Example sentences of "and [vb past] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had settled already on the mounds still lying heaped on the field , white as quicklime ; flesh not yet cold and consigned already to ashes ; bone , juice , and fibre still consuming its fuel , deflating from its last action ; sponging off the last image and led already to dust . |
| 2 | ‘ Is there anyone you know who thought Mills was a traitor and cared enough to see him dead ? ’ |
| 3 | Under ordinary circumstances , Nurse Goodman would probably not have given permission but ‘ the Major ’ , as he had become known , was such a mystery that she was glad to feel that at least somebody knew of his fate and cared enough to come to the hospital to see how he was getting on . |
| 4 | By which time the sexual revolution was also wearing a bit thin and became more to do with increasing women 's availability to men than the sexual autonomy and control over our own bodies we had all been promised . |
| 5 | Downes thumped the table with both fists with such ferocity that WPC Wright transferred her shorthand-book to her black-stockinged knee , and failed completely to register the next three words that Downes had thundered . |
| 6 | It was , however , a bodged job , probably by the farm labourers , and failed even to fit the opening properly . |
| 7 | Military units have frequently carried out arrests and failed promptly to hand over detainees to the police — a number have been held beyond the 72-hour-limit . |
| 8 | Artwatch , led by Professor James Beck , has called the tour hasty and sought unsuccessfully to keep it from happening . |
| 9 | However , the Secretary of State then came forward , in August , with a second , revised regulation , which dropped the exclusion of supplementary benefit and national assistance and sought instead to lay down a more restrictive set of conditions for back payments . |
| 10 | Sartre took the opposite course to Merleau-Ponty and sought instead to define a new authentic Marxism . |
| 11 | The atomistic theory of Epicurus , the methods of the Greek sceptics , and Zeno 's paradoxes concerning time and space may all have influenced the heretics concerned , but MacDonald could find no trace of any Greek theory combining material and temporal atomism and sought instead to attribute the occurrence of the latter in Islamic thought to Indian influence . |
| 12 | The LEA 's role in the Programme was an interventionist rather than a facilitating one : it devised PNP 's goals and strategy , and sought closely to influence and control the Programme 's implementation . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Most other delegates dismissed this as quite unrealistic and agreed merely to encourage the International Socialist Bureau to continue seeking opportunities for a peaceful settlement , ‘ without annexations or indemnities ’ . |
| 15 | And checked hastily to see that Marion could n't hear him . |
| 16 | Cells were plated out at a maximum initial density of 510 cells per dish and incubated overnight to allow separation of adherent cells ( fibroblasts and macrophages ) from inflammatory cells . |
| 17 | Note that all assignments in IF/ALT programs are final ( i.e. occur at the end of a program 's run , just before it terminates ) and made only to free variables . |
| 18 | Entrenched positions may be established easily between the two with the result that claims are prepared and argued merely to prevent loss of face when in reality the matter could and should have been settled by discussion on site when the problems arose . |
| 19 | His art collection began with a Rembrandt etching received as a college graduation gift , and expanded generously to serve the needs of the MIA . |
| 20 | This is almost obligatory , because it takes a bit of practise before you become dexterous enough to become adept with the net and experienced enough to discover the hiding places of the various fish and other interesting creatures . |
| 21 | She faltered , and fought desperately to get her head together . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The host of darkness let out a howl of anguish and charged forward to overwhelm the lone Elf warrior and the Elf army raced to meet them . |
| 24 | The Allocations Office maintains a register of approved board lodgings and self-catering bedsits , all of which are inspected before inclusion in the register and visited subsequently to ensure that correct standards are being maintained . |
| 25 | Karen brushed them off with talk of a ‘ little twinge ’ that she got from time to time and rose briskly to clear the table . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Son of a head of ideology on the Communist party 's Central Committee , Legasov became a chemist and rose rapidly to become deputy head of the Kurchatov Institute of nuclear science — and a friend of the powerful . |
| 28 | He got in alongside her , slammed the door , and moved forward to speak to the driver . |
| 29 | Whitlock thought of the Italian restaurant and moved closer to get a better look . |
| 30 | When the dance ended , he released her without a word and moved away to talk to his mother and sister , who had been crying passionately in the church as they watched Damian become Rachel 's husband . |