Example sentences of "[adv] and [vb past] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The boy sat up suddenly and laughed a strange , low laugh . |
| 2 | I went inside and saw a beautiful work which the artist had done on the other side . |
| 3 | Ripley beat Paul Parker on the left , cut inside and hit a low cross to the near post . |
| 4 | She heard a shuffling inside and gave a small sigh of relief . |
| 5 | Joseph leaned outwards and aimed a violent retaliatory blow at his brother 's midriff , but at that moment both rickshaws swerved apart and skidded to a halt . |
| 6 | Barcelona went 2–0 up after 31 minutes , but the Russians refused to give in and produced a stunning three goals in 16 minutes to steal the tie . |
| 7 | Joe looked in and saw a dark stairway . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The only person to have both competed in and managed a British Olympic team , to have become that sport 's national president , and to have held virtually every administrative office from keeper of the records to team coach , and from time keeper to national selector . |
| 10 | Penny went in and had a twenty to one |
| 11 | David Ward then came in and thumped a spectacular half century in 40 balls and Surrey were on 178 for four at the premature close , with off-spinner Peter Such suffering the most — his six overs costing 66 runs . |
| 12 | Never having read a word of Norse ( Old Icelandic ) before , Lewis plunged in and attempted a few lines of Laxdaela Saga . |
| 13 | Stock market sources said that the Hoare Govett buying dried up after about 60 million Ferranti shares had been traded , at which point Smith New Court stepped in and remained an aggressive buyer at 56p until the close . |
| 14 | Superb ‘ Ray has been superb in the last couple of games , and Steve came in and did a good job . |
| 15 | By means of the passwords ‘ peace and goodwill ’ the squad broke in and caught a considerable number of clients red-handed , red-faced and red in several other places as well . |
| 16 | She went in and bought a novel set in India , whose prose appealed to her , and the heat and dust and cinnamon smells of somewhere else . |
| 17 | A DRINK-DRIVER mowed down and killed a young mother on her first night out since the birth of her son six months ago . |
| 18 | JOYRIDERS mowed down and killed a disabled woman in her invalid carriage yesterday . |
| 19 | A SPEEDING motor-cyclist who knocked down and killed a 73-year-old man was fined £2,000 at Edinburgh Sheriff Court yesterday . |
| 20 | Another door , covering the bars of the fire , could be let down and formed a useful ledge . |
| 21 | Springfield slid the aerial down and directed a relieved grin at the quizzical expressions on the faces of his watching companions . |
| 22 | He put the phone down and had a violent coughing fit . |
| 23 | He actually said to them , if you can find , you know , a hundred good men then I wo n't burn your city and then he put it down and down and down and had a good old bargain . |
| 24 | He sat down and saw a bifurcated path , simmering with gold heat round and under the rising , spreading blue-black-green down-pointing vanes of a great pine , still widening where the frame interrupted its soaring . |
| 25 | I looked down and saw a giant freshwater prawn almost a foot long . |
| 26 | A little boy tugged at my skirt ; I looked down and saw a brown face with the sun on it , smiling . |
| 27 | Having , as I say , abandoned everything he had done , he sat down and wrote a six-part novel within a year which included a twenty-six day break in which he threw together and dictated The Gambler , itself not a small book nor a negligible one , to satisfy the terms of a contract he had made with a shyster publisher . |
| 28 | Finally , he sat down and wrote a long letter to Sybil Vane . |
| 29 | She had flattened the grass , burrowed down and made a cosy little nest for herself . |
| 30 | ‘ It was exactly semi-retirement because I took all my gear down and demoed a good album 's worth of material . |