Example sentences of "and [vb past] [vb pp] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Presumably the synthetic oligonucleotide was taken up by the cells and became bound to the complementary sequence on the viral RNA . |
| 2 | The right of the painter to move around an object and combine various views of it into a single image , first stated in writing by Metzinger in 1910 and elaborated a few months later by Allard , was quickly adopted by most critics as a central feature of the style , and became related to the conceptual or intellectual aspect . |
| 3 | Practically every device of the movies started as a special effect and became assimilated into the everyday language of film , just like metaphor in language . |
| 4 | Some of the poems were written down and became known to the outside world before the end of the eighteenth century . |
| 5 | This was the same fault , as it turned out , which cut off the Bonsor Vein at its northern end , and became known as the Great , or Kernal Cross-course . |
| 6 | The child climbed out of the cab and became caught in the unguarded pto of the attached implement . |
| 7 | It was this message which went out in the eighteenth century , and became enshrined in the First Amendment to the American Constitution . |
| 8 | He was used to sailing with the best and got exasperated with the Soviet crew . |
| 9 | Hebbert joined him and moved left to the obvious beetling crack and groove line he had spotted from below — omitting to pause and wonder why this particular line soared up straight as an arrow , on a route called Curving Crack ! . |
| 10 | She took advantage with both elbows of the luxury of padded arms , and felt soothed by the warm , impersonal darkness , the bovine torpor of those around her , and her own pleased consciousness of wasting time and money when she should have been studying . |
| 11 | These incursions were , however , small-scale and localised compared with the first major upheaval in the life of Tudor Sussex , the Reformation . |
| 12 | The court heard that her husband had become suspicious early last year and had gone to the National Westminster bank asking them not to release any further cheque books . |
| 13 | Two thousand miles to the east of St Petersburg , the boxcar was part of a long train that had started out in St Petersburg a week earlier and had gone along the Trans-Siberian Railway . |
| 14 | He had made some fragmentary notes on some of the competition entries , and had commented on the recent Parliamentary debate at the meeting of the Architectural Photographic Association in February 1859 , at which Street was the main speaker . |
| 15 | When he had left , he had loved them desperately , and had hidden in the stifling furnace of his cabin for days , weeping himself dry . |
| 16 | The defence allege he was still there the next day and had insisted on the compulsory repatriation of Cossack prisoners to Soviet forces . |
| 17 | Yet a consciousness of Anglo-French differences was already apparent — it was based upon irrational prejudices and linguistic dissimilarities , and had existed since the mid to late twelfth century . |
| 18 | ‘ It would have been better if he 'd killed me , and had done with the whole thing ! |
| 19 | It had happened at the rampart by Dr Dunstaple 's house where Cutter had just shot a sepoy the moment before and seen him fall ; at the same instant he had caught sight of another sepoy levelling his musket and had said to the Sikh beside him : " See that man aiming at me , take him down . " |
| 20 | Before the fighting started in 1948 , some Palestinians had even arranged to take a holiday in case of hostilities and had called at the Lebanese consulate in Palestine to pick up a visa for Beirut . |
| 21 | Those taking part included President Mitterrand ( who had condemned the " particularly abject " attack at Carpentras and had called on the French people to " pull themselves together " ) , Prime Minister Michel Rocard , and other members of the government and senior politicians excluding the FN . |
| 22 | The Foreign Ministry claimed that the ship , which was flying the Greek-Cypriot flag and had sailed from the Bulgarian port of Varna , was found to be carrying arms including grenade launchers and mortars , which were not registered in its documentation and were probably destined for " terrorist groups " . |
| 23 | All that was in essence known to HQ 5 Corps was that the greater number of these people were " Cossacks " or " Russians " making up various units who had found themselves in Austria because to a greater or lesser extent they had been associated with the Germans , and had surrendered to the British in the hope that they might thus avoid falling into the hands of the Communists . |
| 24 | In many ways this was a sensible policy since even if Danzig had not been made a Free City and had remained within the long arm of Prussia , the local economy was too poor to maintain it for long ; a German Danzig would still have been forced to rely upon a distant Vistula hinterland . |
| 25 | Polish television reported on April 20 that the Citizens ' Movement for Democratic Action Party ( ROAD ) , established in July 1990 by Solidarity supporters [ see pp. 37620-21 ] , had dissolved itself and had re-formed as the Democratic-Social Movement . |
| 26 | She had seen pictures in books and on television of gaudily painted narrow boats and had warmed to the romantic life they portrayed . |
| 27 | The other two Commandos were Bretons and had served in the French Navy . |
| 28 | He had prowled contentedly in and out of the vestry and bellroom while she got on with her chores , had watched critically while she had arranged her six daffodils eked out with foliage in the vase at the foot of the Virgin , and had viewed with the bland indifference of childhood Miss Wharton 's frequent genuflections , obviously taking these sudden bobbings to be one more manifestation of the peculiar antics of adults . |
| 29 | These benefits had been a source of rising discontent and had contributed to the electoral success of the Republicans [ see above ] . |
| 30 | He could not afford to make mistakes ; all his life he had been at pains to learn and understand how ordinary people live and had delved into the seamier side of human nature , but he was still very unworldly . |