Example sentences of "and [adv] [vb past] [pers pn] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I nodded , and nervously watched him leave the room . |
| 2 | The predominantly transparent colours of the gouache gave my washes a strong tint , and so allowed me to apply the broad washed demanded by a large watercolour . |
| 3 | Perhaps only William Joyce could have taken for his text , as he once did , Edmund Burke 's axiom , ‘ In politics magnanimity is often the truest wisdom ’ — and promptly used it to show the necessity for the extinction of Jewry . |
| 4 | So Mr Tomlinson kept the 24v wiring and also extended it to power the worklights on the front and rear of the cab . |
| 5 | This gave the borough a corporate personality at law , with the right to sue and be sued , and also empowered it to exclude the shire officials and be directly responsible to the central government . |
| 6 | The authors have taken the basic concepts of keeping cichlids of all sizes and often adapted them to suit the best requirements of the species being kept . |
| 7 | In finishing I would say that starting to change fluids can be a daunting prospect and I can assure you our firm played about with fluids and got some ropey results , and even thought we had the chemical company taped and could use less fluid , it worked out at about 3 oz per 80 oz with dye added and boy , did we have colour , it was brilliant . |
| 8 | George fumbled out the little pinhole torch and watched as Maxim delicately smeared a film of shoe polish on the end of his key then probed ag in and immediately withdrew it to study the marks on the polish . |
| 9 | Rush scored his 200th league goal in England to set the seal on Liverpool 's win and then admitted he prefers the presence of a strike partner to the lone attacker role employed against Spartak . |
| 10 | He was watching this house at ten o'clock and then told you to follow the two gentlemen who came out of it . ’ |
| 11 | At the end of the placement , a ward sister signed my assessment form and then asked me to do the same . |
| 12 | I was hungry but had to wait while he fiddled with a saucepan and then made me endure the smell of the meat coming from it . |
| 13 | and then did you follow the ring road round through the ? |
| 14 | People very kindly took her under their wing , explained the rules , explained the dangers of unexpected holes , and then encouraged her to spend the next few hours crawling into and under wet gorse bushes . |
| 15 | ‘ And how did they get the car across here ? ’ asked the Substitute , slowing to put a flame to a freshly filled pipe . |
| 16 | Who sent these orders and how did they cross the Forth ? |
| 17 | And how did you break the addiction ? |
| 18 | ‘ And how did you find the dear Bishop ? ’ |
| 19 | And why had he felt the need to go on pretending right up until the very last minute ? |
| 20 | And why had he persuaded the director to hire her ? |
| 21 | And why did they leave the church house ? |
| 22 | Why did they choose to omit a particular miracle and why did they change the chronology elsewhere ? |
| 23 | And finally , thought Ian as he walked up through the Cathedral stairs from the crypt office , what does the Bishop want two of after Evensong and why did he put the phone down on me when he failed to get the odious Williams ? |
| 24 | And when did you join the Labour Party ? |
| 25 | And where did he get the bricks from ? |