Example sentences of "and [vb past] [adv prt] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Joyce retired on April 2 after 14 years service and was delighted not only to receive gifts , including a hi-fi system , but also to be wined and dined on more than one occasion before her departure . |
| 2 | They guessed she was on a bad trip and moved in swiftly before she could hurt herself . |
| 3 | The photography services supplied nearly 3,000 images for use in publications and television programmes , and hired out more than 500 slides . |
| 4 | It stopped when she lifted her palm , and came through again when she put it back . |
| 5 | She jumped and came up short as the rope went taut . |
| 6 | The women 's victory in 1918 was unspectacular and came about primarily because the government had to update the electoral register to include those serving in the armed forces . |
| 7 | Last year alone they had over 400,000 winners and paid out more than £40 million . |
| 8 | Then again you may be taken from the detention centre to Pentonville Prison and locked up there if you complain . |
| 9 | I groped around with my foot for the table-leg and pressed down hard until the spasm gradually subsided . |
| 10 | I do n't remember him doing much digging in the garden but in my memory he is always mowing the lawn and fussing over a particular type of grass which evaded the blades and sprang back upright after the mower had passed over it . |
| 11 | He heard a click and stepped back quickly as the bolt thudded into the wall of the derelict house behind him . |
| 12 | It was as if a couple of animals hounded from one burrow , nest or lair had im-mediately taken possession of another and started up just where they had left off . |
| 13 | She flushed and looked down quickly as she caught Faye 's curious , narrow-eyed glance . |
| 14 | ‘ Oh , do n't be ridiculous , Giles , calm down , calm down , come and have a nice Perrier water , ’ said Liz , taking his other arm , and , with Kate , attempting to lead him away from the fracas , as one would a child in a playground from its tormentor ( for Giles 's antagonist Paul Hargreaves , pale faced , dark suited , silver-grey tied , was smiling calmly with a horrible amusement at this distressing scene ) : but the desperate Giles was beyond leading , and fell back heavily as he attempted to disengage himself from his two intercessors , crashing into a large fern and some pots of bulbs and sending earth and splashes of champagne over the carpet . |
| 15 | Everything seemed ideal for his attempt , and with sudden resolution he hauled himself up on to the shelf above the door and manoeuvred around gingerly until he was able to stand up . |
| 16 | One boy , sitting near the front , leant forward slightly if the reader 's voice volume needed raising and leant back slightly if it was too loud . |
| 17 | Sadly , my father had to find work in the Gulf just before the last war and died out there when I was three years old . |
| 18 | Lily Malloy loved dancing : she was n't religiously correct about the steps and laughed out loud when they jived . |
| 19 | Earlier this spring , the Society , which had closed its galleries and ended all public programmes , announced that it would close its library and shut down entirely unless it received emergency public funds . |
| 20 | Nor did we have sinks and drains , so all the water had to be carried in and carried out again when it was dirty . |
| 21 | A NINE-year-old boy who went on a six-month crime spree and carried out more than 50 thefts , went back to school yesterday after police were forced to let him walk free . |
| 22 | The address of the beginning of the relevant ( third ) block can then be found , located , and searched through sequentially until the required record is located . |
| 23 | This was not a particularly difficult task since they were all pathetically trained and equipped and stood out conspicuously as they wandered around the countryside asking stupid and suspicious questions in foreign accents . |
| 24 | The ironing , altering , re-tailoring had all been done against the clock and pushed through only because of the tyranny of Miss D'Arcy . |
| 25 | She got back in the bed wet through , and sat up brazenly as the young girl brought the tray in . |