Example sentences of "and [adv] [vb past] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Enemies of the Queen went into the Tower through the river gate , and mostly came out without their heads . |
| 2 | Along with the bruises , I was left with the problem of what to do in the Grand Final , and eventually came up with the idea of a prop stool which would collapse at the touch of a button and jump up again on its own . |
| 3 | Bernie obviously worked on the idea and eventually came up with a much cheaper and more simple solution which would provide the investigator with a moving picture of the basic flight instruments during the period leading up to the crash . |
| 4 | They must have walked for at least three miles and eventually came out of the wood and on to a pathway which led to a crossroads . |
| 5 | They clearly needed some help in deciding what book to buy , but they did not ask an assistant and eventually went out without purchasing . |
| 6 | We started dating and eventually went out for about three years . |
| 7 | We talked back and forth and eventually went back to the old Sun studio and did a few tracks down there . |
| 8 | He could not get work and eventually went back to being an electrician in a colliery . |
| 9 | Both the unity of the Cabinet and its independence of the king began to be unmistakably and effectively asserted only after the end of this period , during the long premiership of the younger William Pitt ( 1783–1801 ) . |
| 10 | In the same year he became the chairman of the radical Green Ribbon Club , but he briefly and secretly came over to the court interest . |
| 11 | Presently , as he sat by himself in a remote corner of the banqueting hall , he noticed on the wall beside him an ascending column of white ants ; as they reached the ceiling they spread their wings and slowly drifted down in a delicate living veil . |
| 12 | They both cried out as they reached and went beyond that white-hot explosion , holding tight as they crested the wave and slowly drifted back to reality . |
| 13 | Julius put down her bags and slowly walked back towards her . |
| 14 | And since there did n't seem anything she could do , and there was n't anything else she dared to say , she turned round and slowly trudged back to the house . |
| 15 | The wind rose in a rending sigh , filling the night with sound , and slowly sank again to quietness . |
| 16 | Instead she went towards the fire , and slowly sat down on one of the corduroy sofas . |
| 17 | And somewhere tucked away at the back of one 's mind was the knowledge that every crystal in the vast whiteness , though too small for the human eye to see , was fashioned like a flower or a star . |
| 18 | ‘ From what he says , he has been in Amsterdam for the last six weeks , and rarely went far from the airport . |
| 19 | As he rounded the leeward mark for the first time , Pat Marshall in 9th place found himself being covered by Simon Allen and so went off on the opposite tack to get clear of the dirty wind , followed by Chris Eyre . |
| 20 | He carried on flying , looking for a place to land and so flew back to the wireless station and decided to land in a field next to it . |
| 21 | Moreover , since last September , sterling has fallen farthest — and so gained most in competitiveness — against non-EC currencies : by 22% against the dollar and 32% against the yen , compared with only 13% against the D-mark . |
| 22 | The flagstones were slippery and so hollowed out by three centuries of passing feet that along some of the walkways the puddles had coalesced into shallow canals . |
| 23 | He stayed there , watching it taxi away , and only went out to the cab rank when the plane had actually taken off . |
| 24 | But despite the handicap Essex made a terrific fight of it and only went down off the penultimate ball . |
| 25 | The presbyterians also had misgivings , and only came back into the system in 1838 when they were practically guaranteed control of their own schools within it . |
| 26 | New South Wales , on the other hand , ran in six tries to win quite convincingly in the end , although it has to be said in Scotland 's defence that they came close on several occasions to scoring a try and only slipped out of range in the last five minutes when they conceded two tries , both of which were converted . |
| 27 | Indeed , the evidence in general is so slight that it implies that any animosities had been held in check by Edward IV and only surfaced fully after his death . |
| 28 | Indeed , the evidence in general is so slight that it implies that any animosities had been held in check by Edward IV and only surfaced fully after his death . |
| 29 | Allan , too , had qualified but poor Todd Bennett pulled a hamstring in the home straight and literally leapt out of the Championships . |
| 30 | By now , many hundreds of man-hours had been put into the Packard Merlin and much had still to be done . |