Example sentences of "and [vb past] [adv prt] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The farmer and I went over and gazed down at a circular black object about half an inch across floating on the surface of the milk . |
| 2 | We spent a day ashore on Barentsøya where the Dutch party went off inland on their own and met up with a polar bear with two cubs , which ran off when they saw the party . |
| 3 | So I got on the Greyhound Bus for a six-hour ride to Washington and checked in at a cheap hotel opposite the bus depot . |
| 4 | PARIS — The French Army , fatigued by khaki , is to get a new ‘ modular ’ uniform designed by Pierre Balmain and made up in a grey-blue colour known as Terre de France . |
| 5 | The shirt comes right down over the feet , and threaded through with a woollen thread at the ankles , with tassels at the end . |
| 6 | I scattered pennies and rode on like a young lord through Aldgate and into London . |
| 7 | Jean-Luc Roussel himself had come to the hospital and fretted and fluttered about like a true Cockney sparrow . |
| 8 | One startling apparition a few seats away was masked , and got up like a Chinese mandarin , with clacking claws for hands emerging from generous silk sleeves . |
| 9 | Darlington was only the second date on the tour and got off to a bad start with a trip from Manchester through freezing fog arriving late and cold . |
| 10 | Duncan had been appalled to find that women had the vote ‘ down South ’ and got off to a shaky start in the motor trade when one of the local spivs conned him into thinking a Pina Colada was the latest model Ford built in Spain . |
| 11 | Well I 've been off work for a bit and got back to a massive 156 messages from the group ! |
| 12 | With full combat kit , helmet , rifle and webbing , and weighed down by a thirty-five pound rucksack , we set off on a run . |
| 13 | She shut the trunk and moved on to a large cardboard box . |
| 14 | Rincewind peered around the doorframe and jerked back as a heavy throwing axe whirred past like a partridge . |
| 15 | They were closed , but just beyond them he cut the engine and drew up to a short flight of steps with a small studded door at the top . |
| 16 | The technical process by which items are selected and tried out on a large group of children is referred to as the process of standardisation and the group of children is referred to as the standardisation sample . |
| 17 | Although confined to a wheelchair for most of her life , Violet was active in church life and helped out with a local Brownie pack . |
| 18 | He called a sudden halt to his crowded agenda at lunchtime and crashed out for a few hours in the adjacent chamber , throwing the timetable into disarray . |
| 19 | Every political leader is locked inside an impenetrable bubble and wafted around by a gigantic retinue of security advisers to keep us out . |
| 20 | She raised her hand as a dubious Herr Nordern forced the car into almost the right gear and drove off with a curious jerking motion , then turned and went into the Centre with a look on her face which boded ill for anyone who crossed her path that day . |
| 21 | He thought she meant she was going straight home and drove off with a sulky smile . |
| 22 | Sean gathered up the reins and drove off at a smart pace . |
| 23 | The Janetstown , Thurso , environmental health officer was broken twice after two short fights and stepped up to a 70 lb wire trace with 10 feet of 200 lb nylon as a rubbing leader and baited up with a 1 lb coalfish deadbait on a size 8/0 hook . |
| 24 | The first attempt was almost a disaster , but he got the plane up again and came round for a second shot . |
| 25 | Matsushita began work on cobalt-free magnets in 1968 and came up with a manganese-aluminium-carbon material in 1979 . |
| 26 | I felt these elementary slips should be corrected , and came up with a possible solution . |
| 27 | Roxburgh , however , decided there was no point playing games , and came up with a predictable yet interesting side . |
| 28 | He scrabbled in the bottom of the box and came up with a small piece of carved and polished wood . |
| 29 | The team took up the gauntlet thrown down by the Health and Safety Executive and came up with a thorough checklist for the city 's 7 homes . |
| 30 | They took their various allocated strains of Staphylococcus aureus or whatever , applied standard methods , and came up with a particular teichoic acid or teichoic acid-like polymer . |