Example sentences of "and [vb past] [noun prp] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Collector 's delirium still continued and he was undoubtedly becoming weaker ; because of these continuing symptoms McNab now substituted bark , chloric aether , and ammonia in effervescence for the laudanum and asked Miriam to increase the brandy to half an ounce every hour . |
| 2 | She was running back home when she turned a corner and met John pushing a handcart full of building materials . |
| 3 | McDonald 's Development Company , the European HQ of McDonald 's based in Frankfurt , Germany , staged their biennial 3-day ‘ Bakery Seminar ’ at the Manchester Hilton and commissioned SEL to provide a full simultaneous interpreting service in German and English . |
| 4 | She knows what happened to her grandma and her mother Tiare , who took a beating and made Aleena take the same vow . |
| 5 | The proud people who designed , built , commissioned and operated THORP got the chance to show their families around the huge Sellafield complex . |
| 6 | Its only significant achievements came at the outset , when the Great Powers recognized the legitimacy of de Gaulle 's government and invited France to become a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council — a status which would almost certainly not have been offered , had there been no de Gaulle and no Free France . |
| 7 | She plucked a great hank of silk thread from the girdle of her spinsterhood ; tied one end of it to the wedding ring of her virginity and , looping the two ends of the hank over either wrist , spread her hands and invited Maggie to take the other end and wind a neat ball . |
| 8 | As a sign of respect for the Prince of the Parc , Toulon refused to draw the dressing rooms and invited Biarritz to use the facilities of the French team . |
| 9 | Taking off the net , Robert felt the reflexes then examined the arm and drew Sophie to inspect the damage . |
| 10 | Microsoft 's partnership with IBM has made Bill Gates , Microsoft 's founder , a billionaire and helped IBM become the biggest personal-computer maker in the world . |
| 11 | Finn , also late for dinner , came from the workroom and helped Melanie put the disordered stock away . |
| 12 | In the end , and because Lord Hunter was presented to us as a man of independent judgement , we decided to do so , and advised Meehan to do the same . |
| 13 | Thomas stopped and gestured Corbett to do the same . |
| 14 | As tears began to run down her cheeks Seb dropped the reins and allowed Grye to crop the grass on the verge as he took Carrie in his arms . |
| 15 | Furious , she walked out of the shop with bundles of the offending garment over her arm and telexed Carno to withdraw the pattern from production immediately . |
| 16 | Sophia went up the stairs and heard Rupert leave the house . |
| 17 | I did so and heard Hutton take the call in his office . |
| 18 | In December 1989 Greene postponed the beginning of Poindexter 's trial and ordered Reagan to provide the court with the documents in question so that he ( Greene ) could assess their relevance to Poindexter 's defence . |
| 19 | The coroner stood and watched Athelstan mount the ancient but voracious Philomel . |
| 20 | Doyle drew his restless gaze from the banks of silent consoles , and the rows of operators , many of them girls hardly out of school , and watched Cowley tear the sheet off and finish his cursory read of the contents . |
| 21 | Evans & Sutherland Computer Corp , Salt Lake City , Utah has formed an industrial design unit in Europe and named Peter Keuschnigg the European general manager : the new unit , in Munich , is responsible for sales and support of Evans & Sutherland 's industrial design products in Europe , including the CDRS software . |
| 22 | Probably Tyndall took a design from each and employed Bridges to make the model that bound them all fairly convincingly together as they now stand , each fine in its way but inconsequential . |
| 23 | Henry himself marched into Anjou to carry out a similar policy and sent Geoffrey to do the same in Brittany . |
| 24 | So he talked to you about it , McLeish thought , and saw Catherine register the same point . |
| 25 | The goods were then taken back to Mansha 's home where his girlfriend heard the men and saw Randhawa throwing the stolen jewellery around the kitchen . |
| 26 | And saw Rohmer levelling the automatic directly at the girl 's head . |
| 27 | Downstairs , Julie looked across and saw Stark hit the floor , her attention diverted only momentarily from the blows still raining against the door . |
| 28 | Either side of the interval the tiny striker had chances to convert simple headers but pushed one wide of the post and saw Maxwell claw the other over the bar . |
| 29 | But then the pressure from the gun went away , and very carefully he twisted his head around and saw Bruno clutching a worn old Luger by his waist , shaking it with impatience as he waited for Fraulein Winkelmann to stop yelling . |
| 30 | ‘ The ability to derive quantative data from the core within hours of coring played a significant role in selection of drill stem test intervals and enabled Statoil to maximise the effectiveness of expensive and time-consuming critical processes . |