Example sentences of "and [vb past] [coord] [vb past] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She confirmed to McIllvanney that the weather-fax machine and the Loran and the Satnav and the radar and all the other things that hummed and winked and glowed in the night were working properly . |
| 2 | As you say , plain boards lettered and varnished and exposed to the elements soon lose their fresh effect . |
| 3 | Even over the economy , in particular interest rates and membership of the Exchange Rate Mechanism , the newspapers argued and argued and argued against the Government 's destructive obstinacy . |
| 4 | Before the storm broke he fell into a sleep so peaceful and deep that he heard nothing of the thunder crashing overhead or of the rush of waters as the lake filled and spread and crept and grew like a living thing . |
| 5 | It did n't like it at first , and moved and beat against the sides of the plastic and the neck of the can while I held it and sweated , listening to the hum of the insects and the rustling of the grass , staring at Blyth as he lay there still and silent , his dark hair ruffled now and again by the breeze . |
| 6 | It was a very nice day out actually , and everything from serious riders who just went up and down and the most energetic one did a hundred miles , to families who treated it , took a picnic and stopped and looked at the badger tunnels . |
| 7 | He hemmed and hawed and rambled through a number of subjects before making a sideways approach to what he really seemed to need , which was any useful or memorable detail that would be worth noting about the previous night 's client . |
| 8 | He held no office , had no possessions , and came and went from the political arena at times of his own choosing . |
| 9 | Modigliani , of course , spotted her at once and came and sat at the next table . |
| 10 | He shut the door quickly behind him and came and sat on the small wooden chair in the corner . |
| 11 | He grunted , they said , and weaved and ducked like a prize fighter when asked questions . |
| 12 | The driver took the road carefully as it dipped and turned , and forded rivers that shone like a newly tarred road and roared and pounded against the floor . |
| 13 | The first creature we had seen , a small turtle , was sunning itself on a rock as we climbed into a canoe and paddled and drifted round the green-speared edge of the lake . |
| 14 | He had greased himself in oil and he had cooked and broiled and yearned for the magic hours of noon and six when he could down a life-saving tumbler of gin and lime . |
| 15 | Afterwards they went to a nightclub and danced and smooched in the smoky blackness , cleaning their throats from time to time with champagne . |
| 16 | He saw them and halted , standing at gaze for a moment open-mouthed and great-eyed , and then he whooped like a huntsman hot after game , and turned and ran like a hare for the hall , bounding as he ran . |
| 17 | He released her abruptly and turned and walked into the kitchen . |
| 18 | ‘ Bye , dreema , ’ she said suddenly and turned and fled into the house . |
| 19 | ‘ You must join us for dinner , of course , ’ he suggested quietly and turned to the waiter , but before a request for a more accommodating table was spoken Maria Luisa , to everyone 's shock , gave out a sudden sob of protest and turned and fled from the restaurant . |
| 20 | The latter writes : " Then he went on the in the year 833 … and returned and died in the month of Rajab . " |
| 21 | Whilst they rested and fed and waited for the skies to clear , we could enjoy their presence . |
| 22 | I shook and panicked and wept for the fist time since he 'd been born . |
| 23 | Nor had the later overlapping visitation of hippies of the Sixties taken place , who had followed the gipsy processions , of which Alexander now told Frederica , and stayed and sung and smoked and loved and sat on the white beaches , so that the pale sand came to resemble road-dirt anywhere . |
| 24 | They held onto the rock and waved and shouted at the lighthouse as loud as they could . |
| 25 | Pauline added : ‘ He was a great performer , and worked and worked in the clubs . ’ |
| 26 | It is a creative process , not a past process and something which is just stored away and lost and kept for the future . |
| 27 | A stretch of mown grass lay between the palings and the road , and on hot days the children left their stony playground and lay and rolled on the grass just outside . |
| 28 | I says I sure of that and er I left and went and got into a row over it . |
| 29 | Instinctively he dipped his fingers in the holy water , a kind of regression to childhood , and went and sat on the end of a bench beside two nuns and waited his turn . |
| 30 | I reached the square and went and sat in the Café des Chasseurs , where men with nowhere to rush sat smoking and drinking , blank-faced . |