Example sentences of "and [vb past] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nathaniel Sherman looked at his sons and beamed proudly as they joined the group around the governor . |
| 2 | Partially-sighted Mr Clarke , 72 , had been tied up and stabbed more than 40 times . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Most were working to clean weapons or saddlery , and only a few looked up and gazed incuriously as the party rode past . |
| 5 | But if he lied , saying that he came to Parfois with no felonious intent , and attacked only when he was surprised and frightened , Isambard would have won a better victory . |
| 6 | She smiled as Athelstan approached and asked softly if all was well . |
| 7 | She rang down to the reception , and asked tetchily whether she had been given the correct room number . |
| 8 | He arrived to find them just finishing and asked hopefully if any prints had been found . |
| 9 | In the furnace control office I found shift foreman Keith Thomas and asked innocently if he had any physical problems : ‘ Not since my vasectomy . ’ |
| 10 | Intercourse is safe throughout pregnancy , unless you had a previous miscarriage , in which case it should be avoided during the first 14 weeks and avoided altogether if you have a history of miscarrying . |
| 11 | In the stunned silence George Felse got up , without speaking , and crossed the room to where Gus 's jacket hung on the back of a chair , turned towards the replenished fire , and steamed gently as it dried . |
| 12 | In any event , the proposal came close to being passed , and failed only because of last year 's legislative jam-up , Helping it along were the customary health-lobbying tactics , such as having Senator Barry Goldwater , still recuperating from a double hip-joint replacement , hobble into a hearing room on crutches to testify on behalf of the proposed institute . |
| 13 | It gave Anna real pain to post magazines through one new front door hinged and studded so as to resemble part of the set for a pantomime of Robin Hood , and then another , moulded and classically pedimented , between half-pilasters made of fibreglass . |
| 14 | But we all seem to feel that way now , perhaps because our century is dying ; certainly more biography and autobiography is reviewed and read today than any other genre . |
| 15 | They held Grimma in awe because of the way she shouted at the men and read better than anyone . |
| 16 | Messages can be received and transmitted automatically whilst the operator is preparing another message on the screen . |
| 17 | The march was attended by 3,500 ( as compared with 100,000 at a similar march in January — see p. 38736 ) and passed peacefully except that afterwards members of a Trotskyist group , the Revolutionary Communist Youth , broke away and battled with the police preventing them from reaching a hall where Le Pen was speaking . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Old age becomes something to be dreaded and endured rather than enjoyed by the individual . |
| 20 | Since the twelfth century the Bishop of Durham had a manor , and lived here except during the Commonwealth when bishops were in exile and this was the seat of the general who governed the North . |
| 21 | I was born in England and lived here until I was seven , then we returned to Australia . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Lin was born in Taiwan and lived there until he was 12 years old , when he left to study violin , first in Australia and then in New York , where he has lived since 1975 . |
| 24 | She estimated that its body was about twice the size of the shuttle , but it seemed much larger because of the mottled membranes that extended like wings on both sides of the creature , and rippled lazily as it swam through space . |
| 25 | Mohammed Azharuddin 's side have bowled , batted , caught and fought better than England . |
| 26 | The suggested settlement , known as a multi-function polis ( MFP ) , was sponsored by Japan and involved more than 100 Japanese companies . |
| 27 | The Daily Post survey was carried out by independent market researchers and involved more than 400 parents and teachers . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Previously it had laid back its ears and moved away when she approached . |
| 30 | 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 . |