Example sentences of "[noun pl] and [adv] [vb past] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She shut her eyes and boldly said hen and hen . |
| 2 | Nicknamed Cold Turkey , it was used to ferry supplies and personnel from the mainland to the New Guinea battlefields and also took part in the Nadzab landing which , at the time , was the world 's largest airborne troop assault . |
| 3 | His demeanour however , was closer to the big businessman than the professional comedian , so there was always the lingering suspicion that he was really the benevolent boss who made the directors laugh at board meetings and probably did conjuring tricks at the weekend . |
| 4 | I started putting in more hours and sometimes found reason to sleep at the office , hoping I could sleep off this feeling of falling out of love . |
| 5 | ’ He paid for some years and then ceased payment . |
| 6 | The recent conclusion that the Proconsul hand had a fully opposable thumb , with rotation at the trapezium-first metacarpal joint at least as extensive as in other hominoids , is of particular significance in combination with thumb length , for Proconsul lacks the relatively short thumb of the living great apes and so had hand proportions very similar to those of modern humans . |
| 7 | ‘ After aluminium blocked filters at a treatment plant at Penwhirn Reservoir near Stranraer , ’ wrote the Sunday Times , ‘ the authority decided not to tell its customers and then issued safety advice that proved to be incorrect and inadequate . ’ |
| 8 | In both experiments , subjects were trained initially to respond with different verbal labels to a set of visual stimuli and then received training on a motor task with these same stimuli . |
| 9 | And it was Mrs Crumwallis who ran up the stairs and incompetently took charge . |
| 10 | By 1873 there were some signed reviews , an adoption of the French practice , which seemed very odd to most Englishmen and never became general , here or elsewhere , in the nineteenth century . |
| 11 | He stared up at the windows and then caught sight of the pulpit . |
| 12 | Next , according to Taskopruzade and Mecdi , Fahreddin Acemi taught in certain medreses and then became Mufti in the time of Murad II with a salary of 30 akce a day . |
| 13 | Such men spoke in court on behalf of litigants and also stood surety for them when required . |
| 14 | Kate and Stephen went on the dodgems and then bought candy Floss . |
| 15 | She ironed his shirts and once threw flour and eggs over his car after he stood her up on a date , friends have said . |