Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] and [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For readers there were books and rooms set apart as libraries , and there were people who learnt a great deal and people who read furiously and learnt nothing . |
| 2 | For instance , Skipper was not impressed with my suggesting that he should stand still while I got on and wait until I asked before moving off . |
| 3 | He just got on and obeyed . |
| 4 | There wuz a bit of trouble outside the school gates when Sinead O'Connor said she was n't coming on the trip because she disapproved of buzzes and then she got on and took the best seat , ie the one at the back where me and Graham normally sit and smoke No6 . |
| 5 | Then I got on and saw all those people and thought ‘ Hold on , they 're just folk ’ , and I had a really good sing-song . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Then , when we realised and accepted the situation , I just got on and helped him with his fight . ’ |
| 7 | I got on and did my job , ’ he said . |
| 8 | It has to be said that the world would be a much better place if we just got on and did things instead of waiting for other people to do them on our behalf . |
| 9 | She just got on and did it . |
| 10 | Here a young couple got on and tried to find a couple of seats which were situated together preferably away from everyone else . |
| 11 | Thereafter , the specimens were carefully opened along the greater curvature , laid on and pinned out on a flat surface . |
| 12 | Brian made on and put on . |
| 13 | Productive activity was carried out by peasants , who lived on and cultivated the land which was controlled by the feudal lords . |
| 14 | As we rode on and emerged into open country a mist was hanging some feet above the ground , as if suspended by a conjuror . |
| 15 | Demand switched , from charters produced locally and confirmed by the attachment of a princely seal , to those written in a prince 's name by his own clerks in his writing office . |
| 16 | The furniture came with the smell : soft , shiny , billowy and over-decorated like great banks of flowers ; the little lampshades around the walls were all tassels and fringes , the ornaments were fiddly coloured glass and the not-quite-velvet curtains draped artistically and bound with golden cords . |
| 17 | Using sleeve fabric and velvet she made cuffs , which she stitched on and fastened with buttons . |
| 18 | From all this information the team drew up a matrix of crafts , materials and local resources , analysed technologies applied locally and attempted to order skills development in level of difficulty and in relation to social custom as a preliminary to curriculum design . |
| 19 | ‘ Are you all right , my darling ? ’ and then , almost surprising herself , she passed on and kissed Phoebe too . |
| 20 | He passed on and knocked at Himmler 's door . |
| 21 | L'Auberge expanded , necessitating the employment of Arnold , a young chef who took over most of the day-to-day running of the kitchen , and Olive , a restaurant manageress who , like almost all the waitresses , lived locally and had been trained on the job by George . |
| 22 | He did n't look back at the sudden commotion behind him and , when a shadow passed over him , merely gibbered weakly and tried to burrow into the horse 's mane . |
| 23 | Usually they hopped on and pumped away and suddenly it was over . |
| 24 | He hopped in and unzipped the rucksack , taking out only the scope which he pointed back towards the lakeside . |
| 25 | At that moment Mauleverer tottered in and made for the armchair beside the fire . |
| 26 | They got down and looked at him . |
| 27 | I got on the buses at Trafalgar Square , it took me to the other end and brought me back again , and I got down and got on another one . |
| 28 | The horse came to a stop before the porch , and the old servant got down and lugged her portmanteau out of the boot . |
| 29 | Dickinson got down and held back the prickly branches while Killion blundered out , his lips triphammering away at the opening consonants of all the swear-words he knew . |
| 30 | Somewhere in the period between the time that early man first made for himself a ‘ god ’ , and the time when evidence of ‘ god ’ worship was left for later generations to find , the use of ‘ gods ’ for purposes which were largely intended to create unfair privileges , and were therefore a source of evil , gradually crept in and became a widespread part of the social scene . |