Example sentences of "and [vb past] [conj] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | He prepared vaccines from these bacteria and found that frequently a marked improvement occurred in the health of the patient after treatment by injection of the appropriate killed vaccine . |
| 2 | It was simply a question , Fred declared , of having ‘ a nose for news ’ and added that only a competent reporter could make a good story out of unlikely ingredients . |
| 3 | They estimated the total population at 3000–4000 animals and discovered that almost a quarter lived around Banks Peninsula , near the South Island 's largest city , Christchurch . |
| 4 | It was less crowded at the rear of the room and he thought of pausing there , where he could watch la Principessa and still draw a breath of air that was not perfumed half to death , but then he patted the slender cigar in the breast pocket of the dinner-jacket that had been hand-tailored to fit his sinew-hardened body and decided that only a whiff of tobacco would fully cleanse his nostrils of the mix of scents that hung in the over-heated room . |
| 5 | He turned and strode away from her , leaving her weak and sickened and just a little afraid . |
| 6 | The following morning Charlie read an account of the bombing in the Daily Chronicle and learned that over a hundred Londoners had been killed and some four hundred injured in the raid . |
| 7 | Starting with research on small towns in the mid-1930s and moving on to larger cities in the next decade , successive community studies analysed political processes as one aspect of the social life of the locality , and concluded that only a handful of people were influential in setting major decisions ( the Lynds , 1937 ; Warner , 1943 ) . |
| 8 | It was argued before the Court that this was contrary to the fundamental principle that products must freely move throughout the Community , The European Court of Justice agreed and held that once a product had been lawfully produced and marketed in a member state , other member states must recognise that fact and allow it to be imported and sold in its own territory . |