Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] and [vb past] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 She could have stayed there forever , but after a moment he set her gently aside and turned towards Marianne .
2 In the event Lord Young backed down further and agreed to March 30 , 1990 .
3 I sat down again and lapsed into dreamland .
4 On the outbreak of the second Dutch war in 1664 Stokes was recalled to the navy as captain of the Triumph , but he fell ill soon afterwards and died in Portsmouth 11 February 1665 .
5 We went on past and came to Gate 6 , which was basically a staircase leading to ground level , where the rails were .
6 In Nice he got up early and went to Survage 's room and painted until midday , then took a swig of alcohol , made a face and returned to the canvas .
7 Alyssia sat up quickly and looked at Piers , who was staring at her with that perpetual look of lazy mockery on his face .
8 She sat up straight and stared into space , her eyes wide .
9 I left Bella a note , came back here and went to bed in the spare room .
10 Mr Kronweiser faded out abruptly and subsided into coughs .
11 He ate his dinner and said nothing , played his violin and felt nothing , worked when the lights came on again and went to bed without another thought .
12 But there were probably a great many more who simply took advantage of too many of the free pints they were offered too often and slipped into alcoholism .
13 Psychoanalysis had evolved into a highly therapeutic undertaking , which was very very and institutionalized for therapy , and the black books had already been blackened , as it were .
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