Example sentences of "[vb past] and [adv] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This time the line first tautened and then twanged loose . |
| 2 | He worked out regularly , jogged , played tennis and squash , swam and generally kept fit . |
| 3 | Boghurst was critical of the established practice of quarantining infected households — a policy ‘ oft enough tried and always found ineffectual ’ — and in general doubtful about the conclusions drawn from theories of contagion . |
| 4 | and things , you think is it worth it because the car would be sat out here , if , if say , say I transferred and still did three days but did it when you work |
| 5 | Above all , they educated and eventually apprenticed young paupers , ensuring in theory that they themselves should not in turn need poor relief in adulthood ; thus Shoreditch had a so-called Nursery at Enfield specifically for the care and education of destitute children . |
| 6 | He stabbed and slightly wounded five students and the principal . |
| 7 | Yet this childhood query , already asked and not answered millions of times , is of profound importance , for it is that very question , and its non-answer , or obviously insincere answer that , quite probably , has undermined child respect for adults to a greater degree than has all other causes put together . |
| 8 | But Basil encouraged and even found some tiny portion of my painting which could be developed though he agreed that I might copy more easily than imagine and he gave me a mounted butterfly to draw . |
| 9 | The gods came : they ate and danced and then left contented . |
| 10 | She sighed and lazily opened one very blue eye and squinted up at her partner … so much for fantasies . |
| 11 | The enclosed fields which covered and still cover much of say Kent , Norfolk , Shropshire , Devon and Cornwall were equally medieval in origin and function or , as we have already seen , had their beginnings in perhaps prehistoric or Roman times . |
| 12 | Amongst those who watched and then joined that route from Berkshire to central London was the future co-founder of International Times , Barry Miles from Cheltenham . |
| 13 | ‘ I just know he is , ’ Mrs MacDonald repeated and then beat one hand ineffectually against the other . |
| 14 | He spat and slowly raised both hands . |
| 15 | As proprietor of the casino he demanded and often received ten per cent of the others ' winnings . |
| 16 | He looked and probably felt older . |
| 17 | Souza , like the murdered leader of the seringueiros rubber-tappers ' union Francisco " Chico " Mendes Filho [ see pp. 36459 ; 37914 ] , was a well known environmentalist who campaigned against the destruction of the rain forest for cattle pasture , and against cattle ranchers who expelled and often killed landless workers who occupied their land . |
| 18 | On the other end of the line , the voice hesitated and then went steely-hard . |
| 19 | Outside the nursery , she paused and quietly inched open the door . |
| 20 | But he persevered and now has three assistants from the students at the university helping him . |
| 21 | Although their dress was not equipped to deal with soaking weather and although they may have been expected to turn back at the sight of such greyness , they continued and even displayed some sense of enjoyment at the discomfort each was experiencing . |
| 22 | The reporting system covers only a proportion of the chemicals emitted and also exempts many types of plants , including public utilities . |
| 23 | With a huge , exhausted yawn , she stretched and then lay spread-eagled , flat on her back . |
| 24 | They were not always fair in their criticism : few today would agree with the New Statesman reviewer who wrote of The Lady Vanishes that ‘ the English should leave amorous wisecracking to the nation which invented and alone understands that art . ’ |
| 25 | Every time another load of red shale appeared we raked and then raked some more in preparation for the rolling later in the week . |
| 26 | She jumped and nearly slopped hot coffee over her skirt . |
| 27 | Mr Naville retired and subsequently joined one of Mr Parretti 's companies . |
| 28 | What a wonderful and thrilling finale there was to that match , as McEnroe held and then lost three match points , saved three against him , and then eventually claimed victory on his sixth match point . |