Example sentences of "and [vb past] [adv] [adv] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He described the Budget package aimed at the unemployed as ‘ desperately disappointing ’ , and attacked as totally appalling the decision to increase VAT on domestic fuel . |
| 2 | Four years later , Greenpeace returned with another ship and succeeded in properly blocking the pipeline using special rubber balls . |
| 3 | He nodded and crept forward carefully to examine the driver . |
| 4 | I stayed up late to clear things up , and got up early to do the same thing . |
| 5 | At least Dr Neil and Miss Mates were sitting ; McAllister was standing at the kitchen door , and moved sedately forward to answer the urgent bell . |
| 6 | Then she raised her head and shouted loud enough to make the man on the other side of the river glance towards them , ‘ With every day they waste , ’ before adding in a murmur : ‘ The thread Sam 's life hangs by grows thinner and thinner . ’ |
| 7 | The mixture was heated to 90°C and cooled down slowly to form the hybrids . |
| 8 | He picked up an electric guitar at the Newport Folk Festival , assembled a band behind him and played loud enough to raise the roofbeams — just like he had done in his high-school days . |
| 9 | The tow was made fast , and paid out enough to keep the casualty synchronised on the second wave astern of the lifeboat , before a course was set to clear The Lizard . |
| 10 | Poor old Turkey Lurkie saw it all and rushed round here to warn the rest of us . ’ |
| 11 | As a low voice spoke behind her Lisa jumped , startled , and swung round quickly to face the speaker . |
| 12 | On her return , Ashraf reported directly to her brother and did not even send the foreign minister a copy of her conclusions . |
| 13 | He did not make any effort to adapt any aspect of the liturgy and did not even mention the occasion . |
| 14 | While both the philosophical and sociological responses to Mannheim 's work was critical and did not exactly embrace the sociology of knowledge as an exciting new project , it has been recognized as a promising new area for development . |
| 15 | The ensuing reforms were implemented piecemeal and did not fundamentally change the system , but procedure was considerably more summary by 1900 than it had been fifty years earlier . |
| 16 | IBM had priced the Es relatively high when they were announced and did not fully appreciate the impact aggressive pricing might have had . |
| 17 | The judgment of the House of Lords rested upon the principle that municipal courts are not competent to adjudicate upon transactions entered into by independent sovereign States on the international plane , and did not directly address the issues raised by Westland . |
| 18 | All the furniture in it hung from the ceiling by long mouldy ropes and did not quite touch the ground . |
| 19 | But Branson always regarded licensing deals as unsatisfactory ; in the first place , the licensee could pick and choose which records it wanted to release , and did not always have the ‘ emotional commitment ’ to making them hits . |
| 20 | I had quite a restless night , and did not really fancy the tea I was brought in the morning . |
| 21 | The two speakers were the man who heads the EC Office in Edinburgh ( who spoke and did not really touch the first and certainly not the second of his two advertised subjects on the programme ) and the other one of the law partners — who was informed and effective , so it was interesting , followed by wine and superb little sandwiches and canapes . |
| 22 | In the next example the boys , with the pedal car , had already made their decision on size and did not really need the teacher to question them about it , but they were obviously quite used to talking with her . |
| 23 | The name change was necessary , it was argued , because the original name referred to a single event that had taken place over a decade previously , that it gave the wrong image , and did n't properly describe the work being done by the organisation . |
| 24 | There were one or two that were that I think were a little bit careless and did n't quite get the construction correct for them . |
| 25 | But when the time came to buy it , I heard he had ‘ invested ’ the money and had n't even paid the rent on our room . |
| 26 | Shapira 's view is that she still used English through a translating frame from Spanish and had not fully embraced the language form . |
| 27 | Under the surface draining or thorough water-draining of the land had to be undertaken on a more planned and workmanlike scale than had been done formerly ; for now the below-surface drains had to take off most of the water and conduct it to the ditches , and had not merely to assist the wasteful system of frequent water-furrows on the surface , as the old bush-drains had done when they were almost the sole method of under-draining . |
| 28 | When I was a child and had never even heard the word ‘ regression ’ , I was always fascinated by anything to do with the Tudor period of English history . |
| 29 | As he left court , Bartman said in a statement through his solicitor that he had been horrified and shocked by the murder and had always emphatically denied the allegations against him . |
| 30 | Anyway that thought decided me to make for the bedroom but I was late starting and had only just reached the top of the stairs when he was half-way up with the big brown teapot held in his pelting position . |