Example sentences of "and [vb past] [adv] [adv] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Marcus went white and jerked round sharply to look at the figure behind him . |
| 2 | It began to prove its value when the members of pupils ' own groups helped each other and came not always to rely on the initiative or instruction of the teacher-tutor . |
| 3 | Walkowitz was one of the hundreds of artists from all over the world who flocked to Paris during the opening decade of our century and came away profoundly changed by the experience . |
| 4 | I left the industry in the early Seventies and came back here to work at the Max Planck Institute of Chemistry . |
| 5 | You remember the American astronauts , how they went to the moon and came back totally changed by looking at the earth and seeing it like just any old planet all small and a long way away ? |
| 6 | I did the best I could with the five keys that would produce a sound and vowed never again to sit in a cupboard . |
| 7 | The biggest of the children , a girl with a sweet , oval face and a stout stomach that strained the buttons of her green print dress , handed the baby she was carrying to a smaller sister and stepped eagerly forward to stand beside Martha . |
| 8 | I eventually got tired of the sad lady and the mantenuta and started once again to look for something different . |
| 9 | His head still spun slightly as he followed the words and looked upwards intermittently to see by the expression of a face if someone had forgotten their lines . |
| 10 | She took her drink to the salon , where the remains of the fire still glowed , and after a while she put on the lamps and went slowly across to look at the paintings . |
| 11 | He turned away , and went downstairs again to drink at the bar . |
| 12 | I detest the fact that ‘ Guernica ’ was not taken from its stretcher and rolled up so destroying at last the inferior , flimsy substance with which it was painted . |
| 13 | They would be aided and abetted in so doing by the Liberal Democrats . |
| 14 | War , disasters , and diplomatic activities are all covered in this sixty-minute compilation specially linked by John Suchet , one of Britain 's leading newsreaders , and presented as originally broadcast on Independent Television News . |
| 15 | To his credit , he excoriated the lack of safety at the circuit , had the highest praise for the drivers who pulled Niki out of his burning car and did not even think in terms of his now enhanced championship chances , not only because he thought Niki would be back in Austria , but because he was honest enough to know that without the accident and Jochen having to re-start , he might himself have placed no better than third . |
| 16 | At first it looked harmless enough , and did not even seem to be coming from the mountain . |
| 17 | She was very shy , and did not often speak to anyone outside the family . |
| 18 | William Lee of the Nottinghamshire parish of Calverton had invented the basic frame in 1589 but the craft first took hold in London and did not really spread to the Midlands until after the restoration of Charles II . |
| 19 | There was mention of some art history work , a few articles for various journals and a cataloguing job for one of the museums but it was clear that for Maidstone these were of little importance and did not really qualify for the title of job . |
| 20 | As there was no effective treatment , the asylums were more custodial than therapeutic and did not usually cater for investigation and research . |
| 21 | We were in a hurry , and did n't even stop at a motel on the Friday night , driving 1,400 miles at a stretch . |
| 22 | He was examining the damage to the Peugeot , and did n't even glance in the direction of the departing car . |
| 23 | Bernadette : With my other babies they 've mostly left them quite close to me , but she was put over to the side , the doctor was slow in coming , and she went over and checked her over , instead of coming to speak to me as they usually do — she went out again and did n't even look at me [ laughs ] … |
| 24 | it does my house , in fact it come the other day when Kerry had to pick a battery up and I walked out the front with Kerry and he sat in the car and did n't even look at me |
| 25 | They both knew what they were doing and did n't just rush into it . |
| 26 | He was a good PTI , he made PT fun and did n't just stick to PT and running — but there was no messing about either and he doubled them across the barracks to the football pitch , Where in the next half hour they worked as hard playing football as they would have done in the gymnasium . |
| 27 | So , eventually , the guy said : ‘ No , I 'm not going ’ to the teacher and the teacher turned his back on him and did n't ever speak to him again . |
| 28 | I did n't quite belong in the Jewish dorf-just as well , because horsemen came through more than once and left blood and burnt timbers behind them — and did n't quite belong in the hamlet where my father 's people lived — maybe just as well also , because the crucifixes on their walls did n't save them when the cholera came and brought its own kind of pogrom . |
| 29 | They gave me a cheque for some stuff , but Keith just wanted to spend it and did n't really think about what he was buying . |
| 30 | She had drunk several glasses of wine and did n't really care at the moment . |