Example sentences of "and [adv] [vb past] [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The high temperatures of 10 mill K and more lasted for many milliseconds , and implied that there was a high degree of plasma stability , and large reduction of the unaccountable loss of energy and plasma across the magnetic field found in early experiments on Zeta pinches and on stellarators in the US ( though indeed some unaccountable loss still exists ) .
2 After retiring , he became a radio commentator on cricket and rugby and also wrote about both sports for Sunday newspapers .
3 The present drawings represent a selection from a larger exhibition ‘ Italian Master Drawings from the British Royal Collection ’ , organised by Jane Roberts of the Royal Collection in 1987 and also exhibited at that time in America .
4 There were also photographs of his weak and charming father , who had read Pravda and the Daily Telegraph every morning , and his beautiful feckless mother , who 'd run off with an Italian and now lived in some palazzo in Rome , and of the huge house in which he 'd been brought up .
5 Exposure to 2°C caused drastic changes to the growth pattern and even resulted in some leaves failing to emerge .
6 It began life as an appendix to a pre-war American survey textbook , and then ran into several editions in its own right .
7 Four times end-over-end the aircraft tumbled and then went into several spins , the spins being in both directions with mo complete recovery between them .
8 When he emerged , Dr Shakhar seemed to think that the talk had gone well and then asked for another audience .
9 The number of voters citing defence as the main issue they wished to see discussed by the parties rose from 3 per cent at the start of the campaign to only 11 per cent in the third week and then stabilized at that level .
10 Words that are longer than ten characters are shown in inverse video and then percentaged for that sentence .
11 Josie disappeared for a couple of minutes and then reappeared with some pillows and a duvet .
12 My mother was surprised and undoubtedly gratified by this question .
13 Jones , 33 , took a 3-0 lead and never looked in any danger after that .
14 So people left Earth and never returned to that planet .
15 They got to their feet , drank their sherry , smiling a lot , and never went near each other again .
16 ‘ No , but her mother and father lived in the same house and never spoke to each other for over thirty years . ’
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