Example sentences of "and [adv] [vb past] [to-vb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I squeezed into a minute dining-room , where there were no TV sets and nervously tried to join a group of people . |
| 2 | He was also jaundiced and so had to wear a hood to protect his eyes and lie naked under a constant bright light . |
| 3 | They must have felt the need for a farmer 's almanac and so started to keep a tally of days , which they recorded with special symbols . |
| 4 | But history will record that McLaren solved its problem ( by setting up the car as they had for Spain ) , Hunt was on pole alongside Niki , Niki led the race for eight laps until his engine blew , Hunt then led it but was put under heavy pressure by Depailler , was suffering from the dry heaves inside his helmet and somehow survived to win a race from which Niki garnered nothing . |
| 5 | She became school librarian , and always seemed to have a book in her hand . |
| 6 | The Dormouse woke up and quickly began to tell a story , but a few minutes later it was asleep again . |
| 7 | He witnessed the success of Dermovate cream in one sufferer and even went to see a Harley Street physician . |
| 8 | Men who were drunk at market were put in these cells till sober , and then had to pay a penny to get out . |
| 9 | I think she undoubtedly added to the intrigue erm and difficulties of her court , erm one example , she was always getting people that she approved of , getting them plum jobs , and one example was one of the governors of Oxford , the most unpopular , one Sir Arthur Aston , who was so unpopular that he got attacked on the street , and then had to have a body guard paid for the city council , and then was curvetting on his horse in front of some ladies , and fell off and broke his leg so badly that he had to have it amputated , so from then on he had a wooden leg , erm that meant he had to stop being governor , and later on in the war , a countryman was coming into Oxford , and asked the sentinel ‘ who was governor still ’ , and by that time a friend of prince Rupert 's Sir William Leg was governor , and the answer was ‘ one Leg ’ , and the countryman 's reply was ‘ pox on him , is he governor still ? ’ . |
| 10 | Chesarynth washed , stuffed her torn and dirty hospital gown into the recycling chute and stole another , even brushed her hair ( she checked again ; no tower growing through her skull yet ) and then had to find a place to hide the dead leaves and twigs that had cascaded from the tangles . |
| 11 | Again it is this incomprehension of social mobility which seems to have caused my ACC to describe an officer who took a degree and then left to become a solicitor as ‘ a bad experience for the force ’ ( and not a gain for society ) . |
| 12 | Led by Una Doyle and Ged Flynn , the group became acquainted and then proceeded to play a game called BaFa BaFa . |
| 13 | The Danish king , however , was not prepared to furnish this , so Philip exacted a large dowry and then proceeded to obtain a sentence of divorce . |
| 14 | He found that they were suddenly eating pizza and jokingly said oh they might have got him one , so one of them used a police car to take him to the nearest all night pizza place and then he walked back to the airport and waited , having done a deal with the one taxi driver who was there , and he and shared a taxi , arriving home c. 0215 and then proceeded to have a meal of a MASS of pasta and sauce previously made by me , and of a type which both boys always ask day in day out when here or there ! |
| 15 | ‘ First he extolled the virtues of the protector and then proceeded to read a petition which virtually declared myself illegitimate . ’ |
| 16 | I was feeding him some biscuits and then went to kick a ball . |
| 17 | At once , she picked up the gold key from the table , unlocked the little door into the garden , and then began to eat a piece of mushroom . |
| 18 | Angered by the incident , Blower demanded a written apology and then threatened to take a writ out against McAvennie . |
| 19 | This could arise if the plaintiff suffered negligently inflicted injuries and then refused to have a blood transfusion because of his religious beliefs . |
| 20 | The king might be happy to comply ; on the other hand , he had a strong interest in maintaining his pool of benefices , and sometimes tried to resume a grant on the death of a tenant , especially if the potential heir was a child . |
| 21 | He saw the question of how such contrarious genres as fabliau and romance could co-exist in medieval French literature as a critical problem , and consequently tried to identify a source for a taste which could explain the proliferation and regularization of fabliau , the narrative and comical substance of which he accepted as being ubiquitous . |
| 22 | Everyone noticed him and either wanted to have a word or an acknowledgement of their recognition . |