Example sentences of "and [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Then the Cid bade his banner move on , and the Bishop Don Hieronymo pricked forward with his company , and laid on with such guise , that the hosts were soon mingled together .
2 Eighty-five per cent in special assistance to the Länder Brandenburg , Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania , Saxony , Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia as well as to Land Berlin to cover their general financial requirements and divided up among these Länder in proportion to their number of inhabitants , excluding the inhabitants of Berlin ( West ) , and
3 When it has stopped coming , he drops the body and goes back for another lamb and another , creeping down the earthen steps with his blood-stained knife and his feet and ankles splashed with red .
4 He then generally obliged the heirs and entrusted to them that they should give and make over to each person whatever he had left them .
5 Bayfield was the senior ‘ pro ’ of the pack , and lived up to that responsibility nobly .
6 Everyone worked with a will to equip the expedition and load up with enough food , petrol , water and ammunition for three to four weeks in the field .
7 As a result of nail sickness , the heavy Westmorland slates were regularly coming loose and crashing down with such force that they sliced through the lead gutters below .
8 He put the letter in his Out tray and moved on to another piece of paper , and then he stopped and went back to the first letter .
9 Now it is fallen upon and twisted and embellished out of all recognition .
10 And so though we have all sinned and that circle , that perfect purpose of God for you and for me has been warped and distorted out of all recognition , the potential that God had for you and for me , it 's been dis it seems to have been destroyed because of the warping and because of the impact of sin .
11 ‘ I usually only scrub the front tyre when I get into a turn too hot but this is how it goes : You 're in fourth gear and jetting down to this U-turn .
12 She kicked off her shoes on the carpet , and slid back silently to listen down the well of the staircase ; and picking up from this level only minor and ambiguous sounds , she went quickly down again one floor , to where she could lean cautiously over the glossy black banister , and train both eyes and ears upon any activity in the hall below .
13 The rabbits gave them a wide berth and came through by another gap farther up , close to the gnarled trunk of an old crabapple tree .
14 Green Bay went into a feeding frenzy in the free-agency market , and came up with some star names .
15 When Russell pulled up , the two White Mountain Apaches with him slowed to a walk and came up on either side of him .
16 It sounds fantastically timeless , like you just jumped into the Tardis and came out in another place and era entirely .
17 Sometimes Mary went home , and came back with another scar or suppurating patch .
18 The rules began by clarifying the ‘ special advisory committees ’ for juveniles and spelt out in some detail the procedures for registering them at the exchanges .
19 It was not that each child was continually talking but every now and then a child would speak to his neighbour or another would leave his place quietly and walk over to another child to speak with him .
20 Jumping spiders will make detours to reach their prey ; for example , it may be necessary for the spider to leave the branch on which it is standing , climb up the stem , and walk out along another branch .
21 The following are diagrams of a machine where a letter is put in and operated on by each box in turn as the letter goes along the conveyor belt .
22 Some of them may well have been to boys ' boarding schools and put up with this sort of behaviour
23 We cut that section , we stained it and then looked at it under low power and selected out from that block the three most vascular areas .
24 The sharing and growing up without much money and finding a belief in yourself and the work .
25 With the stake firmed in the hole , hold the tree up with a simple string loop , and plant it just as you would for a bush — except that , without the bud to go by , you will have to look carefully for the soil ‘ tide mark ’ where it was growing in the nursery and finish off to that height , with the standard stem about 1½–2 inches ( 4–5cm ) from the stake .
26 ‘ Saddled us with another kid and raced off without any plan . ’
27 I remembered I had a pistol if I needed it , and turned back towards this man of the island .
28 And look out for more news concerning the dedicated vintage section of the show , which promises to showcase a multitude of lustworthy collectables for the delectation of the curious and the cognoscenti .
29 The Scottish Mountaineering Club 's Munros book had warned of a false summit cairn , and if I had longed to see the view from Beinn Dorain , and look down on that road from which the young Gray had gazed upwards 25 years ago , I was going to be disappointed unless the mist lifted .
30 You may be able give up gradually , or decide one day to remove everything connected with smoking from your house — and give up from that day on .
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