Example sentences of "and [vb past] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They laughed a little hysterically , and whispered to each other to be quiet and then laughed again , drunk with the joy of touching hands and the scent of their bodies in the dark . |
| 2 | Slowly , they got together at the far end of the house and whispered to each other . |
| 3 | In the dim light the gold and strong colours glittered and glowed with rich intensity . |
| 4 | Scuffles broke out everywhere as our officers came out of hiding and pounced on six members of the gang who bolted into the woods and sand dunes around the bay before being rounded up with the assistance of police dogs . |
| 5 | Even without regulars Steve Mardenborough and Andy Toman there can be few excuses for such a disappointing performance in which Frank Gray 's side were outplayed and outfought by fellow strugglers . |
| 6 | English poststructuralists , when wearing their Marxist hats , would undoubtedly want to insist that ideas belong in larger contexts , social , cultural , and political , and can not easily be abstracted and appropriated to other ends . |
| 7 | Late complications were of much greater concern and arose in eight patients ( 20% ) at a median of 3.3 months ( range 0.25–12 ) from the initial insertion . |
| 8 | It also troubled Peggie Boswell , and arose in those memorable letters between herself and Johnson . |
| 9 | This move of resources into the community was entirely unplanned and arose from local initiatives . |
| 10 | Then he put his feet up on the bench and snored for ten minutes . |
| 11 | ‘ High interest rates … have dampened consumer expenditure and impacted on retail spending , ’ says the chairman , Geoffrey Maitland Smith . |
| 12 | Harry swallowed the soft strangulation of tears and clung with desperate hands to the obstinacy that must do duty for his flagging courage . |
| 13 | The moment had come upon him too soon ; he felt his knees soften , and clung with rigid fingers to the pillar behind which he sheltered . |
| 14 | So they sat on a blanket and clung to each other , tears streaming down their cheeks . |
| 15 | But in the weeks that followed they became very close and clung to one another in their loss . |
| 16 | Several of the youngsters cried out in fright and clung to one another . |
| 17 | The juveniles continued to fly south-west , and wintered in southern France and Spain . |
| 18 | This growing discontent has been symbolized by Koreans refusing to comply with the stipulation that all aliens resident in Japan for any length of time have to be re-registered as aliens and fingerprinted at regular intervals , and carry alien registration cards with them at all times . |
| 19 | I caught his strange perfume and gazed into those clear , glass-like eyes . |
| 20 | But he just stood still and gazed at some withered autumn flowers . |
| 21 | Within an hour and a half , the Exxon Valdez had eluded the coastguard radar tracking system and plunged at full speed on to the rocks of Bligh Reef , rupturing eight cargo holds , each big enough to house a 15-storey building . |
| 22 | Despite a general rise in attendances , several clubs were on the verge of bankruptcy and limped from one financial problem to another playing in front of miniscule crowds often in grounds designed to suit manic-depressives from the dark ages . |
| 23 | But Mr Salinas 's people are acutely aware that lack of competition and cosiness with the state have resulted in the squandering of billions and led to insufficient capital investment . |
| 24 | The accident at the graphite moderated , light-water-cooled pressure tube reactor at Chernobyl occurred on 26 April 1986 when an explosion produced an uncontrollable fire which lasted several days and led to vast quantities of radionuclides being lifted high into the atmosphere . |
| 25 | His secretaryship of the UDC , which he held until his death , cost him his Liberal candidacy and led to six months ' imprisonment for a technical breach of the Defence of the Realm Act . |
| 26 | Thus as the sale of council houses in the early 1980s produced sizeable capital receipts , and led to substantial capital ‘ overspending ’ , the proportion which could be used to supplement capital receipts was reduced ( standing at 20 per cent by 1987 ) . |
| 27 | That sort of language encouraged the many resentments Americans harbour against high culture ( remember the disparagement of Adlai Stevenson as an ‘ egghead ’ ? ) and led to such curiosae as the Chicago attack on an Eric Fischl painting in which a fully clothed boy looks at a naked man swinging a bat . |
| 28 | Miles which in Classical times denoted an ordinary soldier had , by the eleventh century , come to mean ‘ knight ’ and led to such forms as Miles Parliamentalis = knight of the shire , and miles agrarius = holder of a knight 's fee . |
| 29 | Hollywood had always been prepared to use social realism in the service of melodrama and especially in the service of making prestige films out of literary classics and this practice remained in evidence during these years and led to such notable films as An American Tragedy and All Quiet on the Western Front . |
| 30 | These results may also be seen as offering some tentative support to the contention that the greater flexibility now permitted in fee setting , coupled with the ability of architects to establish themselves in a wider variety of organisational forms and to advertise more freely , has essentially lubricated the market and led to greater efficiency . |