Example sentences of "and [vb past] [adv] and [verb] " in BNC.

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1 Harry Smith , 71 , his wife Mary , 72 , and their 47-year-old wheelchair-bound son , Harold , were tied up and stabbed repeatedly and battered in a frenzied attack .
2 Erm the tools were made up in a kit and er every time there was a work study exercise done on a job , er the tools were all numbered and laid aside and registered for that particular item .
3 Woolley led them down in a mock attack , the arrowhead formation swooping in a long , curling dive that went under the Frenchman 's tail and zoomed up and levelled out , back on patrol .
4 When she was dressed and made up and prepared for it , she enjoyed the attention , she enjoyed being photographed , and she found the sight of her face on the covers of magazines and newspapers enormously exciting .
5 " Oh , all right , " said Martin , and got up and went .
6 So he said nothing , and got up and washed .
7 But umm I sort of drove on for a bit and thought it feels alright and then when I got to that , you know B P petrol station , I pulled in and got out and had a look .
8 It is almost certainly from a Roman source — an autobiographical letter by Scipio Nasica — that Plutarch derived his picture of Aemilius Paulus , the father of Scipio Aemilianus , receiving King Perseus as a prisoner : " Aemilius saw in him a great man whose fall was due to the resentment of the gods and his own evil fortune , and rose up and came to meet him , accompanies by his friends and with tears in his eyes " ( Aem .
9 He missed them and paced around and made another booking at the Air-India counter , stalling grandly about actually buying the ticket without even noticing that the people on duty were the ones who had humored him before .
10 She is much exercised about a long letter which arrived today , which she did not show me , but smiled over , and caught up and folded away .
11 Now that bull weighed nearly a ton , but he leapt off the ground like a bird ; hit Merry in the back and knelt down and got his horn between Merry 's legs .
12 We laughed and joked throughout and won the tournament .
13 Unlike most of his earlier groups , they recorded and rehearsed regularly and had an identity , albeit one that was somewhat confused .
14 Eventually they died and sank down and joined the compost at the base of the leaves which , in fact , helped nourish the plant .
15 Matthew had reached the woods and he slowed Bess down to a walk and bent down and caressed her neck .
16 Put forward the idea that " answers " are like hypotheses in science which have to be tested and tried out and replaced by better ones if necessary , but the testing has to be appropriate to the subject-matter .
17 sneaked up , and sneaked up , and sneaked up and won !
18 One night , after I had cooked her supper , I went upstairs and packed the few things I possessed in a cardboard box and came downstairs and announced I was leaving .
19 In fact , at the Gardener Centre a few months after I took after we did a workshop which Radio Brighton took part in and came up and gave a class in terms of how to make the most out of your local radio station , and that kind of thing we really need to develop even further .
20 went away and came back and said oh Mr will see you in a minute and it turned out it was Sandra
21 They went to see it and came back and had a meeting one night in New York , and they made a list of the fakes .
22 Fraulein Winkelmann told him for the Good God 's sake to get the papers fast , and Bruno went away and came back and pointed the Luger yet again .
23 She sobbed so much that Mrs Parvis heard through the wall and came in and told her off .
24 All the windows were broken and came in and landed on the people working . ’
25 He opened the kitchen door and came in and shut it before he turned to face them .
26 And when she heard Gloria outside rattling the hen-house door , she screamed it again and again till Gloria managed to get the latch undone and came in and dragged her yelling through the droppings and feathers and washed her face under the water pump and dried it on her hanky .
27 They mixed , talked and ate together and discussed the problems of unemployment among black youths .
28 They 're gunned up and fired up and told it 's for real .
29 work and handed in and have n't marked it .
30 Matilda laughed and turned away and ran up the path to her front-door , calling out as she went , ‘ Good-bye , Miss Honey !
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