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 .
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