Example sentences of "[vb past] and [adv] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | where the two directors disagreed and neither had a casting vote , the House of Lords held that registration must proceed . |
| 2 | An AI mission to Argentina in November 1976 , led by Lord Avebury , was followed everywhere by twenty plainclothes policemen who questioned , intimidated and even detained a number of people whom they meet . |
| 3 | Their presentation was appalling , their attitude was n't much better , and the presentation from the other companies was superb , one in particular , erm , came and really gave a good presentation . |
| 4 | and we had like the ta trestle tables in all these alcoves and people came and actually booked a meal |
| 5 | Although Sprake got and still gets a great deal of stick , including from me , he was in fact an excellent keeper . |
| 6 | While the others went on to further success he fought and eventually won a battle against alcoholism , but his writing partnership with Cleese did not survive it , and , at his own choice , he was not a member of the Python film company Prominent Features . |
| 7 | Five minutes later the coffee arrived and so did a call from Brian Harley . |
| 8 | They had reached the landing when the first door in the corridor opened and out stepped a man who seemed to have no connection with the boy Andrew Jones , for here was a handsome , well-built and tall man , and he was naked except for a small towel tucked round his waist . |
| 9 | Laugh off the endless epithetising of everyone who crosses his path — his ‘ pretty elder daughter ’ , the ‘ renowned tailor ’ , even my own guest appearance as ‘ that respected mountaineer ’ ; roar aloud at the over-the-topness of the following : ‘ That evening at dinner the flap of our tent opened and in strode a figure of heroic majesty . |
| 10 | I waited for what , I swear , was another hour before the door opened and in came a man wearing a mask and gloves . |
| 11 | adult life was spent in South Africa , and erm I found a couple of years ago two books written by a remarkable while English-speaking South African called Donald Woods , who was a newspaper editor , who befriended and then championed a remarkable young black South African called Steve Beeko , who was killed in police detention . |
| 12 | Rooney grinned and nervously ran a wet hand under his cap , smoothing his tousled hair . |
| 13 | Tappersdorf was a few stops along the line — countrified and still keeping a rural quietness : poplars masked a factory , behind pre-war houses with steeply pitched roofs fields of sprouts stretched away , the sprouts looking oddly sentient as they stood in their patient , frosty queues , waiting to be picked . |
| 14 | In this situation you have to forget the textbook method of standing still and pivoting on one foot while the horse trots a beautiful circle around you : Skipper walked and later trotted a big circle and I walked a smaller one . |
| 15 | It generalized and perhaps idealized a mass of experimental data , as Boyle 's Law of the volumes and pressures of gases , and Ohm 's Law relating potential difference and current through a resistance both do . |
| 16 | Two life sentences for the man who imprisoned and sexually assaulted a schoolboy . |
| 17 | Robyn struggled with her breathing a moment , hesitated and then gave a little groan . |
| 18 | A MEMBER of a West Indian ‘ Yardie ’ gang who tortured and sexually assaulted a businesswoman for two days was jailed for 10 years yesterday . |
| 19 | At the same time as the petition was being circulated , the Action Committee wrote and widely circulated a letter that anyone , anywhere , could send to their own MPs . |
| 20 | The daughter of a wool dealer from Hackney , Beatrice had spent much of her life in South Africa , where she married and then divorced a professional boxer . |
| 21 | He enjoyed the party , danced , drank and generally had a whale of a time . |
| 22 | I was from a family in Northern California , about thirty miles out of San Francisco ; I had an older brother who had and still has a great collection of 45s , but we were actually swimmers . |
| 23 | Those around him anxious to please and do his bidding were in no doubt as to what he wanted and desperately sought a solution at any price that would satisfy their commander-in-chief . |