Example sentences of "and [vb past] [pron] [adv prt] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He collected his coat and draped it over one shoulder . |
| 2 | And when I went and got him up this morning his legs were out the bottom of the cot again ! |
| 3 | ‘ Although when they first walked in and found you out cold on the floor , they thought you were one of the gang too ! |
| 4 | Jenkins took my arms and helped me up several flights of stairs , like a Boy Scout assisting an old lady . |
| 5 | She unplaited her hair and shook it out loose . |
| 6 | It caught me smack in the forehead and knocked me back three feet . |
| 7 | ‘ I was n't going to unroll the damn things , ’ continued Lydia , ‘ so I banged them in the oven , humming insouciantly the while and served them up all bubbling hot . |
| 8 | I bought some pictures by avant-garde artists , took them home and hung them up next to some Dutch paintings . |
| 9 | Along with a Chinese freelance photographer , Cavell had called for her that morning and whisked her round some of Taipei 's famous landmarks , the all-marble Chiang Kai-Shek Memorial , a colourful Buddhist temple , and the Grand Hotel with its magnificent Chinese architecture , pausing only long enough at each for the young man to take the photos that would help introduce Maria to the Taipei public , before escorting her back to the apartment and approving the outfit she planned to wear to the dinner the radio station was hosting for the rest of the local media that night . |
| 10 | He has already cut the wax into six portions , plus a couple of spares , and flattened it out ready to enclose the paper scrolls . |
| 11 | She 'd tacked a few scraps of old cotton into a baby-gown too and sent it round next door for the new Rattrie baby , born very inconveniently , as it turned out , the day after the funeral , her fit of generosity entirely misplaced , since the child had only lived a few hours and the gown — upon which Odette had worked a few hasty stitches of embroidery — had ended up in the pawnshop — Cara had seen it herself in the window — to help pay , she supposed , for yet another infantile disposal . |
| 12 | Leaving Harry briefly I went to the dinghy and heaved it over right side up . |
| 13 | It took the hero a year to find the creature , taking him beyond the boundaries of the world , but he captured it by swimming across a river , and brought it back alive , as was his instruction . |
| 14 | Anyway , I resealed the file and took it back this morning . ’ |
| 15 | Each horse had his own harness ; and if it could n't be spared to be sent down to the shop for repair , the horseman brought it himself , got it seen to and took it back ready for work on the next day . |
| 16 | ‘ They took away our films , developed them and gave them back damaged . |
| 17 | Wishing hard to avoid the carved arches , I invited all manner of alternatives and shot them down one by one as unsuitable . |
| 18 | Back in the kitchen , he cleaned the edenwort and the okra and chopped them up small enough to be unrecognizable . |