Example sentences of "[noun pl] and [adv] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was , we were told , a butcher from Thaxted who joined a gang of baddies and eventually landed up in York jail , where he was hanged for horse stealing . |
| 2 | Other research suggested they might become concentrated , churned around in the waves and eventually deposited back along the beaches and banks of local estuaries . |
| 3 | Keith Mills and Mike Timothy took to the water , made waves and generally splashed out for charity when they took part in the BT Swimathon in March . |
| 4 | He was handed over to local army units and then driven around in an armoured car for three days to prevent Securitate units discovering his whereabouts . |
| 5 | It was agreed that only ten people should tramp round the tiny cottage at a time ; the remainder were forced to mingle with the morning shoppers and then to walk on to the old St Mary 's Chapel , which once had held the shrine of Our Lady of Bradstow and to which passing ships would lower their sails in honour . |
| 6 | Individuals or small groups are carefully trained in the new methods and then put back into their usual working positions . |
| 7 | We could always go to the pictures and then go back to ours or something ? |
| 8 | Joint-ill should be vigorously treated with a prolonged course of broad spectrum antibiotics and often flushing out of the affected joints with sterile saline , under deep sedation . |
| 9 | He suddenly dropped a quick kiss on her startled lips and then bounded off up the stairs , and Jenna was left with his briefcase in her hand , her expression stunned . |
| 10 | As Nicholson went on , telling him how King Morken died and his children swore to kill Kentigern who came south to Carlisle and then — learning of the paganism of the fell people — into the heartland of the lakes where he founded many churches , established missions , stood up to his neck in Derwent Water to read the Psalms and then went down into Wales … |
| 11 | Lucy said , clambering to her feet and then looking around for anywhere that she might have missed . |
| 12 | The inscriptions were copied from texts on papyri and certainly date back to the New Kingdom but are probably based on much earlier writings , perhaps as early as the Third Dynasty . |
| 13 | Just as the classical and baroque triumphed in the design of state capitols and ultimately fed back into railway stations , so did Australia cling to forms which had never entirely been superseded as the official architectural language of imperialism . |
| 14 | Mr. Belville is after to come to town to settle matters and then to go down to her where they are to live as man and wife . |
| 15 | YOU COULD say without fear of litigation or a severe kicking behind the pub that Stereolab 's greatest strengths is their ability to rip off six other bands within five minutes and still end up with an identifiable sound which is rarely overshadowed by any of its mentors . |
| 16 | Film-making involves acting for 10 minutes and then waiting around for two hours . |
| 17 | But then they were torn apart by the skilful Portuguese , who scored three goals in eight minutes and then stormed on to victory . |
| 18 | It remained at this value for a further 20 minutes before rising again to 3.5 ( 0.5 ) by 30 minutes and then falling back to baseline by 2.5 hours . |
| 19 | The companies found this a major block to their activities and eventually pulled out from the area : ‘ The companies never officially admitted that they were leaving , just sort of let their prospecting licences lapse … the reason they departed was because they could n't see any way that they could effectively operate with such total opposition . |
| 20 | Yet at the time , he admits , he saw it merely as a way to travel , learn the ropes and then set up in business on his own account . |
| 21 | The illustrations from My ABC are also available in 13 separate sheets intended to be coloured in by individuals or groups and then hung up as a mural to decorate the walls of the classroom . |
| 22 | You 've never heard a speed-thrash organ pop LP called ‘ Life ’ , never experienced ‘ The Beast Inside ’ 's prog rock excesses and never drifted off to the gorgeous pop of ‘ This Is How It Feels ’ . |
| 23 | There is the metal-ring type muzzle , which is screwed into place via a pin passed across the inside of a ferret 's mouth behind its big teeth and then threaded back into the ring . |
| 24 | The Catalan nationalists want , in particular , to be able to collect their own taxes and then pass on to the central government a share based on the services it provides . |
| 25 | Jane is an abductee , someone who believes they have been forcibly abducted by aliens , spirited up to spaceships and physically experimented on in various alarming ways ( rectal probing , artificial insemination , induced premature births ) . |
| 26 | He remembered her in the old days , singing at parties for hours and then turning up for rehearsal next day without any sign of strain or tiredness in her voice . |
| 27 | We rarely find one who provides answers to all our questions , meets all our expectations and generally measures up to perfection ! |
| 28 | And in a way this interferes with acting in advance of the disaster , or indeed acting perhaps not immediately , but spending a little time considering what might be the priority needs and then going in with it . |
| 29 | The questions linked , separated , twisted themselves into fantastic jumbles and finally slid over into his sleeping mind , so that he dreamed , terrifyingly , that he was opening a never-ending stream of boxes . |
| 30 | Tests show that , after a slow beginning , availability of the nutrients rises to a peak in about 80 days and then tails off with the potash being held late , when it is needed . |