Example sentences of "and [vb past] [conj] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The island pool was built inside an old distillery warehouse , gifted by Morrison Bowmore Distillers , which now houses a sauna , launderette and sunbed as well as the standard-sized pool . |
| 2 | The existence of such conflicts had been acknowledged and deplored as early as the 1580s by George Gifford 's non-Puritan countryman , who had commented : ‘ I know towns myself which are divided one part against another since they had a preacher , which was not so before … whereas before they loved each other , now there is dissension sown among them . ’ |
| 3 | A report issued on June 20 by the New York-based human rights group , Human Rights Watch , documented what it called " state sanctioned violence " against women and claimed that more than 70 per cent of women in custody had been subjected to physical and sexual abuse by police . |
| 4 | Zinoviev , presiding over the Congress , blurred these differences and declared that just as the Russian Communist party was assisting the Chinese communists , so the French and Dutch parties should take care of Indonesia and Indo-China ; a curiously neo-colonialist policy which was to persist for several years . |
| 5 | She followed him up the large curved staircase and decided that even if this was for one night only , she would be happy . |
| 6 | Rincewind tried to work it out , and decided that even if the box were crammed with star opals and sticks of auricholatum the contents would not be worth one-tenth the price of the container . |
| 7 | ‘ We had the mare to break early this year , ’ said rider Barbara Gallimore , ‘ and knew as soon as we saw her that she would win Olympia . |
| 8 | I felt the most awful failure , and thought that perhaps if we could try again — since the thing was done , the point of no return passed — we might arrange things better , somehow recapture the basis of feeling we had had , which should have been a perfect foundation for a love-affair , but which we had somehow bungled and thrown away . |
| 9 | He took Nicholas into his office , shut the door and spoke as soon as the servants had gone . |
| 10 | When they make love , she can help by being patient and relaxed as well as responsive to any shared physical closeness , rather than increasing his anxiety to ‘ perform ’ satisfactorily . |
| 11 | ‘ Famous research on American longshoremen , who worked 14 hours a day loading ships , and who smoked and drank as well as sweating their guts out , showed they were at low risk from cardiac problems and that severe exercise can protect against heart disease . |
| 12 | British fascism was to contain extremes from both political right and left as well as to incorporate large numbers with no previous political background . |
| 13 | Not many buildings of this period survive unaltered ; the palace in Fig. 284 shows a Grand Canal façade of the time with cubiform capitals and stilted as well as semicircular arches , while the finest complete example is the Cathedral of SS . |
| 14 | The turnout in the election was just 50.72 per cent , considerably down on the previous record low of 57 per cent in the 1983 upper house contest , and suggested that rather than registering anti-LDP votes with an alternative party , many voters had chosen to abstain from the electoral process . |