Example sentences of "[vb past] and [verb] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She has painstakingly cooked , boned and chopped up every morsel for her fusspot . |
| 2 | Until the 1820s it rose and fell over a succession of steep hills and deep valleys but when it became the London–Holyhead road sections were totally rebuilt by Thomas Telford . |
| 3 | Benedict rose and came down the table . |
| 4 | Willie rose and clattered down the hallway . |
| 5 | Two white hands rose and put back the hood . |
| 6 | The Japanese shot at anything that moved and carried out the raid with skill and speed ; the Americans were taken by complete surprise . |
| 7 | He moved and let out a groan as he discovered how stiff his limbs were . |
| 8 | He bent and scooped up the bike , wheeling it along with them , and Jenna became aware of other eyes besides the dark ones that had looked into her own . |
| 9 | He bent and scooped up the tin with the barrel of the revolver , and held it high . |
| 10 | ’ I 'll be needin' mair shag and all , ’ he bent and picked up the clay stump and peered into the empty bowl sadly . |
| 11 | His face was very close to hers as he bent and picked up the airline ticket from her desk . |
| 12 | He bent and picked up the bag , then eyed her curiously . |
| 13 | Suddenly she stopped and let out a cry . |
| 14 | She stopped and sucked in a breath . |
| 15 | Outside , lightning flickered and lit up the glass reception doors . |
| 16 | It is revealing that , in a very similar way , to be can be present or omitted in an actual non-finite clause where it signals the passive of a verb phrase although its presence is generally preferred : ( 48 ) Cromwell ordered the Abbot of Reading ( to be ) tried and executed immediately The same insertion is sometimes superficially possible for predicate qualifiers ; but in reality this indicates a main verb which is semantically compatible with the relation of either construction ; an example would be like ( or want ) which makes it possible for us to set ( 49 ) beside ( 8 ) : ( 49 ) Alastair likes his beef tea to be strong However , with most preceding verb phrases , such a change to the predicate qualifier construction will produce a result which is ungrammatical and may even present difficulties of interpretation : ( 50 ) ( a ) the children have kept the fish-tank clean : how have the children kept the fish-tank ? ( b ) the children have kept the fish-tank to be clean |
| 17 | She stooped and scooped up the little dog on to her lap . |
| 18 | Laura stooped and picked up a gym shoe half buried in the mud . |
| 19 | He stooped and picked up the torn halves himself . |
| 20 | He stopped , looked down , then stooped and picked up the letter . |
| 21 | He stooped and picked up the cruel dagger which had nearly split his throat . |
| 22 | She stooped and picked up the post . |
| 23 | He stooped and held up a fairly modern brief-case of the sort office workers are said to carry their sandwiches in . |
| 24 | As he dropped and kicked away the chair the bell rang once . |
| 25 | It had made the Marchese a small fortune when he sold it to the deputy of the English connoisseur in Naples who was going to ship it away in boxes ; it was being stripped from the walls when the Government heard of it and came and sealed up the villa again , but not before one of the intermediaries had sliced enough off the top of the deal to pay his passage to America , promising to send after him for his family . |
| 26 | Er er but the second time the police came and asked quite a lot of questions about it . |
| 27 | The um leatherworker came and took away the body very early one morning . |
| 28 | She saw the dawn when it came and pulled up the blind . |
| 29 | Jesus had been , with his disciples and he had spent the whole day in teaching and preaching to the people , he 'd been explaining to them what the kingdom of God was like , he 'd been telling them some of the parables that perhaps we 're familiar with , he 'd been telling them about the parable of the sewer and the seed , the man who went out and he sewed his seed and different things went wrong birds came and picked up the stuff that fell by the wayside , some fell on stony ground and it could n't put down any roots , some fell amongst thorns and they were quickly choked , but some did fall in good prepared soil and that grew . |
| 30 | Dexter parked and switched off the engine . |