Example sentences of "and [verb] [prep] [noun sg] [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I learned afterwards that Mrs McLaren was in the habit of getting up and going to bed so early that night was confused with day ; and having an idea that she must get a message to the man who did her garden , she had gone out before it was light , lost her way , and fallen into the brook , where she was found by a man walking to work . |
| 2 | My own burden in writing this book is that as wide a circle of believers as possible consider biblical and practical principles for church planting that will enable us to promote and plan for growth more effectively . |
| 3 | monumental work by the French historian Charles Rollin ( 1661–1741 ) first published 1730–8 and translated into English soon afterwards . |
| 4 | He is cradled and cosseted above the earth and introduced to gravity very gently . |
| 5 | Iris said it blows and rains like hell just about every day in the Strait of Magellan . |
| 6 | It was considered that our pool of crewing officers had now grown to such an extent that we needed a forum where we could air our views and keep in touch both socially and with official trends , bearing in mind that our officers were now drawn from every part of the UK and from many different aspects of Customs and Excise . |
| 7 | And she used to sleep in and then a little bit after that she went to live in Liverpool with my grandmother and went to work there so s I I s I was the sort of erm eldest one at home then you know so I felt as if I was more or less responsible for looking after my mam sort of thing . |
| 8 | The long drive had tired her out and Jenna made her supper and went to bed quite early . |
| 9 | Henry Yaxlee said that on Friday night he 'd done the accounts till quite late , made a round of the stables about eleven-thirty and gone to bed soon after . |
| 10 | Until recently , similar bull-running was an annual festivity in many towns in Britain and prohibited by Parliament only early in 1835 . |
| 11 | The only thing she could do was tell him so and leave for home as soon as possible . |
| 12 | The valley is watered by the River Dee which rises high on Blea Moor and is precocious in infancy , playing hide and seek behind a screen of trees , often disappearing in fissures of its limestone bed and emerging to daylight lower downstream . |
| 13 | For uses started before that date and continued without permission ever since , it is possible to obtain an Established Use Certificate , i.e. a certificate of immunity from enforcement action . |
| 14 | Some women choose to take maternity leave and return to work relatively soon after the birth of their child , either through financial necessity or from choice . |
| 15 | When humans arrived , the dove demonstrated a behaviour pattern that it must have inherited from its ancient ancestors and kept in storage ever since . |
| 16 | They were lifted in 1954 , but re-imposed in 1955 with the new aim of reducing demand for consumer durables , by setting minimum deposits and maximum repayment periods for certain goods , and stayed in force almost continuously , though with frequent modifications . |
| 17 | sort this out sensibly , the police overreact , they arrest him at midnight in the clothes he stands up in , they take him down to the police station , he 's held in the police station for about thirty six hours or so , something like that , er instead of being brought before the court straight away and released on bail straight away , they , they keep him in custody where he 's never been before , er and Madam he 's then released on bail but court imposes silly conditions on him , conditions that he should n't go back to his home address , he ca n't go and see his girlfriend , he ca n't go and see his children , er , and Madam it seems to be an abuse of the process really of the court to behave in this way . |
| 18 | He was looking very hot and flushed in woodwork just now , and I sent him along to Mrs C. She took his temperature — about the only thing she can do — and sent him to bed . ’ |