Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv prt] and [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A glass of milk and an apple when you got in and a smack if you were late . |
| 2 | We got in and the Negro driver gunned it away without a word . |
| 3 | He got in and the car pulled away . |
| 4 | It also meant that I became much more familiar with the area I lived in and the people around . ’ |
| 5 | There were bulletholes in the ceiling — which might have been there before the ‘ pomps checked in and the queensize bed was a tangle of ugly tie-died sheets and surplus clothing . |
| 6 | After four years , Father Burgon moved on and the parish was given into the care of the Salvation Fathers . |
| 7 | The rain beat down and the wind was picking up . |
| 8 | At this stage Vigilant moved in and the suspect was boarded . |
| 9 | In response thousands of troops moved in and the war of attrition began . |
| 10 | He was a mere dot on the horizon when the sky clouded over and the storm broke . |
| 11 | Here the guard changed over and the train headed back eastwards to the coast . |
| 12 | The automatic barriers rose up and the cavalcade swept through to the Palace . |
| 13 | The a mini drew up and a young woman in a mini-skirt got out . |
| 14 | As the bus arrived at the airport a shooting brake drew up and a party of nuns got out of it . |
| 15 | She was relieved when the mini-cab drew up and the driver was not the usual small foreigner but a stern-looking English woman : Brian was not rude to people like that . |
| 16 | Often when a car drew up and an occupant approached to collect the keys he would hiss desperately to me , ‘ Is it ‘ How nice to see you ’ or ‘ How nice to see you again ’ ? ’ |
| 17 | Her face became blue , the veins in her neck swelled up and the pupils of her eyes were huge . |
| 18 | The motor throttled up and the car screamed away . |
| 19 | A burst of tentative clapping petered out and a strange unease ran round the audience as Sir Thomas failed to rise . |
| 20 | They now moved back , in sympathy with the Japanese surrender , they moved back and the nationalists took Shanghai and really controlled the whole of , of south China again so that the , the old landlord system had been re-established . |
| 21 | Only when they moved out and the lease was surrendered did Vaughan discover that he had been a victim of Minton 's generosity and had been paying only half his fair share . |
| 22 | Night fell , the candle flames flickered out and the ghosts of the dead came back to their resting place ( or so the old wives say ) , somewhere sacred , a fitting protection against the assaults of the demons . |
| 23 | I was one of her daisies and it meant that we had all these hats on , which were very unattractive — a rubber hat and on top was the daisy , so when you swam around and the people looked down at you , they just saw these daisies . |
| 24 | She jerked around and the wire stretched a little , but that was all . |
| 25 | So he passed over and the trumpets sounded for him on the other side . ’ |
| 26 | The shivering group was quickly fuelled by big bowls of soup and glasses of wine and then , very suddenly , the sun beamed through and the cloud disappeared — everyone scampered for the lifts and we had the most wonderful afternoon imaginable . |
| 27 | Under Cause and Onset look at what has been happening in the preceding hours or days to the onset of the illness and consider the speed with which the illness came on and the order of events . |
| 28 | The internal light came on and the radio turned itself on and blasted out heavy rock music at full volume . |
| 29 | As the brakes came on and the flurry of activity again took in more passengers and luggage the old lady stood up and moved to the door . |
| 30 | During a mad session I finally made one after two weeks of trying and came down and a guy called Matt said ‘ Yeah you did it at last ’ . |