Example sentences of "and [adv] [vb past] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had expected them at that stage to do the decent thing and wait for us to catch up but , smelling their first blood of the season , they continued in much the same fashion and eventually ran out 7–0 victors . |
| 2 | At the end of the first lap Walker was 30 metres clear and eventually came home 200 metres ahead of Reid who finished on 9:6.8 , 28 second adrift with Egeler finishing third further eight seconds in arrears . |
| 3 | They told me they were on holiday today and shyly peeped round great blocks of stone as I climbed on to the hitching post of the sun , the most sacred place in the temple . |
| 4 | And that 's what causes tragic failures like Matthew Smith and Augustus John — they 've done the Paris rat and they live ever after in the shadow of Gauguin and Matisse or whoever it may be — just as G.P. says he once lived under the shadow of Braque and suddenly woke up one morning to realize that all he had done for five years was a lie , because it was based on Braque 's eyes and sensibilities and not his own . |
| 5 | However , these two commanders also remained at sea throughout the landings and so had as little idea as Hamilton of what was going forward . |
| 6 | But following the period with which Mannheim was concerned ( the first half of the nineteenth century ) conservative political thought developed mainly as a defence of capitalism against the rising socialist movement , and so became more sympathetic to rationalist views , especially in the economic sphere . |
| 7 | I would like to think that she died still being floated by the giant kite , that she went round the world and rose higher as she died of starvation and dehydration and so grew less weighty still , to become , eventually , a tiny skeleton riding the jetstreams of the planet ; a sort of Flying Dutchwoman . |
| 8 | I had two houses and just gambled away most of my money . ’ |
| 9 | On one occasion Liz had felt miserable while thinking about her ex-boyfriend , but she had spoken to her sister-in-law and soon felt much better . |
| 10 | The Romans , too , avoided total absorption in Hellenistic modes of thought , but after all they were politically independent and soon became more powerful than any Hellenistic kingdom . |
| 11 | Mustapha Bint , yawned and soon fell fast asleep |
| 12 | She was already far advanced in pregnancy , and soon fell gravely ill . |
| 13 | Well , I did n't need much prompting , and soon babbled out all my dreams and dreads . |
| 14 | Sir Stafford had been searching all night and finally came so close that he heard the child crying : |
| 15 | Frau Nordern frowned as Marx stubbed out his cigar and promptly took out another one . |
| 16 | He opened a shop there in 1961 and gradually took over other premises , including the castle , until today he has an annual turnover of more than a million second-hand books . |
| 17 | He saw action in the Pacific , was wounded and was awarded the Purple Heart , and always remained very proud of his Marine background . |
| 18 | The French army included in the middle of the century over 50,000 foreigners , and still had over 40,000 serving in it on the eve of the Revolution . |
| 19 | Mr S — was reprimanded , and thereafter became quite sycophantic , which made matters almost equally uncomfortable . |
| 20 | IBM was waiting for this decision and quickly became more aggressive at home and abroad . |
| 21 | He took a crashing fall from Ferromyn in the Heidsieck Dry Monopole Novice Hurdle and later felt very sore . |
| 22 | The glare dimmed and outlines of roofs and trees and angles at street junctions , lampposts , signs , doorways , scaffolding and cranes — too molten to look up at at two in the afternoon — calmed into focus , became distinct against the astounding pure clarity of the sky , and later became so sharp and clear that looking at them was like a note you could not hear but only sense within the ear by some change in vibration . |
| 23 | In 1953 , with the same type of undulator and 100 MeV electrons , he produced spontaneous visible radiation , and later showed analytically that radiation could be amplified by using this technique . |
| 24 | This short passage makes crystal-clear the role of the aristocracy in Carolingian politics , and explains why Charles now and later worked so hard to carry his followers with him . |
| 25 | The systems failed to identify an acceptable percentage of the correct phonemic labels , and also hypothesized too many incorrect labels . |
| 26 | Two more subjects then repeated the 90-hour vigil , and similarly became extremely sleepy , especially during the hours between midnight and noon , reviving somewhat during the afternoons . |
| 27 | I got slaughtered and hence crashed fairly early . |
| 28 | We had yearned for supremacy and now had too much of it too easily . |
| 29 | My doctor had also prepared a report for the judge , about various medical problems which I hoped might be taken into consideration , along with the fact that I had for some time been re-building my life and now had very little to do with the lifestyle that brought me into contact with drugs . |
| 30 | She had waited behind the hedge in the front garden , ready to smuggle him into the house without alerting the neighbours , but he never arrived : she had drunk half a bottle of white wine as she waited and now felt slightly sick . |