Example sentences of "[adv prt] [conj] [vb past] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hypnotherapy is also useful , except with those susceptible to depression , since this can be brought on or made much worse by hypnosis . |
| 2 | The cows would be dealt with by Carrie , but the bullocks too were brought in and penned securely with both shelter and fodder at hand . |
| 3 | If you receive an application form as a response to a job application or as a preliminary to an interview it should be filled in and returned promptly . |
| 4 | ‘ What would have been the latest time that the body could have been put in and carried away ? ’ |
| 5 | He then had the humiliation of being locked in and towed away , with all the Pony Club screaming with delight at the sight of his vast red-nosed , anguished face and hammering fists at the window . |
| 6 | She had only been there a few minutes , revelling in the multiplicity of objects and fabrics , when a little maid crept in and indicated shyly that she would unpack . |
| 7 | Sir Godfrey Webster , the fifth baronet , was elected as a Tory member for the county in 1812 ; almost immediately he voted against the government whose friends had put him in and became increasingly radical in his demands for electoral reform and the abolition of political sinecures for the supporters of ministers . |
| 8 | I quickly settled in and became increasingly involved in the life of the home . |
| 9 | I made him repeat and repeat the lessons until they started to sink in and became easier . |
| 10 | a greeting wain , to be kept in and told once again . |
| 11 | By the mid-1950's the catch was diminishing , then the big Russian and Dutch factory ships moved in and began virtually vacuuming up the fish , taking the young as well as the adults . |
| 12 | She had never heard anyone come in and had never expected it . |
| 13 | I think one of the problems is they had a break in and had quite a lot of gear stolen , and that 's why they want a concrete roof , so they ca n't er get in through the roof . |
| 14 | ( A companion horse should be brought in and kept nearby , but on the other side of the fence — so it does n't interfere when the foal is born . ) |
| 15 | Then I took some smaller bombs and planted them inside some of the rabbit holes , stamping down the roofs of the tunnel entrances so that they caved in and left only the straw fuses sticking out . |
| 16 | Two detective constables walked in and listened eagerly to the latest gossip , glancing over to the superintendent with new animation in their eyes . |
| 17 | A woman came in and said perhaps we would rather have soup . |
| 18 | Almost immediately barn owls moved in and bred successfully . |
| 19 | If only we could know for sure , but at that moment a guard came in and took away the television . |
| 20 | They each came in and looked expectantly at Gooseneck , who showed them to a table with great ceremony and handed them a newspaper . |
| 21 | The hearing was told Bill Vincent dived in and swam away from the yacht . |
| 22 | The hearing was told Bill Vincent dived in and swam away from the yacht . |
| 23 | Ellen was still arguing with me as Thessy and I climbed in and backfired away , but I was no longer listening . |
| 24 | But certainly some ebullience in me was checked , held in and turned inwards . |
| 25 | The results are keyed in and validated locally using a ‘ cut-down ’ version of the reporter module . |
| 26 | ‘ I left him out of the team in the middle of a winning run and Kevin Campbell came in and did well . |
| 27 | He failed to control the ball when intercepting a pass from Chris Malkin 30 yards from goal and Pat Nevin nipped in and slipped away to guide a shot inside goalkeeper Kevin Poole and the near post . |
| 28 | Jenkins came in and spoke softly to Van Gelder , who looked at Talbot . |
| 29 | The cottage lay back quite a long way from the path , but Virginia slowed down and stepped past it with quick , light steps . |
| 30 | During the ‘ Killing Times ’ of the 1880s , when the Covenanters were being hunted down and killed mercilessly , the father fled with his family to Ireland , where they stayed for several years , probably until after James II and VII was deposed in 1688 . |