Example sentences of "and [adv] [vb past] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our librarian passed me the disk ready for review , I ran it and nervously waited for the title page . |
| 2 | Our librarian passed me the disk ready for review , I ran it and nervously waited for the title page . |
| 3 | The UN Security Council on Nov. 29 approved Resolution 678 authorizing member governments to use " all necessary means " to ensure Iraq 's complete withdrawal from Kuwait , if by a deadline of Jan. 15 , 1991 , the Iraqis had not already done so and thereby complied with the UN 's previous resolutions . |
| 4 | The discovery of the three devices in the past two days may mark a reappearance of the ‘ tartan terrorism ’ which flared in the 1970s and mostly disappeared as the perpetrators of various bank robberies and explosions were jailed . |
| 5 | An example is William McDougal 's correspondence with Friendly Societies which revealed their discrimination against deaf people , and eventually led to the acceptance of the deaf and dumb on equal terms with hearing people by the Church Benefit Society . |
| 6 | I , personally , always tried to avoid being drawn into any kind of union or political affairs , but in the case of the Association I made a slight concession in that I agreed to become Editor of our newsletter , which started out as a news-sheet and eventually grew into a magazine called " Coastlines " , featuring articles , reports from the cutters , poems and competitions . |
| 7 | Strictly speaking , these refer to dreams where you are pursued and eventually overpowered by a monster . |
| 8 | Over the long centuries a series of massive offensives rolled them back through the Shadowlands and eventually culminated in the storming of Anlec . |
| 9 | The Forget-me-nots were billed as ‘ the smallest song and dance act ’ and eventually blossomed into a team of eight , fronted by Amy Knott . |
| 10 | Waves broke on the shore and eventually expired in a froth and myriad of bubbles . |
| 11 | Graham climbed from the car and instinctively ducked as a mortar exploded in the distance . |
| 12 | Many species live , and presumably lived in the past , in inland or upland sites where little sediment accumulates . |
| 13 | He stood there slightly bent for a few seconds holding his stomach and then he staggered and slowly fell to the floor . |
| 14 | But the idea germinated and slowly grew into an obsession . |
| 15 | The Ford slowed down in front of them and slowly came to a halt , blocking the entire road . |
| 16 | He was a demanding baby , and rarely slept through the night , even when he was a year old . |
| 17 | The heavy chainmail was gone ; he wore a long dark blue tunic , embroidered with silver thread and loosely belted at the waist . |
| 18 | There was another face then , which did n't have to be invented : a moustached face that had recently and endlessly appeared on the television news , the face of a man who was accused of battering to death the nanny of his children , of attempting to do the same to his wife . |
| 19 | and suddenly came upon the river , |
| 20 | Producers were so busy fighting their own corner , and so mesmerized by the success of Hollywood , that they did n't have the strength to argue that keeping the industry fragmented and flexible , learning from Hollywood 's example without simply imitating its outward forms , might be a better way of catering for a market the size of Britain than heading up the road of monopoly . |
| 21 | Many of the new firms that started were under-capitalised and so went to the wall , but the net number has increased by many hundreds of thousands since 1979 . |
| 22 | Treasury Counsel announced that the Secretary of State for the Environment was now inclined to take the view that the statue was not part of the listed building , and so asked for an adjournment . |
| 23 | The woman — Rab , with the wine , and so took-on with the barman , had not noticed her before — sat across from him , over a small , square tin-topped table . |
| 24 | On his way down to take part in an official inspection , Wycliffe had monitored reports on his car radio and so arrived at the scene of crime before his headquarters had got a team together . |
| 25 | Jimmy Marks had become the Commander of No 35 Squadron and so arrived on the day that the Pathfinders were formed with his hind-picked aircrews from No 1 Group . |
| 26 | James himself , ill with some ailment which has never been reliably diagnosed , and perhaps debilitated by a variety of medicines in which he dabbled , fled despondently to his palace at Linlithgow to see his pregnant wife . |
| 27 | There were thousands of the creatures flying above them and ominously silhouetted on the witch trees at the edge of the plain . |
| 28 | With only fifteen yards to go Crisp tightened as he felt Red Rum 's presence but it was his dying effort and only lasted for a second . |
| 29 | I rolled and tossed and kept thinking of Mum , and only fell into a doze at dawn . |
| 30 | The TCCB , bless them , have tried with all their splintered might to redress a short-changing of the public by players in knockout competitions which has bordered on the fraudulent , and only came to a head following the Benson & hedges Cup final at Lord 's last year , and the Oval semi-final of the Nat West Trophy a month later . |