Example sentences of "and [adv] [vb past] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our librarian passed me the disk ready for review , I ran it and nervously waited for the title page . |
| 2 | Our librarian passed me the disk ready for review , I ran it and nervously waited for the title page . |
| 3 | An example is William McDougal 's correspondence with Friendly Societies which revealed their discrimination against deaf people , and eventually led to the acceptance of the deaf and dumb on equal terms with hearing people by the Church Benefit Society . |
| 4 | I , personally , always tried to avoid being drawn into any kind of union or political affairs , but in the case of the Association I made a slight concession in that I agreed to become Editor of our newsletter , which started out as a news-sheet and eventually grew into a magazine called " Coastlines " , featuring articles , reports from the cutters , poems and competitions . |
| 5 | Strictly speaking , these refer to dreams where you are pursued and eventually overpowered by a monster . |
| 6 | Over the long centuries a series of massive offensives rolled them back through the Shadowlands and eventually culminated in the storming of Anlec . |
| 7 | The Forget-me-nots were billed as ‘ the smallest song and dance act ’ and eventually blossomed into a team of eight , fronted by Amy Knott . |
| 8 | Waves broke on the shore and eventually expired in a froth and myriad of bubbles . |
| 9 | Graham climbed from the car and instinctively ducked as a mortar exploded in the distance . |
| 10 | Many species live , and presumably lived in the past , in inland or upland sites where little sediment accumulates . |
| 11 | He stood there slightly bent for a few seconds holding his stomach and then he staggered and slowly fell to the floor . |
| 12 | But the idea germinated and slowly grew into an obsession . |
| 13 | The Ford slowed down in front of them and slowly came to a halt , blocking the entire road . |
| 14 | He was a demanding baby , and rarely slept through the night , even when he was a year old . |
| 15 | The heavy chainmail was gone ; he wore a long dark blue tunic , embroidered with silver thread and loosely belted at the waist . |
| 16 | There was another face then , which did n't have to be invented : a moustached face that had recently and endlessly appeared on the television news , the face of a man who was accused of battering to death the nanny of his children , of attempting to do the same to his wife . |
| 17 | and suddenly came upon the river , |
| 18 | Producers were so busy fighting their own corner , and so mesmerized by the success of Hollywood , that they did n't have the strength to argue that keeping the industry fragmented and flexible , learning from Hollywood 's example without simply imitating its outward forms , might be a better way of catering for a market the size of Britain than heading up the road of monopoly . |
| 19 | Many of the new firms that started were under-capitalised and so went to the wall , but the net number has increased by many hundreds of thousands since 1979 . |
| 20 | Treasury Counsel announced that the Secretary of State for the Environment was now inclined to take the view that the statue was not part of the listed building , and so asked for an adjournment . |
| 21 | The woman — Rab , with the wine , and so took-on with the barman , had not noticed her before — sat across from him , over a small , square tin-topped table . |
| 22 | On his way down to take part in an official inspection , Wycliffe had monitored reports on his car radio and so arrived at the scene of crime before his headquarters had got a team together . |
| 23 | Jimmy Marks had become the Commander of No 35 Squadron and so arrived on the day that the Pathfinders were formed with his hind-picked aircrews from No 1 Group . |
| 24 | James himself , ill with some ailment which has never been reliably diagnosed , and perhaps debilitated by a variety of medicines in which he dabbled , fled despondently to his palace at Linlithgow to see his pregnant wife . |
| 25 | There were thousands of the creatures flying above them and ominously silhouetted on the witch trees at the edge of the plain . |
| 26 | With only fifteen yards to go Crisp tightened as he felt Red Rum 's presence but it was his dying effort and only lasted for a second . |
| 27 | I rolled and tossed and kept thinking of Mum , and only fell into a doze at dawn . |
| 28 | The TCCB , bless them , have tried with all their splintered might to redress a short-changing of the public by players in knockout competitions which has bordered on the fraudulent , and only came to a head following the Benson & hedges Cup final at Lord 's last year , and the Oval semi-final of the Nat West Trophy a month later . |
| 29 | Opals were totally unknown to the early civilizations of the Old World and only came to the knowledge of the Mediterranean peoples as an outcome of Roman military expansion into the Balkans . |
| 30 | This china lived in the sideboard in the dining-room and only came into the kitchen to be warmed before a meal and washed up afterwards . |