Example sentences of "and [noun] [vb past] [adv] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the back of the car , Henrietta and Samantha made exaggerated vomiting sounds at the very thought of it , and Jacqueline joined enthusiastically in the pantomime . |
| 2 | The sun blazed down on the ancient circle of stones , bees buzzed diligently as they searched for late pollen , and birds sang cheerfully in the nearby trees . |
| 3 | Wills make it clear that fathers and sons worked together in the same little workshop , and perhaps the women and girls helped occasionally . |
| 4 | The car drove in through the dusty , bleached stone gates to the stone courtyard where a fountain played and cicadas buzzed noisily in the palms and jacarandas moved softly in the hot sea air . |
| 5 | Both Seve and Irwin played badly in the third round , but you 're never going to do a good score at Lytham when it feels like three degrees below freezing and there 's a gale blowing , are you ? |
| 6 | A big grey five-year-old , Sunset And Vine jumped well in the Lily Tree Novice Hurdle and stormed home well clear looking a horse with a real future — some of it , I hope on the right channel . |
| 7 | Even so , the tensions between the EEC and EFTA abated somewhat in the early 1960s . |
| 8 | The draw itself is expected to last no more than 10 minutes , although there is always the chance of the sort of hiccup that occurred before the 1982 tournament when Belgium and Scotland ended up in the wrong groups — and there was the embarrassed re-examination of screwed-up slips of paper such as might be seen when the vicar 's wife wins both the turkey and the hamper in the Christmas raffle . |
| 9 | Jews and Arabs lived together in the street , speaking each other 's language with some fluency , and it was an Israeli Jew who first pointed to the white house . |
| 10 | ‘ Imagine me in one of those , ’ she said , and laughter bubbled out in the way that normally set the whole bus tour laughing with her . |
| 11 | In Europe the names of Hitler and Mussolini appeared increasingly in the news . |
| 12 | The subsequent report on the incident showed that the company , its staff and workers responded magnificently in the difficult circumstances . |
| 13 | Agriculture and stock-rearing fared better in the drier and more fertile east than in the western mixture of peat lands and thinly coated , often precipitous rocks . |
| 14 | ‘ Are you all right ? ’ they asked , like people do when somebody 's been knocked down by a bus and lying stretched out in the road . |
| 15 | Once again David and Julia ate together in the kitchen at the scrubbed wooden table . |
| 16 | Léonie and Thérèse knelt down in the straw . |
| 17 | While he and Blanche hummed up in the lift to the conference room , Dexter told the superintendent what he had found out at the dry cleaner 's . |
| 18 | We climbed a little further and Arthur cooled off in the tarn . |
| 19 | The car drove in through the dusty , bleached stone gates to the stone courtyard where a fountain played and cicadas buzzed noisily in the palms and jacarandas moved softly in the hot sea air . |
| 20 | To one side of the pines were ancient olive trees bent by the winds and cicadas buzzed non-stop in the hot night air . |
| 21 | Clare and Jacky conferred briefly in the kitchen while Carolyn stood awkwardly smiling at the woman . |
| 22 | Without bothering to speak again Michael and Geoffrey got back in the Mercedes . |
| 23 | On the very day that the Garotter 's Act became law , the essential distinction between right and wrong faltered appreciably in the pages of The Times where a disturbance was noted at Cremorne Gardens which had resulted in some upper-class rowdies being heavily fined . |
| 24 | Er because me sis me sister , two of me sisters went in service , er there was me , at this time , me , me brother , two sisters , no , two brothers , five , six , well I , I have , we have at one time me mother and father slept downstairs in the front room . |
| 25 | And then my mother and father came down in the four bed when we moved to ninety five in the four bedroom yes , they brought their bedroom suite down with them . |
| 26 | Christina , Stephen and Celia huddled together in the master bedroom on the first floor , listening to the whirlwind hell-bent on destruction . |
| 27 | This set-back meant that flax prices went up steeply in 1922 to meet demand , and sowing increased sharply in the autumn , bringing quick prosperity to parts of Belorussia . |
| 28 | We put our litter back into our rucksacks as all the bins were full to overflowing , and Elinor and Otley set off in the direction of Fair Hill where all the caravans were resting . |
| 29 | Ari and Nathan hung around in the doorway until they looked up , feeling they needed permission to enter . |
| 30 | Marguerite was sleeping and Jenna crept downstairs in the silent house and made her way to the kitchen to fix herself a milky drink . |