Example sentences of "and [adv] [vb past] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rooney grinned and nervously ran a wet hand under his cap , smoothing his tousled hair . |
| 2 | ‘ What am I supposed to do ? ’ he said in an aggrieved tone but ( fortunately , Nutty thought ) a misguided girl in puce trousers hit him over the head with a handbag and he launched himself instantly at his aggressor , being no respecter of the female sex , and thereby deflected a fair amount of Jazz 's opposition on to himself , the girl 's screaming indignation making her plight quite plain . |
| 3 | Many others joined the SPD , and eventually had a major influence on changing its policies back into a more radical line than the Bad Godesberg programme . |
| 4 | His second son John West Wilson was a resident agent in Gothenburg and eventually became a naturalized Swede . |
| 5 | Her brother , Merfyn , began training with his uncle as a motor engineer and eventually became a technical journalist . |
| 6 | Then he opened his eyes , spoke a few words and eventually tried a few tentative steps round his hospital room . |
| 7 | Hence when I went to the Lords in 1965 I sat as a cross-bencher , although periodically , according to my attitude at the time , I was supporting one or other of the two parties and rarely took a cross-bench approach . |
| 8 | They were captivated by the beautiful village , played croquet on the lawn and altogether had a delightful time . |
| 9 | Accordingly , without ever rising from my sordid bed , I lay and groaned and babbled , and altogether gave a wonderful impression of a man in extremity . |
| 10 | The basin is linked to three thousand miles of inland waterways , and so had a busy commercial life at one time , and a few of its old warehouses remain . |
| 11 | Britain had successfully negotiated long-term contracts for the total output from the Congo , and so had a near monopoly of ore supplies , which she had been happy to share with the US in the wartime atomic weapons programme . |
| 12 | Deirdre joined the literature committee in 1985 after the closure of Craiglockhart College of Education , where she had been principal lecturer in English , and so began a second career . |
| 13 | And so began a happy parliamentary career lasting until 1970 . |
| 14 | And so did a good many people who I , I thought would never go . |
| 15 | As the float rose the shaft rotated and so did a circular metal plate attached to the end of it . |
| 16 | This happened to many punters who shorted bank stocks last year just as the Federal Reserve eased interest rates and so triggered a sharp rally in bank share prices . |
| 17 | He was the most recent recruit into H3 , and only had a Lower Second from Aston . |
| 18 | A dedicated professional seaman , he practised his motor launches ( MLs ) , the motor gun boat ( MGB ) , and the modified motor torpedo boat ( MTB 74 ) operating in close company , manoeuvres they did not normally execute and only had a few weeks to learn . |
| 19 | Some of the cottages behind their stone sea-walls had real charm , others were plain and cramped and only borrowed a little grace from their situation . |
| 20 | In came the clothes shop owning , rugby playing manager Joe Moss , and in came a traumatic realisation that bedsit jabbering and glorious friendships were not enough . |
| 21 | The proteins have little sequence identity and obviously diverged a long time ago . |
| 22 | It was hot , airless , badly lit , and generally had a cramped below-decks feel to it . |
| 23 | He held McAllister 's hand for a little longer than propriety might demand , and the pair of them stood for a moment , rapt , until the surgery boy , who ran the doctor 's errands on his bike , delivered prescriptions and generally did a great deal of donkey work , knocked on the door before he came in , saying excitedly and importantly , ‘ You 're wanted , Dr Neil , sir . |
| 24 | Amphibious raiding along the Channel coast and elsewhere became a coordinated intelligence gathering operation in preparation for the opening of a Second Front by the invasion of Europe , plans for which entailed amphibious training for large armies , pre-empting men and equipment from possible large raids . |
| 25 | Students in the USA had to go out on placement to firms for training , and thus had a good grounding in practical embalming . |
| 26 | Few of them flying about coming along just the line of the hydro wire at the hydro wire and just saw a blue flash and get down . |
| 27 | She had arrived in Paris in 1912 and soon became a good friend of Soutine and a familiar Montparnasse character . |
| 28 | In February 1940 , Flying Officer Douglas Bader , who had lost his legs in a flying accident nine years earlier and was discharged from the RAF , rejoined and was posted to Duxford , and soon became a celebrated officer in Fighter Command , complete with tin legs , although he ended the war in Colditz . |
| 29 | Thankful that I had taken the trouble to gather dry wood while it was fine , I lighted the fire , and soon had a cheerful blaze going . |
| 30 | These new streamlined creatures became the first fish and soon underwent a further important change when they began to develop a movable jaw , paving the way for the Devonian period — the ‘ Age of Fishes ’ . |