Example sentences of "[verb] and [adv] [vb past] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | These are now privately owned and only emerged from obscurity again a few years ago : sphinxes and winged sirens , the heads of minotaurs and owls , personifications of night and masks with invisible eyes . |
2 | The one , two , three and then four hours since she had acknowledged her love for Ven alternately dawdled and then flew for Fabia . |
3 | Extra guests could be put up in the boat itself , which had a permanent skipper and crew , enabling Bernard and Laura to escape at short notice to idyllic , inaccessible Mediterranean islands , Laura still could not swim and often groaned with seasickness . |
4 | It used every means at its disposal : it argued and pressured the Versailles politicians ; it cheated in the plebiscites ; it engineered uprisings in Silesia and Wielkopolska ; it skirmished and then went to war with the Red Army for territory in the east . |
5 | She has been hopelessly sentimentalized and hopelessly magicalized by tradition , with the result that Christian feminism has come to be uncomfortable with her . |
6 | The wood of the planks was almost white , but it had been sanded and then varnished with gums and resins until it glistened . |
7 | As much put out by the ticket inspector 's attitude as his demand for money , he paid and duly wrote to BR to complain saying he ‘ could see no justification in the circumstances for the excess charge . ’ |
8 | The books were eagerly borrowed , well used and finally fell to pieces , as was the case with J. F. Campbell 's " Popular Tales of the West Highlands " , in the Port Ellen library . |
9 | He rejected the crutches he was offered and gently remonstrated with HB chief Stappert who helped him , wounded- cowboy style , up the steps to the rostrum . |
10 | A 250 bp 32 P-end-labelled DNA fragment containing deoP2 sequences from -116 to +18 was mixed with CRP and/or CytR , protein-DNA complexes allowed to form and then reacted with hydroxyl radicals . |
11 | When maturation is complete , the bottles are chilled , opened under pressure into a tank , filtered and then rebottled after dosage , all under pressure . |
12 | The local overlords , the magnates of the neighbourhood , who had spent a frenzied few weeks petitioning and being petitioned by their would-be superiors , had not been invited and therefore sat at home , drinking behind closed doors and not available to enlighten their countrymen . |
13 | I do n't know if he was sexually assaulted and maybe died of shock . |
14 | Elections were held in June 1973 but the assembly was first paralysed by the Protestant-led ‘ workers ’ strike' and then prorogued by Parliament . |
15 | Finally we stopped trying to teach and also fled to Nampula . |
16 | perhaps he 's been forewarned and just swapped over sides with , but I mean we had a full wind and light through then , well sort of |
17 | The same types of generalised character continued and still appeared in Petipa 's many ballets , Fokine 's Pavillon d'Armide , Ashton 's Cinderella and MacMillan 's Romeo and Juliet . |
18 | Tweed leant back in his chair , glanced at Monica while Newman checked his notebook , dialled a Helsinki number , waited and then stared at Tweed . |
19 | Wills , who holds a victory over former world champion Greg Page and was no doubt encouraged by the fact that Derek Williams , whom he had floored and convincingly outpointed in New York this summer , became the new European champion after 55 seconds ' work against Hughroy Currie on Tuesday night , went about his work with pride , determination , and remarkable endurance . |
20 | ‘ We got offered a lot of European dates after Reading , ’ says Gordon , ‘ but we backed off to rehearse and then went to America . |
21 | The history of the game is littered with talented players who were never capped and so defected to league . |