Example sentences of "and [vb past] [adv] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A DEAF woman with speech difficulties was stunned , sexually assaulted and stabbed repeatedly by a killer who got into the flat where she lived alone , a court was told yesterday . |
| 2 | He found it and clung there for a while , then pushed clear and knelt among the waves , head lowered . |
| 3 | Mounted knights struggled across two abreast , and plunged immediately into a marsh . |
| 4 | To Grasmere , then , they had come in their own kind of innocence and plunged straight into a storm . |
| 5 | recite and read aloud in a variety of contexts , with increasing fluency and awareness of audience ; |
| 6 | We signed another form , paid another , smaller deposit , and checked right into a motel in Santa Barbara for a long rest . |
| 7 | His lean , muscular body was tanned , presumably from his years in Australia , and while the hair on his legs had turned to gold the triangle of hair on his chest was dark and tapered away to a point at the base of his flat stomach , disappearing beneath the band of his black swimming-trunks . |
| 8 | He nodded , then turned and rode away at a canter . |
| 9 | I managed to pass behind some tall screens on which those ridiculously huge contemporary paintings , works of the utmost nullity , were hung , and crept cautiously round a group of cranky statues . |
| 10 | She abandoned the half-formed thought as he went on , ‘ I was educated in England , and lived there for a number of years . |
| 11 | After his death his empire could barely be sustained by the new rulers ( including Charles the Bald and Charles the Fat — is it possible to hold an empire together when the populace is taking the mickey out of you to that extent ? ) and crumbled away over a period of two centuries . |
| 12 | Weeks of floating had made her fat and idle , but she flipped into the waves and swam away in a flurry of wings and flippers , raising a snowstorm of foam . |
| 13 | ‘ And built just like a jukebox , I 'll bet . ’ |
| 14 | For fifty years since the posthumous publication of Henri Pirenne 's Mahomet et Charlemagne ( 1937 ) scholars have been debating what they have labelled its ‘ thesis ’ : that the ancient rhythms of an undivided Mediterranean civilization had enough tenacity to survive Germanic invasions and settlements , and were disrupted and transformed only as a consequence of the spread of Muslim power , cutting the Mediterranean in half . |
| 15 | She broke off as if afraid of being overheard and moved away with a nod and a wave . |
| 16 | one solution … is to use subjectivity rather than try to push it aside … and [ so ] it might well be included in analyses and used consciously as a research tool . |
| 17 | The original Company depot was built in Copse Road , and used largely as a store for surplus cars . |
| 18 | A rough-looking man with dark slicked-back hair and heavy eyebrows popped his head into the bus and shouted jubilantly to a friend , ‘ Come in , there 's a funeral wi' free whiskey ! ’ |
| 19 | Athelstan needed no second bidding and sank gratefully into a chair , accepting the meat pastry , mince tart and cup of cold wine that Lady Maude pushed before him . |
| 20 | Then the atoms are projected upwards with velocity of 2.5 m s -1 ; and cooled further to a temperature of 2.8 K. They are then optically pumped into the F=3 hyperfine level and pass through the microwave interaction region where they experience the first pulse of tunable microwaves centred close to the F=3 to F=4 transition at about 9.2 GHz . |
| 21 | A LORRY veered off a road and crashed straight into a bathroom where 19-year-old sales assistant Joanna Betts had just stepped out of the shower . |
| 22 | Still dazed , Mrs Lomax put the car into gear and drove slowly in a semi-circle , back to the rough track that led away from the Monument . |
| 23 | When a policewoman got out of the vehicle he rammed it and drove straight into a wall which was demolished . |
| 24 | The declaration coincided with the visit of President Alfredo Cristiani to the United States and came ahead of a vote in the US Congress on a proposal to cut military aid to El Salvador by half . |
| 25 | The boy gave an amused flick of his head , swung round unhurriedly — yet not too slowly , either — and sauntered away with a laugh , his admirers tittering after him . |
| 26 | It was a big stone , not round , but elongated and shaped rather like a mandolin . |
| 27 | Tait puckered his lips and nodded slowly in a gesture of admiration . |
| 28 | The second argument had a more practical flavour and consisted simply of a demand that the issue should be put to the test of an election . |
| 29 | We were turned , lifted , pushed , lowered , pressed and turned again in a direction that could n't be guessed , only feared . |
| 30 | All except one , who had worked herself up into such a frenzy of excitement , that she became quite terrified and galloped straight into a fence — which fortunately was made of pine rails that collapsed harmlessly under the assault . |