Example sentences of "and [adv] [pron] [vb past] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I opened the desk and slowly I took out the box and opened it . |
| 2 | This regime , however , did not always guarantee a satisfactory result , as in the case of the tower he added to Wroxton church , Oxfordshire ( 1747–8 ) , the top stage of which rapidly collapsed — as Walpole pointedly reported : ‘ Mr Miller … unluckily once in his life happened to think rather of beauty than of the water-tables , and so it fell down the first winter ’ — but that does not seem to have affected his popularity . |
| 3 | We looked at him , then at each other and finally I got out the lip salve and said ‘ OK , it 's showtime ! ’ and Kim said : ‘ Whatever do you mean ? ’ |
| 4 | The curtains were drawn back as far as they would go , and whenever she looked up the green-brown panorama confronted her and the pale bowl of sky . |
| 5 | And now he brought out the words between his dosed teeth , saying , ‘ You think you 've won , do n't you ? |
| 6 | And I went er in the boat coming back er from Canada was far worse as the one going acro but we went to Boston and we stayed out in the harbour there and then we sailed down the coast into New York , which was a great sight . |
| 7 | And then we searched out the petits coins , a place described as ‘ more asleep than the rest of the village ’ . |
| 8 | just got into Wales and we camped on that flat land and then we went up the riv , oh we 've got it on the |
| 9 | So I , I erm , I had a lovely walk through there , and then we went out the other side of it , and it 's Highgate Cemetery . |
| 10 | And he was shouting back to him , but , and then they went up the stair and they called up the stair and I and I do n't know whether it was an affair , the fella that was screaming but he him a mouthful ! |
| 11 | The studio thinks Vic 's a genius and gave him as much as they could until the insurance boys dug their heels in over big-name leads falling out of a canoe and then they went down the list and found a couple of guys the industry could afford to lose . |
| 12 | And then they f—ed up the whole world . |
| 13 | She had to blink back her tears before she opened the front door , and then she ran down the short tiled path , and , throwing back her shoulders and digging her hands into her pockets , strode down to the parade . |
| 14 | Later , in the chapel adjoining the castle , Father Jerome said Benediction and prayed for Sara and the life that lay before her ; and then she went up the narrow staircase to her bed and , when Candida had helped her to undress , stood a while longer at her window , looking through the narrow slit at the lights in the harbour and the dark , massive mountains behind . |
| 15 | She stared uneasily at the envelope , at the black , firm hand , at the French stamp , and then she put out the light and went to bed . |
| 16 | So how did the work out because as far as I know the the riveter got the cash and then he divvied up the money between |
| 17 | And then he woke up the next morning and threw up everywhere . |
| 18 | I phoned Debby to get Steven 's phone number to get him to leave out the microphone and the amplifier and then he brought up the microphone and did n't bring up the amplifier . |
| 19 | and then he appeared up the top there . |
| 20 | ‘ See that ? ’ he said , and then he held up The Hook . |
| 21 | Get help , ’ and then he scrambled up the bank and raced like a wild thing , screaming now , ‘ Bernard ! |
| 22 | He stood without moving for a few minutes and then he put out the light . |
| 23 | er if it 's people give you things like reference lists and reading lists , I mean sometimes that 's the most confusing thing to be given because you do n't know , I used to think you were supposed to read everything on them er and I actually tried doing that once or twice and I could n't find stuff in Aston library so I ran up the er town library and went to Birmingham University library and then I got back the next week and I realized that I was about the only person who 'd actually done that and other people had n't |
| 24 | At first I played the bodhran drum [ he pronounced it ‘ bowran ’ ] and then I took up the guitar . |
| 25 | Thus at my ease , I ate my tea and then I washed up the dirty crocks . |
| 26 | It stared at it for a moment , rubbing its arms , and then it picked up the telephone . |
| 27 | She told me all about you and Gittel , and how you called down the curse on Gittel 's female line . |
| 28 | ‘ Well , come along , come along , Miss Quinn , ’ Dr. Briant said , using the bright rallying voice he always did when speaking to her , and obediently she picked up the baby and carried him to the scales . |
| 29 | Erm , well we let them and again we brought out the demonstrator and we let them touch condoms erm do anything they wanted with them as long as we got them back . |
| 30 | It is not going too far to suggest that it was the fame of Chaplin that first allowed many intellectuals to even broach the subject of film and certainly he brought back the possibility of ‘ slumming it ’ that had rather disappeared since the days of music-hall . |