Example sentences of "[vb past] and [verb] [adv] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some fat old hag in a dirty apron came and said so far as she knew you were in hospital . |
| 2 | Sir John turned and belched as loudly as he could . |
| 3 | Joseph smiled hesitantly and waved , but this embarrassed the little Annamese girl and she turned and ran as fast as she could to catch up with her parents . |
| 4 | Then he turned and ran as fast as he could to catch up with Trung . |
| 5 | I watched the distant cloud from the explosion drift away over the firth , dispersing , then I turned and ran as fast as I could for the house . |
| 6 | Shoppers in St Helens cheered and applauded as more than 3,000 protesters , many of them waving banners and placards , marched through the town centre in a bid to save the doomed Parkside Colliery , on Saturday . |
| 7 | Instinct caused him to put out both hands in an attempt to break the fall , and Ellwood was on him , the rod flailing , blood rising from Carey 's face in a thick mist of spray , the hook going into his flesh wherever it landed and ripping out again as Ellwood 's arms rose and fell , rose and fell . |
| 8 | I tried to hide my fear , and laughed and smiled as often as I could . |
| 9 | The wartime bombers did n't seem to care what went up ; by contrast the PIRA did and cared so deliberately as to set out selectively to destroy what is now an illusion — the sanctity of hospital in which , regardless of loyalty or background , so many thousands of victims of our vicious little civil war have received care since those nights in August 1969 . |
| 10 | Twisting into the first side street and then a smaller street off that and along its full length he ran and ran as fast as his legs would carry him . |
| 11 | She jumped and came up short as the rope went taut . |
| 12 | She flushed and looked down quickly as she caught Faye 's curious , narrow-eyed glance . |