Example sentences of "[vb past] and [verb] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tiny pieces of skin shrivelled and cooked on the red-hot ring and wisps of smoke rose into the air . |
| 2 | A lecturer visiting a student on teaching practice tells of being mistaken for a parent and being kept standing in a cold corridor while behind a closed door the head shouted and screamed at a tearful child . |
| 3 | " Come on , lads , round the track ! " he shouted and pointed to a broad earthen path which circled the park . |
| 4 | In the case of this well-liked fatherly brigadier , it was common knowledge that , although he would accept his chauffeuse 's six shillings , he would then pay all other expenses in order that she would be wined , dined and accommodated in the same style as himself . |
| 5 | Our data is collected , validated and checked by a 120 strong team — using multiple sources to ensure reliability . |
| 6 | A rare chance to see our experiences as women validated and endorsed on the big screen in a powerful and yes , entertaining movie about a subject that matters profoundly to us . |
| 7 | In the previous section we described and accounted for the unequal distribution of wealth in Great Britain in terms of the ownership and control of forms of private productive property . |
| 8 | It was postmarked Manchester , the paper was poor , and the writing scrawled and dipped across the stained envelope . |
| 9 | The Shadowlands crumbled and disappeared below the hungry waves . |
| 10 | Dave spun the truck round and we crashed and bumped along the rough track . |
| 11 | It 's a word we use to talk about masses of undifferentiated humanity — like buying a pound of whitebait for your supper , rather than , say , 341 little silver fishes that once frisked and swam in the dappled shallows of the ocean . |
| 12 | It 's a word we use to talk about masses of undifferentiated humanity — like buying a pound of whitebait for your supper , rather than , say , 341 little silver fishes that once frisked and swam in the dappled depths of the ocean . |
| 13 | Her breasts rose and fell on a shaky little breath and a fierce warm ache assailed her loins , the pit of her stomach , her innermost being . |
| 14 | The ferry was in ; it rose and fell on the swelling Grönsund . |
| 15 | He rose and fell on the sickening see-saw of his terror and delight . |
| 16 | Its legs were splayed out at awkward angles on the rug , and its flanks rose and fell with the deep breaths of sleep . |
| 17 | The Ironclaw Orcs lived around the Iron Rock for many years , and their fortunes rose and fell with the accustomed regularity of Orc tribes . |
| 18 | Over and over again , for twenty-five minutes , the heads rose and fell before the final triumphant cry of Allah hu-Akbar ! |
| 19 | Her breasts rose and fell in a deep sigh . |
| 20 | Despite the swell the water was smooth and dark and oily , with great masses of weed which rose and fell in a slow rhythm . |
| 21 | Pascoe watched a globe as it glowed in the darkness , then rose and fell in a sizzling arc . |
| 22 | No , that was not what Jean-Claude had in mind , and he rose and went inside a played a few bars of something by Scriabin . |
| 23 | I rose and walked to the other side . |
| 24 | I stood staring at the jeep as it bumped and swayed over the uneven ground of the orchard until it reached the road and then disappeared in a cloud of dust . |
| 25 | Today , the active ingredients of leaves , roots , gums , seeds , etc from many countries are extracted , purified and supplied to the pharmaceutical industry throughout the world by a factory not a million miles from Murrayfield rugby ground in Edinburgh . |
| 26 | Why should the same multitude who invoked blessings on the son of David rejoice in seeing him mortified and humiliated by the hated Roman oppressors ? |
| 27 | His face moved continually , different expressions rippling and flowing across it as if he really were a sea creature , moved and swayed by the changing tide and currents in water , in continual motion — flickering from smile to grimace to pain to peace , eyelids half rising to reveal a sea-shell sightless crescent of pearly blue-white , lips parting then closing , breaths shuddering and shivering him as if air were too strong and coarse a medium . |
| 28 | Both sides now were in need of respite ; peace endured until 1369 when the French , refreshed and led by a new and able young monarch , Charles V , confronted the English whose king was on the verge of senility and whose government was divided . |
| 29 | Most of the urgent safety spending is required on the southern half of the line , which was relaid , resignalled and electrified in the 1960s . |
| 30 | This cooled and condensed into the solar planets , which were later themselves subject to more distortion by the Sun . |