Example sentences of "and [adv] [vb past] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With the retirement of Thomas Goldney the firm reverted for a time to Pountney and Co , and eventually became known simply as the Bristol Pottery until its cessation in the 1960s . |
| 2 | The waterlogged heaps of wet muck soon became unstable and eventually began to slide downwards , quite suddenly becoming semi-liquid slurries or mudflows , which swept down the sides of the volcano , gathering speed and more and more material the whole time . |
| 3 | George stared at her and suddenly ached to get away , to take his coat and his briefcase and get into the car and escape to the haven of the Unit and work and the baby and … which brought him back to the reason for his starting to probe her feelings about the project . |
| 4 | Faye nodded and suddenly began to cry quietly . |
| 5 | Inwardly I had a sneaking admiration for them because they had been sure that they did n't like the Legion and so had acted directly and left . |
| 6 | Children were constrained in the kinds of response possible and so appeared to treat less as more ; the younger children probably relied on a non-linguistic strategy of choosing the greater of two amounts , and this would account for responses to both more ( apparently correct ) and less ( apparently wrong ) when combined with partial or even no lexical knowledge ; and lastly , children were not given instructions with both more and less on the same occasion . |
| 7 | Of course the young girls , they sometimes started off very enthusiastic and perhaps did do quite a lot without realising the implications and effect of it but the older women often had trouble keeping up . |
| 8 | Defender Irwin suffered a hamstring injury a week ago and only started training again on Monday . |
| 9 | Irwin suffered a hamstring injury a week ago and only started training again on Monday . |
| 10 | I quickly began running every day and naturally wanted to run further . |
| 11 | She tore a fresh piece of rag , dipped it in the water and gently began to wipe away blood and pus . |
| 12 | Well er ha you know I found myself after Budgie managing a singer called Leo and that led to a lot of interesting business and getting involved an , and I sort of forgot Adam Faith for ten years and just got diverted really . |
| 13 | ‘ Oh , ’ she mumbled again , and just had to ask then what did n't really need asking , but more — confirming , ‘ So you have two secretaries ? ’ |
| 14 | Said a source close to Paula , who is reported to be expecting their first baby in December : ‘ They had a whirlwind romance and just wanted to get together straight away . |
| 15 | But he persevered , and soon began to master both the language and his camera to the extent where he could begin touting for work from the local magazines . |
| 16 | But it stayed alight and soon began to burn merrily . |
| 17 | They were tired of being outwitted by peasants and desperately wanted to go home . |
| 18 | He felt suppressed by the expectations his parents placed on him and desperately wanted to break away and lead his own life . |
| 19 | Anyway , er I fell pregnant into the bargain , at the e end of the pregnancy weighed fourteen stone and purposely started smoking again |
| 20 | David saw the effect his words had had on her and quickly tried to take away the sting . |
| 21 | Among the landed classes men expected to marry young ( by our standards ) in the Middle Ages and women younger ; and probably had done so for centuries before our period opens . |
| 22 | The Doctor grimaced ; he had completely forgotten Howard and now regretted speaking so openly . |
| 23 | They had somehow spruced themselves up , dressed in whatever was their best , collected their belongings together , and now waited to go forward into their new lives . |
| 24 | It was eleven o'clock at night , Shelley had already showered ready for bed , and now stood dressed only in her bathrobe , her feet bare . |
| 25 | " Through a peculiar accident , I began to take a passionate interest in music in my ninth year and even started composing immediately . " |
| 26 | I 'd spotted them in a second-hand shop and immediately began saving feverishly to make them mine before anyone else got their hands on them . |
| 27 | Then he rolled off the seat into the footwell and immediately started snoring again . |
| 28 | We did it inside and then had to go outside cos it was raining . |
| 29 | He was a guest on This is Your Life , and I introduced him first as Peggy Ashdown , and then had to concentrate hard in case I called him Paddy Ashcroft … |
| 30 | It is rubbed into the hair and scalp and then left to dry naturally , because using a hair dryer can destroy its effectiveness . |