Example sentences of "and [adv] [vb past] [prep] [pos pn] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He ignored this and leisurely got into his undershirt . |
| 2 | Amendments to the bill will be tabled — at the last attempt it collected more than 300 , and effectively sank under their weight . |
| 3 | Father McGiff turned from the window and wearily sat at his desk . |
| 4 | After so much delay and frustration it was being driven at speed , and so zipped across her vision in one swift-moving moment . |
| 5 | SULLIVAN , VICTUALLER ’ — and alternately reined in his horse and then with his whip prodded its jittering rump . |
| 6 | THIS PHOTOGRAPH WAS ONE OF BERNARD 'S FAVOURITES AND ALWAYS SAT ON HIS DESK . |
| 7 | All that and more went through my mind , wrote Harsnet , as I sat there in the moonlight in the silence , but it was as if it was the glass which was telling me this , that the glass was my mind as I thought that , or my mind the glass , and that was the reason for the fear and the cold and also for the sense of growing excitement and a fear then , a different kind of fear , that I would not be able to do anything with this excitement , that it would be my failure , my failure to realize what I now saw were the real possibilities of the glass , a failure for which I would never be able to forgive myself , though a part of me would always know or perhaps only believe that it was in the nature of my insight that there could be no realization of it , that it was precisely an insight about non-realization , but by then , wrote Harsnet , it had all become too complicated , too extreme , I did not want to know any of it until it was all over , until I had made my effort , perhaps it had been a mistake to come in and sit there with the glass through the night with the moon shining so brightly , it must have been full , or nearly full , unnaturally bright anyway , something to do with the solstice perhaps , to sit in the room with the glass alone or with the moon alone might have been bearable , in the dark with the glass or in the moonlight in an empty room , but the two together , the glass and the moon , that was perhaps the mistake . |
| 8 | From the beginning of their relationship , de Beauvoir prized Sartre 's intellect over her own and willingly acted as his editor , critic , and sounding board , repeatedly pushing aside her own work to read his . |
| 9 | Not that Luke needed any sartorial props ; he was just naturally sensuously exciting as she had always suspected , and now knew to her cost . |
| 10 | There , whilst waiting , he had made the mistake of sitting down , and now discovered to his chagrin that when he wanted to stand again his legs would not respond . |
| 11 | Luke and Sonny had taken off their jackets and high hard collars and now sat with their shirt sleeves rolled up , the noon sun shining through the windows warming their backs . |
| 12 | The Cherokee pilot saw the Cheetah pilot slumped in his cockpit and immediately went to his aid . |
| 13 | She had sat down opposite him and immediately started on her inquisition . |
| 14 | I managed to get my key in the door and immediately forgot about my rescuer . |
| 15 | Annunciata turned to her , as she put the tea down , and respectfully enquired for her health . |
| 16 | She ran her hand through her hair and then looked at her watch . |
| 17 | He says he saw a fish and then looked at his blade and it had a part missing . |
| 18 | A priest glanced up , assessing the wealth of the new arrival , and then continued on his way to consume yet another ritual meal of sweets and milk . |
| 19 | He stopped midway to say a prayer in the Chapel of St Thomas for the safety of their journey and then continued on his way . |
| 20 | Watching these high speed ants on the Bombay verandah , I was impressed by the fact that ants travelling in different directions upon their highway stopped dead upon meeting , touched each other and then continued upon their way . |
| 21 | He locked the door of the smithy behind him , and then sauntered towards his mother-in-law . |
| 22 | Peacock scored twice to accelerate Charlton 's slide down the table and then apologised to his dad Keith , Charlton 's reserve team coach . |
| 23 | She kissed me and then glared into my face . |
| 24 | I took down a few reference numbers from a noticeboard headed ‘ Cleaning ’ and then waited for my turn . |
| 25 | They ate the sandwiches they 'd made before they 'd left the house , and then lay in their shelter and read two paper-backed books they 'd brought with them . |
| 26 | As usual , Maria Grazia answered and then yelled to his mother to pick up the extension phone by her chair , in the deep underwater gloom of the living room . |
| 27 | I dressed and then went to my suitcase , searching for an old , black veil . |
| 28 | He tells me about how he had to leave a Walthamstow pub in embarrassment when he was asked to do some karaoke , and then asked for his autograph . |
| 29 | He told the court : ‘ It shut slowly and then slammed on my finger … it cut off the top of my ring finger . ’ |
| 30 | This one just hung there like a kite on an invisible string and then fell on its prey like a stone , somewhere in another field . |