Example sentences of "[adv] and [vb past] [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We reported a couple of years back that just as leading US companies like IBM Corp and Hewlett-Packard Co were adopting Total Quality Management with messianic zeal , the Japanese had decided that it was not good enough and had moved on to Zero-Defects Management , and the Financial Times ' Observer column offers an example of just why : it has a release that flags ‘ the first major conference on Total Quality Management for Pension Finds ’ . |
| 2 | A little boy came out of the woods opposite and began skiing down the slope towards the road . |
| 3 | We were thrown together and had to get on with it . ’ |
| 4 | He merely shifted position slightly , knotted his fingers more tightly together and continued gazing out of the window . |
| 5 | The men were happy again , the colour back in their faces as they talked together and began to walk on . |
| 6 | The men turned together and started to walk back to the hotel . |
| 7 | ' 'Lo , Olga , ’ she said mechanically and moved to pass out of the same door ; but Mrs Stych wanted to show off her outfit . |
| 8 | I guessed , as everyone else must have done , that at some point she could not manage her life any longer and had gone out and stepped into the stream as a way of escape . |
| 9 | When the woman was upset and thoroughly bewildered we were sent away and told to report back later that afternoon . |
| 10 | A very large number have been turned away and told to go back home . ’ |
| 11 | Marion turned away and began to pile up assorted biscuits in red and green tins , holly-decked and dotted about with fat robins in honour of Christmas . |
| 12 | He hurled himself away and tried to climb out . |
| 13 | He sought resolve and found a little and went to lie down on the bed to read a paperback of Anna Karenina , which he had always fancied because it had a scene on a railway platform . |
| 14 | I was now able to breathe properly and started to feel over my body with both hands . |
| 15 | Instead of turning left over the canal bridge which would have taken him into the village , he turned right and began walking out of the village on the Brookend road . |
| 16 | Kelly smiled politely and went to weigh in . |
| 17 | She knelt quickly and began scooping up the shards . |
| 18 | Reproaching herself for not having unlocked it when she had come in from the main door , she rose quickly and went to open up . |
| 19 | NATIONAL union leaders and shop stewards representing Leyland-DAF workers met in Birmingham yesterday and resolved to step up the campaign to keep all five British plants open . |
| 20 | NATIONAL union leaders and shop stewards representing Leyland-DAF workers met in Birmingham yesterday and resolved to step up the campaign to keep all five British plants open . |
| 21 | Meanwhile , Llandundo put on a brave face yesterday and struggled to get back to normal after last week 's devastating floods . |
| 22 | LITHUANIA 'S former Communist Party leader Algirdas Brazauskas emerged as the republic 's new president yesterday and promised to speed up privatisation and promote foreign investment . |
| 23 | He cleared his throat once more and resumed staring up at the ceiling . |
| 24 | She had detoured through the town 's central square on the way home and had sat down on a bench , raising her head to the trees . |
| 25 | It was after six when she got home and started clearing up the detritus of lunch . |
| 26 | After just six weeks she returned home and refused to go back . |
| 27 | ONE AFTERNOON KĀLI BROUGHT THE COWS HOME EARLY AND CAME rushing over to ask me to go to the forest with her to collect a load of pine-needles . |
| 28 | She came up once and tried to get out a cry for help to the others standing there , but the laughing gripped her lungs and they thought she was fooling . |
| 29 | As Shirley sped away , Heather seized a branch of a tree that was lying on the ground near and began to beat out the flames with it . |
| 30 | Phil looked at him queerly and began to back off . |