Example sentences of "and [vb past] [adv] [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | He rebuffed suggestions politely , and allowed long silences to spread in the little room like ripples from some very stony stone descending . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . |
| 6 | The feeling of anger and hurt now gets added to the disappointment and frustration . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Laura smiled to herself and leaned forwards to pry open the packing case . |
| 9 | round the place and then we 'll see how it goes from there , with a view to letting you out , back into the world and er as soon as they 'd gone and they were escorting him back to his , his room , they do n't have cells they have erm , he turned to the warden who are called nurses , and said never wanted to have an operation , I like having sex with little girls , he said |
| 10 | Her car had broken down , she had as good as lied to her parents , and had somehow managed to offend the man whom her sister would bend over backwards not to offend — and now she had just practically told Cara , when there was n't the remotest chance of it happening , that the damnable interview was in the bag . |
| 11 | North had written it , apparently sometime in April , and had somehow failed to shred it . |
| 12 | He had been unemployed and depressed at the time of the theft , and had since started attending college and returned to live with his mother . |
| 13 | He announced that the so-called Scots Regent and his main force had clearly abandoned Berwick to its fate , and had insolently chosen to invade England . |
| 14 | Although she was sitting only a foot or two away from him in the opposite corner of the seat and had frequently tried to smile at him , he felt inexplicably betrayed . |
| 15 | The Book issued in 1558 had given fairly realistic values and had thus helped to increase the revenue ; thence forward the values remained almost unchanged until the reign of James I. Nominal duties of 5 per cent had gradually been eroded to something less than 3 per cent . |
| 16 | Alan , whom I did n't know very well , had invited Ann and me over for the day , and had also offered to act as our gillie . |
| 17 | Something of the sort had been attempted by the late Victorian youth organizations , but these had been unable to reach the mass teen-age population ; and had also failed to agree on a coherent programme attractive to the different reforming interests . |
| 18 | Swallow explained ‘ They had a low-key attitude to the region and had just wanted to get a foot in the door . |
| 19 | She wondered how he would be , whether she 'd cope , what she would say , and had just decided to rehearse an opening line when , with a jolt deep in the pit of her stomach , she saw him , weaving through the clusters of people , coming towards her , looking , as always , more handsome than she remembered , dressed in dark , well-cut trousers and a crisp white shirt that revealed just a glimpse of his tanned chest , the strength of dark matted hair . |
| 20 | It had penetrated through the layered chalks on which Troodos sits and had just begun to bring up rock cores from the ophiolite 's fringe . |
| 21 | Police were given a 15-minute warning by telephone and had just begun to clear the area . |
| 22 | Paul , 27 , from Hanworth , Middlesex , spent a blank five hours at the water and had just changed swims when the pike took a float fished trout on 12 lb line with size 8 barbless trebles . |
| 23 | As they drove off , the LRDG boys said that they had heard and seen everything and had just had to stay to the end . |
| 24 | Dad and Pop had built a garage and had just finished laying a concrete drive . |
| 25 | Known as ‘ Puffin' since childhood because of his hooked nose , he had worked with Baird on four previous films and had just finished making The Millionairess , starring Sophia Loren , when he set off for Sweden in October 1960 . |
| 26 | In the evening I sat by my fire , listening to the wind blowing outside , and had just started reading when I heard a noise . |
| 27 | In early 1991 , however , there was some evidence that land prices had levelled off and had even begun to fall . |
| 28 | One night , bumping into the doorway , and stepping over a colleague , I made my way out into the sleet , the toilets all being occupied , and as I crouched , steadying my cheek against the cold planks , I peered through the reeking shadows of Auschwitz and saw that the nearest ruins were fuming more than ever and had even begun to glow . |
| 29 | His spontaneous reports in later sessions suggested that he had made a beginning in that direction , and had even begun to apply , with colleagues outside the group and with the boy 's mother , the skills used in the group . |
| 30 | For some reason I had put off starting on it and had even begun to convince myself that it would be better to leave it until next winter . |