Example sentences of "[vb past] and [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jesus blessed and broke the bread ( Mark 6:41 ) . |
| 2 | WOVE AND LAID PAPERS |
| 3 | He answered with a minute shake of his head and she obeyed , sitting on to watch the fantastic skill with which they wove and rewove their patterns , each keeping the strings taut and symmetrical even as they transformed them into a completely new shape . |
| 4 | ACCUSER : She says Mia beat and cursed her |
| 5 | Blindly , Alan ran to his room , where he beat and punched his bed and cried aloud in a rage like a child . |
| 6 | There will be lectures and seminars , to which teachers will be expected to contribute from their own experience , and in which taped and transcribed texts from their classrooms , and written work produced by their pupils will be discussed and analysed . |
| 7 | Adesangé , god of the volcano , was the lord of Sycorax 's rites , and Ariel , even in her mutism , was startled by the fervour of the woman who had once been so sceptical of others ' belief in her powers , who used to insist that all mysteries lay in the processes of nature and need only be observed and analysed and understood . |
| 8 | It was discovered not on earth in fact but on the sun in the first place , in about eighteen sixty-eight erm absorption lines were seen , and , and it was a long time after that before people realised there was some helium on the earth and , and , and eventually erm helium , some gas was found bubbling up through , from a pit in the Black Forest and , and analysed and found to be helium . |
| 9 | It was obvious he was good , it was obvious he should be in FI , but somehow he dallied and twiddled and procrastinated and did n't get around to it seriously until he was thirty-six years old and then it took him only three years to become champion . |
| 10 | The organisers than those who provided and bought cakes . |
| 11 | In his presence , fun shrivelled and died . |
| 12 | In the gardens the annuals shrivelled and died . |
| 13 | Something in her that had , at first , revolted in anger and frustration at her own helplessness , now shrivelled and atrophied . |
| 14 | The ghost of Ken Noakes shrivelled and vanished from her subconscious . |
| 15 | The left-wing Campaign Group , anathematised by Kinnock , shrivelled and split . |
| 16 | Tiny pieces of skin shrivelled and cooked on the red-hot ring and wisps of smoke rose into the air . |
| 17 | These were they now , shrivelled and dropping petals on to the carpet . |
| 18 | And behold , he shrivelled and withered under their eyes , and became a small handful of grey dust and glass powder . |
| 19 | These expensive , shrivelled and unappealing tomatoes possess an incredible flavour that is quite outstanding . |
| 20 | Bernice looked again : beneath the sudden billows of smoke the black robes shrivelled and flamed , revealing the asymmetrical bodies of the lurching androids , uncoordinated dancers in the fires . |
| 21 | All the build up of delight shrivelled and stripped Jay to lonely self-scourging . |
| 22 | The Frasque , that had seemed so desiccated and invulnerable , shrivelled and burned at the Capellans ' slightest gesture . |
| 23 | Hubert Molland was an unpractised driver and his nervousness seemed to communicate itself to the big car , which juddered and groaned alarmingly . |
| 24 | The self-inflicted pain goaded him into a furious spasm , but as he strained and thrashed against the wicker walls in the darkness all he achieved was the sense that the basket had not yielded a millimetre . |
| 25 | So he 'd sort of had a well I suppose he 'd messed around helped and played about in the smithy . |
| 26 | A talented student , she was immensely serious about her work and Modigliani helped and encouraged her . |
| 27 | ‘ He helped and encouraged me so much . ’ |
| 28 | The Samaritan stopped , helped and rescued the unfortunate traveller . |
| 29 | Precisely chiselled pegs of a different wood from the rest of the ship , which swelled and secured the timbers once they were immersed in the water , were used instead of nails or screws . |
| 30 | Because she knew she swelled and paled , in the grip of her look , she smiled even more and then invited them to start talking about their plans for their future home , which they did at once , and ceased to notice her . |