Example sentences of "and [vb past] [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dreams of Comfort and Anthony and David mixed with memories of the war and became tangled up with the figures on the painted ceiling above her bed and the work she had been doing for Kesselring 's trial . |
| 2 | BREAKFAST listeners were left in silence when two radio presenters nipped off for a coffee during the news — and got locked out of the studio . |
| 3 | ‘ We also played badly in two one-day games and got knocked out of the NatWest and B&H as a result . ’ |
| 4 | His parents , who live at Clevelys , near Blackpool , feared he had strayed outside the airport and got caught up in the disaster . |
| 5 | I sat in the road during a demonstration and got hauled off to the police station in Newbury . |
| 6 | Gabriel was able to slide into it , head-first , over the edge of the platform , and lay curled up in the bottom , as still as a hedgehog in hibernation . |
| 7 | Nails had woken up abruptly and been angry at being discovered , and had gone out into the grey morning without any conversation beyond the threat about pulping Hoomey if he split . |
| 8 | Wilcock had written about Haynes and his Edinburgh bookshop in the Village Voice soon after it had opened , and had popped up in the one-off Longhair Times too . |
| 9 | Straightening , he turned to Lori , who had gone as white as a sheet , and had backed up to the door like an animal at bay . |
| 10 | ( Like many British design engineers at the time — and unlike Continental or American ones — he had no university training and had come up through the usual apprenticeship route with evening and part-time study . ) |
| 11 | Miss Foley was ready to go now and had come up to the desk to clear his out tray . |
| 12 | He had arrived at the Laboratory over an hour late , at ten o'clock , looking terribly tired because he had been up that night at the scene of crime , and had come over to the reception desk to collect his personal post . |
| 13 | Lucy was involved in a study of cetaceans and had come along in the hope of seeing at least some porpoises . |
| 14 | The Jew had left Judaea , where the capital has a name difficult to pronounce ( they call it Ierusalem ) and had come down to the sea . |
| 15 | He says a boy had gone away for a weekend and had come back to the school with the tablets and then sold them . |
| 16 | By August 1938 she had become a resident of the mental hospital , and Maurice reported to Eliot that she seemed " fairly cheerful , had slept well and eaten well , and had sat out in the garden and read a certain amount . " |
| 17 | The court was told she had ignored a Give Way sign at a junction and had driven on to the main road at about 40 mph . |
| 18 | Aggie had taken her hat and coat off and had dropped on to the settle , and as he entered the room she said immediately , ‘ Somethin' will have to be … ’ but paused as Millie came in on Ben 's heels , and she nodded towards her saying , ‘ Go and take your things off and set the tray . ’ |
| 19 | Mansell , clearly in pain , was then helped from his car and stood doubled up on the edge of the track before being escorted away to the medical centre for a lengthy check-up . |