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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He straightened suddenly and looked down at her coldly . |
| 8 | Then he straightened suddenly and returned the paperweight to its place on his desk . |
| 9 | Jacqueline and Tommy lived together and drank and fought . |
| 10 | There were very few groups that stayed together as a unit all the time ; you just got together and played what were current country hits , current pop hits , with whatever instrumentation you had . |
| 11 | To get around this limitation Lotus Microsoft and Intel got together and invented a special type of memory — expanded memory or Lotus-Intel-Microsoft ( LIM ) memory . |
| 12 | The defender said : ‘ When we lost 5-0 at Liverpool a couple of weeks ago we all got together and had a heart-to-heart . |
| 13 | The two got together and announced at the 1989 Seybold conference that they were going to develop a clone of PostScript based on Bauer 's which would use Apple 's new fonts on both the Macintosh and under OS/2 . |
| 14 | It was then that the local community got together and offered to help . |
| 15 | ‘ The idea was developed by four brewers who got together and devised the system for brewing beer in a container ’ says Smillie . |
| 16 | Without the motor car in mind , I mean for instance , we had Oxford , Reading and Swindon it was suggested a few years ago , that they got together and formed the Thames Valley United . |
| 17 | If they got together and started to change things , showing real women or girls , then things could start to alter . |
| 18 | The Hawken and the Grenville families soon got together and repaired to Ince . |
| 19 | ‘ I understand that some of the passengers on the jet , which was flying from Bahrain , got together and helped pay his fine . |
| 20 | Carl Perkins and myself , with DJ and everybody , got together and did an album in April . |
| 21 | He and Crawford got together and organized their own stage act , which included a few of their own songs . |
| 22 | A number of them , including Matthew Robert Burns , q.v. , and Walter Geikie q.v. , got together and established the Congregational Church for the Deaf and Dumb , Edinburgh , in June 1830 . |
| 23 | In 1879 Pearce , the Owen cousins , and the Rev. Samuel Smith of St. Saviour 's Church for the Deaf in London got together and established the Winchester Diocesan Adult Deaf and Dumb Mission . |
| 24 | When Telford Development Corporation began to coppice the woodland for conservation purposes , a group of countryside wardens , foresters and a lecturer in 3D-design got together and decided that something should be done with the waste timber . |
| 25 | So they got together and decided to hide their cider and wine so the Germans should n't have it . |
| 26 | ‘ This all started in 1986 when a handful of residents got together and decided to take action to get better homes . |
| 27 | He cared terribly and became very ‘ Rule Britannia ’ about it . |
| 28 | The muscles of his legs and arms bulged alarmingly and shone with sweat as he braced himself against the bulkheads to study the small control panel . |
| 29 | Early in July , it also became evident that while the Austrian troops were falling back in collapse , German formations on the front fought stubbornly and retreated with discipline . |
| 30 | Nothing but the Man moved , and he moved slowly and seemed to get bigger all the time . |