Example sentences of "and [adv] [vb past] [adv] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They clearly needed some help in deciding what book to buy , but they did not ask an assistant and eventually went out without purchasing . |
| 2 | They both cried out as they reached and went beyond that white-hot explosion , holding tight as they crested the wave and slowly drifted back to reality . |
| 3 | The wind rose in a rending sigh , filling the night with sound , and slowly sank again to quietness . |
| 4 | Moreover , since last September , sterling has fallen farthest — and so gained most in competitiveness — against non-EC currencies : by 22% against the dollar and 32% against the yen , compared with only 13% against the D-mark . |
| 5 | New South Wales , on the other hand , ran in six tries to win quite convincingly in the end , although it has to be said in Scotland 's defence that they came close on several occasions to scoring a try and only slipped out of range in the last five minutes when they conceded two tries , both of which were converted . |
| 6 | IMPATIENT AND SOMEWHAT TACTLESS FEMALE seeks male willing to be ordered around and generally walked all over Age irrelevant . |
| 7 | The thoughts came with a fumbling sort of logic and finally fell neatly into place . |
| 8 | He said : ‘ We know the car rounded the bend and somehow went out of control , mounting the pavement and striking the girls . ’ |
| 9 | AS YOU CAN imagine , the dozen or so habitations , and their inmates , became very dear to me over the years , and gradually took over from reality . |
| 10 | When Liddie returned home she had difficulties breastfeeding her baby and quickly gave up in favour of using a bottle . |
| 11 | This was most enjoyable and , rejuvenated by the visit , we emerged comfortable winners in Regina and confidently flew out to Thunder Bay on Lake Superior — a fascinating flight over vast stretches of snow bound forests , frozen lakes and rivers . |
| 12 | who refused to wear the stuffy school uniform but came to classes in a grubby khaki shirt and shorts , would not sit properly on his chair but cross-legged on it , yawned during lessons and often stayed away from school altogether . |
| 13 | We took a rickety public bus with him twenty miles out of town and then struck out on foot for several hours into the wilderness . |
| 14 | Oldham 's joy was complete when , 10 minutes later , the effervescent Ritchie fed Irwin and then ran on to head home the full-back 's cross for his second goal and Oldham 's third . |
| 15 | No windows no doors no nothing er you know , completely gutted it to make it all , to renovate it and then ran out of money and then it just stood there completely empty . |
| 16 | ‘ Graham led from the first lap to the 97th at Monaco , and then ran out of oil . |
| 17 | And then they 're hung on by pegs and then touched underneath with mortar to stop them lifting off , that grey sort of er it 's to stop them lifting off . |
| 18 | She took hers ‘ on the rocks ’ as I believe they say in America and then filled up with water and I realized it was only broached for me . |
| 19 | The barrel vault of semi-circular section was used for smaller buildings and was generally divided into rectangular compartments , with brick construction supported on wood centering and then filled in with concrete . |
| 20 | Bates trailed 3–0 in the final set against Black , his doubles partner this week , and went to the front for the first time in the match when he broke for 6–5 and then served out for victory . |
| 21 | She watched him leave the kitchen , sighed furiously and then stared blankly into space . |
| 22 | It is a sad fact that these ponies have to be born at all , but hundreds are , every year , bred on our moorlands and then rounded up during autumn to be sold for a pittance at the sale . |
| 23 | The Ellerman & Bucknall ladies team won their heat and then went on to victory in the final . |
| 24 | He now removed it briefly to say , ‘ You are a nice lady , ’ and then went off in search of a gun . |
| 25 | Prost won out in the end and then went off in persuit of Hill … |
| 26 | But definitely so he sort of went on his own and then went back into building and decorating and then when the Empire opened he started there from the off . |
| 27 | I found work but I did n't tell them I had nowhere to stay , that when it was night time , I got on the night buses and stayed there until morning and then went back to work . |
| 28 | The power of the sun would then be harvested by an array of silicon or gallium arsenide solar cells and then beamed back to earth by microwave and converted into low-frequency , alternating current electricity and fed into the USA 's grid . |
| 29 | We rose to greet her and then settled back into place like so many fluttering pigeons . |
| 30 | Otherwise it was a tiny Citroën or a moped , both clapped out , and having to be run with at high speed down the hill and then jumped on with alacrity . |