Example sentences of "[adv] and [noun] [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ruth breathed feverishly and Steve looked at her curiously . |
| 2 | Money poured in and work began in 1493 although it was to be a century before the work was completed ; this timescale explains the stylistic variation of the church , with elements of both Renaissance and Baroque architecture . |
| 3 | Maude came in and Cranston looked at her , hang-dog , for even in bed his tourney of love was failing . |
| 4 | and Peter walks in and Andrew said to him do you want a coffee Peter ? |
| 5 | And the man was er , accepted Christ as his saviour and they went down and Philip baptized in there , in in in the river . |
| 6 | He banged the phone down and Jinny turned to Keith , shaking . |
| 7 | The first storeys of the house of cards came tumbling down and Victoria burst into tears . |
| 8 | Then the front door was smashed down and people streamed into the house . |
| 9 | Steve Mardenborough then broke through with a clear run on goal just before the whistle , but his control let him down and Adkins saved at his feet . |
| 10 | I slowed down and children ran beside the car , a flock of skinny white birds , hopping and shouting . |
| 11 | ‘ The race was really lost at the start when I got bogged down and Andretti went into the back of me . |
| 12 | Denis dutifully bent down and Clara climbed on his back putting her little arms round his neck . |
| 13 | He could only imagine girls in the evening when they all walked along and Marie stopped in front of a shop window to see that her clothes and hair were as she wanted and they all came up behind her and did the same so they were like a group photograph on a record sleeve , wiggling their fingers and poking out their tongues and saying ‘ Yoo-hoo ’ to their reflections . |
| 14 | The surge did n't last too long and Newton slid in his first goal seven minutes later and grabbed his second five minutes from time when he finished off a sweeping , decisive move involving Dennis Wise and Stuart . |
| 15 | Money problems at home led to a temporary fragmentation of the family and a new school for William but when the family got back together and William returned to St Augustine 's , reports from the other school followed the previous pattern at St Augustine 's . |
| 16 | They drank tea together and Müller went over the report with him . |
| 17 | The shirt was placed separately and Curtis jabbed at it with a thick , square forefinger . |
| 18 | The car purred away and Kelly relaxed in his seat . |
| 19 | Dromara broke away and Kearney rammed in No.3 followed by No.4 from Roy McVeigh to put the match beyond Shorts ' reach . |
| 20 | She looked away and Trent thought for a moment that she would leave it alone , but then she looked back and asked quickly , to get it out , ‘ Did your mother leave him for your father ? ’ |
| 21 | Then they drove away and Carolyn carried with her the sight of her mother 's tense white face leaning down to look through the window at her . |
| 22 | Ellen twisted away and Sweetman laughed at her obvious discomfiture , then , as coolly as though he owned Wavebreaker , he stepped down into the central cockpit where he first brushed at , then sat on , one of the white cushioned seats by the ship 's wheel . |
| 23 | There was the sound of footsteps running downstairs and Jacqui rushed into his arms . |
| 24 | Her gown was almost wet through and water dripped from her long hair to the floor . |
| 25 | But it was a night when emotion alone could not carry them through and Souness watched in frustration as his young side 's Cup Winners ' Cup ambitions were ended with ruthless efficiency by the Russian champions . |
| 26 | The transfer fell through and Charlie returned to the Scottish Premier League to play for Aberdeen . |
| 27 | Normally they only meet outside and I wonder how it would be when they were indoors and Cedric started to … when the old trouble … " |
| 28 | Someone fell over and others collapsed on top . |
| 29 | A chair went over and Singer rolled through the mush of food , trying to gain his feet . |
| 30 | The long summer holidays are over and MPs returned to the Commons to take stock of developments while they were at the seaside . |