Example sentences of "[verb] and [vb past] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The bowler approached and grunted with effort as he released the ball . |
| 2 | The television was not very good and the voice crackled and faded from time to time . |
| 3 | As the remaining renegades shouted and cheered from shore , the noise woke local residents and members of the official party who dutifully called the coast guard . |
| 4 | ‘ Going about , ’ he shouted and watched in amazement the crazed proficiency of the little cocaine addict leaping back into the cockpit to winch the genoa sheet in . |
| 5 | So , when Rune 's English gave way to Danish once more , she made her own translation of the words , inventing the compliments and vows she wanted to hear , feeling her pulse respond more rapidly still as his voice deepened and shook with fervour . |
| 6 | Although booted and plastered with mud and out of temper with herself and with him , she deposited him at the drawbridge of Sigouri in just over an hour . |
| 7 | I spent a great deal of time with housemasters ( see Chapter 22 ) and hence I became interested in the kinds of problems they encountered and began to follow-up the children I saw regularly in their offices . |
| 8 | Lambarde continued living at the Palace until 1598 and during this time he maintained and kept in repair the buildings . |
| 9 | I pulled the girl closer , caught the faint perfume of lavender and roses and noted appreciatively how , under the brown smock , her plump breasts rose and fell in agitation . |
| 10 | It rose and fell in time with the drums and gongs which continued to fill the hut with their relentless clamour . |
| 11 | When she came out , Iris was on the balcony doing her morning routine of breathing exercises , straight-backed , the sleeves of her cotton robe falling away from her thin arms as they rose and fell in time with the rhythmic and somewhat noisy intake and expulsion of air . |
| 12 | Through the cloudburst I could see the old men laying out their prayer carpets under the arches , then , on a signal from the mullah , a line of bottoms rose and fell in time to the distant cries of ‘ Allah hu-Akbar ! ’ |
| 13 | And outside this family home he might have heard the call of the greylag geese as they rose and circled in flight above the River Vistula within whose rolling sight he had been born in 1920 . |
| 14 | Whilst on their way a blizzard struck and some were trapped and froze to death . |
| 15 | Over great periods of time , the peat is compressed and turned to coal . |
| 16 | The old road to Tomdoun leaves here but is gated and closed to traffic . |
| 17 | He therefore fingerspelled and signed from childhood , which made him an exceptionally able interpreter . |
| 18 | To try out the 238 Syncaset I recorded a track using a drum machine on tracks 1–2 , rhythm guitar doubled onto tracks 3 and 4 ( then mixed and bounced onto track 8 , then bounced again through a compressor/noise gate back onto track 3 ) , bass guitar onto track 4 , harmony lead guitars onto tracks 5 and 6 ( again bounced onto track 8 and mixed back to track five with delay ) , lead vocal on track 6 , first vocal harmony detuned using the pitch control on track 7 and second harmony in normal pitch on track 8 . |
| 19 | Peppermint — aids digestion ; cooled teabags squeezed and rubbed onto skin make a good antiseptic tonic . |
| 20 | Metroprolol was then added and titrated against heart rate until within a week a final dose of 25 mg thrice daily was attained , resulting in a resting heart rate under 80 per min . |
| 21 | His business interests , at one time worth $25,000,000 , collapsed and went into bankruptcy in the early 1970s . |
| 22 | A BRILLIANT young woman lecturer was crushed to death when her horse collapsed and died on top of her . |
| 23 | A POODLE collapsed and died from heat exhaustion after being chained next to a fan heater at a dog grooming parlour , a court heard yesterday . |
| 24 | Charlie , is it roasted and packed in South America ? |
| 25 | Cyclosporin treatment was stopped but the patient continued to deteriorate and died from sepsis and shock in spite of antibiotic treatment . |
| 26 | RIGHT Black holes are the likely outcome of supernovae such as the one pictured here the brightest one to be discovered since 1604 The image is colourcoded and digitized by computer ; red represents the brightest parts of the image fading to green , blue white grey and black . |
| 27 | When Simon stopped and began to bombard him with questions about home , Quinn had a chance to have a look at the youth . |
| 28 | Luce stopped and looked in fascination . |
| 29 | Once Jack had passed the back of the Monument and reached the green slope that overlooked the factory , he stopped and gasped in astonishment . |
| 30 | The approach also works well when alternatives can be considered and rejected through reasoning and facts . |