Example sentences of "and [vb past] in [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It also troubled Peggie Boswell , and arose in those memorable letters between herself and Johnson . |
| 2 | Through this work she met and married a dashing test pilot who was the son of a wealthy Boston brain surgeon , had two children and lived in some style on Long Island where Jack spent many holiday breaks , lapping up the upper-class luxury . |
| 3 | In the small church across the way there is the most beautiful stained glass window that John Piper ever designed , celebrating his friend the Poet Laureate who worshipped here and lived in this well-loved rectory . |
| 4 | They belong to a charmed group known collectively as ‘ the lobby ’ and reviled in some quarters as the slavish lackeys of the Government . |
| 5 | Mrs Henry found out all she could about alternative cancer treatments and dabbled in some of them . |
| 6 | ‘ Paula jumped into her car and drove to the house and moved in that day . |
| 7 | At the centre of all that lived and moved in this ghastly universe was the mine . |
| 8 | a purely modern translation , what could you use for windows of heaven , and Niall is suggesting clouds , the clouds were stopped , the an and stopped in this sense means closed , the windows of heaven were closed . |
| 9 | Yeah that 's , that 's okay it 's just er I mean I would like to feel you would introduce me if they actually knocked on the door and came in this evening otherwise they 'd think would n't you , I mean |
| 10 | Debut v World XV in 1989 , faced NZ and Australia and played in both French Tests . |
| 11 | In one review Apollinaire referred to ‘ the very abstract painting of Mondrian ’ , and added in another , ‘ his trees and his portrait of a woman are of great interest . ’ |
| 12 | Clearly Fjortoft ( who has sucked at Swindon , not a single goal yet ! ) and maybe also Sorloth ( who as before mentioned was at a 14-day trial at Leeds and scored in all his test matches ) will be picked . |
| 13 | Sure enough , when they had dammed the lake and poured in all the wine and brandy from the barrels , hundreds of elephants came hasting through the mountains , having smelt the liquor from many miles away . |
| 14 | Money is lent and borrowed in this way on the interbank market . |
| 15 | Under the law of a number of member states ( though not the UK ) , transfer of central management and control from the state of registration is only possible if the company is wound up and reincorporated in another member state . |
| 16 | Then Satan scented water off to the left and swung in that direction . |
| 17 | I would like to see existing provision improved by upgrading the Pencaitland railway path so that it can be cycled and walked in all weathers . |
| 18 | One joined the strike support committee ; several started going to branch meetings ; one became a shop steward and served in that capacity for five years . |
| 19 | In Hilary term 1313 he was appointed a justice of the Common Bench and served in that capacity for just over three years . |
| 20 | This is the time everyone gathers for a special dinner , which is based on fish , and in keeping with Italian tradition eel is cooked and served in many homes . |
| 21 | Pertini , a life-long socialist , was born near Stella in Liguria , trained as a lawyer and served in both World Wars . |
| 22 | Exchange traded futures have their origins in the markets for agricultural products , and existed in some form already in the seventeenth century in Amsterdam and in Osaka . |
| 23 | Worried that the Colonel might leap into army talk for which he had neither the preparation nor the inclination , Hope let flow a hand and beckoned in all about them . |
| 24 | It is as if each writer had taken the memory of some powerful event ( the terrible shock of being woken by a piercing noise ; discovering the ‘ magical ’ properties of magnets ) and daydreamed in such a concentrated way about it that a group of people , a situation , a story began to emerge . |
| 25 | Rotating shafts buried in the walls transmitted the energy from the central machinery to the faces , and rumbled in some places , squeaked in others , and leaked oil ubiquitously . |
| 26 | Repton is acknowledged as Britain 's No 1 amateur club , and flew in some good talent for a match that roused a lively crowd . |
| 27 | Archers and men-at-arms , knocked off balance , thrust and twisted and swore in both ships . |
| 28 | The birds flew up noisily , circled , and then they came down and settled in another tree not far away . |
| 29 | Erm Other notions erm of liberalism of course again which are perhaps pretty obvious freedom of speech and implied in that freedom of religion , freedom of expression , that kind of thing . |
| 30 | All the rooms downstairs were empty , so we went upstairs and looked in all the rooms except one , which was locked . |