Example sentences of "and [adv] [vb past] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dorinda only knows herself by the mirror : it has literally and figuratively provided her with a self-image . |
| 2 | Manager Goodman quickly spotted that Harry 's lack of inches ( he only stood 5ft 6in ) were something of a handicap when playing down the middle in Second Division football and successfully transferred him to the outside-right spot . |
| 3 | Originally six absconded from a local farm and successfully made it to the mill in a lorry chassis , however they had dwindled to a single cockerel . |
| 4 | He could n't have picked a better place : laid to rest in Père Lachaise alongside such genuine nineteenth-century bohos as Gérard de Nerval , who took his pet lobster for walks in the Palais Royal and eventually hanged himself with a piece of string he insisted was the Queen of Sheba 's garter . |
| 5 | I managed to track her down and eventually got her on the telephone . |
| 6 | I looked around for Kalchu and eventually found him on the far side of the fire talking to a group of men , some of whom I recognized as being from Chaura and from Chhuma . |
| 7 | And all she could think of , as she rose to her feet and politely accompanied him to the front door , was that , suddenly , she did not want him to leave . |
| 8 | This model provided a way of visualizing the pattern of morphogenetic systems over the earth 's surface during the Cainozoic and so lent itself to a clear way of integrating contemporary world zones with those of the past when ice sheets were non-existent or much less extensive . |
| 9 | He says that Wilko always talked in riddles with him , became jealous at his popularity and so sold him to the scum so he would appear to be a traitor . |
| 10 | His arms he folded round her , and so held her for a moment passive ; then with a sudden sharp sigh she embraced him again , quivering , and lifted her mouth to him ravenously . |
| 11 | He thought it about the stupidest remark he 'd ever made — and so did she by the look on her face . |
| 12 | Ribble 's failure to provide the service paid for will have caused inconvenience , and distress to elderly residents of Scorton and perhaps involved them in the extra cost of missed appointments or expensive taxi fares . |
| 13 | She took a couple of tentative steps but he reached out and swiftly held her by the shoulders . |
| 14 | He moved from St James 's Hall to a large , sedate house in Lime Grove , and swiftly converted it into a combination of a commercial office , a factory and a school of physical culture . |
| 15 | With one hand clamped between her legs to avoid dropping her load , she stepped astride the wooden animal , and gingerly lowered herself to the saddle . |
| 16 | One was strange , because it was about an old lady who meant nothing to me at all ; I hardly knew her and only saw her on the rare occasions when I went into her family shop two or three hundred yards from us . |
| 17 | ‘ They insisted that they held the meeting at a place of their choosing and only told us at the last minute . |
| 18 | and only stuck me on the payroll |
| 19 | Temple was sincere in his desire to preserve native society from too sudden change : he enjoyed its idiosyncrasies , respected its vitality , and greatly loved it as an unkempt garden in which the product of a more ordered civilization might find repose . |
| 20 | Which which Mrs Thatcher rightly committed us to and rightly whipped us through the house And and it and it |
| 21 | Charlie laughed , and gently cuffed him on the head . |
| 22 | He took hold of her hand and gently directed it under the blanket which shrouded him . |
| 23 | She reached up and gently touched it as the pall-bearers halted at the spot where her mother , on holiday from Rochdale , Lancs , was gunned down by mistake by an IRA sniper in Belfast last Friday . |
| 24 | Lawyer C had conveyed his house in the teeth of a re-possession order from a loan company , and generally extricated him from the debts of his own dissolved partnership . |
| 25 | A few years later Clement V , formerly archbishop of Bordeaux , granted Edward further papal tenths , and thus relieved him of the need to tax the clergy directly or even to seek subsidies from his difficult lay subjects . |
| 26 | The ladies , therefore , had four or five babies as quickly after marriage as nature would permit , and thus provided themselves with an indefinite number of conversational gambits . |
| 27 | But I started labour and just had him in the room . |
| 28 | I 'm having to swim them off the steamer and tow them in a dinghy to get our put the slings on them before we left the beach and just pushed them into the water and towed them off and hook the hook the into the sling and up them to give them a good wash before they went to Kirkwall . |
| 29 | After Brundle 's Jaguar took off like a scalded cat , it was Mass who hunted it down , and soon engaged it in a lurid battle . |
| 30 | He was attracted by an advertisement for a ‘ lab boy ’ at the then University College and soon found himself in the office of the Registrar , Mr Hedley Pickbourne . |