Example sentences of "[vb past] and [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He began at left-back , but it was on the right that he really excelled and became recognised as a quality player by friend and foe alike . |
| 2 | An apparatus that McMillan designed and built to show , with high-speed cinephotography , how normal and diseased heart valves move and the effects of surgery upon them , aided progress in valve surgery throughout the world . |
| 3 | Neville Shute , the eminent author , widely known for his book A Town called Alice , once resided in Howden , along with Barnes Wallis , one of the greatest inventors of the 20th century , who designed and helped to build the airship R100 . |
| 4 | George , it has to be faced , was a bore ; he grunted and grumbled and refused to take his wife out to dinner on the grounds that the night air would bring on his fever . |
| 5 | He pulled on his shoes , rose and began to jog along the road in the direction the car had taken . |
| 6 | He rose and began to dance round the room . |
| 7 | He rose and began to prowl the room . |
| 8 | Elizabeth waited for a moment as though for someone else to open the door and then rose and went to do so herself . |
| 9 | She made a belated grab for her wits while Guy rose and went to answer the summons , exchanging a few murmured words with whoever was on the other side of the door . |
| 10 | She pushed it off , rose and went to look out of the window to see what the weather was like . |
| 11 | Cranston roared as he rose and went to fetch the boots standing in the comer . |
| 12 | Having made up her mind , she rose and went to shower and change . |
| 13 | Benjamin ignored them , lost in his own thoughts , but at last Scawsby , his sallow face flushed with wine , rose and came to stand over me . |
| 14 | Twice I rose and tried to help her , but I seemed to be in a different dream . |
| 15 | Uncle Albert rose and started pacing up and down . |
| 16 | Then she rose and bent to touch Oswin 's cheek with her lips . |
| 17 | In every other respect it was typical of its kind , and like most spines , it was short lived ; as it cooled , it cracked and started to break up , while the heaving of fresh pulses of lava in the dome below rapidly caused what was left to collapse . |
| 18 | A mouth that trembled and opened to expose pointed thorns for teeth seemed to work to speak ; over all , the shape of the woodland creature was that of a wolf , but a bare boned wolf , its fur gone , its flesh shrunken on to the jutting bones of its body . |
| 19 | Later that morning , Yanto stopped and stretched to ease his aching back . |
| 20 | And there — ’ He stopped and seemed to struggle . |
| 21 | She stopped and went to look out of the window . |
| 22 | One of the mares galloped to the far end of the field where she stopped and started to crop . |
| 23 | There she stopped and stood waving goodbye , and watched her daughter walking away into the distance . |
| 24 | But something did delay her ; she stopped and stood to stare at a marvel of nature , so strange as to suspend belief . |
| 25 | He stopped and turned to face her . |
| 26 | The boy sniffled and stammered to say something , but the words would not come . |
| 27 | Unbid , she knelt and began to stroke him and kiss him . |
| 28 | Yet I deliberately described the flag as ‘ faded ’ because the world he created and represented had disappeared . |
| 29 | ‘ A strange monastic-looking man , ’ said Harold Macmillan , ‘ emaciated and said to live off watercress grown off the blotting paper on his desk . ’ |
| 30 | of sand , that sneezed and sneezed to expel him . |