Example sentences of "[vb past] and [adv] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Seven people , including a mother and child , were killed when a lorry and van crashed and then ploughed into a Post Office today . |
| 2 | He rose and then dived within her , starting slowly as if to the beating of a primal drum . |
| 3 | She stopped and simply looked at him , smiling broadly . |
| 4 | Julia stopped and then added in a quick toneless voice , ‘ The actual facts you already know . |
| 5 | The poles slid glistening in and out of the water as the craft approached and then beached with a bump . |
| 6 | He stood there slightly bent for a few seconds holding his stomach and then he staggered and slowly fell to the floor . |
| 7 | On August 8th , they tried and almost succeeded in assassinating the British High Commissioner in Palestine , Sir Harold Macmichael , and killed ten police constables in the process . |
| 8 | To make a solder-ring capillary fitting , the ends of the pipe must first be cut square , deburred and thoroughly cleaned with wire wool . |
| 9 | The one , two , three and then four hours since she had acknowledged her love for Ven alternately dawdled and then flew for Fabia . |
| 10 | She dozed and woke , dozed and woke and finally fell into a light sleep , only stirring when she heard a voice addressing her from what seemed like a million miles away . |
| 11 | Church Farm has been tenanted ever since , and from Clives , through marriages to the Earls of Powis , it came and still belongs to the Earls of Plymouth . |
| 12 | When he slid his fingers across the spring of gold curls , parting the intimate secret of her , finding the hard nub of her womanhood before slipping below to the hot , molten tightness at her centre , she tensed and then capitulated in a flood of aching heat , and she heard herself say his name , moan his name again and again . |
| 13 | But , instead , he drew back , repelled and almost frightened by the flooding , uncontrolled wildness of the emotion . |
| 14 | It was a wonderful production , well crafted and well casted with no weak links , she said . |
| 15 | This was certainly true of England last Wednesday , their back line in such stark disarray , so frequently outsmarted and embarrassingly wrongfooted by intelligently applied Polish speed and trickery that but for Shilton 's alertness and determined auxiliary support from midfield they would have been overwhelmed . |
| 16 | To get out of bed , for instance , the patient is turned onto his side or lifted and then brought into the sitting position on the side of the bed . |
| 17 | Ted who is from Northern Ireland and Joan from Aberdeen were both in the RAF where they met and finally married in 1952 . |
| 18 | The sun still threw its dappled mantle and the trees still creaked and resonantly vibrated in the oldest of symphonies . |
| 19 | But the idea germinated and slowly grew into an obsession . |
| 20 | It used every means at its disposal : it argued and pressured the Versailles politicians ; it cheated in the plebiscites ; it engineered uprisings in Silesia and Wielkopolska ; it skirmished and then went to war with the Red Army for territory in the east . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The bound material was recovered by denaturation , reamplified and either used as a probe ( see below ) or subcloned and gridded in high-density arrays . |
| 23 | be switched off and then rewound and then go in a |
| 24 | Such systems fundamentally imply that many teachers should deliberately restrict their level of engagement with children and that the finely woven ( and seamless ) web of human relationships can be rationalised , divided , timetabled and generally routinised to such an extent that it can be systemised ( or bureaucratised ) ! |
| 25 | As I watched she turned and almost floated on light footsteps into the hall then through the lounge door . |
| 26 | And on this Peggy turned and almost flew from the room . |
| 27 | Corbett turned and angrily waved at the porter to stay where he was . |
| 28 | There was little reaction , as Shill partially awoke , turned over , snorted and then returned to his deep sleep . |
| 29 | As much put out by the ticket inspector 's attitude as his demand for money , he paid and duly wrote to BR to complain saying he ‘ could see no justification in the circumstances for the excess charge . ’ |
| 30 | He waited while she paid and then walked beside her into the entrance hall . |