Example sentences of "and [adv] [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He ignored this and leisurely got into his undershirt . |
| 2 | Our librarian passed me the disk ready for review , I ran it and nervously waited for the title page . |
| 3 | Our librarian passed me the disk ready for review , I ran it and nervously waited for the title page . |
| 4 | I felt nothing at the time and naïvely smiled to myself when I spotted it later . |
| 5 | During the period of the first Opium war ( 1840–2 ) Jardine pursued banking and insurance in London , and successfully stood for election in 1841 as the Whig candidate for Ashburton ( Devon ) . |
| 6 | The UN Security Council on Nov. 29 approved Resolution 678 authorizing member governments to use " all necessary means " to ensure Iraq 's complete withdrawal from Kuwait , if by a deadline of Jan. 15 , 1991 , the Iraqis had not already done so and thereby complied with the UN 's previous resolutions . |
| 7 | He was polishing glasses and he held them up to the light to check them and thereby seemed to be ignoring Maidstone completely . |
| 8 | The reality was that the growth of corporate enterprise shattered three of the assumptions which underlay the belief that economic power of the company was regulated and thereby legitimated by the competitive market . |
| 9 | The discovery of the three devices in the past two days may mark a reappearance of the ‘ tartan terrorism ’ which flared in the 1970s and mostly disappeared as the perpetrators of various bank robberies and explosions were jailed . |
| 10 | This opened the issue of how nerve cells might communicate with each other and eventually led to our now-sophisticated understanding of neurotransmitters . |
| 11 | An example is William McDougal 's correspondence with Friendly Societies which revealed their discrimination against deaf people , and eventually led to the acceptance of the deaf and dumb on equal terms with hearing people by the Church Benefit Society . |
| 12 | We drove for miles through dense jungle and eventually came to a big pool which was maybe 150 metres square and 30 metres deep . |
| 13 | They left the marketplace for a maze of streets and eventually came to a large stone two-storeyed house with a timbered roof , its exquisite carved eaves jutting out over a small courtyard beneath . |
| 14 | He followed the widest of the paths northwards and eventually came to a deserted airfield . |
| 15 | He received another , more peremptory , order and eventually came to Addis Ababa with ten thousand men . |
| 16 | So they drove round the outskirts of the Burleigh grounds , and eventually came to Cannonbury Road . |
| 17 | He led the Open at Muirfield by four shots and eventually came from two down with four holes to play to beat John Cook . |
| 18 | I , personally , always tried to avoid being drawn into any kind of union or political affairs , but in the case of the Association I made a slight concession in that I agreed to become Editor of our newsletter , which started out as a news-sheet and eventually grew into a magazine called " Coastlines " , featuring articles , reports from the cutters , poems and competitions . |
| 19 | Billy Row Workmens beat Belle Vue WMC in the second semi-final and eventually succumbed to Bishop Auckland in the final . |
| 20 | BL came to rely on large cash hand-outs and subsidies , and eventually had to be cut down into its constituent elements and returned to the private sector . |
| 21 | The tempered steel pins which held the handles in position were rather difficult to fit , and eventually had to be hammered in . |
| 22 | He became ill , and eventually died from ‘ a twisted bowel ’ , which frequently is another way of saying that a horse died from psychological stress . |
| 23 | Strictly speaking , these refer to dreams where you are pursued and eventually overpowered by a monster . |
| 24 | Over the long centuries a series of massive offensives rolled them back through the Shadowlands and eventually culminated in the storming of Anlec . |
| 25 | So Jessie became a secretary to a Manchester solicitor and eventually fell in love with and married an officer during the First World War . |
| 26 | They became friendly and eventually fell in love . |
| 27 | The Forget-me-nots were billed as ‘ the smallest song and dance act ’ and eventually blossomed into a team of eight , fronted by Amy Knott . |
| 28 | Waves broke on the shore and eventually expired in a froth and myriad of bubbles . |
| 29 | He was mechanically ventilated with 100% oxygen and eventually extubated after intravenous flumazenil . |
| 30 | He gives the example of Johnny Saxon who , three years after winning the world welterweight title , was charged with burglary and eventually institutionalized at New Jersey State Mental Hospital : ‘ Boxing does not leave all its scars on a fighter 's face ’ ( 1973 , p.325 ) . |