Example sentences of "and [vb past] [adv] [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to Rowthorn , multinational B 's operating unit in nation state l might be appropriated by the left government and sold off to help provide funds with which to compensate multinational A for the appropriation of its operating unit in nation state 2 ( in order to reduce the chances of direct counter-revolutionary intervention by other states ) . |
| 2 | A special foot-pump used twelve hours a day saved the situation , and Rose subsequently had to use the pump for at least an hour a day to prevent a recurrence of the problem . |
| 3 | Alfred started to his feet , but his glad cry of welcome was cut short when Beatrice inclined her stately head in his direction and moved off to sit sandwiched between Auguste Didier and Egbert Rose . |
| 4 | I nodded my White Sox cap in his direction and bent down to start screwing back the vent cover . |
| 5 | Oliver felt he was being ridiculed and tried not to look offended . |
| 6 | Nails dived in and came up looking shaken . |
| 7 | Sainsbury 's went to the IPA/IPM Recruitment Industry Awards in London on April 22 to present an award and came away having received two . |
| 8 | And came back having learnt a new verse |
| 9 | We were very successful in our June 1990 exhibition in Tokyo and came back having sold paintings . |
| 10 | On investigation it was found that the horse watched his questioner and judged when to stop tapping according to the questioner 's inclination of the head and facial expression . |
| 11 | He rebuffed suggestions politely , and allowed long silences to spread in the little room like ripples from some very stony stone descending . |
| 12 | I lost the race and finished up trying to row half a dinghy with the crew cheering in the distance . |
| 13 | On Saturday , Payton fluffed a simple chance then regained his composure to score the goal that ensured victory and finished up having to change his jersey because it was stained with the blood of a cut that required him to go off temporarily for stitches . |
| 14 | Built at the start of hostilities , facing the estuary , it was now used by playing children , courting couples , and the odd customers who , thanks to Knocker 's cider , had been taken short and decided not to risk trying to get home in time . |
| 15 | Yet despite the fine weather of the previous week , many of the cracks and chimneys , shaded from the sun , were ice-bound , so we bridged and balanced boldly to avoid having to change back into big boots . |
| 16 | ‘ How 's Angharad ? ’ asked Betty , who had , last night , discussed at length with Elizabeth the problems and frustrations of bringing up a defective child and felt thus freed to go on talking about it . |
| 17 | Nijkamp of the Netherlands spent the previous night in a Paris hospital as his wife gave birth to their first child , got back at 5am for some sleep and went on to paddle to last place . |
| 18 | Wee Mick ‘ Mick ’ Harris on drums and Deathmangle Robochef Sythnocomputer Mk IV , the evil little man who revolutionised Napalm Death and went on to help make the greatest record in the world ever ie ‘ Guts Of A Virgin ’ by Painkiller PLUS Justin out of Godflesh and ex-Napalm Death and Nick ‘ is obsessed with pain and death ’ Bullen . |
| 19 | Those who served here and went back to continue to live and serve at home which we represent . |
| 20 | Then I twisted the film and note together into a paper towel and went out to try to find Bill Baudelaire , reckoning it might be all right to speak to him casually down on ground level since Filmer was n't there to see . |
| 21 | The feeling of anger and hurt now gets added to the disappointment and frustration . |
| 22 | ST ETIENNE , THE ROCKINGBIRDS and FLOWERED UP have announced final details of their Right Said Fred covers EP . |
| 23 | Certainly , that expansion could never have occurred in a society organised into villages of co-operation ; nor would industries run by trade unions as workers ’ co-operatives and organised nationally have provided a basis for it , for the accumulation of capital with which to finance the crucial , secondary stage of the Industrial Revolution : that is , the establishment of a capital goods sector of the economy . |
| 24 | They responded differently to moral dilemmas they were likely to encounter themselves : they were reluctant to report drug dealers and did not think shoplifting a serious crime . |
| 25 | The Treasury view as proclaimed in 1929 was the work of Leith-Ross and others , and did not long survive the political circumstances of its birth — a split in the Cabinet over employment policy . |
| 26 | I can not understand why , after arriving at Kinghorn , he refused to wait up for his royal master and did not go looking for the King . |
| 27 | He lost his job and did not go begging to the DSS and when he earned a massive salary he paid massive taxes , he reasons . |
| 28 | The written test versions tended to produce the higher success rates because the questions were simply phrased and did not involve memorizing information as did the mental tests . |
| 29 | She was the tenant of the flat and did not want to move so the daughter and her husband had no rights to that accommodation . |
| 30 | I was also very conscious that you had telephoned before the 6pm cheap rate because of the mackintosh nonsense , and did not want to detain you . |