Example sentences of "[vb past] and [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The ghost of Ken Noakes shrivelled and vanished from her subconscious . |
| 3 | Tiny pieces of skin shrivelled and cooked on the red-hot ring and wisps of smoke rose into the air . |
| 4 | And behold , he shrivelled and withered under their eyes , and became a small handful of grey dust and glass powder . |
| 5 | The Frasque , that had seemed so desiccated and invulnerable , shrivelled and burned at the Capellans ' slightest gesture . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Keith jerked and pulled at his handcuffs , |
| 8 | Unused to being argued with , he shouted and cursed at her , and soon the two of them were arguing fiercely , he having trouble making articulate sentences due to his excessive amount of drink , which only made him yet angrier . |
| 9 | The city at night intimidated me : the piss-heads , bums , derelicts and dealers shouted and looked for fights . |
| 10 | A lecturer visiting a student on teaching practice tells of being mistaken for a parent and being kept standing in a cold corridor while behind a closed door the head shouted and screamed at a tearful child . |
| 11 | As the remaining renegades shouted and cheered from shore , the noise woke local residents and members of the official party who dutifully called the coast guard . |
| 12 | MPs were hounded and harassed , shouted and sworn at , and subjected to the most appalling blackmail , intimidation and aggression . |
| 13 | ‘ I do n't know how ! ’ she shouted and rose to her feet to get away from him but he twisted there before her , his hands on her shoulders and his brown-black eyes blazing down into hers . |
| 14 | Shouted and wept at someone else 's wife ! ’ |
| 15 | " Come on , lads , round the track ! " he shouted and pointed to a broad earthen path which circled the park . |
| 16 | Angel proceeded to put on an incredible display of histrionics , peacock-blue eyes flashing , nostrils flaring above his furiously pouting mouth , as he shouted and swore at Alejandro . |
| 17 | Finding myself mildly offended , and not to be denied contact , I shouted and waved from at least half a mile away . |
| 18 | ‘ Going about , ’ he shouted and watched in amazement the crazed proficiency of the little cocaine addict leaping back into the cockpit to winch the genoa sheet in . |
| 19 | It bounced and rolled between them and lay in the shadow of the chair . |
| 20 | Fran shrugged , turning her face away from his calculating scrutiny , studying the way the moonlight bounced and sparkled off the water with a fixed expression on her face . |
| 21 | Blue light , and silver and bronze , streamed and bounced and danced through tall windows . |
| 22 | Sir John Menzies was part of that , by his marriage to Atholl 's daughter , and Atholl dined and intrigued with the Lord Advocate when he went to Edinburgh for the season . |
| 23 | In the case of this well-liked fatherly brigadier , it was common knowledge that , although he would accept his chauffeuse 's six shillings , he would then pay all other expenses in order that she would be wined , dined and accommodated in the same style as himself . |
| 24 | Next out of the bag came a paper nylon petticoat with many more layers of frothy rainbow-coloured net than the one Sally carefully washed in sugar water after each wearing , and then , to Sally 's delight , a saucy little white basque , boned and trimmed with lace . |
| 25 | His canonry was not of Oxford but of Kobe , of the Anglican Church in Japan , but it was the Oxford Diocesan Clergy Cricket side which he captained and ran for 25 years . |
| 26 | They entered and asked for a room for the night and a meal of cold meat and beer , which they ate in the bar . |
| 27 | Regression coefficients and their standard error were calculated with a CYBER 855 computer for those variables which entered and remained in the regression equation . |
| 28 | They disembarked and stayed in a tavern near the Tower for the rest of the day . |
| 29 | She grieved for her father and worried about Maggie , but most of all she fumed and cried over the affair with James Halden . |
| 30 | Their ecological dominance and biological success for the past 80 to 100 million years may stem from the fact that they were the first group of predatory social insects that both foraged and lived in the realm of rotting vegetation on the ground . |