Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] and [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He guessed his Mum would phone when she got to work and then maybe again when she took her break at half-three . |
| 2 | Robbie flinched , tried to retreat and once again found there was nowhere to retreat to . |
| 3 | She 'd never seen either of us in a suit before — we were running them in , checking for labels we 'd missed and so on — and we had stood on her doorstep as if we were about to launch into the ‘ Have you heard the Good News … ’ routine . |
| 4 | However , shortly before the List 's publication , I received a visit from Harold Evans , then the editor of the Sunday Times , who came to breakfast and rather slyly asked if I had seen it ; to which I replied that I had not seen it and knew nothing of its contents . |
| 5 | After her fourteenth birthday she herself began to teach and never afterwards spent her days out of a classroom . |
| 6 | Then East German police began to arrive and shortly afterwards they burst into the tunnel . |
| 7 | This is reckoned to be the largest exercise of its type since the reforms were put forward , blood pressure started to rise , nostrils began to flare and so on . |
| 8 | What , for instance , would Ken have in common with Andrew Ray , who was then just twenty-three years old ( Ken was now forty ) and who made known and very clear the attraction he felt for a pretty girl ? |
| 9 | He sank back and started to hum and then quietly to sing snatches of endearments from the songs they knew . |
| 10 | ‘ They both started screaming and then just sank . ’ |
| 11 | Maybe they did overdrink and so on and so forth , but nevertheless there was always a shelter . |
| 12 | She hopped down to the floor , but it seemed further away than she had expected and now suddenly it was rising up crazily to meet her . |
| 13 | ‘ I leave all vengeance to God , ’ Dad had said and now here he was , nearing sixty years of age , being attacked , in fact , being knocked senseless by the police . |
| 14 | She had to comply and soon afterwards he was crowned : as the crown was placed on his head his retainers , to a man , drew their swords with a rasp of steel and brandished them in the air . |
| 15 | It seemed that they should stop and follow the sight of the two young boys , but it was too late they had been and they had gone and now only a disturbance was left behind . |
| 16 | They were going to the home of opera , to listen to some Verdi , Puccini and Donizetti ; and to see at first hand the fine art and architecture that he had studied and only previously heard about or seen in books . |
| 17 | And he went duly they got married and very fortunately there was a little of twelve acres just in the bottom of the field adjoining . |