Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [vb past] [adv prt] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Presently , as he sat by himself in a remote corner of the banqueting hall , he noticed on the wall beside him an ascending column of white ants ; as they reached the ceiling they spread their wings and slowly drifted down in a delicate living veil . |
| 2 | Erm I took the nine year old boat out and just went out in a boat we had Mary went as well , we were like the all job for mackerel put this guy 's |
| 3 | We were going round and round in a weird dance and nearly slipped over in the pee that was splattered on the floor . |
| 4 | Sometimes the rug is simply washed in water and then left out in the sun to dry , but many weaving groups now add chemicals to the water in order both to alter the tonal intensity of the colours and to give the pile a gloss or matt sheen . |
| 5 | She paused and then went on in the same proud tone she had used when she showed them the bathroom , ‘ Mr Evans is a very important man . |
| 6 | She checked what she was saying and then went on in an altered tone . |
| 7 | In bitter scrapping over Douaumont on May 24th , Thaw shot down a Fokker and then went back in the evening for more , but was cornered by three enemy planes . |
| 8 | they lost by six at Crewe … won by five against Colchester … and then went down in an eight goal bonanza last week … |
| 9 | Scunthorpe 's Stevenson was cautioned and then sent off in the space of 60 seconds , and while Burnley tried to take advantage the visiting 10 seemed as vulnerable as green bottles . |
| 10 | Alternatively the pie can be made well in advance and then warmed through in a moderate oven for 20 minutes , or microwaved on high for 5 minutes . |
| 11 | Finally Ms Cann proposed an unorthodox and possibly unique solution : publication rights as part of merchandising would be retained by the publishers jointly , to be pooled and then shared out in the most appropriate way . |
| 12 | Once or twice Allen loosed off an arrow at a scampering squirrel , more in play than with any idea of hitting it , and then scrabbled about in the undergrowth to recover the shaft . |
| 13 | He drove on through and then turned around in a gateway and cruised back more slowly . |
| 14 | It bumped into his foot , beeped at him , and then bustled off in the opposite direction . |
| 15 | Having walked the Gorges of Kakouetta and then rested up in the benign landscape of Sainte-Engrâce , you may feel you have the legs back to inspect another of the spectacular limestone phenomena of the Upper Soule . |
| 16 | The track had climbed , twisted , rocked her in its pot-holes and then swept down in a flurry of loose stones and flying dust , to a house gradually lit , theatrically , as the sun returned from behind a stray afternoon cloud . |
| 17 | Put the line ferret through the system and the loose ferret may well be located and subsequently dug out in the same way as a rabbit . |
| 18 | Now it was more of a cross between cinema and radio , sometimes watched intently , but sometimes left on in the background . |