Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] [vb past] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even though , forged before the introduction of recoil mechanism , they bounced back and had to be relaid after each shot just like cannon of the Napoleonic era , the elderly French 155s cracked and thundered with remarkable accuracy . |
| 2 | Another five thought that talking about it was a waste of time . |
| 3 | However , all this said and done , just as historians and archaeologists are today able to reconstruct the meaning of obsolescent forms of recording such as hieroglyphics or the structure and form of ancient buildings through the analysis of postholes , one must not underestimate the ability of future generations to decode the electronic records that are being created by today 's society . |
| 4 | By the end of April over 30 people were reported to have been killed in the violence and many hundreds injured or arrested . |
| 5 | In a curious visionary text of the seventh century , Barontus , a monk of St Cyran , is told by St Peter not to hide his possessions , but instead to give away twelve solidi , each one weighed and signed by a priest , for the good of his soul . |
| 6 | ‘ The reaction from my clients and business contacts was tremendous — perhaps some of them wish they had done the same — and one senior partner from the Big Six wrote and told me that his mother had been a great friend of Lady Reading , the WRVS 's founder , and that until he was 15 he thought all women dressed in green ! ’ |
| 7 | Short of employment , barring a difficult business of protecting his brother 's interests here , as Waleran is protecting Robert 's over in Normandy , as well as he can , this one enjoys putting the fox among the fowls , especially two such spurred and hackled cockerels as your prior and Ramsey 's Herluin . |
| 8 | The other three turned and ran . |
| 9 | The other three turned and bolted off down the stairs . |
| 10 | He was old , bent , bearded , and one man was holding him back while the other two kicked and thumped him . |
| 11 | He paced the apartment in silence ; the other two sat and watched in fear . |
| 12 | In 1851 Common claimed that imported McCormick machines he saw were ‘ exactly like the one I had made 40 years before ’ . |