within the compass of it . |
| 26 | Milcolm McIllvoil being called compared and confessed he practised a charm with a string and some words he spoke within the compass of the string for the rickets possession and any other sudden distemper which he did practice by putting a lint thread to his breath and repeating the following words within the compass of it . |
| 27 | ( Gubbins suffered from chronic dyspepsia , smoked fifty cigarettes a day , and confessed he found the world intolerable without a glass in his hand . ) |
| 28 | Compared Angus Brown in Scarbus and confessed he practiced a charme by uttering some words with a string he held to his mouth which string was to be bound about the hand of the sick person . |
| 29 | Compared Angus Brown in Scarbus and confessed he practiced a charme by uttering some words with a string he held to his mouth which string was to be bound about the hand of the sick person . |
| 30 | When the meat had shrivelled and curled they waved the sticks in the cold air for a minute , unskewered it , blew off the coating of ash and tossed it from hand to hand until it was cool enough to eat . |