Example sentences of "and [adv] [vb past] [adj] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The home side then indulged themselves in exhibition play and duly came unstuck when Frensham equalised from a rebound after Dunn had saved from close range . |
| 2 | She reached the busy Jamaica Road and suddenly felt depressed as she hurried across and turned into a quiet backstreet which led to her home . |
| 3 | Ruth swallowed hard and suddenly felt sick and uneasy for her bitterness . |
| 4 | Unlike some machines of this wattage , noise was well suppressed and only became excessive when the disc was used on stonework . |
| 5 | Both papers carried at least two pages of local news , not including sport , and generally had one or two pages of foreign news . |
| 6 | She was a foreigner and already had more than enough to do inside her own organisation . |
| 7 | we had no idea how big the story was to become , it started off as just a robbery and just got bigger and bigger in the following weeks |
| 8 | Fortunately Halima had enough sense not to panic , and just stood still until the offending wire was cut and she was released . |
| 9 | From 1642 he held lectureships at St Dunstan 's and St Botolph 's Aldgate , and soon became notorious as one of the leading antinomian preachers in the city . |
| 10 | She was sandy-haired and rather fat and usually wore blue or grey tweeds , though with the passage of years she had become comfortably indifferent to dress . |
| 11 | He patronized John Lewis and Marks and Spencer and usually felt glad that he did . |
| 12 | In that same year I was posted to South Shields on the south bank of the River Tyne and quickly became aware that I had an enormous burden to carry , simply because I had spent all of my previous service on ‘ the other side of the river ’ . |
| 13 | Endill was sad at this because the Bookman was very clever and probably knew more than all the teachers put together . |
| 14 | Her eyes were dark and carefully made darker but her lips were without lipstick and her face had only the merest dusting of powder . |
| 15 | Over the years , as a young detective he had lost weight at a time when a lot of men put it on , and now looked thin and wiry , reproducing in himself , as he half knew , the family look . |
| 16 | He had changed out of his business suit , and now looked relaxed and elegant in casual off-white trousers and an olive-green shirt , open at the neck , showing a strong , tanned throat . |
| 17 | The sea had lost its sparkle and now looked leaden and lumpy . |
| 18 | The adolescent Bisus were coming out of trance , and now sat bruised and perspiring together , simpering and repairing each other 's damaged make-up . |
| 19 | Straight and fast flew Bower-bird as he made for the mountain top . |
| 20 | I had almost forgotten about him and immediately felt depressed as I trudged off to find my car . |
| 21 | Thousands of black students are exploited by being lured to college on the promise that their sporting skills will lead to a professional career — and then left ill-educated and forgotten ( although the colleges are enriched by the television networks ) when the career does not materialise . |
| 22 | Mellanby located the causes in environmental and even cultural factors — the greater intermingling of city children , overcrowded dwellings or — in girls the fashion for ‘ permanent waves ’ , in which hair would be set and then left uncombed and unwashed for long periods . |
| 23 | The sound of his parents ' calls were muffled and then grew distant and all he could hear was the rough footfall of the man on the rocks and scree and the sound of his breathing … |
| 24 | She was amused at first and then became grave and after a pause said : ‘ Of course , he 's perfectly right . ’ |
| 25 | She wore jeans and a sweatshirt that night — and then felt foolish because she knew he would realise instantly why she was covering herself from head to toe . |
| 26 | I bit the shell of one and gave the kernel to her , and then bit another and pretended it had broken one of my teeth and I was in too much pain . ’ |
| 27 | He did so at home and away in 1965–66 , and then hit another when they were visitors at Selhurst Park in February 1967 . |
| 28 | Even curry powder is merely a base , relying on ground coriander and ground cumin for its essential character and then turned this or that way , sometimes by roasting , more usually by the addition of other spices , fresh herbs , aromatic vegetables and so on . |
| 29 | We predicted the DNA sequences that encode two of the peptides ( Fig. 1 b , legend ) and then used these as primers to amplify a cDNA fragment derived from F9 EC RNA . |
| 30 | I backed up lots of my directories and then restored one or two and everything seemed OK . |