Example sentences of "and [vb past] [verb] [adv prt] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some winners in the past have been temperamental and failed to get up in the morning , but on the whole they go out as boys and come back as men . ’ |
| 2 | His parents , who live at Clevelys , near Blackpool , feared he had strayed outside the airport and got caught up in the disaster . |
| 3 | This instruction felt like a prison sentence , and condemned to stay up in the cloud , I scanned the instruments nervously , waiting for an unseen gust to grab our little craft . |
| 4 | At first I thought this must have been intended for someone else and began grubbing about in the wastepaper basket to find the envelope . |
| 5 | As I struggled to my feet and started to search around in the grass for my rifle , two medics were coming towards me . |
| 6 | He had a potter about and a chat and decided to set up in the far corner to our left . |
| 7 | Gabriel was able to slide into it , head-first , over the edge of the platform , and lay curled up in the bottom , as still as a hedgehog in hibernation . |
| 8 | He put the journal on Alexandra 's lap and went to sit down in the chair beside hers . |
| 9 | Wilcock had written about Haynes and his Edinburgh bookshop in the Village Voice soon after it had opened , and had popped up in the one-off Longhair Times too . |
| 10 | Lucy was involved in a study of cetaceans and had come along in the hope of seeing at least some porpoises . |
| 11 | By August 1938 she had become a resident of the mental hospital , and Maurice reported to Eliot that she seemed " fairly cheerful , had slept well and eaten well , and had sat out in the garden and read a certain amount . " |