Example sentences of "and [vb past] [adv prt] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Congress , the G M B as a union founded and built around working people as a duty , an obligation to accept that challenge and to lead that campaign . |
| 2 | Having designed the Commodore International Ltd PET Personal Electronic Transactor , and moved on to found Sirius Inc , later Victor Technologies Inc until he was caught out when the world discovered that ‘ runs MS-DOS ’ did n't mean ‘ IBM-compatible ’ , Chuck Peddle hopes that he 'll soon be back with a bang . |
| 3 | They forgot about Tavett and moved on to discuss Pascoe and how , when they came to think of it , he had looked very like a man waiting for a major heart attack . |
| 4 | The trucks eventually swung into the camp 's orbit and moved off to unload stores . |
| 5 | But as shopping habits changed many traders shut up shop and moved out blaming recession , traffic restrictions and fewer bus routes . |
| 6 | He flung the guitar on to a chair , and bent down to pick Shelley up bodily instead , lifting her as though she weighed nothing at all . |
| 7 | ‘ You 're so exquisite , ’ he murmured throatily and bent down to trace kisses from her belly up to her mouth . |
| 8 | He shook his head , then took a plate and wandered off to choose cakes for his tea . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | She got out and came round to open Kee 's door . |
| 11 | He lowered the horse 's left foreleg and came back to lift Isabel to the ground . |
| 12 | Taking a hint from the fame and antiquity of Egyptian flax working , Roberts went off to the banks of the Nile to study the Temple of Karnak , and came back to build Mr Marshall a factory in like fashion , which soon became known , naturally enough , as the Temple Mill . |
| 13 | He set off into the fog to find out where he was , and came back to find Tess fast asleep . |
| 14 | One spring evening we had been out to dinner and came back to find Clare bounding downstairs with excitement . |
| 15 | He said he heard a car engine racing behind him and turned round to see headlights . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | He took a steadying breath and turned back to face Mick , ticking off points on his fingers . |
| 18 | She went to the top of the stairs , then spun round and rushed back to hug Maggie Byrne with spontaneous affection . |
| 19 | In this instance , for example : The corner shop is to be closed and knocked down to make way for a multi-storey car-park . |
| 20 | I thanked him for his cheering thought and walked over to interrupt Barry who was involved with a small group of well-heeled tourists at the far end of the bar . |
| 21 | We left the house and walked up Budge Row into Cheapside . |
| 22 | Carson parked the Mercedes on the forecourt off the road , and walked around to help Alison out . |
| 23 | Arnold took a four and finished up beating Dai Rees by a stroke , although Dai holed a putt from 20 yards on the last for a three . |
| 24 | It started life as a flour mill , had a brief connection with the silk industry and finished up making iron piano frames . |
| 25 | She grunted her assent and shuffled off to collect Klift . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Ruth felt her own arm gripped , and looked round to see Fand — but the Woman 's head was turned away , avoiding her gaze . |
| 29 | She replaced the phone on its rest and looked up to see Myra gazing at her , a concerned look on her face . |
| 30 | Some time later I heard a chink of glass and looked up to find Dennis sitting at a nearby table with a half-empty bottle of chilled rosé . |