Example sentences of "and [adv] [vb past] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Mustapha Bint , yawned and soon fell fast asleep |
| 6 | She was already far advanced in pregnancy , and soon fell gravely ill . |
| 7 | Sir Stafford had been searching all night and finally came so close that he heard the child crying : |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He saw action in the Pacific , was wounded and was awarded the Purple Heart , and always remained very proud of his Marine background . |
| 10 | Mr S — was reprimanded , and thereafter became quite sycophantic , which made matters almost equally uncomfortable . |
| 11 | IBM was waiting for this decision and quickly became more aggressive at home and abroad . |
| 12 | He took a crashing fall from Ferromyn in the Heidsieck Dry Monopole Novice Hurdle and later felt very sore . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | I got slaughtered and hence crashed fairly early . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | She had sometimes longed for the anonymity of London , and now felt doubly guilty for the thought . |
| 19 | In 1914 they were still few in number and often had impractically large geographical areas to deal with . |
| 20 | He scrapped segregated dining rooms and often walked around barefoot and in casual dress , eating bananas . |
| 21 | He came forward , searching out safe lodgements for his feet , and then looked up thick spectacles . ’ |
| 22 | He counted the night 's takings , swept the floor and then got really upset when he discovered that all his beer mats had been stolen . |
| 23 | Although of older pedigree , the modern law of confidence developed in the nineteenth century and then lay relatively dormant until the middle of the twentieth century . |
| 24 | She glared at him resentfully , and then felt slightly ashamed . |
| 25 | The children played with novel objects mixed in with familiar ones , and then heard both familiar and unfamiliar labels . |
| 26 | In rats receiving sc caerulein , the blood flow was significantly ( p<0.05 ) reduced by about 43% after two hours of caerulein infusion and then showed only small further decrease during the remaining hours of the experiment . |
| 27 | Tony talked about his ex-girlfriend and then remembered how upset he had become when his parents split up when he was 14 . |
| 28 | From Ggantija we ambled down to Ramla Bay and then climbed up old terraces . |
| 29 | Each took the oath and then gave almost identical evidence , one after the other condemning the prisoners in the dock . |
| 30 | He could have complained to the top about my basic lack of professionalism but instead he went out of his way to try and help — and sometimes got pretty short shrift in return . |