Example sentences of "and [adv] [noun prp] [vb past] [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.

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1 And so Felix offered to take over the wheel and drive for a while .
2 Anna had arrived a week before the end of term , and so Christine had to go back to school , to her job , leaving Tony ( who had been granted paternity leave ) to cope on his own .
3 ‘ That would be the end of me , I 'd be nothing then , ’ he would mumble , and once Nathan tried to tap out code on his hand , so that he would understand messages in the event .
4 ‘ But my strategy was clear and once Riccardo had gone out — and he was really the last chance of anybody catching me — I just had to stay calm and not worry about winning . ’
5 But they had finished with Elise 's death , and now Merrill had come back to the Midlands city where she and Elise had grown up before they went their separate ways .
6 Jonadab had made it clear that he had done his son-in-law a favour in allowing him to jump the queue and buy four of his grey shirehorses and now Stephen had to screw up his courage and confess that one was dead .
7 She could have told her guest that the midges were like little piranhas of the air ; but she had n't , and now Betty had found out for herself .
8 ‘ Shush , Mamma , ’ Rosa had said , and then Sabina had come in again with the bird — it would make only a bite to eat .
9 And then Georg had closed in on her , a grumpier , more disapproving , hectoring Georg .
10 There was a yell , and then Burun came trotting back through the trees .
11 The Prussians found that the advanced industrial nations of the West were using their colonial possessions to fuel their industrial drive , and accordingly Prussia began to seek out markets that the British , French , Belgians and Dutch did not dominate .
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