Example sentences of "and [vb past] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Matthew Evans was to split his role and that the hunt was on for a new m.d. , rumours that Mr Evans was ‘ bailing out ’ and the company was on the block were fanned by the trade 's more supportive friends at Private Eye and pounced on by publishers overexcited at the prospect of getting their hands on , if not the company , then at least some of its authors . |
| 2 | They ate a few grains , ignored the rest , and cruised back into their hiding places again . |
| 3 | But throughout his unrelenting , Rabelaisian first novel , Jonathan Meades is hard on his brainchildren , ludic with his fictional strategies , and generous with his lexiphanic complexities : wide-ranging , courting the surreal , and buoyed up with diabotic turpiloquence , Pompey reads like something by John Irving with Tourette 's syndrome . |
| 4 | Afterwards the gods ' puris were torn up and shared out as prasād . |
| 5 | The water is the deepest hue of aquamarine and whipped up into meringue peaks . |
| 6 | What the voters perceived and clung on to , especially in London , was that there has been a revolution in Britain in the 1980s and that it would be foolish to put it at risk because of deeply felt resentment at the recession . |
| 7 | Willie blushed and clung on to the top of the blankets . |
| 8 | Alix suspected this , and clung on to him the more tightly , rejecting Deborah 's support , rejecting everything except a little money ‘ to see her through ’ . |
| 9 | Seconds later they were off again , and she shut her eyes tight , pressed her cheek against his back and clung on like a limpet . |
| 10 | Then the Cid bade his banner move on , and the Bishop Don Hieronymo pricked forward with his company , and laid on with such guise , that the hosts were soon mingled together . |
| 11 | The whole was created beneath the sea and laid down as a series of overlying strata which emerged as an elevated dome , the cap being subsequently removed by erosion . |
| 12 | The Trust is fortunate that its regional structure was conceived and laid down in the 1971 Act of Parliament . |
| 13 | Until it is universally accepted that nobody whatsoever has title to property other than that held under rules to be agreed and laid down by all humankind , as distinct from those alleged to have been the product of some ‘ god ’ or other , will the first step towards formulating those rules have been taken . |
| 14 | This issue of Action newsletter is the first to be typeset , designed and laid out on desktop publishing ( DTP ) equipment which has recently been installed at WACC 's offices in London . |
| 15 | Their park was given over as a whole for building development , and laid out on the gridiron pattern in the middle decades of the eighteenth century . |
| 16 | There were heaps of clothing on the floor , roughly sorted and laid out on newspaper . |
| 17 | ‘ I even have my dress all ready and laid out on the bed . ’ |
| 18 | We met one of the Medics who informed me that the bodies of Les and the other three Commandos had been taken through the village and laid out with the other dead in front of the Chateau . |
| 19 | These data buttons have been chosen and laid out with great logic , giving the player instant and sensible choices for altering patches , or the parameters which go to make up those patches . |
| 20 | And second , it must be conceived and laid out in such a way as to support existing shops and shopping streets . |
| 21 | Pieces were collected and laid out in what was thought to be their correct positions . |
| 22 | And that 's I I had a quick er look through last year 's sales and and laid out in fact I went through item deliveries and worked them into the months |
| 23 | I had been moved into the front room and laid out like a corpse on the sofa . |
| 24 | Plant was installed by Works staff and planned and laid out by Richard Hagley , the works Machinery and Plant Superintendent , and his staff of technicians . |
| 25 | The animal has been surveyed and laid off like a map ; and the men have been classified in over thirty specialties and twenty rates of pay , from 16 cents to 50 cents an hour . |
| 26 | The location of a builder 's work is continuously changing , and labour is frequently engaged at the commencement of a project and laid off upon completion . |
| 27 | Hayman dropped the receiver back into its cradle and lolled back in his chair , sighing to himself . |
| 28 | They ventured under its rays for breakfast and tea and lolled about in it during the afternoons . |
| 29 | The baby had been taken away immediately and wired up in an incubator for three days . |
| 30 | Kicking her shoes off , she rested her head on an antimacassar and gazed up at the chandelier . |