Example sentences of "and [art] [noun] got [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Thabane and the boy got out and pushed , struggling for a footing in the sand . |
| 2 | Marsh accepted his fate honourably , as everyone expected , and the Australians got on with the job of keeping their boot on the Indian throat . |
| 3 | North wanted the Monimbo seized or sunk ; Poindexter wanted ‘ measures taken to make sure ship does not arrive in Nicaragua ’ ; McFarlane seems to have choked over the legality of piracy , and the ship and the rifles got through . |
| 4 | I pulled over and Ward and the Indian got out . |
| 5 | ‘ Dad had won £7,000 in a lottery and the word got out . |
| 6 | After they realised that the warriors did not care if they stayed in the saddle or not , Yuan , Alexei and the others got down as well . |
| 7 | Late on the Saturday evening , in the glow which follows a good dinner and good wines , four of us , all old acquaintances , were sitting at a table in the lounge talking — inevitably — about birds , and the conversation got round to places we would like to visit . |
| 8 | Wycliffe changed the subject and the conversation got round to Ralph and his prospects . |
| 9 | A guard opened the door of the train and the Commander got in . |
| 10 | Rope and spars came mostly from the Baltic states and the convoys got through with difficulty . |
| 11 | Scott and the men got out and looked around . |
| 12 | However , we soon stopped smiling when it started to rain and the wind got up ; the sealant , which had n't yet hardened , started to dilute , and one by one the secondary glazing panels were blown in. the wind started to blow bubbles in the gooey sealant , which then floated around the room , only to burst and leave a sticky mess on the carpets and furniture . |
| 13 | And the wind got up in the night and pretty strong and we had a hut a twenty by twenty five foot fourteen eighteen war hut in the middle of a square and there was a shop and a storeroom besides . |
| 14 | She said she and another officer had been pursuing a red Ford Sierra car on the road between the villages of Hillam and Burton , North Yorkshire , when it suddenly stopped and a gunman got out . |
| 15 | One morning when I came here there was a car arrived here and it was a a dirty yellow one and thr two women and a bloke got out all dressed in black jeans and black jumpers . |
| 16 | The passenger-door of the Volvo opened and a man got out . |
| 17 | It was perhaps half an hour to an hour later that the Sheikh 's Mercedes drew into the parking lot and a man got out . |
| 18 | Tosh also revealed how once when he was selling a magazine for the homeless at Charing Cross station Diana drew up in her car and a man got out and gave him £5 . |
| 19 | He was in luck because a cab drew up alongside him and a man got out . |
| 20 | A light van drew up on the wharf , and a man got out and dropped a large quantity of cardboard boxes over the side of the wharf onto the deck . |
| 21 | We had a late luncheon , cold fowl and a salad got up by Liza , walked in the Park in the afternoon , worked , and in the evening had a dish of warm milk and white bread , sprinkled with sugar , quite as Wordsworth himself might have done . |
| 22 | . And then as we were beating you see , inside , through the bushes and all , and a pheasant got up , and we used to shout , , do you see , for them to know that he was coming . |
| 23 | A door opened and a guy got out and leaned on it . |
| 24 | I remember going down to the bridge in Walsall and a sailor climbed the old clock and tied his collar around it and a soldier got up and put his hat on and an airman got up and put his tie with a red , white and blue rosette on it , around the arms of the old clock and people were loving and kissing everywhere , and oh it was really you had to be alive to appreciate it . |
| 25 | The car stopped near the house , and a woman got out . |
| 26 | Not three studio boffins and a model got in to do the video ; not a TV celeb on the make ; and not a bunch of suffering-for-their-art students whose only ambition is to get in the indie charts and be interviewed in Melody Maker . |
| 27 | All I could do was write a letter , and by the time I 'd written a letter and it got where it was going and a reply got back , a week or two weeks could have gone by . |
| 28 | It was then that some international misunderstanding arose , because the President of South Africa was at the race too and a rumour got around that I had engineered the trip to talk with the South Africans , which of course was not true . |
| 29 | This car drew in there and a chap got out and I thought , what dog 's he got ? |
| 30 | I remember going down to the bridge in Walsall and a sailor climbed the old clock and tied his collar around it and a soldier got up and put his hat on and an airman got up and put his tie with a red , white and blue rosette on it , around the arms of the old clock and people were loving and kissing everywhere , and oh it was really you had to be alive to appreciate it . |