Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | For readers there were books and rooms set apart as libraries , and there were people who learnt a great deal and people who read furiously and learnt nothing . |
| 2 | In fact , the legal force of any particular rule depends partly on the source of its authority ( essentially , whether it is supported by statute or not ) ; partly on the way it is drafted ( rules which are drafted in precise technical language are more likely to be given some legal force than are rules drafted loosely and non-technically ) ; and partly on its contents . |
| 3 | It was a ferociously aggressive world , and the Minoans lived successfully and competitively within it . |
| 4 | Er yeah exclude your short story , otherwise it could mean on you know it could be taken out and sold somewhere and then in interest you would sell your own for selling your own word you know that could be a possibility . |
| 5 | It will take a little practice to get right , but a tie made properly and firmly in this way will ‘ feel ’ right , and it will at once be clear how and why this method does a job that other methods and materials do not do . |
| 6 | The former met rarely and for purely formal purposes . |
| 7 | Here the shearmen fought vigorously and , as Dr Randall has demonstrated , with some success against two innovations . |
| 8 | However she did not work in isolation of the sales figures and shop reports , which she read avidly and , as she wrote to Moira : ‘ I feel that we hit it in many respects but we do n't seem to repeat the exciting things fast though . ’ |
| 9 | It was a cold and damp winter , but he recovered slowly and indeed seemed cheerful ; he sat beside the open coal fire in the drawingroom and would sometimes sing music-hall ditties as his wife ministered to him — " coddling " , he used to call it . |
| 10 | Demand switched , from charters produced locally and confirmed by the attachment of a princely seal , to those written in a prince 's name by his own clerks in his writing office . |
| 11 | The funeral home had an extensive array of coffins , from handmade ones produced locally and beautifully finished to ornate caskets shipped in from America , some had fur linings . |
| 12 | The long day passed slowly and it grew very hot . |
| 13 | Time passed slowly and the men worried about their families and jobs . |
| 14 | Those five hours passed slowly and painfully , I was definitely going to miss my family and friends but I just wanted to go and have my holiday . |
| 15 | The furniture came with the smell : soft , shiny , billowy and over-decorated like great banks of flowers ; the little lampshades around the walls were all tassels and fringes , the ornaments were fiddly coloured glass and the not-quite-velvet curtains draped artistically and bound with golden cords . |
| 16 | In Kitwe city centre normality ceased altogether and the area resembled a war zone . |
| 17 | From all this information the team drew up a matrix of crafts , materials and local resources , analysed technologies applied locally and attempted to order skills development in level of difficulty and in relation to social custom as a preliminary to curriculum design . |
| 18 | Baddeley , champion three times in the past , fought grimly and finally took the marathon first game after 24 minutes . |
| 19 | Baddeley , champion three times in the past , fought grimly and finally took the marathon first game after 24 minutes . |
| 20 | L'Auberge expanded , necessitating the employment of Arnold , a young chef who took over most of the day-to-day running of the kitchen , and Olive , a restaurant manageress who , like almost all the waitresses , lived locally and had been trained on the job by George . |
| 21 | Thus began what developed into a full Department of Ballet at the university , offering , from 1941 , a three-year certificate course for which pupils were required to attend lectures , read widely and study music appreciation as well as their dance classes . |
| 22 | The spelling is frequently eccentric , and remained so all his life , although he read widely and voraciously . |
| 23 | ( 4 ) Read widely and be critical of the style adopted by other authors . |
| 24 | Paul and Muriel entertained lavishly and were much loved in Venice . |
| 25 | He did n't look back at the sudden commotion behind him and , when a shadow passed over him , merely gibbered weakly and tried to burrow into the horse 's mane . |
| 26 | The instruments sometimes steamed up , the revcounter failed altogether and the carpet in both footwells had come adrift by the time the car had reached the end of its test . |
| 27 | Charles and John Higgs clicked , and it was largely thanks to the relationship struck up with him , and the sheer personality of the man , that Charles became wholly and genuinely enthused by every aspect of the Duchy . |
| 28 | Yesterday , as Paul McCormack , 23 , of Meeks Road , Falkirk , was jailed for a year at the High Court in Edinburgh when he admitted culpably and recklessly throwing the trolleys on to the line from the bridge in the town 's Hope Street on 13 April last year , Graeme spoke of the moment he knew he had to act . |
| 29 | Paul McCormack ( 23 ) was jailed for a year when he admitted culpably and recklessly throwing two trolleys on to the line from a railway bridge at Hope Street in Falkirk on April 13 last year . |
| 30 | ‘ Your mother … ? ’ she asked swiftly and when she saw the surprise in his eyes she went on hurriedly , ‘ Sybil told me . ’ |