Example sentences of "[adv] and [vb past] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I went inside and saw a beautiful work which the artist had done on the other side . |
| 2 | Ripley beat Paul Parker on the left , cut inside and hit a low cross to the near post . |
| 3 | She heard a shuffling inside and gave a small sigh of relief . |
| 4 | Joe looked in and saw a dark stairway . |
| 5 | Somewhere in the period between the time that early man first made for himself a ‘ god ’ , and the time when evidence of ‘ god ’ worship was left for later generations to find , the use of ‘ gods ’ for purposes which were largely intended to create unfair privileges , and were therefore a source of evil , gradually crept in and became a widespread part of the social scene . |
| 6 | Never having read a word of Norse ( Old Icelandic ) before , Lewis plunged in and attempted a few lines of Laxdaela Saga . |
| 7 | Superb ‘ Ray has been superb in the last couple of games , and Steve came in and did a good job . |
| 8 | By means of the passwords ‘ peace and goodwill ’ the squad broke in and caught a considerable number of clients red-handed , red-faced and red in several other places as well . |
| 9 | She went in and bought a novel set in India , whose prose appealed to her , and the heat and dust and cinnamon smells of somewhere else . |
| 10 | A DRINK-DRIVER mowed down and killed a young mother on her first night out since the birth of her son six months ago . |
| 11 | JOYRIDERS mowed down and killed a disabled woman in her invalid carriage yesterday . |
| 12 | A SPEEDING motor-cyclist who knocked down and killed a 73-year-old man was fined £2,000 at Edinburgh Sheriff Court yesterday . |
| 13 | Another door , covering the bars of the fire , could be let down and formed a useful ledge . |
| 14 | Springfield slid the aerial down and directed a relieved grin at the quizzical expressions on the faces of his watching companions . |
| 15 | He sat down and saw a bifurcated path , simmering with gold heat round and under the rising , spreading blue-black-green down-pointing vanes of a great pine , still widening where the frame interrupted its soaring . |
| 16 | A little boy tugged at my skirt ; I looked down and saw a brown face with the sun on it , smiling . |
| 17 | Having , as I say , abandoned everything he had done , he sat down and wrote a six-part novel within a year which included a twenty-six day break in which he threw together and dictated The Gambler , itself not a small book nor a negligible one , to satisfy the terms of a contract he had made with a shyster publisher . |
| 18 | Finally , he sat down and wrote a long letter to Sybil Vane . |
| 19 | ‘ It was exactly semi-retirement because I took all my gear down and demoed a good album 's worth of material . |
| 20 | Mahmoud quietened down and raised a fresh cup of coffee to his lips . |
| 21 | You fell down and slid a little way , did n't you ? |
| 22 | A huge hand reached down and put a little tray on the packed earth under the floor . |
| 23 | After a while Ollie jumped down and sat a few feet away . |
| 24 | The ball eluded Winterburn , and Ritchie , Oldham 's leading goalscorer , chested the ball down and crashed a fierce volley beyond Lukic . |
| 25 | There was a woman who was assaulted , the Turks from the restaurant came down and beat a single man outside the Moat Centre . |
| 26 | After about ten minutes it came down and flew a cautious lap , and then landed . |
| 27 | Oral tradition was written down and gained a wider currency than ever before . |
| 28 | But now her husband has tracked her down and obtained a High Court order for the return of his children to America . |
| 29 | I wrote to say so and received a courteous reply from the producer , who said , ‘ I 'm interested in the DIY approach you suggest and in our next series perhaps we 'll look at this more closely . ’ |
| 30 | After indulging in one 's usual moan about the virtual demise of freight on the Cambrian , we went along and spent a pleasant hour investigating an even older mode of transport at the nearby Canal Wharf Museum , which is well worth a visit . |