Example sentences of "and [noun pl] [vb past] [coord] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sounds grew muffled and footfalls came and went softly and unseen in the mist , from where to where no eagle could tell . |
| 2 | Police officers of various ranks and specialisms came and went all day , checking for forensic evidence relating to the kidnap , intercepting some telephone calls and listening in to others . |
| 3 | Carts full of precious belongings were being unloaded in the courtyards ; ostlers , grooms and farriers shouted and yelled . |
| 4 | Now in pursuance of the premisses the said lords spirituall and temporall and commons in Parlyament assembled for the ratifying confirming and establishing the said declaration and the articles clauses matters and things therein contained by the force of a law made in due for me by authority of Parlyament doe pray that it may be declared and enacted that all and singular the rights and liberties asserted and claimed in the said declaration are the true auntient and indubitable rights and liberties of the people of this king dome and soe shall be esteemed allowed adjudged deemed and taken to be and that all and every the particulars aforesaid shall be firmly and strictly hold en and observed as they are expressed in the said declaration . |
| 5 | Then the bears required sympathy , their warm , ordered breakfast disrupted , their chairs and beds appropriated and messed , broken , used by the intruding child . |
| 6 | The city at night intimidated me : the piss-heads , bums , derelicts and dealers shouted and looked for fights . |
| 7 | Sheet by acid-sprayed sheet , 144 pieces of a huge jigsaw of tubes and angles beeped and fluttered from four laser facsimile machines in Sir Titus Salt 's former alpaca mill , while at his home in California Hockney — already master of computer , photocopy , and snipped-photograph art — was feeding the composite picture into his own fax . |
| 8 | Businessmen , politicians and academics came and went from it . |
| 9 | But during the night the mice invaded their camp and gnawed through all the halters , saddle-girths , and reins , while the bears , foxes , and cats growled and howled around the outskirts of the camp with a sound fearful enough to make your blood run cold . |
| 10 | The lengthening day that pushes back your train Of clinging shadow , but keeps you here , has woken The seeds from the sleep they fell to when you went Down with them to darkness , the dread time When nothing could reach you , when you were hid away , And I retreated , sorrowing , hidden also ; And seed cast in the barren furrow rotted And trees withered and died ; and in the womb Of many a beast the embryo miscarried And then no germination ; and the earth sickened When in the womb of darkness you were stifled . |
| 11 | A jazz band played on a little stage at the end of the wide , luxurious room , and diners sat and listened at tables covered in white linen and silver . |
| 12 | As they made their way through the throng of people , boys and girls laughed and joked with them . |
| 13 | Flat fields interspersed by dykes gleaming in the June sunshine spread as far as the eye could see and skylarks hovered and trilled overhead , but Nails , cautiously taking it all in , was given no time for comment . |
| 14 | Lapland buntings and skylarks swirled and settled , searching for the last seeds of salt marsh plants below the bank . |
| 15 | Madonnas , cherubs , birds , fauns and flowers crowded and pushed each other in a design that defied logic and allowed no place for the eye to rest . |
| 16 | The colourful draperies of the various stands and tents billowed and flapped gently , as the denizens of Little Tuckett strolled about on the freshly clipped lawns of the vicarage garden , taking in the various delights on offer . |
| 17 | It was a bright day with thin sunshine burnishing up from the snow and men blinked and rubbed their eyes as they crossed the open space between the two compounds , tramping over the road running down to the village and the railway line that stretched far the other way to Pot'ma . |
| 18 | On the open deck in the stern , between life-jackets and coiled mooring ropes , prayer mats were laid out and men came and went throughout the day to pray towards the eastern shore . |
| 19 | and volunteers went and got soaked , and sat in cold passages , to try and catch cold , they could n't catch cold , could they . |
| 20 | The patients who recovered in these boxes and enclosures came and went like the inmates of any other busy casualty ward , but , of course , there were big differences : most importantly , there was no waiting list , and no one had to pay ! |
| 21 | On deeper water teal , mallard and great crested grebes bobbed and coots squawked and chased each other noisily . |
| 22 | In the palace , in the castle , at the hunt ball and the country house men brayed like donkeys and women shrieked and swooped like owls : the middle classes made me fidgety with their concern — was I not out too late ? |
| 23 | I had already observed it in hotel saunas and swimming-pools in Germany , where men and women sat and swam together in the nude and thought nothing of it . |
| 24 | Thus aggressions and desires bubbled and brooded , as yet unpurged . |
| 25 | Along one side of the room was a row of doors where nurses and helpers appeared and disappeared like actors on a stage set . |