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

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1 Cells were plated out at a maximum initial density of 510 cells per dish and incubated overnight to allow separation of adherent cells ( fibroblasts and macrophages ) from inflammatory cells .
2 Entrenched positions may be established easily between the two with the result that claims are prepared and argued merely to prevent loss of face when in reality the matter could and should have been settled by discussion on site when the problems arose .
3 Son of a head of ideology on the Communist party 's Central Committee , Legasov became a chemist and rose rapidly to become deputy head of the Kurchatov Institute of nuclear science — and a friend of the powerful .
4 ‘ And I 've been stung by nettles , ’ he said , injured , and pretended not to hear Dorrainge who said it was a mistake to pamper nettle stings , and they had n't the time to soothe people 's silly imagined injuries .
5 But as shopping habits changed many traders shut up shop and moved out blaming recession , traffic restrictions and fewer bus routes .
6 Milton and Pooley caught each other 's eyes and tried not to register disbelief .
7 First , we tried a direct approach and ground up polarizing region cells and put the mixture into agar blocks which we then grafted to the anterior margin .
8 Japan 's post-1868 rulers utilized this nationalistic focus and claimed throughout to exercise power in the name of the emperor .
9 Dawn 's life was saved because two trained paramedics , travelling in the opposite direction in their private ambulance , noticed the sports car travelling at high speed , then realized it had crashed , and turned round to offer help at the scene .
10 They set off , passed under St John 's Gate and turned right to join traffic heading northwards .
11 In this instance , for example : The corner shop is to be closed and knocked down to make way for a multi-storey car-park .
12 We left the house and walked up Budge Row into Cheapside .
13 Annie McCafferty left the Bradley Dining Rooms and walked home feeling cross with herself .
14 It started life as a flour mill , had a brief connection with the silk industry and finished up making iron piano frames .
15 It was casual and served freshly caught lobster shipped in from St Vincent .
16 Three times in all her grandfather prostrated himself on the altar mat , then he rose slowly and stepped aside to make way for his son .
17 She grunted her assent and shuffled off to collect Klift .
18 The girl shouted abuse after him , then picked up her baby for comfort , and settled down to watch telly with the remains of a bag of cheese and onion crisps .
19 Can I just put to you there that the pensions regulator may be able to handle aspects like audit reports and established well established documentation and procedures , but are you not really suggesting erm that in the circumstances of Maxwell where the Committee saw for example a transaction that actually had thirty different transactions and therefore unless one looked at the overview of those thirty transactions , one could n't realise that the bank effectively was involved in a fraud .
20 The American Stock Exchange has changed its mind and decided not to suspend trading in the Class B and Class C common shares stocks of Wang Laboratories Inc at the close of business on March 31 , as had previously been announced : it says the decision reflects its view that investors will best be served by a continuation of the orderly trading provided by its auction market system , but warns brokers and prospective investors to review Wang 's public disclosures on its reorganisation plan thoroughly before leaping in , and to consider carefully the many uncertainties over the value — if any — of its present classes of common shares outstanding .
21 He was aware of a small noise at his side and looked round to see Detective Inspector Kate Miskin looking , not at the corpse , but at him .
22 They halted on a rocky ridge where heather poked up through gaps in the stones , and looked back to see Ralarth a green patch below them .
23 Above the river , the seagulls kept on the wing as long as they could , hoping the turbulence would bring them a good find , then , defeated and battered , they heeled and screamed away to find refuge .
24 Trading standards officers swooped on his flat in Mossley Hill , Liverpool , in January and seized illegally produced computer games , videos and equipment for copying .
25 He just nodded and smiled and went on chewing Chicken Thallium , slowly and methodically Henry tried to think of a remark that would go with an expansive gesture .
26 She gained the best School Certificate results at her school in Norfolk and went on to take science subjects for Higher Certificate .
27 He came back to England and went on drinking champagne alone , and nerved himself to do a TV series without Fred .
28 He took a third class in part i ( 1930 ) and a first class in physiology in part ii of the natural sciences tripos ( 1931 ) , and went on to do postgraduate research on nerve physiology and conditioned reflexes .
29 After studying the report , which reiterated the multitude of reservations expressed over the last few months and went on to accuse architect Dominique Perrault of having sacrificed functionalism for the sake of aesthetics , President Mitterrand accepted Perrault 's design , making only the most cosmetic of changes to appease the powerful lobby against the building .
30 Born in 1913 , he was educated at Clifton College and went on to read law at Bristol University .
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