Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | How frustrating it is when other people 's knitting always goes right and outs has ‘ hiccups ’ ! ) |
| 2 | A gust of wind throws rain against the window and shakes the frame ; it 's loud and surprising and I flinch but he just turns slowly and looks out into the darkness with what could almost be contempt before laughing and putting an arm round my shoulder and suggesting we have another drink . |
| 3 | Certainly give them , yeah and I said Joan will tell you not only does her but the table that he sits on and the wall around it , |
| 4 | Active life in the sense of engagement with the physical necessities and well-being of society belongs properly and sensibly to people who feel no inner compulsion towards , or understanding of , spiritual issues — as he much more trenchantly put it , they have " no sauour " of " goostli occupacioun " ( 12.123 – 4 ) . |
| 5 | He sleeps badly and is short of breath on exertion . |
| 6 | Seeing the glow of a red and yellow Shell sign ahead , she drives on and pulls into the forecourt of a self-service petrol station . |
| 7 | This unregulated d.c. now passes through an electronic switch S which turns on and off at a relatively high frequency ; this might well lie within the range 15kHz to 100kHz , sometimes more . |
| 8 | We can not be complacent , for progress marches on and inflation eats at our financing , but we can be proud of the Institution — and extend again our heartfelt thanks to the voluntary fund raisers and crews without whom it could not exist in any form . |
| 9 | Time marches on and the tension rises . |
| 10 | How do they smile with those nose clips on and one leg in the air ? |
| 11 | My mind just goes on and on … |
| 12 | It has been both exhilarating and draining and we have to work tomorrow , so we put in our earplugs and pull our sleeping bags over our heads while all around us the talk goes on and on . |
| 13 | I found her infuriating … she goes on and on and is determined to get her own way . ’ |
| 14 | As the debate goes on and the political parties bid for votes and support , Leila , Fatima and Samira are still confined to the library . |
| 15 | So the country 's day-to-day spending goes on and its capital investment is cut back . |
| 16 | It goes on and on . |
| 17 | The list goes on and on . |
| 18 | This is because our movements slowly become stereotyped as life goes on and we tend to move in a way that feels ‘ right ’ to us . |
| 19 | Spatial boundaries may vary in their openness , the degree to which they permit outsiders to inspect the phenomenon in question , to find out what goes on and to gain thereby a knowledge of it and a competence in dealing with it . |
| 20 | The echo goes on and on and round and round — the cave must be hundreds of feet high . |
| 21 | For the searcher who goes on and comes to believe , this is the only possible starting point — a sense of need which may range from a mild discomfort to a deep conviction , but which spurs him to look for a solution beyond himself . |
| 22 | We tend to play at the point of the evening when the temperature drops , so I tune up just before Bryan goes on and then after three or four songs they 're all sharp , because the temperature has dropped . |
| 23 | A team functioning with all its different required ministry components in place , resources set up — ie Care Trust families , housegroups that sense God 's call , liaising with statutory organisations — Social Services , Social Security , HIV and AIDS agencies , Housing Department , Drug Dependency units — Police communication and legal systems in place , doctors , a formal prison link … and the list goes on and on as you can imagine . |
| 24 | William Carey had achieved a prodigious amount in many different spheres : evangelism , translation work , social reform , education , co-operation with other Protestant missionaries , botany — the list goes on and on . |
| 25 | ( If one refrains from oiling the gear teeth of a grandfather clock , the teeth will not only not collect the dust and so not grind each other away , but also become harder and more polished as times goes on and so last virtually for ever . ) |
| 26 | The list goes on and on . |
| 27 | Auckland 's incredible run as holder of the Ranfurly Shield goes on and on . |
| 28 | The Orb 's first tune goes on and on ; a kind of broken , haunting sonata for new technology that builds with enormous subtlety . |
| 29 | Companion stuff from the new album — a gloriously lolloping ‘ Step It Up ’ , the pre-packed next single ‘ Ground Level ’ — rubs slick shoulder with pre-acceptance vintage like ‘ Lost In Music ’ , and the show goes on and on until people are dripping off the walls , and the last kind of urban excitement we need is a joke security alert on Charing Cross Road , which means we are all shepherded out of the Marquee 's tradesmen 's entrances like nuisances , sticking to each other and sapped of claustrophobic dancenergy . |
| 30 | Extraordinary as it may seem , it nevertheless is a fact that plants breathe through their roots , not in the same way as you and I with lungs , but the same chemical process of respiration goes on and , unless like seaweed and water lilies they are adapted to do so , plants can no more live in an airless waterlogged soil than you can live with your head under water . |