Example sentences of "and [pers pn] [vb past] [verb] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then he had deposited the champagne bottle on a small occasional table , next to a sleek ivory-coloured object that Folly had just about recognised as a phone , and she had watched in horrified fascination as he 'd picked up the receiver and started to tap out a number . |
| 2 | ‘ Such a middle-class way of carrying on , ’ she thought , and remembered how Gabriel and she had revelled in roast beef and two veg , and concocted casseroles of liver and sausages and baked beans . |
| 3 | And she had laid in Greek brandy and pink champagne for old times ' sake . |
| 4 | For a time it overcame her , and she seemed to drift in black depths . |
| 5 | Brusilov 's attack broke through his enemy 's line on a front of nearly 320km/ 200mls , throwing the Austro-Hungarian Army into bewildered retreat , and they began to surrender in large numbers . |
| 6 | Bannen leaned attentively towards the Doctor and they began to speak in low voices . |
| 7 | Not all of them were even keen readers outside working hours , and they preferred relaxing in other ways . |
| 8 | It is also a moment of generalisation for the twenty-one-year-old second mate who on this voyage from Australia , carrying grain and bent on winning the famous gain-race , had had to contend with an arrogant and hostile captain and who had cast off his boat , after a collision in the dark had given a mortal blow to the Blackgauntlet and he had waited in vain for orders . |
| 9 | I felt the jolt in his chest as I hugged it in rhythm against mine and for a long second could n't believe it , but then he heaved again in my arms and coughed in my face and a mouthful of dirty water shot out in a spout and he began coughing in earnest and choking and gasping for air … gasping , gulping air down , wheezing in his throat , whooping like whooping cough , struggling to fill his functioning lungs . |
| 10 | The council insisted on erecting another — this was about the time I arrived — and it got delivered in handy , fit-together sections . |