Example sentences of "and [vb past] [adv] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The silence continued long , while Harry picked up and laid down tool after tool , smoothed a finger-nail along the chisels , hefted the mallets , turning and twisting like a caged animal with the fury of his longing and the rigidity of his pride . |
| 2 | She still saw him , made a point of popping over to say hullo to Uncle Willi and sought out Georg in the dairy or the office . |
| 3 | P — Process package/product ( displays package contents and allows you to select modules for transfer ) and read out package module |
| 4 | People who bought Dixons traded options on Tuesday and sold once news of the bid was released yesterday made a 100 per cent profit in 24 hours . |
| 5 | E/A turned and made off East at the same time as we sighted him . |
| 6 | During the course of that time , the light from Lucifer 's atmosphere would have grown in strength until it blotted out the stars and enveloped both Bridge and Lift in a flaming glare . |
| 7 | The guarantee , however , generated only an action in personam , and admitted only judgment in terms of money . |
| 8 | She learned that Maxim had an elder sister — oddly , she 'd always assumed he must have been the first child — who had married a Quaker school-master and lived up North , had three children and did n't work , ‘ Except at disapproving of the Army , ’ Maxim added . |
| 9 | It was then that James John Weeble , a deaf man from Redruth , came upon the scene , and swam out fully-clothed , and succeeded in dragging both men back to the beach . |
| 10 | Ann and I even managed to find a boat and ventured out fishing on Dunalister Reservoir , a shallow , flooded loch between Rannoch and Tummel , formed when the waters of Rannoch were impounded as part of the Pitlochry Hydro Electric Scheme . |
| 11 | Systems will be set up and maintained whereby progress reports in terms of technical achievement against plan and cost expenditure against budget within the same timespan are collated and integrated for regular submission to the Project Committee and IEATP 's Monitoring Officer . |
| 12 | As the cricket world reeled at yesterday 's shock news that Gooch 's 16-year marriage to wife Brenda has broken up , Test and county chiefs expressed their amazement — and drew up contingency plans . |
| 13 | Jean-Claude made some notes and sang some snatches and beat out percussion ideas on the ground with an alder switch . |
| 14 | The October 1990 rate cut was anticipated for some time in advance by the gilt market which bought gilts and drove up gilt prices ( see Fig. 17.3 ) , as was the continued fall in base rates over the next two years . |
| 15 | This situation is shown in Fig. 17.3 , where investors anticipated interest rate increases ( and hence sold gilts and drove down gilt prices ) prior to June 1988 , when bank base rates began to rise from 7.5% , until they peaked at 15% in October 1989 . |
| 16 | With what to Erika , used to the erratic behaviour of the old Lada , was miraculous smoothness , the driver let in the gears and drove down Grotewohlstrasse but instead of turning left at Leipziger Strasse , carried on into a warren of tiny streets . |
| 17 | It was the summer 1989 when I went down to the golf club with a friend and played around with him after that I borrowed his clubs quite regularly and practised eventually mum & Dad chipped in and I bought myself a set of clubs well to be exact I bought myself a bag of three iron and a putter during the next two years I had saved up and built up my set of clubs until I had a half set of irons and 2 woods during that time I had always left my clubs at the golf club to save me taking the clubs to the course every time I played . |
| 18 | Giles Shaw , Britain 's junior minister , joined American calls for more research and played down acidification as ‘ a problem of great complexity ’ affecting ‘ certain limited areas of the world ’ . |
| 19 | In areas of shallow coal seams and dried out peat deposits , fires can smoulder below ground level for years . |
| 20 | On April 2 hundreds of protesters in Tripoli succeeded in entering the Venezuelan embassy and burned down part of it ( the Venezuelan permanent representative at the UN , Diego Arria , having been president of the Security Council for the month of March ) . |
| 21 | St Paul was emphatic that by receiving the broken bread and poured out wine , the believer is participating in the self-offering of the Son to the Father in his broken body and shed blood . |
| 22 | The present study was prospective and allowed only race to vary — and so adds important information . |
| 23 | To secure that share of the Frankish heartlands , Charles had fought Fontenoy , and faced down Lothar at Koblenz . |
| 24 | So you 're going to be looking at things like additional insurability option , waiver of premium , index linking and paid up option . |
| 25 | In initiating my original purchase I incur an obligation to make a payment in money , but I in turn have to have a source from which I can acquire the money in the first place , and this will , directly or indirectly , put me into at least a temporary relationship with a great variety of people , including the reader who purchased this book from a bookstall and paid out money , some small fraction of which will eventually find its way back to myself . |
| 26 | Phil stepped right up and tinkled out Danger Man and the theme from Robinson Crusoe . |
| 27 | A fair city , something dishevelled after uneasy times , and hampered and straitened now -by the loss of the thriving Welsh trade which was half its life , but still capable of living on its own fat for some while yet , and still hard to take and invaluable to hold . |
| 28 | Melanie turned to one of the other women and handed over Antiope . |
| 29 | Shankar and Vice-President Henck Arron formally " resigned " and handed over power to the Army on Dec. 27 . |
| 30 | On Dec. 6 Ershad was forced to relinquish power and handed over control of the government to Chief Justice Shehabuddin Ahmed who had been nominated as Acting President by the main opposition alliances . |