Example sentences of "and [vb past] [adv] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then , just ten feet below the fox and some seventy feet from the ground , he stopped and clung tightly as the pole swayed in the wind . |
| 2 | Most were working to clean weapons or saddlery , and only a few looked up and gazed incuriously as the party rode past . |
| 3 | Messages can be received and transmitted automatically whilst the operator is preparing another message on the screen . |
| 4 | When the chief minister of Maharashtra became uppity earlier this year , Mr Gandhi arranged for dissidents to mount a campaign to get rid of him , and relented only after the chief minister ate humble pie . |
| 5 | In the rather fresher air of rural areas the poor were healthier and lived longer than the urban poor , who suffered from the ravages of urban atmospheric pollution , overcrowding and unhealthy working conditions . |
| 6 | One of the models had peeked at the audience from behind the heavy velvet curtains that draped the stage and reported breathlessly that every spindly-legged gilt chair in the crowded hall was taken . |
| 7 | It was relieved a bit when Clark squared the match with a birdie on the 16th and transformed altogether when the Americans both pushed their approaches to the long 17th hole to lose that as well . |
| 8 | They switched on the car 's headlights as a beacon ; but , all of a sudden , as the Prince and his companions were half-way across the water , the lights swung round and moved away as the vehicle set off down the glen . |
| 9 | found this to be so , and demonstrated also that the latent inhibition produced by brief exposure to the odour was unaffected by contextual change . |
| 10 | She pretended to swoon and the four girls laughed and joked together until the queue moved into the cinema . |
| 11 | Luckily for them they had been fed and wormed regularly but no one had got near enough to handle them or consequently to put a halter on them . |
| 12 | Carrington raised the bottle , swallowed , and sneezed hard as the fumes went up his nose . |
| 13 | Four years ago , the then Scottish Secretary , Malcolm Rifkind , overturned an independent recommendation that the centre remain open , and promised instead that a new hospital would be built and a post-graduate dental institute funded at the university . |
| 14 | The father agrees to let the mother have the child , provided the child herself wishes to come and provided also that the mother satisfies the father that she will be well looked after and happy . |
| 15 | Where a publisher does not provide free reprints , the Library will purchase 50 reprints for staff use , provided funds are available , and provided also that the reprint orders are accompanied by an official Library order form . |
| 16 | As a rule , snakes have simple teeth , all roughly the same shape , long , pointed and directed backwards when the mouth is closed . |
| 17 | Much of the activity was puerile and faded away once the initial pride in seeing the list of names and the hopes of government favour had vanished . |
| 18 | Chuck raised his rifle coolly and fired just as the bull launched itself on him . |
| 19 | Apples should be picked carefully and graded so that the smallest and largest are used first , and medium-sized fruit is saved for storage . |
| 20 | The long , square noses aimed up-wind , and bored forward until the wings developed lift and carried them , rocking and bucking , high over the hedge . |
| 21 | He had run down the long corridors to the lounge and arrived just as the shuttle passengers were disembarking . |
| 22 | Unlike the other three types of valve , a drainvalve ( or draincock ) is usually kept closed and opened only when the system is to be emptied of water . |
| 23 | Mary shivered and turned away as the first clods of earth thudded onto the coffin . |
| 24 | The children covered their eyes and turned away as the needle went in , but the squirrel only jerked slightly then lay still . |
| 25 | He nodded avidly in affirmation of his train of thought and turned so that the light fell directly on the front of his body . |
| 26 | The fair-weather hikers have hung up their boots and retreated indoors and the rest of us have even more of the countryside to ourselves . |
| 27 | He said he lost them about a week ago and heard today that a set which might have been his had been used by that psychic woman . |
| 28 | K ! sdra hefted his own sword and grinned expansively as the wizard shuffled towards him . |
| 29 | Mother Francis sighed and prayed silently that the Lord would look after the soul of Jack Malone . |
| 30 | Yesterday , I incautiously sat down in the library in a chair just vacated by Colonel Fagg , and discovered later that the back of my entire uniform was covered in snuff . |