Example sentences of "and [adv] [vb past] [prep] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the period of the first Opium war ( 1840–2 ) Jardine pursued banking and insurance in London , and successfully stood for election in 1841 as the Whig candidate for Ashburton ( Devon ) . |
| 2 | So Jessie became a secretary to a Manchester solicitor and eventually fell in love with and married an officer during the First World War . |
| 3 | I was lucky in my tutors and my college , and like so many young men before and since fell in love with the place . |
| 4 | Besides cleaning up the city 's litter , he was determined to cure its chronic pollution problem , and duly went to war on public and private traffic , proposing a total ban from some areas . |
| 5 | In 1915 and ‘ 16 he had proved he had n't lost his old touch , and so died in bed at a great age , garnished with colourful honours , many of them from grateful countries whose soldiers he had n't got killed even on purpose . |
| 6 | This new evidence was held by the defence and only came to light during the trial . |
| 7 | Lisabeth and Fenella were being moved out of the way and generally harried from pillar to post . |
| 8 | I went into London and I picked up this Tokai and just fell in love with it — it just had the perfect neck . |
| 9 | I walked up to these fellers , a few paces , and just stood in front of them , looked at them — they knew what was wanted — ‘ Clear off ! ’ |
| 10 | The propertyless proletariat , exploited and progressively immiserized in line with Marx 's expectations , are in the less developed countries . |
| 11 | It is appropriate to recall that Elementary Matrices ( 1938 ) was printed nine times in U.K. , several times in U.S.A. , was translated into Russian and Czech , and finally republished in hardback in U.S.A. in 1983 . |
| 12 | I realised the truth when I became close to a friend of a friend and gradually fell in love with her . |
| 13 | Columbine too started life as a servant of the gods and gradually rose in rank from waiting on the aristocracy to conspiring with Harlequin in such ballets as The Good- Humoured Ladies , where the two of them appear as serving maid and waiter . |
| 14 | It was always true to reality and always walked in line with man 's progress and development . |
| 15 | I advised the Camerons to ensure that both dogs always moved towards them to receive any affection , and preferably sat on command before receiving it . |
| 16 | From 1870 to 1880 he was at the office of the architect Thomas Henry Wyatt [ q.v. ] , and later went into partnership with the latter 's son Matthew . |
| 17 | Rafferty had the opposite experience to Couples on the fifth , kicking off a bank into the lake , and also went in water on the long 16th . |
| 18 | She lived out of doors and often went to work in the fields with the contadini . |
| 19 | Hence Behaviouralism , the version of a more general behaviourism specific to International Relations , which we shall meet in the next chapter , is commonly spoken of as a Positive approach and often contrasted with Realism on this score . |
| 20 | She continued to visit her former foster parents and even went on holiday to Spain with them . |
| 21 | When he spent the Whitsun weekend with John Hayward in Cambridge , he looked " very haggard and washed out and dispirited " and simply went to sleep on Hayward 's bed for two afternoons . |
| 22 | Downstairs in the warehouse , French pork was being offloaded from vehicles and immediately reloaded for distribution in Moscow shops . |
| 23 | Suppose the suspect had taken the taxi to get rid of Carella , got out at the hospital to confuse matters further , walked around the comer to the terminus and then continued by bus to his original destination ? |
| 24 | She shrugged , and then giggled in surprise as the rounded shoulders of the spacesuit ascended like blunt-nosed rockets on each side of her helmet . |
| 25 | Well , they 'd find out soon , she thought , glancing at her watch , and then stared in amazement as a heavy black motorbike cruised lazily into the consultant 's slot and stopped . |
| 26 | He was ordained deacon in 1863 and priest in 1864 , served for two years as his father 's curate in Langley Burrell , Wiltshire , and then went as curate to Clyro , Radnorshire . |
| 27 | She had originally run it with first husband Stephen and then went to work at the Midland pub opposite Central station . |
| 28 | She had originally run it with first husband Stephen and then went to work at the Midland pub opposite Central station . |
| 29 | I sang and danced in town , and then went to bed in Edinburgh Castle . |
| 30 | It used every means at its disposal : it argued and pressured the Versailles politicians ; it cheated in the plebiscites ; it engineered uprisings in Silesia and Wielkopolska ; it skirmished and then went to war with the Red Army for territory in the east . |