Example sentences of "and [adv] [vb past] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 During the period of the first Opium war ( 1840–2 ) Jardine pursued banking and insurance in London , and successfully stood for election in 1841 as the Whig candidate for Ashburton ( Devon ) .
2 He received another , more peremptory , order and eventually came to Addis Ababa with ten thousand men .
3 So they drove round the outskirts of the Burleigh grounds , and eventually came to Cannonbury Road .
4 Billy Row Workmens beat Belle Vue WMC in the second semi-final and eventually succumbed to Bishop Auckland in the final .
5 So Jessie became a secretary to a Manchester solicitor and eventually fell in love with and married an officer during the First World War .
6 They became friendly and eventually fell in love .
7 He gives the example of Johnny Saxon who , three years after winning the world welterweight title , was charged with burglary and eventually institutionalized at New Jersey State Mental Hospital : ‘ Boxing does not leave all its scars on a fighter 's face ’ ( 1973 , p.325 ) .
8 I was lucky in my tutors and my college , and like so many young men before and since fell in love with the place .
9 It is essential that all equipment and instruments in use are inspected and regularly maintained , and effectively decontaminated after use .
10 Further , if Lawrence 's celebration of heterosexuality is dependent upon a repression of , a disavowal of , and a displacement on to , homosexuality , such passages are animated by a homoerotic desire consciously and artistically sublimated into heterosexuality .
11 The river was carrying nearly three foot of extra water and most struggled for bites .
12 These various schemes proved problematic , however , and little came of Coxe 's ambitions , though they were briefly the subject of government interest in 1719 , when the question arose of the English title to this part of America .
13 Besides cleaning up the city 's litter , he was determined to cure its chronic pollution problem , and duly went to war on public and private traffic , proposing a total ban from some areas .
14 As much put out by the ticket inspector 's attitude as his demand for money , he paid and duly wrote to BR to complain saying he ‘ could see no justification in the circumstances for the excess charge . ’
15 She turned round and slowly headed for home .
16 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 . ’
17 Clutching a hot water bottle prepared by Mrs Knelle , I finally and thankfully snuggled into bed .
18 There are 70 items , grouped into 7 blocks of 10 and loosely graded for difficulty .
19 When I brought him the food he pushed it away and suddenly burst into tears all over again .
20 Certainly Polydore Vergil seems to have fallen victim to his own condensed chronology when he argues that it was the events at Stony Stratford which caused Hastings to mistrust Gloucester and so led to Hastings ' opposition and execution .
21 Certainly Polydore Vergil seems to have fallen victim to his own condensed chronology when he argues that it was the events at Stony Stratford which caused Hastings to mistrust Gloucester and so led to Hastings ' opposition and execution .
22 In 1915 and ‘ 16 he had proved he had n't lost his old touch , and so died in bed at a great age , garnished with colourful honours , many of them from grateful countries whose soldiers he had n't got killed even on purpose .
23 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 .
24 At the Gloucester Forest Eyre in July 1634 he produced perambulations of 1228 and 1282 , ‘ both agreeing that the Bounds of the Forrest [ of Dean ] began at Gloucester Bridge , and so went to Monmouth Bridge and Chepstow Bridge , and came round again by the Severne to Gloucester . ’
25 Nadir pressure was referenced to the prevailing midoesophageal body pressure in that second and so took into account changes of basal oesophagela body pressure produced by common cavity episodes .
26 The history of the game is littered with talented players who were never capped and so defected to league .
27 cos trolley buses , in this town were really the erm well I suppose they really came about , rather than motor buses right at the start because built trolley buses and so did of Laiston .
28 John Combes was obviously friends with a fine stonemason who would have done work at Wilton House and perhaps lived in Broad Chalke .
29 His son Charles was also wounded in the battle and only escaped with difficulty . ’
30 It operated at 4,800bps and only came with DOS software , including a huge TSR program , over 200Kb in size .
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