Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [adj] and [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.

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1 Just got in , well it were n't , it had n't gone right the way through , we just turned it over and chu , chucked the sheets and blankets back on once they 'd stopped smouldering and got back on it !
2 This is why , coming home with the supermarket bags , we get barked at by second-assistant-directors and told to keep quiet and keep out of sight .
3 The boy managed to struggle free and ran off unharmed … the prowler escaped .
4 During the countless terrifying minutes before she managed to wriggle free and scramble off the bench , Isabel neither knew nor cared whether it was she or his fever that had caused fitzAlan 's loss of consciousness .
5 Police say the boy , who has n't been named , managed to break free and ran off .
6 The first bird lay pinioned there for four or five seconds before it managed to break free and fly off .
7 So , since for the present Neil preferred to lie low and find out just what Ewen was up to , I could not tell Mrs McDougall of Ewen 's night-time visit .
8 And I looked at people I passed a bit more , and all of a sudden they did seem nice and smiled back .
9 They were prints from some medieval Book of Hours that William had had framed and stuck up on the walls .
10 I awoke feeling cold and crawled out to the front of the trench .
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