Example sentences of "and [adv] [vb past] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The river was carrying nearly three foot of extra water and most struggled for bites . |
| 2 | And , checking back , the Sounds review of the time ( in which journalist Rab claims that he 's had a tape since November 1980 ) provided the release with a five star rating , while NME was mildly less enthusiastic , observing that ‘ it 's an odd LP , naturally flawed and imperfect and rather stilted in places but nonetheless a worthy attempt at indisciplinary entertainment . ’ |
| 3 | When I brought him the food he pushed it away and suddenly burst into tears all over again . |
| 4 | Faced with mortgages charged at 15.4 per cent and higher , borrowers could n't afford to keep up their payments and so fell into arrears . |
| 5 | He stayed in his room and only emerged for meals . |
| 6 | Belief in these three Pates is said to have been very deep-rooted in Greece , and apparently survived in parts of the country almost till the present day , where birth customs included rites to propitiate these goddesses . |
| 7 | perhaps he 's been forewarned and just swapped over sides with , but I mean we had a full wind and light through then , well sort of |
| 8 | Last week he walked upstairs for the first time in three years and just burst into tears . |
| 9 | Mr. Mahmoud was not a satisfactory tenant and soon fell into arrears with the rent . |
| 10 | The books were eagerly borrowed , well used and finally fell to pieces , as was the case with J. F. Campbell 's " Popular Tales of the West Highlands " , in the Port Ellen library . |
| 11 | Aerobics instructor Jackie Harley said ‘ Yes ’ — and promptly burst into tears . |
| 12 | After all , a fox being pursued to ground by a pack of baying dogs to the point of sheer exhaustion and possibly ravaged to pieces in their final kill has little option of a prior engagement . |
| 13 | The BCS does lots of other good things , like sitting on 31 standards committees , working with 15 European computer societies to harmonise professional qualifications for the single market , accrediting computer science courses to make them less theoretical and more oriented towards projects , maintaining a register of expert witnesses , setting up ad hoc specialist groups very quickly on new areas like expert systems , natural language translation and parallel processing , and helping the disabled . |
| 14 | As there was a rough , though by no means exact , correlation of social power with wealth , this meant that the élites of European society tended to be more and more permeated by members of the financial , industrial and professional bourgeoisie which had emerged increasingly as the dominant class in progressive societies since the seventeenth century . |
| 15 | The incidence of anal cancer remained fairly constant in the period 1943–57 and was similar for men and women , but it increased 1.5-fold among men and nearly tripled among women thereafter . |
| 16 | Other ‘ schoolboys ’ included Jeremy Bulloch , who was to carve out a successful acting career , and Christopher Beeny who had already made an impression as a child actor in The Grove Family TV serial and later appeared in programmes such as Upstairs , Downstairs , The Rag Trade and In Loving Memory . |
| 17 | A Munro , in climbing parlance , is a Scottish mountain exceeding 3000 feet in height : the name is a tribute to Sir Hugh Munro who , in 1891 , published his meticulous records of all the mountains in Scotland over 3000 feet , listing them in descending order of altitude and also arranged in districts , with all the subsidiary tops over 3000 feet but not considered to be separate mountains . |
| 18 | At this time Henry contributed a poem to the fund-raising campaign for the construction of Salisbury Cathedral , and also wrote for patrons in Cologne . |
| 19 | Art Hallman played clarinet in the band , and also doubled on vocals , but the leading singer was the lovely Georgia Dey . |
| 20 | ‘ We guarded nurses in the grounds of the hospital and also looked after civilians because that was the early part of the Communist uprising , ’ he says . |
| 21 | The act created the concept of commercial contracts and of traders having a firm registered at the ‘ Firm Registry ’ and also dealt with partnerships , limited partnerships , joint-stock companies , and co-operatives ( which were considered to be business enterprises ) . |
| 22 | Bush promised that the idea would be studied carefully , and also acceded to requests for negotiations on higher quotas for Turkish textile imports to the USA and on greater US military aid . |
| 23 | A trail of blood led to a two-foot high by 18-inch timber box 20 yards away , perched just off the ground on tiny stilts and carefully camouflaged with twigs and branches . |
| 24 | DMs , DMs , DMs , always boots , mostly black , and often daubed with ohms , stars , and yin and yangs , sometimes just sprayed gold or silver , and threaded with laces — purple , red , green , yellow , pink and striped . |
| 25 | Further north , the Langkawi islands are remote and less developed , and to the south lies the popular resort island of Pangkor , readily accessible from the mainland and often crowded during weekends and holidays . |
| 26 | The conditions were deliberately vague and even asked for suggestions regarding the siting of Westminster Bridge , although some work had already been carried out towards rebuilding the bridge on its existing site . |
| 27 | Lola kept track of patients whose personalities were as variable as the weather ( ‘ One minute Paul says he does not want his wife any more and the next he has changed his mind ’ ) , she listened to their grievances ( ‘ Josef thinks he is fit to work and look after himself ; says he is being kept a prisoner … but he is very confused and deluded ’ ) and even mediated between doctors ( ‘ Dr Freymann said … it must be a genuine case of epilepsy … but … |
| 28 | The wood of the planks was almost white , but it had been sanded and then varnished with gums and resins until it glistened . |
| 29 | They sketched their ideas and then looked for clothes to match . |
| 30 | I had stayed in bed on Sunday morning , even though Quigley had nearly kicked the door down and then burst into tears all over my duvet . |