Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [adv] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a matter of very small beginnings for everybody , and then as the pictures that they made became more and more popular , more and more acceptable , used not merely in fairgrounds or in odd corners of shops and this sort of thing , for the odd fifteen minutes or twenty minutes of movie , but entered into the music halls , became one of the acts in the music hall entertainment erm this really was the foundation of a new industry , a new industry of entertainment , a new industry of information . |
| 2 | The committee was at first divided over the proposal , with Betty Sinclair opposing the whole idea of protest marches , and a decision was deferred to a later meeting , which agreed to go ahead and fixed the date for 24 August . |
| 3 | A good deal has happened since that important Church meeting last June when we agreed to go ahead and purchase the building from the Church of Scotland for £1 . |
| 4 | IN THE HOME , as in industry , it is overwhelmingly men who are the designers and repairers of machines , while women are the operators , expected to perform neatly and swiftly on typewriters , sewing machines and the rest , but not to understand how they work . |
| 5 | tt They 'd got two handles which was b made it mobile , two wheels , and used it Have four sacks at the end of this threshing engine , hanging on little hooks , and and a bloke there seeing that it got filled alright and it when it was full , they used to run this thing underneath a sack , crank it up by hand , like that , till they got it to the required height , then nestle it on their shoulders , you see there was a There 's a there 's an art in carrying c In carrying coal and there 's an art in carrying corn and there 's an art in carrying beef . |
| 6 | Whilst it rendered the monarch formally subordinate to Parliament in the sense that it became acknowledged that , at the end of the day , the will of Parliament was to prevail , it failed to provide adequately and efficiently for the discharge of executive government . |
| 7 | One night there was a little backdrop of a painted garden , and in front of it two new boys were doing a strip routine to the original ‘ Let's Stay Together ’ ; but then they got carried away and ended up just leaning against the wall together , leaning up against the painted flowerbeds and the little painted bridge , just kissing and making love right there , for at least forty minutes , nobody minded . |
| 8 | I had not even finished writing this before I got carried away and bought myself another Christmas present — a Synodontis angelicus . |
| 9 | Supposing one of them got carried away and hit the old boy too hard . |
| 10 | After that , Mabel got carried away and bought some china cups — on sale at bargain prices , because they had lost their matching saucers — and Florrie bought a cobweb brush with a special extending cane handle , for getting up into those awkward comers of the ceiling . |
| 11 | In order to keep the boys separate from the girls he used to draw a chalk line down the middle of our meeting room , and when we got carried away and crossed the line he would burst into a ferocious rage , pick up anything that was to hand — usually a book — and throw it at the offender , who had to duck fast in order not to be hit . |
| 12 | H well , back to obscurity , ’ a Tory MP muttered to his colleague yesterday as they passed a journalist who failed to leap forward and solicit their views on the party leadership . |
| 13 | I actually advised him at the meeting that he should not and could n't take that motion , and I was by Alderman in that situation , but he still deemed to go ahead and that 's p his prerogative . |
| 14 | I must be crazy , I thought , and tried to breathe deeply and steadily . |
| 15 | I stopped knitting again and stared . |
| 16 | But in 1981 I tried to go further and identify a set of criteria which any proposed biochemical or cellular correspondent of memory formation would have to meet if it was to be regarded as a candidate memory process . |
| 17 | " Dom João promised to come here and he has broken his promise . |
| 18 | But writing now was not easy for him : he had begun to suffer with arthritis in the year following his retirement , and had had to give up his violin owing to lack of flexibility of his fingers , and as the condition developed , he found writing more and more difficult . |
| 19 | One person stopped speaking altogether and sat looking grim . |
| 20 | She stopped speaking abruptly and stared at Clare with a look of fixed terror in her eyes . |
| 21 | This chapter is a brief distillation of a few of the themes in that book , but really I 'd almost rather you stopped reading now and switched to The Extended Phenotype ! |
| 22 | She tried to back away and , at once , the Melanisms seemed to wriggle and chuckle , to slop forward with a dreadful , glutinous , squelching sound . |
| 23 | The crowd was delighted , and the Sellswords again had to push back those who tried to lean forward and seize her . |
| 24 | I wanted to wire the hedgehog up to some kind of heartbeat monitor so we could run out to resuscitate it if the machine stopped beeping regularly and pronounced the continuous monotone bleep of death that we all know from hospital drama . |
| 25 | The Archdeacon stopped talking instantly and the Dean crossed his long legs . |
| 26 | She stopped screaming then and began to sob . |
| 27 | It seems incredible now , but no doubt the loss of revenue when conditions changed had deep and long-lasting effects . |
| 28 | She tried to speak levelly and control her temper . |
| 29 | Molly tried to speak slowly and rationally but the calm which had sustained her in the villa seemed to have drained away . |
| 30 | It was in this feverish atmosphere of gunsmoke and ( if one was lucky ) subsistence rations that Bukharin tried to peer ahead and formulate some theoretical propositions regarding the transition to socialism . |