Example sentences of "and [vb past] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and creaked to cover . |
| 2 | Then , having lost Mushtaq , he threw caution completely to the wind and spooned to cover . |
| 3 | The hardships that they faced and shared brought both family stresses and personal dilemmas , but their activities undoubtedly prolonged the strike in many places . |
| 4 | We 'd also had a double income and shared paying the bills , and I found I was petrified of getting into debt . |
| 5 | He took two pals along with him for company and planned to spend the time snapping rare African wildlife . |
| 6 | We travelled first by boat , and planned to spend the night at a hotel on the other side of the lake . |
| 7 | State Papers and other sources indicate that Stringer ran a large foundry business , owned ships for exporting and importing metals and ordnance , and planned to set up a company for colonizing West Indian islands . |
| 8 | She intended to plead her own nervousness and her desire not to be destined for public exhibition and planned to finish by thanking him for the compliment of his request and wishing him well in finding a more practised model . |
| 9 | Stirling was accompanied by Seekings and Cooper as usual , and planned to drive to his target in the ‘ Blitz Buggy ’ . |
| 10 | She was also mustering troops , and planned to lead them northwards to join up with her son . |
| 11 | In March 1940 , two months prior to Nizan 's death , Thorez launched a vitriolic attack on what he contemptuously designated as " the handful of wretched deserters , … cowards and weaklings , spies and agents-provocateurs " , who " had abandoned the position of the working class for that of the imperialists and planned to turn ( the ) fight for peace by the side of the Soviet Union into a policy of supporting the imperialist war mongering of the French bourgeoisie " . |
| 12 | City must stump up the cash and planned to watch Viscaal yesterday against Mechelin . |
| 13 | ‘ We are not trying to rip people off and planned to put a sticker on the records saying they were recorded 10 years ago . |
| 14 | One of the new generation of non-English church leaders in Australia , he led the campaign for Anglican women priests , and planned to ordain the first in Melbourne next year . |
| 15 | They had never been on Scottish waters before and planned to go round Skye . |
| 16 | Bernard 's father had been a builder , his two elder brothers were house painters ; his older sister was married to a carpenter : another just left nursing to be married ; his two younger sisters were still at school and planned to go to college against their mother 's wishes . |
| 17 | They ‘ had a motor car placed at their disposal … and planned to arrive at Dennis ' home [ at Ancaster , near Sleaford ] at 9.30 , so as to have a glass that cheers , and then talk until midnight , the earliest time for signing . |
| 18 | In 1884 Queen Victoria published More Leaves from a Journal of our Life in the Highlands , dedicated to John Brown , and planned to publish a memoir , a ‘ Life of John Brown ’ , but the household managed to prevent it . |
| 19 | In 1167 his army had been decimated before Rome by an outbreak of malaria ; and he had been chased over the Alps in humiliating disaster ; but still he plotted and planned to return to the task . |
| 20 | He took down the painting and planned to leave with it , but then he heard Sabine and a man shouting in the lounge . |
| 21 | Mr Ferguson said Brown had a £40,000 tax bill and planned to sell her Aristocats escort agency in Bayswater , west London , and train to be a beautician . |
| 22 | At LULLINGSTONE , a ferro-concrete station was built and planned to open in April 1939 . |
| 23 | I filled a notebook with names and stories about the Revolution and planned to write a book in which all my favourites would appear . |
| 24 | The company was formed in 1906 and planned to have 300 electrobuses on the road within a year . |
| 25 | Since then it has opened another nine shops — all in London and planned to have 30 within two years . |
| 26 | He said he only wanted to kill himself and claimed he ate rat poison and planned to inhale car exhaust fumes . |
| 27 | Michael , who had been looking forward to his 21st birthday celebration next month and planned to become engaged later this year , was attacked . |
| 28 | Garner 's , which won permission to develop the site in 1985 , built 22 bungalows and planned to develop the rest of the site in the same way . |
| 29 | The elder Pliny was full of curiosity at first , and planned to sail across in his galley for a closer look , but his nephew was not so keen on the idea , and turned down his uncle 's invitation to go along as well , pleading pressure of work . |
| 30 | With regard to the industry budget as a whole , there is a cash cut of £16 million in real terms between the net planned outturn and planned spending for the coming year . |