Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] [conj] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | New words are coined or borrowed or made out of combined parts from existing words ; the meanings of old words gradually shift . |
| 2 | Plant was installed by Works staff and planned and laid out by Richard Hagley , the works Machinery and Plant Superintendent , and his staff of technicians . |
| 3 | The jewel was almost in his grasp ; almost about to be displayed and photographed and written up in all the right journals : a jewel he himself had traced , and one he 'd worked so hard to get donated to the Ashmolean . |
| 4 | I used to think , That 's a woman 's lot — forever being prodded and poked and looked up by doctors who are total strangers . |
| 5 | Both were kissed and cuddled and bandied about like special toys . |
| 6 | He stated that the conspiracy was " planned and plotted and programmed out of Hollywood " — itself controlled by " Russian Jewry " — by " people called Greenberg and Weisberg " . |
| 7 | Aggie took two or three steps backwards , smiled , and turned and went out of the room , leaving the door wide open . |
| 8 | Miss Honey had heard the sound of Matilda 's feet racing over the gravel and now she straightened up and turned and stepped out of the rose-bed as the child came running up . |
| 9 | Suddenly , the dogs who were sniffing this exciting new country stopped ; ears raised , hair rising on their necks , they backed slowly towards John and Mary , then they howled and turned and ran back through the cutting , leaving John and Mary puzzled and a bit frightened . |
| 10 | Jean-Luc Roussel himself had come to the hospital and fretted and fluttered about like a true Cockney sparrow . |
| 11 | I dressed and shaved and went down to breakfast under the colonnade . |
| 12 | The teaching team , many of whom had not been involved in community interpreting before , rose to the challenge and fought , argued and demanded and came back for more . |
| 13 | A smile curved her mouth , though , as she kicked off her shoes and went and lay down on her bed . |
| 14 | So I really wanted to nail the bastard — preferably with the cooperation of my team-mates just to prove the point — but the fucking technology let me down and the gun jammed and he had me pinned , firing shot after shot at me , and finally I gave up trying to un-jam the gun and made to throw it at him though I could hardly see because there was yellow paint all over my visor , but he ducked and tripped and sat down on a trunk , holding his stomach , and the bastard was laughing his socks off because I looked like a giant dripping banana , only I 'd just realised the gun was n't jammed after all , the safety catch was on . |
| 15 | Children sneezed and cried and ran about in a fever . |
| 16 | He went downstairs , finished his column , then shaved and bathed and went out to the office ripe for conquest . |
| 17 | In addition they must always be muzzled and leashed when taken out in public and owners , who must have third party insurance , have to take adequate precautions to stop dogs escaping . |
| 18 | She came to it and stood and looked down into the dragon 's mouth . |
| 19 | But I could never again imagine him doing something as spontaneously crazy , as aggressively , contemptuously fate-tempting and unleashed as running out across the frozen ice , arms out , laughing . |
| 20 | The original entrance foyer on the main road behind the square was barred and boarded and papered over with layers of handbills ; Carson walked up a few steps near the end of the alley and pushed open the door of a tradesman 's entrance . |
| 21 | And soon it will catch me up and I 'll be bloodsuckled and toothpluckled and stonechuckled and chewed up into tiny pieces , and then the Spittler will spit me out in a cloud of smoke and that will be the end of me ! ’ |
| 22 | She said she had not heard that British scientists wanted to return him to Arctic waters , but warned that going back to cold temperatures , coupled with the need to hunt for food again , would be fatal . |
| 23 | As she hitched up the fox fur draped about her neck , she was tempted now and then to give them a regal wave but decided that to sit back in dignified hauteur was more fitting to her role . |
| 24 | He said that he had enjoyed working on his own behalf , but felt that staying out of the profession would not be sensible in the long run . |