Example sentences of "and [adv] [vb past] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He led the Open at Muirfield by four shots and eventually came from two down with four holes to play to beat John Cook . |
| 2 | He was mechanically ventilated with 100% oxygen and eventually extubated after intravenous flumazenil . |
| 3 | The people of Scotland considered these eight options and duly replied with ninety percent of the rep replies including Tory councillors , and Tor Tor and some Tory , Tory-run councils , totally rejecting any form of water privatization in Scotland . |
| 4 | There were rainbow clumps of raw colour which sizzled and suddenly coiled into snakelike forms as she approached and lifted serpentine heads to hiss at her ; there were pouring cascades of things that had appeared to be silk or velvet , but which were molten gold when she got nearer and made her remember Fael-Inis and the cascading River and the salamanders . |
| 5 | The only natural light came from an extremely tiny oblong of glass in the roof , but this was so filmy , and so splattered with accumulated bird lime , that it let in the flimsiest of light . |
| 6 | ‘ The only natural light came from an extremely tiny oblong of glass in the roof , but this was so filthy , and so splattered with accumulated bird lime , that it let in the flimsiest of light . |
| 7 | In fact , the average household size remained between four and five throughout this period and only fell to three during the twentieth century ( Laslett , 1972b ; Wall , 1972 ) . |
| 8 | The overall mood is decidedly downbeat , but ( thank God ! ) without recourse to the anti-Soviet ‘ protest ’ mode , and constantly enlivened by stark ( though never exaggerated ) contrasts between lyrical and energetic musical material . |
| 9 | His mother obviously adored him and merely said with unconvincing sincerity , ‘ Now , Pino , mind what I say . ’ |
| 10 | They believed , by contrast , that all the parts of the embryo were preformed from the very beginning and merely grew during embryonic development and so gradually became visible . |
| 11 | The bank was completely under the control of Mr Abdić and his colleagues , and apparently complied with all their wishes . |
| 12 | Of course , outside Japan , elsewhere in the world , there may also turn out to be losers on a wider scale , those trapped and organizationally outflanked in modernist organization forms as the leading edge turns ever more postmodern . |
| 13 | He disappeared into the hedgerow , and soon reappeared with four others , two of them were carrying a wounded Officer between them . |
| 14 | Each sample was loaded onto a C8 reverse phase silica cartridge with metal frits ( Bond-elute , Anachem ) previously prepared with washes of methanol and water at pH 3.5 ; washed with 1 ml each of HPLC grade water , 10% ethanol and hexane , and finally eluted with 1 ml of methanol . |
| 15 | An abandoned salt mine near Carrickfergus , Northern Ireland , showed signs of activity in September and early October 1990 , and finally collapsed on 19 October , causing a depression 200 metres in diameter and 7 metres deep [ see photograph on page 19 ] . |
| 16 | ‘ Her dreadful friends started to take advantage of her , persuading her to spend her savings on them , and finally stole from one of her flatmates . |
| 17 | A distorted face appeared , and gradually congealed into human lineaments . |
| 18 | What were needed , and gradually emerged between 1900 and 1940 , were technical methods for investigating large molecules . |
| 19 | These interviews were tape-recorded and usually lasted for eight or nine hours ( although one mammoth sitting lasted for twelve ) . |
| 20 | The Earl lost his men in the mist and the smoke , and mistakenly appealed to those near him — not only Cumberland 's soldiers , but Scots Fusiliers , who took him prisoner . |
| 21 | Although the widespread disruption of the earlier 1949 crisis was avoided , the load which had to be shed in the severe winter of 1951 ( 2109MW ) was in absolute terms the highest ever , and still amounted to 17 per cent of the load on the system . |
| 22 | Expressed as crude annual rates per thousand , they fell from 23 in 1861–65 to 12 in 1931–35 , but have since shown no further improvement due to the ageing of the population , and still stood at 11.4 in 1988 . |
| 23 | With great glee Odd-Knut told us that the fat Germans showered ten times every day for a week and still reeked of rotten whale . |
| 24 | The high temperatures of 10 mill K and more lasted for many milliseconds , and implied that there was a high degree of plasma stability , and large reduction of the unaccountable loss of energy and plasma across the magnetic field found in early experiments on Zeta pinches and on stellarators in the US ( though indeed some unaccountable loss still exists ) . |
| 25 | A human touch was added to Nash 's report : ‘ I could heartily wish more respect were paid to the remains of this amiable though unfortunate Queen , and would willingly , with proper leave , have them wrapt in another sheet of lead and coffin , and decently interred in some proper place , that at least after her death her body might remain in peace ; whereas the Chapel where she now lies is used for the keeping of rabbits , which make holes and scratch very indecently about her Royal corpse . ’ |
| 26 | The key plotters were senior army officers such as Generals Mola , Goded and Fanjul , together with middle-ranking officers hostile to another phase of Republican reformism and ideologically subverted since 1931 by right-wing propaganda . |
| 27 | Notes from this meeting were kept by Colonel Hossbach and later fell into Allied hands . |
| 28 | Table 4.1 Numbers of coho salmon released and later recaptured in two rivers in Washington , with and without their olfactory sense impaired . |
| 29 | The oil spilt from the Braer was unusually light and toxic , and this , combined with fierce storms which mixed it into the seawater and caused it combine to form clumps with fine particles churned up by the waves , meant that rather than floating to the surface , as is normal with spilt crude oil , it was carried by ocean currents far from the spill site and later redeposited in deep " sumps " on the seabed . |
| 30 | They were hunters , metal-workers , cattle raisers and also engaged in primitive agriculture and the gathering of roots and nuts . |