Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [adj] and [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I wonder how many of you battled on for much longer than the allocated time or got demoralised and gave up ? |
| 2 | During the last 12 months I have been very encouraged with the way you have continued to work effectively — meeting deadlines that seemed impossible and coming up with ideas for cost savings within your own departments . |
| 3 | I had a jumper that my mum knitted that went wrong and ended up twice the size it should have been . |
| 4 | In a thousand remote little farmhouses and cottages , islanded beneath wind-shriven willows or leaning poplars , the racing floods covered the black fields , overflowed the straight dykes … and leaping upon those lonely homes with all the relentless force of wind and gales , burst open the doors , shattered the ground floor windows … and rushed gurgling and swirling up the narrow staircase . |
| 5 | She wandered back to the dressing-table and stood fiddling and picking over every little object on it . |