Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [adv] and [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the man had had his face washed ( by stella ) and been given a drink , and one of the barmen had called for a taxi , Mother got right up and got on the stage and told Gary she was ready for her song now . |
| 2 | Dolly quivered all over and buried her face in the pillows to smother her shrieks of laughter . |
| 3 | It applied only prospectively and did not have the effect of rendering unlawful conduct which had previously been lawful . |
| 4 | Did you enjoy your holiday with the family she asked gently , knowing that Art lived alone now and welcomed the invitations from his eldest son Toby and his wife Lynn . |
| 5 | He slowed down to pick his way among the ! patches of white water quite close inshore , at one point even vanishing between a towering sea-stack and the main cliff , then , once past the headland , he throttled right back and motored tamely into Otters ' Bay , making for the jetty there . |
| 6 | He stood at the bottom of the steps and looked up at her so fiercely that she stopped halfway down and felt quite uneasy , wondering exactly what she had done wrong . |
| 7 | But she moved extremely well and rallied consistently with precision and confidence . |
| 8 | Alexei followed Burun 's example , and knelt once more and prostrated himself . |
| 9 | They were heading westwards to where the land rose more precipitously and broke into a grey surf of scattered granite . |
| 10 | With the increasing growth and concentration of activities that accompanied urbanization , pollution nuisances occurred more frequently and affected larger numbers of people , yet pollution was essentially perceived to be a problem of dense smoke emission to be dealt with at the local level ( figure 8.1 ) . |
| 11 | Theda stopped still suddenly and faced him . |
| 12 | However , Ell moved quickly over and picked up the raw meat . |
| 13 | The eyes narrowed even more and became inverted and reddish ; the mouth thinned and slavered ; there was the white gleam of teeth , pointed and dripping with saliva … |
| 14 | The woods were almost black ; sheer trunks of pine and fir , some of huge dimension , crowded on the land , towered high above and blocked out light ; they reduced the world to silence , and the depths of fallen needles below her feet made every movement quiet ; even the snorting of her horse sounded dull , sucked into the black wood . |
| 15 | The scattered crowd drew closer together and listened quietly , but when he gave his warning about the Riot Act , glances were exchanged , a few grinned openly , and a wit called out , ‘ They must know the law here — that is why they have all stayed at home . ’ |
| 16 | Philippa 's hand jerked forward anxiously and knocked over the bottle of varnish remover . |
| 17 | The four men ventured farther out and turned to face the chair ; their wives hung back . |
| 18 | As she watched , a small car drove slowly past and made for a cottage at the far end and on the other side of the narrow track . |
| 19 | She saw it wobble , then it tilted , then it toppled right over and fell with a tinkle on to the table-top not twelve inches from Miss Honey 's folded arms . |
| 20 | The young squire sitting against the buttress , keeled slowly over and sprawled face down on the pavers . |
| 21 | He stood mesmerized by a giant wave , shooting picture after picture until it came right over and dragged him out . |
| 22 | And Hall takes the pick of the crop , from Brooke Shields ( who whom he posed the question , ‘ You came right out and said you were a virgin , right ? |
| 23 | Thomas Carter came right out and told you that he thought England was the only truly civilized country in the world and that as the most English of English cities , Oxford was its heart and soul , the core of everything that had formed us , the repository of our values and the guarantor of our standards , an expression in stone of our whole Western civilization , a cultural Stonehenge which , etc , etc . |
| 24 | She seemed all right and coping . |
| 25 | ‘ I 'd better away and check Lucky Lady . ’ |
| 26 | It was definitely a case of two points lost , but I am more disappointed that we played so well and did not win . ’ |
| 27 | Mark Prudhoe played extremely well and saved one certain goal , while one or two crosses went across the face of goal without anybody getting a touch . ’ |
| 28 | It is doubtful whether any other golf course , with the exception of St Andrews , has been written about so much , photographed so lavishly and expanded upon so frequently . |
| 29 | The crowd came together again and hid Filmer and his flower and I felt the tension in my muscles subside , and realized I had n't known I had tensed them . |
| 30 | He opened the door and thrust her inside , then came quickly around and jumped in beside her . |