Example sentences of "[noun] and [adv] [vb past] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In rats receiving sc caerulein , the blood flow was significantly ( p<0.05 ) reduced by about 43% after two hours of caerulein infusion and then showed only small further decrease during the remaining hours of the experiment . |
| 2 | On one occasion Liz had felt miserable while thinking about her ex-boyfriend , but she had spoken to her sister-in-law and soon felt much better . |
| 3 | InfoWorld 's hit-or-miss gossip column , written under the Robert X Cringely nom de plume , claims Novell Inc agreed to be bought by Microsoft Corp and then backed out three months ago . |
| 4 | I would like to think that she died still being floated by the giant kite , that she went round the world and rose higher as she died of starvation and dehydration and so grew less weighty still , to become , eventually , a tiny skeleton riding the jetstreams of the planet ; a sort of Flying Dutchwoman . |
| 5 | Calling on an acting ability not required since her childhood , she covered her patient with a cotton blanket and then hitched up each leg in turn and strapped them into the lithotomy stirrups , thus trapping the hoaxer until the joke had run its course . |
| 6 | IBM was waiting for this decision and quickly became more aggressive at home and abroad . |
| 7 | I had two houses and just gambled away most of my money . ’ |
| 8 | He took a crashing fall from Ferromyn in the Heidsieck Dry Monopole Novice Hurdle and later felt very sore . |
| 9 | Tony talked about his ex-girlfriend and then remembered how upset he had become when his parents split up when he was 14 . |
| 10 | Sir Stafford had been searching all night and finally came so close that he heard the child crying : |
| 11 | ‘ … your mother 's mother called the office this morning and then drove up all the way from Virginia to see me . |
| 12 | He scrapped segregated dining rooms and often walked around barefoot and in casual dress , eating bananas . |
| 13 | Needing the number of a firm in Guildford ( Candy Domestic Equipment ) I had waited for five minutes for the inquiry people to answer , been cut short when I attempted to give the address and then handed out two minutes of silence . |
| 14 | My doctor had also prepared a report for the judge , about various medical problems which I hoped might be taken into consideration , along with the fact that I had for some time been re-building my life and now had very little to do with the lifestyle that brought me into contact with drugs . |
| 15 | From Ggantija we ambled down to Ramla Bay and then climbed up old terraces . |
| 16 | He counted the night 's takings , swept the floor and then got really upset when he discovered that all his beer mats had been stolen . |
| 17 | He was in hospital in Holland and simply took off one night . |
| 18 | Each took the oath and then gave almost identical evidence , one after the other condemning the prisoners in the dock . |
| 19 | In 1914 they were still few in number and often had impractically large geographical areas to deal with . |
| 20 | Feebury 's best seasons with the Palace were those immediately after the 1st World War for , when competitive football restarted , Albert made full appearances for us in our final season in the Southern League and then missed just one match in Palace 's 3rd Division championship team of 1920–21 . |
| 21 | I had expected them at that stage to do the decent thing and wait for us to catch up but , smelling their first blood of the season , they continued in much the same fashion and eventually ran out 7–0 victors . |
| 22 | We had yearned for supremacy and now had too much of it too easily . |
| 23 | Frau Nordern frowned as Marx stubbed out his cigar and promptly took out another one . |
| 24 | Although of older pedigree , the modern law of confidence developed in the nineteenth century and then lay relatively dormant until the middle of the twentieth century . |
| 25 | And that 's what causes tragic failures like Matthew Smith and Augustus John — they 've done the Paris rat and they live ever after in the shadow of Gauguin and Matisse or whoever it may be — just as G.P. says he once lived under the shadow of Braque and suddenly woke up one morning to realize that all he had done for five years was a lie , because it was based on Braque 's eyes and sensibilities and not his own . |
| 26 | However , these two commanders also remained at sea throughout the landings and so had as little idea as Hamilton of what was going forward . |
| 27 | just making coffee and why did n't I |