Example sentences of "[adv] and [adv] [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She moved on gently and presently disappeared with disconsolate-looking shoulders down the corridor beside the kitchen . |
| 2 | This concept , brilliantly and amusingly elucidated in book of that name published the previous year by Professor C. Northcote Parkinson , stated : ‘ Work expands to fill the time available for its completion . ’ |
| 3 | And so I tell you we slammed the window down and just ducked for about an hour . |
| 4 | The Great Transcontinental Mystery Race Train began to slow down and soon came to a smooth stop . |
| 5 | I was gon na , went down and completely forgot about it till I got back to work . |
| 6 | After a dull opening 40 minutes Hagan took centre stage when he cut in from the right , chipped over Joe Tortolano , brought the ball down and then blasted beyond John Burridge . |
| 7 | I had stayed in bed on Sunday morning , even though Quigley had nearly kicked the door down and then burst into tears all over my duvet . |
| 8 | Gastric pits become progressively deeper and more convoluted from the proximal cardia to the distal pyloric region . |
| 9 | The UN Security Council on Nov. 29 approved Resolution 678 authorizing member governments to use " all necessary means " to ensure Iraq 's complete withdrawal from Kuwait , if by a deadline of Jan. 15 , 1991 , the Iraqis had not already done so and thereby complied with the UN 's previous resolutions . |
| 10 | Lydia had been with them now for ten years or so and still persisted in calling her ‘ missus ’ . |
| 11 | Spanish Point club spokesman , Joe Flynn , said : ‘ Ken taxied for take-off around 4 o'clock and then climbed to about 200ft . |
| 12 | ‘ He was going quietly about the important business of searching for insects and worms when this great big foot came along and almost trod on him . |
| 13 | It was probably at that time that Zborowski took Modigliani to visit Anders Osterlind , a Swedish painter whom Modi had met in Paris years earlier when they visited the Cézanne retrospective together and almost cried with excitement . |
| 14 | Bloodier , longer and also fought over Champagne soil was the struggle between Hugh Capet and Charles of Lorraine for the French throne . |
| 15 | When I brought him the food he pushed it away and suddenly burst into tears all over again . |
| 16 | The Queen disliked the service , which was hidden away and only re-emerged in the early 1980s when included in a Dutch television programme on royal gifts . |
| 17 | Clutching a hot water bottle prepared by Mrs Knelle , I finally and thankfully snuggled into bed . |
| 18 | She read it through and then sat for a long time on the white strips of the reclining chair in which she had first seen Signor Fixit . |
| 19 | And not so Svidrigailov and Raskolnikov , both hyperconscious men , and both ( as we shall see ) linked by their condition to the city which Peter the Great pondered over and then ordered to be built . |
| 20 | He dropped the bag over and then climbed with the blanket and the torch . |
| 21 | I th there was , there was one big point that I actually missed out as well that neither of you have picked up on and that was that Maggie actually said that they were having problems with John in school and I should 've come back and , and said well she di she actually said that she was having problems with John , full stop , and I should 've actually come back and , and clarified whether it was at school or not and hence led to the private education and I missed that one completely and realized that I 'd done it afterwards but none of you picked up on that one . |
| 22 | As McFarlane so aptly and untruthfully said of the Saudi contribution , ‘ the concrete character of that is beyond my ken . ’ |
| 23 | At the comparative safety of a deserted road we collected ourselves a little and then headed for the station , trying hard to chuckle about it all , though obviously we had both been deeply affected . |
| 24 | The production centre at Kirkuk was attacked early on and thereafter ringed with air defences including — according to one foreign visitor from a company providing contract services to INOC — barrage balloons . |
| 25 | But Marx , in an equally tough voice , merely said , ‘ O.K. Let's do just that , ’ put his hand in his breast pocket , slowly pulled out a horribly official-looking envelope , and slowly and carefully took from that an even more horribly official-looking form , folded once , in what to Herr Nordern seemed an indescribably sinister manner from top to bottom instead of side to side . |
| 26 | He moved his head slowly and still looked at me in silence . |
| 27 | I drove away slowly and then came to the corner of Union and Gloucester . |
| 28 | He told the court : ‘ It shut slowly and then slammed on my finger … it cut off the top of my ring finger . ’ |
| 29 | If he acted in this way , it was not in order to conform to the customs of his time , for his attitude towards women was quite different from that of his milieu , and he deliberately and courageously broke with it . ’ |
| 30 | To lose him would be worse than losing himself : it would be losing the only chance left to him for the life he had always and violently lusted after . |