Example sentences of "and [vb past] [adv] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Is there anyone you know who thought Mills was a traitor and cared enough to see him dead ? ’ |
| 2 | Artwatch , led by Professor James Beck , has called the tour hasty and sought unsuccessfully to keep it from happening . |
| 3 | I have now resumed and read enough to assure my correspondent that he is lucky that his impatient reminder was directed at me and not at God , whose response to murmurings about the unforeseen delays in reaching the promised land was smiting with pestilence . |
| 4 | Gripping her wrists , he pushed them up on either side of her head , and swooped down to kiss her fiercely , with devastating thoroughness . |
| 5 | Sheepishly I fed the other meter , too , and slouched in to see my Alexander Technique teacher , who 's helping me to stand up straight . |
| 6 | She faltered , and fought desperately to get her head together . |
| 7 | They ran health centres ( offering a mixture of self-help , herbal-ism , old wives ' tales and orthodox medicine ) for women finding to their cost that FAMILY had a stronghold in the dwindling official health services ; they dug up neglected laws on sex equality and fought hopelessly to get them obeyed . |
| 8 | But he was polite enough , and got up to greet me . |
| 9 | She managed to manoeuvre into the remaining space and got out to give somebody a piece of her mind . |
| 10 | He pulled up at the bridge and got out to show me the concrete cancer . |
| 11 | see up in the tops there we could see this , sort of , box of Rice Krispies and down , so I went and toddled off to find somebody , and nobody in sight ! |
| 12 | He returned her look with a glance so suddenly intent that she felt a flash of absurd panic , and rose hurriedly to busy herself with the teapot . |
| 13 | Hal , while he was flipping over some burgers , ‘ turned a blind eye ’ and pretended not to notice her ‘ mistake ’ . |
| 14 | Because when you raised the telephone … he showed great irritation and pretended not to hear you , so that it immediately made you think that you 'd been unwise to telephone at all . |
| 15 | This rather vague account satisfied and stimulated the interest of most people ; fieldworkers began asking interviewees how long they had lived in the area and moved on to discuss their general attitudes and background . |
| 16 | LIFFE was aware of plans to set up the DTB , and moved quickly to pre-empt its business in German long interest rates . |
| 17 | Yelping in alarm as he tipped her sideways and moved swiftly to trap her beneath him on the sofa , she stared up at him in shock . |
| 18 | He squatted beside him and demonstrated how to prop his elbows on his knees to steady the rifle . |
| 19 | At the very moment that the weak and young and old were brought from the Sprinkleroom to the railway station , as good as new , so their menfolk completed the appointed term of labour service and ventured forth to claim them , on the ramp , a trifle dishevelled to be sure , but strong and sleek from their regime of hard work and strict diet . |
| 20 | Gabriel knelt up inside the cart and peered out to see what would happen . |
| 21 | She kicked something in the gloom , and stopped briefly to pick it up . |
| 22 | He heaved his snorting , raging mount out of the press of dismounted men , swung him round in a trampling circle to clear ground about him , and drew off to realign his vision and find a just opponent . |
| 23 | He did just what I wanted and bent forward to pick them up . |
| 24 | ‘ Well then , you had better have one , ’ said Diana , and bent down to kiss him on the cheek . |
| 25 | The Florentine lace cover was rumpled and she walked over and bent down to straighten it . |
| 26 | She was flustered , and tried unsuccessfully to push her shirt back into her shorts whilst speaking to Stephen and holding the phone . |
| 27 | She bit into a croissant and tried unsuccessfully to ignore his presence . |
| 28 | She struggled against her feelings and tried unsuccessfully to overcome them . |
| 29 | I realized I was getting extremely slushy , and tried firmly to pull myself together . |
| 30 | ‘ He said that you looked like a little ghost , and tried not to mention my name . |