Example sentences of "[vb past] [coord] [adv] [vb past] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The suit , the subject of a lengthy and embarrassingly explicit story in the San Jose Mercury News last week , charges that Michels repeatedly groped , propositioned and forcibly kissed the three women , all mature adults , at work . |
| 2 | She sighed and then inhaled the sweet scented air . |
| 3 | At this time , too , he carefully examined and brilliantly settled the old quarrel concerning the metropolitan church of Britanny between Tours and Dol , which although it had been judged many times by his predecessors would never have been brought to a final settlement but for him . |
| 4 | Captain Simcox shivered and rapidly swallowed the last of his drink . |
| 5 | Stephen hesitated and then followed the other two . |
| 6 | The third part of the second half of the book mainly concerns the Germanic tribes which invaded and finally overthrew the Roman empire . |
| 7 | He showed me the location of Bentwaters in the old AA Book of the Road I always carried and then bought the two ounces of Red from me at four times what I 'd agreed to pay for it . |
| 8 | Typical summer weather marred and eventually curtailed the outdoor events , but in spite of this the day was a great success , with more than 800 attending . |
| 9 | He split and mortally wounded the Labour Party . |
| 10 | Then he split and mortally wounded the Social Democrats . |
| 11 | DEC specialist , $100m-a-year Micro Technology Inc , has acquired five-year-old SF2 Corporation , the Sunnyvale , California-based firm that pioneered and commercially shipped the first fault tolerant disk array storage device known as RAID 5/6 . |
| 12 | Follow they did , and in many departments they matched and even surpassed the later Sierra releases . |