Example sentences of "and [adv] [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hamilton picked up a pencil , and deliberately snapped it in two . |
| 2 | The tug refloated the vessel , towed her to a sheltered anchorage where she was made fit for the tow to Hong Kong , and thereafter towed her for four days to docks in Hong Kong . |
| 3 | Defenders of the evacuees pointed out that the exercise had taken place at the end of a particularly hot summer , in which head lice would have thrived , that parents had not been properly informed of how long their children would be evacuated for ( and hence despatched them in one day 's clothing ) , or that the first day of evacuation ( 1 September ) was a Friday — the day on which working-class financial resources would have been at their lowest , preventing parents buying extra garments for their children . |
| 4 | He began early , in Bangkok and then Dubai , had a week 's work-out with David Leadbetter in Orlando and then followed it with four straight tournaments coming into the Masters . |
| 5 | Instead he waited until stragglers ventured outside the walls and then picked them off one by one , capturing the Dwarfs alive if possible and tormenting them for days within earshot of the citadel walls . |
| 6 | Alida Thorne read the letter again , and then tore it into forty or fifty tiny squares , her hand shaking with anger . |
| 7 | He proved incapable of meeting the financial demands of this last office , and his predecessor Sir William Russell [ q.v. ] had to step into the breach and ultimately replaced him in 1630 . |