Example sentences of "and [adv] [vb past] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Commentary of this kind is usually very carefully and skilfully scripted to match the pictures it accompanies . |
| 2 | I squeezed into a minute dining-room , where there were no TV sets and nervously tried to join a group of people . |
| 3 | LC were enriched from BALB/c TE-EC ( ref. 22 ) , stained with M5/114.15.12 ( anti-I-A d and anti-I-E d , ATCC ) and FITC-goat ( Fab' ) 2 anti-rat IgG ( TAGO ) and additionally purified using a BDIS Facstar Plus flow cytometer . |
| 4 | There was so much untidy milling about , however , that in the confines of the tiny space they found it hard to organize themselves and eventually seemed to abandon the attempt . |
| 5 | I kept them in the shed and eventually had to put the bikes outside under a tarpaulin when the collection got too large . |
| 6 | He was also jaundiced and so had to wear a hood to protect his eyes and lie naked under a constant bright light . |
| 7 | This was why they had n't caught on to the idea of the ground being curved , not flat — and so had to invent an imaginary force to explain what was going on . |
| 8 | They correctly assumed that the viral DNA had been inserted into the DNA of a normal gene involved in limb development and so had caused a mutation . |
| 9 | In its heyday , the company had filled its own site with slag and so had built a bridge over the road and railway so it could shunt more slag into the neighbouring field . |
| 10 | The well bubbled into a tributary of the Moy , but unfortunately it had been hemmed in by modern concrete and so had lost a great deal of its charm . |
| 11 | The extension of the franchise to all adults created a situation in which political parties had to compete for the mass vote and so had to organise the electorate to support their candidates at the polls . |
| 12 | The anniversaries , called ‘ birthdays ’ , of the martyrs were carefully remembered , and so came to create the earliest church calendars ( so that the historian can know on what day of what month a martyr died , but not necessarily in what year , that being of no liturgical significance ) . |
| 13 | At first the party leaders resisted such demands as being likely to destroy the party truce and so tried to avoid the public discussion of . |
| 14 | They must have felt the need for a farmer 's almanac and so started to keep a tally of days , which they recorded with special symbols . |
| 15 | A red lens in ormolu casing was clamped over his left eye , and perhaps had replaced the original jelly organ . |
| 16 | He should have told Cottee to go and do his talking on the park and perhaps tried to change the team plan to assist his strike-force ( if that 's the right word ) . |
| 17 | I was gone for about three hours : scrambling through hedges ; rummaging in undergrowth ; wrestling with tangled nets ; and throwing into a box the indignant ferrets , who after all had done all the work and only wanted to wring the rabbits ' necks . |
| 18 | Maha tried to join them but was cast out and good-humouredly began to push the loaded craft into the water . |
| 19 | He had painted a greeting on the front and inside had drawn a picture of an animal and signed his name . |
| 20 | The Court of Appeal held that whether the officer had taken possession was a question for the jury , and that the answer depended on whether he had made his mind up to take possession so that they would not be removed , or whether he had an open mind and merely wanted to stop the driver getting away without being questioned . |
| 21 | And he said , I suddenly felt so ill , you know , and I was shaking , and , and , and , and , and obviously started running a temperature and , and my , my , er and , and shivering and whatever . |
| 22 | He returned carrying some tepid water and cleaning material , and gently began wiping the sore cut . |
| 23 | When he did wake , Moran reached his hand across to the coarse shirt over the shoulder and gently began to knead the muscles . |
| 24 | The Colonel , trained in the proper management of war , diagnosed the General 's crude enthusiasm as excitement and gently tried to calm the old man by explaining that the sensible course was to wait until the artillery reached the town , and only then to mount an attack on the infantry who guarded the barricaded bridge . |
| 25 | Anne crouched , and gently tried to pull the pillow away . |
| 26 | Labour politicians , even those with a training in economics , were muddled about the issues , and generally seemed to favour the historic average cost principles , which also seemed to many at the time to be enshrined in the wording of the Act , which merely required the industry to break even ‘ taking one year with another ’ . |
| 27 | Groups of strikers assembled and disbanded , led their trooper escorts on pointless all-night drives in caravans , painted broom handles to resemble gun barrels and pointed them out of windows , and generally tried to confuse the authorities with multiple feints and parries . |
| 28 | Densan tended initially to limit managerial discretion much more and thus seemed to offer a better alternative for labour . |
| 29 | Mary Ann Doane 's argument concerning the ‘ women 's films ’ of the 1940s , for example , was that these products of mainstream fiction cinema were directed at a female audience and thus did construct a female gaze . |
| 30 | He shook his head , but she found the delicious-looking cakes too irresistible , and just had to sample the gooiest-looking one of all . |