Example sentences of "and [vb past] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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1 | There were a couple of fairground signs from Third Avenue antique shops , a polar-bear rug and two huge basketwork chairs that looked like witch-doctors in full gear and creaked when sat upon . |
2 | Although Félix slept more soundly than we did — and snored and swore in his sleep — for the three nights he stayed , Jean-Claude and I could not feel comfortable about making love . |
3 | The head lay harmlessly flattened into the grass , but the broken shaft pierced through Cynan 's tunic and shirt and stabbed and splintered against his ribs . |
4 | Making all decisions and directing all developments through his estate and colliery stewards , Lowther vigorously expanded his collieries , selling their produce to ships freighting to Dublin , and planned and developed the port town of Whitehaven , the first planned town built in England after the middle ages . |
5 | And we went three times and they always planned and planned and planned and had ideas what they could do . |
6 | However much the family sat and planned and prepared to scold him after a frightening bender , he would soon have them all melted with his gypsy stories . |
7 | Plant was installed by Works staff and planned and laid out by Richard Hagley , the works Machinery and Plant Superintendent , and his staff of technicians . |
8 | And we went three times and they always planned and planned and planned and had ideas what they could do . |
9 | When he re-emerged , the others had adjourned to the kitchen , where Ronni was helping Agnese arrange stuffed salami slices on a plate , while a couple of young girls , specially recruited from the neighbourhood , busily chopped and whipped and blended , and Filippo polished a mountain of crystal glasses . |
10 | Aunt Margaret and Melanie clapped and clapped and clapped . |
11 | There was an awkward silence between the three people then , while the music played and the dancers whooped and shouted and clapped and stamped . |
12 | ‘ We went right through the town centre and all the people doing their Saturday shopping stood and clapped and shouted messages of support as we went by . ’ |
13 | ½ tons ) in the Works Iron Foundry and machined by the Machine Shop , the component parts also being manufactured in the Machine Shop and wired and fitted in the Electric Shop . |
14 | He knew little more about her now than when they had first encountered each other in the abbey ruins on a blustery August evening less than six weeks earlier , had for a minute stood and gazed and had then moved silently towards each other in a wordless , amazed recognition . |
15 | As a precaution , Alexandra took her fork round to the far side of the wain , in case her mother should be looking from a window , and plunged and twisted it in most expertly in order to bring out a huge wedge of tawny grasses , cut last summer in these very meadows . |
16 | She rose and plunged and rolled and staggered and behaved generally in a most frisky fashion . |
17 | The sun grew golden and weak , dew formed on the grass by the benches in front of the Cages , and great clouds of starlings squealed out of empty evening skies and formed and re-formed and grouped yet again round and over the Zoo . |
18 | Then , as some car in the street outside her hotel coughed and choked and backfired , Fabia abruptly came out of the long reverie she had fallen into , and back to the present , to realise that it was Monday morning — did she think she was going to sit there in bed all day ? |
19 | His mother 's bedroom , once hung with hand-painted eighteenth century Chinese wall-paper , now ripped and defaced and stained with urine . |
20 | Erm so we we asked and asked and asked could we change back to the old nutrients which we did do in the early part of December , and lo and behold , suddenly there was n't a problem . |
21 | 6 medium-size potatoes , peeled and diced or sliced finely |
22 | She confirmed to McIllvanney that the weather-fax machine and the Loran and the Satnav and the radar and all the other things that hummed and winked and glowed in the night were working properly . |
23 | The old porter grinned and winked and opened his mouth . |
24 | If the textual sprawl of today 's average ‘ quality ’ newspaper ultimately represents less than the sum of its sections , then it also represents in a more immediate sense the collapse of what Neville Wakefield has recently described as ‘ a world in which information can still be organised and evaluated and hierarchised according to rigid structures of meaning ’ The new generation of ‘ top people 's papers wear their manifold contradictions firmly on their sleeves . |
25 | The SCC ( which judges only on points of law ) heard the appeal from the Court of Appeal judgment and ruled as follows |
26 | Into the uneasy silence , while brother looked most earnestly at brother , and wondered , and sought or evaded the eyes of his neighbours , Brother Cadfael said : ‘ Brother Abbot , I have thoughts to share that never visited me until this morning , but are become very relevant now . |
27 | Mr Villiers and Miss Bridger applied to rent the flat jointly and sought and enjoyed joint and exclusive occupation of the whole of the flat . |
28 | She dropped cans of root beer all over my feet in the subway station ; one broke and splattered and dampened my toes . |
29 | Then he tossed his bow to the foot of the wall , and unslung and threw down his quiver . |
30 | His First from Cambridge was followed by a short career in the Civil Service , commercial experience with IBM , and work with another search firm before he joined John Stork and met and worked with Saxton . |