Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] [vb pp] [conj] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And Tammuz had yelped and cried , ‘ What the fuck is that ? ’ |
| 2 | Miss Kenton had entered and said from the door : |
| 3 | The pace of change and innovation which the latter had initiated with his new Science Block in the 1950s , and which Scott had continued and quickened during his years , was now reaching its logical conclusion with the taking over of the Convent buildings and the admission of girls in September 1980 . |
| 4 | Sylvie had shrugged and gestured carelessly towards the telephone . |
| 5 | Tawell had panicked and fled . |
| 6 | Edward had conceived and arranged the exhibition himself and was aware that it lacked verve : he was not good at these things . |
| 7 | Mrs Dempster had dusted and washed the picture , and Moore could now see it quite clearly . |
| 8 | Moreover , he said , Picasso had discovered and ruined the traditional potteries at Vallauris which now turned out only nasty ash-trays with distorted bulls and gross doves . |
| 9 | For instance , in the squatting ‘ demoiselle ’ Picasso had dislocated and distended the various parts of the body in an attempt to explain it as fully as possible , without the limitations of viewing it from a single , stationary position . |
| 10 | Whereas before , in 1906 , Picasso had simplified and reinterpreted the human form in a more empirical fashion under the influence of archaic sculpture , now he explains it rationally in terms of simple self-contained planes differentiated by the use of a consistent light source . |
| 11 | Alexander had smiled and risen to his feet to kiss her lightly on the cheek . |
| 12 | In the late 330s , after Alexander had entered and taken over Egypt , his officer Peukestas son of Makartatos put up what is the earliest Greek documentary papyrus from Egypt . |
| 13 | By the early 1970s the CNAA had established and reviewed policies ; framed a pattern of degrees and made the revisions which resulted , for example , in the adoption of the degree and degree with honours , branching from a common foundation , to replace the essentially two-track ordinary and honours structure ; and arrived at a broad and growing diversity of subject areas to validate , with a potential to make a major contribution in additional areas . |
| 14 | Mutely Tutilo had fetched and carried , brought water and cloths , fetched candles and lit them , willingly sustaining the presence of death . |
| 15 | Dressed in black with a white shirt , her blue-black hair severely braided under a black Córdoba hat , she was the very image of the brother whom Maggie had seen and dreamed of so long ago . |
| 16 | Bewildered , Wilson turned and saw Mrs Browning had coloured and seemed embarrassed . |
| 17 | Meanwhile Russia had re-equipped and enlarged her army to an astonishing degree , considering her antiquated and corrupt administrative system . |
| 18 | By the end of the Regency period , England had produced and patented many different types of external rendering , which today is generally referred to as stucco . |
| 19 | When Ruth had brushed and pinned up her mistress 's red-brown hair , which always shone as though newly burnished , she thought how lovely Mrs Carson looked . |
| 20 | Ruth had nodded and smiled and Fernando had kissed the tip of her nose . |
| 21 | " Oh , you 've got a Kestos brassière — quel absolute chic , " Lally picked the bust-bodice out of the pile of underclothes Lizzie had folded and laid , a picture of precision , on Nicandra 's bed . |
| 22 | Greater beauties than Bella Kropotkin had tried and failed . |
| 23 | Jackie led them through the wood where Joy Prentice had fled and fallen , then along the banks of the stream which fed the water-wheel , to a small wooden bridge . |
| 24 | The prosecution 's only witness on the main charge that Beattie had convened and presided over a meeting of UDA officers to plan the murders was an anonymous Special Branch detective who claimed to be reporting evidence of a paid , anonymous informer . |
| 25 | On Good Friday , 1982 , it was announced that the government of Argentina had invaded and occupied the British colony , the Falkland Islands , long coveted by Argentinians as ‘ Las Malvinas ’ . |
| 26 | When Julia had washed and dried her hair , she borrowed a pair of old-fashioned curling tongs from Annunziata and curled the tips of her thick hair under so that it lay sleekly against her shoulders . |
| 27 | By mid July Unionists in the Commons had tabled and spoken to over 160 amendments , with the heaviest burden falling on Younger and Sanders . |
| 28 | Others said that Sawyer had panicked and gone straight out and given the signal without first doing the reconnoitring for which Ryan had allowed time . |
| 29 | It was the same room where Blanche had sat and talked to Tatyana Nowak so many weeks ago . |
| 30 | A coastguard hero called Ralph Byrd had slugged and shot it out with a gang of Bela Lugosi 's thugs , and escaped from certain death by buzzsaw . |