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Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] and [vb past] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	He 'd forgotten about the way it flickered before it came on properly and made a noise .
2	Syl 's mother disapproved of this most bitterly and rebuked me for waste .
3	He hung grimly on and wrestled with it until he could lower it in front of them .
4	Jonathan looked on appreciatively and filled his own glass with orange juice .
5	She smiled rather grimly and said farewell .
6	He did n't even knock but just walked right in and went through the house looking to see if we had anything of value to part with before we could receive any relief .
7	So when he had seen the sign ahead of him in the street , he 'd walked right in and sat down and demanded to be attended to .
8	‘ But there is no need to make that kind of mistake , ’ he said rather obscurely and left the room with a springy step .
9	If we want to do something badly enough and set about it seriously it is staggering how much help just seems to fall our way .
10	I muttered thanks and as she disappeared to the kitchen I stepped up to the sitting room door , knocked rather timidly and entered .
11	Seeing a sheet had been stuffed round the edges of it he suspected something suspicious was going on inside and forced the door open to have a look .
12	If they could n't get on , they put in somewhere and waited until they could , their boats designed to take the ground almost anywhere .
13	She heard the man in the mask sliding down slowly and knew she should try and make a run for it but her ankle was already swelling inside her Reebok .
14	She chewed , oh , so delicately and reached towards another dish .
15	What would you do if some man out there in the anonymous darkness of the audience fell under the spell you create so skilfully and believed you were singing those sensuous songs just for him ? ’
16	Whoever used it did so rarely and left few traces .
17	If the rifle was all right and had n't got sand inside the sights or anywhere else awkward to clean , it would almost have been worth it .
18	Anyway , she seemed to cheer up a bit listening to their trite old remarks about it coming to everybody , and after that her mother had been all right and seemed to accept it .
19	Reagan responded by sending in 1,200 US Marines on a peace-keeping mission which , although it sounded all right and looked good on television , had no particular purpose .
20	They were made all right and used in even more subtle ways than I explained .
21	Eventually the little bus was summoned again , and we jumped in thankfully and set off towards the plane , only to grind to a halt at Operations again .
22	The girl laced her fingers together nervously and looked at the floor .
23	‘ I was letting Woosie down badly and had no feeling at all , ’ said Mouland , who came into the tournament after finishing only 84th in this season 's European money list .
24	She said : ‘ We are guilty of failing to provide for what is clearly a statutory service and I am truly appalled that we slipped up so badly and made such a serious mistake .
25	John took the empty cups down below and placed them quietly in the small sink .
26	By his time I was terrified and I do n't ever be so and our teacher took us down below and tried to play games my mind I distinctly howling my .
27	He is a small but forceful creature who survived the untimely death of the man who manipulated him so brilliantly and went on to forge an equally close bond with a second partner .
28	Claudia put the phone down gently and decided against going back to bed .
29	The Doctor pushed her down gently and tried to make her comfortable .
30	Whatever might have been the prosaic reason for his initial posting to Masai District , an officer who stayed long enough and had a sufficiently striking personality could expect to become locally famous not only for his love of the Masai but also for the love they bore for him .