Example sentences of "[noun] and [adv] [vb past] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sarah had previously suggested that they should try the effect of Queen Caroline 's ‘ Christmas trees ’ — young fir trees set in tubs and put upon the table or in a window seat and then decked with penny candles . |
| 2 | The Portuguese escudo joined the European exchange rate mechanism on Friday and yesterday shot to pole position , hitting the top of its 6 p.c. band , and heaping pressure on the pound which remains the weak man of Euro currencies . |
| 3 | The woman , whose hands were still bound , clambered from the back seat into the front of the two-door car and then struggled to safety . |
| 4 | Hair was razor cut into a long bob and heavily tousled into shape . |
| 5 | ‘ Last night I went to an art exhibition in my sister-in-law 's gallery and then went to dinner to celebrate my brother-in-law 's birthday . |
| 6 | Nadir pressure was referenced to the prevailing midoesophageal body pressure in that second and so took into account changes of basal oesophagela body pressure produced by common cavity episodes . |
| 7 | His son Charles was also wounded in the battle and only escaped with difficulty . ’ |
| 8 | Coleman had joined BNS in 1963 with an Oxford history degree and initially cconcentrated on work study . |
| 9 | The broad gauge set the standard for developments for half a century , largely because the greater stability permitted higher speeds than were then possible on the narrow gauge and hence led to engineering advances that would make such speeds possible , eventually in the narrow gauge as well . |
| 10 | He presented the mayor of West Berlin with a statuette of a woman holding a dove of peace and then walked through Checkpoint Charlie . |
| 11 | She continued to visit her former foster parents and even went on holiday to Spain with them . |
| 12 | Isabel stepped back so she would n't bump into the girl and instantly cannoned into fitzAlan instead . |
| 13 | Harry Foy as Needle Nugent looked the part and always stayed in character . |
| 14 | This new evidence was held by the defence and only came to light during the trial . |
| 15 | Twenty-four pairs of painted lips let out long-drawn gasps and then broke into speech . |
| 16 | Those that he produced for sale through the Redfern Gallery were usually printed in editions of fifty and include Thames-side , Bull Fight , Spain , Tropical Landscape , Horse Guards in their Dressing Rooms at Whitehall and Working Men 's College , this last relating to his association with the Working Men 's College in Crowndale Road , Mornington Crescent , where he gave a lecture , ‘ The Painter 's Intention ’ , in 1952 , taught lithography and also acted as Art Adviser . |
| 17 | He spoke for one and half hours and barely paused for breath . |
| 18 | The doctor thought for a moment and then nodded in agreement . |
| 19 | After further washings in phosphate buffered saline the slides were incubated with peroxidase conjugated strepavidin diluted 1:400 , washed in phosphate buffered saline and the labelled cells were visualised by the diaminobenzidine reaction and lightly counterstained with haematoxylin . |
| 20 | Or to jeer at the discredited Baltic Communists who rode in behind the thugs , proclaimed themselves in charge in Lithuania and Latvia and then scuttled for cover . |
| 21 | She had originally run it with first husband Stephen and then went to work at the Midland pub opposite Central station . |
| 22 | She had originally run it with first husband Stephen and then went to work at the Midland pub opposite Central station . |
| 23 | Shortly before midnight he was hit by a car in Victoria Road and later died in hospital . |
| 24 | Apparently this did nothing to alleviate the situation , and the house was uninhabited for many further years and then fell into disrepair . |
| 25 | Columbine too started life as a servant of the gods and gradually rose in rank from waiting on the aristocracy to conspiring with Harlequin in such ballets as The Good- Humoured Ladies , where the two of them appear as serving maid and waiter . |
| 26 | He was directed towards a glider landing strip , but he appears to have clipped a tree and then crashed on farmland . |
| 27 | He was directed towards a glider landing strip , but he appears to have clipped a tree and then crashed on farmland . |
| 28 | I realised the truth when I became close to a friend of a friend and gradually fell in love with her . |
| 29 | The Dormouse woke up for a minute and then went to sleep again . |
| 30 | Only this : it is misleading to suggest that a socialist alternative qualitatively different from the actual record of 1964–70 existed in potentia and merely went by default , on account of a failure of political will . |