Example sentences of "and [vb past] [pron] [adv prt] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Although when they first walked in and found you out cold on the floor , they thought you were one of the gang too !
2 She unplaited her hair and shook it out loose .
3 He has already cut the wax into six portions , plus a couple of spares , and flattened it out ready to enclose the paper scrolls .
4 Leaving Harry briefly I went to the dinghy and heaved it over right side up .
5 It took the hero a year to find the creature , taking him beyond the boundaries of the world , but he captured it by swimming across a river , and brought it back alive , as was his instruction .
6 Each horse had his own harness ; and if it could n't be spared to be sent down to the shop for repair , the horseman brought it himself , got it seen to and took it back ready for work on the next day .
7 ‘ They took away our films , developed them and gave them back damaged .
8 Back in the kitchen , he cleaned the edenwort and the okra and chopped them up small enough to be unrecognizable .
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