Example sentences of "and [vb past] [adv] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Brooktree Corp , San Diego and Advanced Micro Devices Inc have settled all pending litigation and agreed not to sue each other on patents related to colour palette chips : the settlement provides for payment to Brooktree of $26.8m from an earlier award of cash damages for patent and mask work infringement and dismissal of all other litigation pending between them . |
| 2 | So very early one morning when the wind was a moderate westerly and made northward progress easy , Creggan set off over the great industrial cities to find the high ground beyond them that he sensed would be there . |
| 3 | ‘ Stay there , ’ he said and got out to stand close to the vehicle . |
| 4 | A few doors away I watched for half an hour through a film of sunlit flour motes as a small , soft mass of dough was miraculously spun and flung out to cover six-foot squares of sacking by two whirling , wizened old men . |
| 5 | No further information seemed to be forthcoming and Rose still had tight hold of the ring . |
| 6 | He purchased two ex-German submarines after the first world war , removed the diesel engines , and used there to drive two small rotary kilns . |
| 7 | They said goodbye to each other and promised not to ignore each other the next time they met . |
| 8 | Under the terms of a final communiqué issued on June 26 all the factions agreed to implement an indefinite ceasefire and promised not to receive any further foreign military aid . |
| 9 | In the indenture , Gloucester undertook to be the earl 's good and faithful lord and promised not to claim any office or fee granted to the earl by the king or others and not to take into his service any men retained by the earl . |
| 10 | In the indenture , Gloucester undertook to be the earl 's good and faithful lord and promised not to claim any office or fee granted to the earl by the king or others and not to take into his service any men retained by the earl . |
| 11 | And he was good enough to win the Open , ’ I said and tried not to sound peevish because she knew the quote . |
| 12 | Having heard all the horror stories about being nicked for speeding in the US , I was pleasantly surprised to find that most of the traffic was travelling at about 70mph , so I set the cruise control at around that speed and tried not to look conspicuous . |
| 13 | Usually , she met people halfway , and tried not to make snap judgements about them . |
| 14 | But Mr Stein had the backing of some thoughtful advisers , and tried hard to push serious economic and fiscal issues higher up the electoral agenda . |
| 15 | Scottish kings were rarely powerful enough , or could muster an army large and united enough to keep permanent guard along the frontier against major English invasions . |
| 16 | Instead of playing a leading role in the new monetary union , we shall be semi-detached from it — robbed of our full chance to shape its institutions , suffering economically because of the uncertainty , and condemned always to follow monetary union , never to lead it . |
| 17 | The ale wife went away cackling and came back to serve both of them huge tankards slopping over with ale and a shared platter of meat mixed with onions and leeks swimming in a sea of grease . |
| 18 | We sailed , we climbed the precipice behind the villa , walked among the chestnut woods on the mountain slopes and came back to eat delicious Italian food cooked by the voluble old peasant woman who looked after the villa . |
| 19 | Teachers using Fast Forward find the material is already under control and organized ideally to ensure rapid progress . |
| 20 | The Dutch sellers now relied upon a clause ( clause 13 ) in their contract of sale with the buyers and claimed therefore to have proprietary rights entitling them to have priority over the buyers ' other creditors . |
| 21 | But what Sue saw and heard there bore little resemblance to the popularly-held view of the Spencer family . |
| 22 | While wandering in the Rockies on horseback in 1939 , he heard that war had been declared and returned home to join two of his brothers ( William and Hugh ) in the Scots Guards . |
| 23 | They wandered parks and gardens and fed already overfed white pigeons in the Plaza de América . |
| 24 | Brenda Pridmore , recently appointed Clerical Officer/receptionist at Hoggatt 's Laboratory , pushed the marmalade across the breakfast table and began methodically slicing thin strips from the white of her fried egg , postponing , as she had from early childhood , that cataclysmic moment when she would plunge the fork into the glistening yellow dome . |
| 25 | One time the giro came and it was only £2 , so when he went out to phone the social security I just shoved the baby in the pram and walked out to phone social services . |
| 26 | Their peers shared such conceptions and served mutually to reinforce each other . |
| 27 | Whether or not one feels that , by modern standards , Mrs Sherwood 's attitude was a healthy one , the fact remains that , despite the loss of a second child in India , she and her husband were able to return to England with their faith unimpaired , and settled down to live useful and active lives . |
| 28 | She and her husband moved further away from the town centre , to a spot where they could see the fields , and settled down to have five children . |
| 29 | Rebels played solid netball and pulled away to win 35–30 . |
| 30 | But when Ronald Reagan came to Washington a year later , another government department , the Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA ) , looked at the same evidence and decided not to limit most other , potentially higher human exposures to the chemical . |