Example sentences of "and [vb past] [adv prt] [to-vb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alice smiled and nodded , and got up to stand at the window , looking out . |
| 2 | God damn Humber , I thought , and got up to write on the charts on the bed-table . |
| 3 | ‘ Tank you , ’ he said , being unusually polite , and toddled off to rummage in his toy box which sat in the corner . |
| 4 | Pete nodded and moved off to look for some more of Bob Ivie 's jungle juice , and Diane eased her way through into the ballroom . |
| 5 | Then she coated the thick planks of the door and moved along to work with Mina on the walls and eaves . |
| 6 | She squared herself , and moved along to look into the nearest of the rooms . |
| 7 | Dot pushed back the blanket , slid off Gloria 's lap and moved back to sit by her window . |
| 8 | ‘ Yes , ’ she whispered , then smiled when he went very still and drew back to stare at her . |
| 9 | After a while she came over to Tallis and bent down to peer at the human . |
| 10 | Busacher snorted , drank , and wandered over to look at the long table which had been set up right down the centre of Willi 's big living room . |
| 11 | He came back to England and seemed about to succumb to pneumonia but , ten days after his return , he went on another visit to Paris , on this occasion to receive an honorary degree from the University there . |
| 12 | Gyggle got up from behind his desk and came round to front of it . |
| 13 | She stood and came over to sit beside him on the bed . |
| 14 | Melissa was about to get back into her car when Bonard called her name and came over to speak to her . |
| 15 | He moved agitatedly across the room and then turned and came back to stand over Briant 's chair . |
| 16 | He stuck out his tongue and squinted down to look at it . |
| 17 | Then he paused and swivelled round to look at her . |
| 18 | After another step or two the man stopped and turned round to speak to the parson . |
| 19 | Without looking back he ran to the end of the passageway and climbed up to hide in the shelves . |
| 20 | So that she knew when he stood up and walked round to drop to his knees beside her . |
| 21 | The scientists exchanged weary looks and glanced back to check on their comrade . |
| 22 | Mrs Joyce whistled in amazement and stepped back to look at Martha , her fists now buried in her wobbling hips . |
| 23 | Tal gave a most unparrotlike crow and flew up to perch on the top of a monitor . |
| 24 | An excited buzz went through the audience , they giggled conspiratorially and settled back to wait with an air of expectancy . |
| 25 | She got herself seated at a table for four , ordered a glass of pastis , the local drink , and settled back to wait for her friends . |
| 26 | The King assured Baldwin that he never drank before seven in the evening and settled down to listen to the lecture that he knew was coming . |
| 27 | He found a seat and settled down to listen to the opening speaker in the first of the day 's debates . |
| 28 | John Müeller had come to London from Nürnberg , had changed his name to Miller and settled down to work in close collaboration with Philip Miller at Chelsea . |
| 29 | Venturi 's survey started with classical times , the uncertainties of writing by Xenocrates , lists of lost works such as the treatise by Apelles , and settled down to comment on two fundamental categories of criticism , the lives of artists , and the critic 's encounter with the work of art . |
| 30 | He fetched his sleeping bag from the cornbin , where he kept it so the mice would n't make a nest in it , and curled up to go to sleep . |