Example sentences of "and [adv] [pers pn] [vb past] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Would n't I like to curl up on the sofa ? — and mostly I enjoyed the sweaty heaving pleasures of the British Legion do , where the guests galumphed and the men got drunk and waved bottles around — and one thing I noticed through all the ranks of society , no matter what the background , or the income , or the form the party took , was that as the evening wore on women would begin to look pained and patient and longed to get home , but did n't like to say so for fear of being accused of ruining the evening 's fun . |
| 2 | I had a good laugh about it and eventually she saw the funny side . |
| 3 | ‘ She told you Alex was the father , and suddenly you saw the awful vision of history repeating itself . |
| 4 | And so we followed the old man up the stone steps beneath the portico and into the long hall . |
| 5 | Rather like watches , they were practical , part of the furniture and so we wore the same one for all occasions . |
| 6 | Later , Faraday showed that moving charges made magnetic fields and so we had the electromagnetic field . |
| 7 | In the first place , we had to come to know each other , to establish a community of interest , and so we used the early tours and concert schedules to play through the orchestra , s main repertory . |
| 8 | And so we used the small weapons we had . |
| 9 | . The works and the people had sort of amalgamated and so they used the one place where they had a fitting shop . |
| 10 | Indeed , the captaincy of that side fell to Albert in mid-season after the retirement of Ted Smith and so he became the first Palace skipper to lead our club to a Football League championship . |
| 11 | John had been alerted to the possibility of profit and so he sentenced the Honourable Alexander Augustus to a stiff course of Lake Tourism into the Jaws of Borrowdale . |
| 12 | The trouble was I started wanting to play straight-ahead rock and heavy metal and so I left the traditional blues stuff on the back burner . |
| 13 | And so I left the old lady in her bride 's dress in the candle-light , with the dusty furniture around her . |
| 14 | And so I became the single , visible manifestation of homosexuality in South Yorkshire . |
| 15 | I could n't stand the thought of him seeing anyone else and so I did the only thing I could think of : I decided to spy on him . |
| 16 | she said what , what agenda do you want , so I said just the same and so she put the same venue , we tend to alter at the meeting she said |
| 17 | Well and so it split the Labour Party and the from er at that time you know we got five hundred members in with the Labour Party . |
| 18 | And so it did the other night , when I heard two undergrads , giving a list of pleasures which were ( a ) Nazi , ( b ) leading to homosexuality . |
| 19 | ‘ And obviously she had the wrong idea about what was expected of her ! ’ |
| 20 | Jane linked her arm through Patrick 's and together they followed the small man . |
| 21 | His brother , Cherry , joined him in his work and together they became the first men to illustrate books on natural history throughout with photographs . |
| 22 | She married another student and together they joined the communist party . |
| 23 | On my way through town I met Mr Wopsle , and together we started the long walk home to the village . |
| 24 | And soon he had the good news that this tiny refugee was fit enough to continue — though still very sick . |
| 25 | Between that and the idea of seeing the McLaren girl , it sounded better and better and finally I got the Mexican boy , who was out front again , and sent him after Mr. Mendez . |
| 26 | The giant Sikh 's muscles bunched , the veins stood out on his throat and temples , his eyes bulged , and somehow he heaved the great iron bell into the air and swung it back and forth three times , making the walls sing and tremble , before silencing it again on the pulsing floor . |
| 27 | They called him twice again , and eventually he appeared that evening once it was explained the family was n't used to this sort of treatment ( and once he realised the best salmon stream in the area ran through the estate ) . |
| 28 | He had been seeing her for over a year now and yesterday she popped the big question . |
| 29 | Slowly and carefully he made the thick , pliable rope into a noose . |
| 30 | Then coolly and carefully he tossed the rough cloth over the lowered horns . |