Example sentences of "and [vb past] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They laughed a little hysterically , and whispered to each other to be quiet and then laughed again , drunk with the joy of touching hands and the scent of their bodies in the dark . |
| 2 | Slowly , they got together at the far end of the house and whispered to each other . |
| 3 | It also troubled Peggie Boswell , and arose in those memorable letters between herself and Johnson . |
| 4 | So they sat on a blanket and clung to each other , tears streaming down their cheeks . |
| 5 | I caught his strange perfume and gazed into those clear , glass-like eyes . |
| 6 | But he just stood still and gazed at some withered autumn flowers . |
| 7 | That sort of language encouraged the many resentments Americans harbour against high culture ( remember the disparagement of Adlai Stevenson as an ‘ egghead ’ ? ) and led to such curiosae as the Chicago attack on an Eric Fischl painting in which a fully clothed boy looks at a naked man swinging a bat . |
| 8 | Miles which in Classical times denoted an ordinary soldier had , by the eleventh century , come to mean ‘ knight ’ and led to such forms as Miles Parliamentalis = knight of the shire , and miles agrarius = holder of a knight 's fee . |
| 9 | Hollywood had always been prepared to use social realism in the service of melodrama and especially in the service of making prestige films out of literary classics and this practice remained in evidence during these years and led to such notable films as An American Tragedy and All Quiet on the Western Front . |
| 10 | This , coupled with the corruption and favouritism of many of the officials who administered it , made it widely unpopular and led to much evasion of the obligations it imposed . |
| 11 | But the entire episode promoted anti-union sentiment , not only amongst Conservatives , and led to many cries for legislation on picketing to clip the power of the overmighty trade unions once and for all . |
| 12 | So he turned into Gambrinus 's and sat himself down at a small ironwork and marble table , and asked for some water . |
| 13 | I used to go to Orkney for to go and asked for some cardboard boxes only we call them pasteboard boxes . |
| 14 | Leonard could be depressive along with many other poets ( the psycho-endocrinological critique of poetry has yet to be written ! ) ; he could also be uplifting and assertive ; he could , indeed , write ‘ about something ’ to use Faulkner 's phrase from The Bear , and did so to the advantage of large numbers of people who gladly read , and asked for more . |
| 15 | She expressed a warm opinion of the piece and asked for more of her work . |
| 16 | I accepted that but , having in mind Sweden 's small population and great resources of iron and timber , thought it an untypical sort of country , and asked for another . |
| 17 | When he received a Mickey Mouse , he swelled triumphantly , and asked for another . |
| 18 | On May 13th , after days of heavy selling by the markets — and heavy buying by Spain 's central bank — the government suspended its obligation to defend the peseta , and asked for another realignment of the system . |
| 19 | He finished the beer and asked for another . |
| 20 | So she gave Jamie to a horse dealer called Liz Burt and asked for another in return . |
| 21 | Northallerton magistrates sentenced the 20-year-old to a total of seven months in a youth custody centre after he admitted two burglary charges and asked for another seven offences to be taken into consideration . |
| 22 | Under William and Anne a certain degree of ideological adjustment can be detected for both parties , as the Whigs shed their Country wing and became to all intents and purposes a Court party , whilst the Country platform came to be absorbed within Toryism . |
| 23 | But then the exhibit , the quarrel , hateful and confusing in being exposed to other eyes , changed character and became after all , evidence for the defence . |
| 24 | The front-page story lacked most of the details with which Tracey had supplied her , and amounted to little more than a rewritten version of the PA copy she had seen . |
| 25 | Erm the tools were made up in a kit and er every time there was a work study exercise done on a job , er the tools were all numbered and laid aside and registered for that particular item . |
| 26 | The microtitre plates were washed thoroughly with PBS-Tween and incubated for another 30 minutes with alkaline-phospatase ( ALP ) conjungated rabbit anti-human γ chain or rabbit anti human α chain antisera ( Dako , Glostrup , Denmark ) diluted 1:400 in PBS-Tween . |
| 27 | He realized that one wall of the pit was convex and made of some hard substance . |
| 28 | United Kingdom law was already well developed and complied with most ( if not all ) of the Directive 's provisions . |
| 29 | How we laughed and rode throughout that day , |
| 30 | They bantered and argued with each other , laughed raucously , became angry and fell into sulks , changing moods as quickly and as unpredictably as children . |