Example sentences of "and [vb past] [conj] [verb] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Well , they do say , ’ said Caspar , and stopped and looked at them again . |
| 2 | It was a very nice day out actually , and everything from serious riders who just went up and down and the most energetic one did a hundred miles , to families who treated it , took a picnic and stopped and looked at the badger tunnels . |
| 3 | Modigliani , of course , spotted her at once and came and sat at the next table . |
| 4 | She could have been stoned , people would have mocked her as she passed in the street , as they jeered and booed that girl Serafina when she started getting bigger and everyone knew who 'd done it but they could n't do anything about it , not even kill him , because he was the son of a nobleman -Rosalba shuddered , remembering the way Serafina had thrown up her chin and turned and screamed at her tormentors , ‘ And which one of you is so good that you can point at me ! ’ , then dropped her head and run away down the street , holding her heavy breasts as she ran . |
| 5 | THE couple who left their daughters , aged just nine and four , Home Alone while they jetted off on holiday were booed and jeered when arrested at the end of their trip . |
| 6 | After the questions , the woman lodger went away and they took off Dot 's clothes and touched and prodded at her neck , her ears and her throat . |
| 7 | They are normally sown ‘ on the ridge ’ as soon as the ground is ready in early May , and hoed and singled at the two-to three-leaf stage whilst it is still easy to separate the entwined stems which grow from the multiple seeds . |
| 8 | So while Maria Candida retched and wailed and dabbed at her nose in the cabin , Sara spent most of her time up on deck , either with Dom Alfonso , who was acting as Dom João 's agent , or — on the calmer days — further for 'd , where she could watch the porpoises leaping round the bows and listen to the creak of timber and the wind in the rigging . |
| 9 | They held onto the rock and waved and shouted at the lighthouse as loud as they could . |
| 10 | Almost in tears , Phoebe took her breast in her hand and squeezed and banged at it until it hurt . |
| 11 | From the first moments , when my brothers and I stood there incredulous as Blyth screamed and jumped and tugged at his leg , to the tearful farewell of Blyth 's parents and Diggs taking statements ( a bit even appeared in the Inverness Courier which was picked up for its curiosity value by a couple of the Fleet Street rags ) , not one person even suggested that it might have been anything other than a tragic and slightly macabre accident . |
| 12 | As Anwar pointed and explained and waved at tins and packets and bottles and brushes , Changez nodded like a bright but naughty schoolboy humouring the eager curator of a museum but taking nothing in . |
| 13 | If I remember correctly , ’ he says , ‘ for the trials they brought out some legal people , people who were given a military rank and sat as judges at the war crime tribunals . |