Example sentences of "and [vb past] [prep] [noun] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We all tipped our paper valuables into Chris 's waterproof bag and tramped in mud back to base . |
| 2 | Monnet himself seemed to be rather more cautious about going too fast too quickly , and seemed to hanker still for sectoral integration in the first instance , especially in the developing field of nuclear energy , as a strategy which stood a better chance of succeeding in the short term . |
| 3 | In 1940 he married Rose Paul-Schiff , a Viennese , whose family was connected with the banking firm of Warburg Schiff and came to England just before the Anschluss . |
| 4 | The RFC machines — mainly BE2s , Bleriots and Henri Farmans — operated individually and came under attack not by enemy aircraft but by artillery , and even by rifle fire from their own troops . |
| 5 | Once , when I was hand-feeding peanuts to six badgers at a sett in the east of England that had been watched and provisioned with food regularly for more than 30 years , the badgers were scared off merely by a distant snapping twig and the far-off murmur of voices . |
| 6 | She turned now and glanced towards Millie again before hurrying from the yard . |
| 7 | The plan left Amman , Jordan 's capital , just after midnight and landed at Gatwick shortly before eight this morning ; on board 57 Britons , 29 Americans , 4 Australians and 2 Canadians . |
| 8 | They were slaves in Anglo-Saxon England and survived in Italy well into the nineteenth century , singing castrato roles in opera as well as in the Vatican Sistine choir . |
| 9 | After arresting the launch we took off six illegal immigrants and proceeded to Ramsgate together with Spring Flight . |
| 10 | Detective-Constable Barnes , large , rustic , intelligent and benign , put down his spade and went to work lovingly with a soft brush on the exposed uprights of the flue , whisking away loose , moist soil that abandoned its hold with revealing readiness . |
| 11 | I took a sleeping-pill and went to bed straight after supper . |
| 12 | Faye was in the kitchen with Roberta , so Alice shut the door quietly behind her and went with Monica out to the road , and along it to where they were hidden by the healthy bushes of Joan Robbins 's garden . |
| 13 | His thoughts , when they finally came , had been uttered in all their simplistic banality , in no particular order of logic or relevance , and in a curiously gentle voice punctuated by long pauses in which he had gazed thoughtfully at the throne and appeared to commune happily with some inner presence . |
| 14 | Myc92- , Myc73- and Max72-encoding DNA fragments were generated by PCR and subcloned in frame downstream of VP16 or SRF412 ( residues 1–412 of SRF ) in vectors pSD.06a and pSD.08 , respectively . |
| 15 | Pascoe took this in , turned and ran past Dalziel again without a word . |
| 16 | Micky Garland crashed on landing , and journeyed to Hal Far as a passenger aboard the Wimpey . |
| 17 | The man had started indecently assaulting his daughter when she was 13 , and progressed to intercourse shortly after her 15th birthday . |
| 18 | Seventeen year old Sharon Ferns and Kenneth Honer aged twenty six , died when their car overturned and burst into flames early on Friday morning in the village of Berinsfield . |
| 19 | She was not scrapped and remained at Wroughton where on March 16 , 1956 , she was officially transferred to the RAF 's Historical Aircraft Collection , which at that time was widely dispersed at such locations such as Gaydon and Fulbeck . |
| 20 | THE parents of a young Liverpool paratrooper killed by an IRA landmine defied advice and travelled to Ulster yesterday for their son 's inquest . |
| 21 | He withdrew from active life and retired to Kenilworth where on the 4 January 1927 he died at the age of seventy-seven . |