Example sentences of "and [vb past] [conj] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ½ tons ) in the Works Iron Foundry and machined by the Machine Shop , the component parts also being manufactured in the Machine Shop and wired and fitted in the Electric Shop . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | As you say , plain boards lettered and varnished and exposed to the elements soon lose their fresh effect . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He held no office , had no possessions , and came and went from the political arena at times of his own choosing . |
| 10 | Modigliani , of course , spotted her at once and came and sat at the next table . |
| 11 | He shut the door quickly behind him and came and sat on the small wooden chair in the corner . |
| 12 | He grunted , they said , and weaved and ducked like a prize fighter when asked questions . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Once he and his family and animals are ritually stoned to death and burned and buried under a great heap of stones , then God 's anger evaporates , and the people are able to attack Ai again , and deliver up its inhabitants , men , women , and children , to the same fate as met those of Jericho ( 8.1–29 ) . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Before the building of roads , it was peripheral and resembled that practised for the previous 350 years . |
| 18 | Edward 's cup of troubles was yet to overflow : Scottish resistance to his dynastic claims burst into open warfare from 1295 to 1298 and smouldered and crackled until the end of the reign . |
| 19 | Afterwards they went to a nightclub and danced and smooched in the smoky blackness , cleaning their throats from time to time with champagne . |
| 20 | Here they 're weighed and measured and checked for the early signs of malnutrition , cholera and smallpox . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | He released her abruptly and turned and walked into the kitchen . |
| 23 | ‘ Bye , dreema , ’ she said suddenly and turned and fled into the house . |
| 24 | ‘ 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 . |
| 25 | The latter writes : " Then he went on the in the year 833 … and returned and died in the month of Rajab . " |
| 26 | THE couple who left their daughters , aged just nine and four , Home Alone while they jetted off on holiday were booed and jeered when arrested at the end of their trip . |
| 27 | Whilst they rested and fed and waited for the skies to clear , we could enjoy their presence . |
| 28 | They are normally sown ‘ on the ridge ’ as soon as the ground is ready in early May , and hoed and singled at the two-to three-leaf stage whilst it is still easy to separate the entwined stems which grow from the multiple seeds . |
| 29 | It is the comparison of the size of the cloud with the dust veils from eruptions such as Krakatoa and Agung that leads to a prediction of a cooling of the northern hemisphere by about 0.5 °C , with the biggest effect late in 1983 or in 1984 . |
| 30 | Housed together under one roof from the early 1800s , and arranged and rearranged over the years ( but always with the Elgin Marbles at the centre ) , the collection was the raw material from which scholars wrought theories of the ‘ Progress of Antiquity ’ that culminated with the Ancient Greeks or , in direct opposition , that of cultural relativity accepted today . |