Example sentences of "and [vb past] [adv] [pers pn] [vb mod] [adv] " in BNC.
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1 | For example , if at P the parcel had no motion in the east-west direction across the planet 's surface and the planet 's axial rotation is prograde then it will pick up motion across the grid towards the east , and in moving northwards will end up for example at Q. If it were in the southern hemisphere and moved southward it would also pick up an eastwards movement . |
2 | A woman came in and said perhaps we would rather have soup . |
3 | And Dot considered her pigeon-hearted father and wondered why she could never recall his face . |
4 | When Liz Headleand woke on the first day of 1980 and found herself in bed with her husband , she remembered instantly the scene of the night before , and wondered how she could ever have been so upset by it . |
5 | I remembered that they had been there all along , and wondered how I could ever have forgotten them . |