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

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1 You can tell me how you got on today and I can start making some enquiries . ’
2 Maggie got on well and he was calmly nice to Rachel .
3 I know George and Steven got on well and George would have been delighted to have seen this happy day .
4 We got on well and a relationship developed — to such an extent that I eventually married her .
5 She got on there and you could see she was gon na throw .
6 His energy just left him and he became slowly more and more bitter . ’
7 The man tumbled on forward and over the edge of the track , a scattering of rocks heard through his scream and the splash as he hit the water eighty feet below .
8 He argued so acutely and convincingly that each party hoped for victory when it heard him arguing on its behalf and there was no advocate who appeared before him who did not greatly fear his cross-examination and interventions .
9 I , I of course , I suppose going round with milk I 'd perhaps got more confidence th cos I had to take milk whether I wanted to or not , see and we if we got down there and there was two or three of the conductresses down the fleck and er , jump on a Dalston bus cos I 'd got to get to like , you know .
10 I we I got down there and there were no bugger in !
11 I got down there and there were nobody in !
12 Aaron lent modest sums to the Crown over the next ten years , but took no part in the London-based consortia of Jewish lenders which lent so heavily and disastrously to the Crown in 1177 .
13 Erm at previous County Council and the previous committee , together with the officers , planned extremely thoroughly and er the funding that was provided for this year both internally within the County Council and externally from the government was sufficient to provide the sorts of levels of service that we , we anticipate .
14 They they fix it up with wires and they got so far and as the tide rise , cos the ship come up and they take 'em out and take 'em to the dock , take 'em out with a heavy crane .
15 It applied only prospectively and did not have the effect of rendering unlawful conduct which had previously been lawful .
16 As will be seen from the six volumes produced so far and — no doubt — their successors , many ( not all ) of the winning entrants use econometrics to establish that advertising is responsible for a specific sales effect ( or part of it ) .
17 In recent years we met less often and yet he could conjure up an incident which made us both feel it had all happened a few days ago .
18 amazed I actually did erm what happened erm I was happened to be upstairs and my wife shouted quick quick there 's a zither , so I zoomed down here and the lady was still talking to you and a dialled well consequently I did n't get through for quite some time but I did eventually , erm your lady on the reception said well it 's gone now she said but I will give the lady 's telephone number and I spoke to the lady and told her the position and she says well if it 's not collected by so time I 'll g ring you back and I said well I 've been after one for a long long time she said well I ca n't understand it cos I 've been advertising it .
19 From a purely technical point of view , this may not have been the standard performance , but in a place almost completely lacking in a tradition of classical dance , it is a delight to watch native talent channelled so joyously and with such a spirit of challenge to the myth that we exist only from the neck upwards .
20 There can be little doubt that this reflects the very high unemployment experienced so far and the resultant weakened state of the union movement and of labour generally .
21 So ‘ seamless ’ means stitched together quickly and cheaply , not recommended for long-term use . ’
22 Did you enjoy your holiday with the family she asked gently , knowing that Art lived alone now and welcomed the invitations from his eldest son Toby and his wife Lynn .
23 Even so , the younger children of yeomen and husbandmen moved on elsewhere and the labouring families were far more volatile than the stable core of farming families .
24 They moved on again and Timothy Gedge went with them , swinging his carrier-bag .
25 Fen moved on abruptly and threw open a door .
26 She moved on gently and presently disappeared with disconsolate-looking shoulders down the corridor beside the kitchen .
27 The tall Zimbabwean paced nervously backwards and forwards .
28 THE giraffe blinked , bent slowly forward and gingerly took the carrot from my outstretched arm .
29 it moved somewhere else and I 'm saying I 'm looking at it
30 The list referred only briefly and somewhat obliquely to classroom practice , recommending ( but not defining ) : a stimulating and challenging learning environment ; flexible teaching strategies to meet the identified needs of individual pupils ; and specific practical help for individuals and small groups .
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