Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] and [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There wuz a bit of trouble outside the school gates when Sinead O'Connor said she was n't coming on the trip because she disapproved of buzzes and then she got on and took the best seat , ie the one at the back where me and Graham normally sit and smoke No6 . |
| 2 | The aim is to clarify the issues underlying such questions , drawing on and developing the appropriate economic theory , and to provide some concrete empirical evidence . |
| 3 | But I was determined to carry on and won a full scholarship to the Escuela Normal , the teachers ' training school . |
| 4 | Fenella was trying to be very patient , because it was not in the least unreasonable of Caspar to want to go on and leave the Dark Workshops as far behind them as possible . |
| 5 | Another reason to be grateful for all the publicity and discussion about child abuse is that former victims are seeking treatment at a far earlier age than was previously the case and therefore are able to go on and live a normal life once that treatment is complete . |
| 6 | ‘ I would say , just sit down and tell a good story , and to hell with the morality , ’ Allan Ahlberg declares . |
| 7 | Anyway , when it all gets too much and you ca n't bear the thought of writing another Christmas card or eating another mince pie just sit down and have a quiet read of your NCT newsletter ! |
| 8 | Just sit down and watch a ruddy tape you know and |
| 9 | But the next time this happens , instead of hurling buckets of water , switch on a tape recorder and then , the next day , sit down and enjoy the feline opera at your leisure . |
| 10 | That was quite nice , to see somebody that I 'd been in prison with and still be able to sit down and talk the same old way . |
| 11 | So far , man has described and named about 700,000 of them and there are certainly three or four times as many still unnamed , awaiting the attentions of anyone who has the time , patience and knowledge to sit down and make a systematic review of them . |
| 12 | Because it obliges you to sit down and make a careful observation of the chosen subject , you discover so much more than by just pointing a camera . |
| 13 | Since no scientist was prepared to sit down and do a comparable amount of research in order to demolish a theory which seemed so patently to be a load of rubbish , they all simply cried ‘ Rubbish ! ’ and stamped their feet . |
| 14 | In the wake of the War of Independence , Americans were able to sit down and generate a political system from first principles . |
| 15 | ‘ The staff at the Hillcrest then invited my husband Bill and myself to sit down and have a special anniversary dinner — I felt very glamorous indeed ! ’ |
| 16 | Somewhere in the period between the time that early man first made for himself a ‘ god ’ , and the time when evidence of ‘ god ’ worship was left for later generations to find , the use of ‘ gods ’ for purposes which were largely intended to create unfair privileges , and were therefore a source of evil , gradually crept in and became a widespread part of the social scene . |
| 17 | After dark the men of the SAS crept in and obtained the necessary tentage and equipment to set themselves up , including even a piano for the officers ' mess . |
| 18 | Never having read a word of Norse ( Old Icelandic ) before , Lewis plunged in and attempted a few lines of Laxdaela Saga . |
| 19 | She got in and held the door-open button . |
| 20 | And a few miles away Antony heard the boughs of the sycamore tree sawing together and watched the sinister patterns moved by the wind across the frosted glass of the bathroom window . |
| 21 | This , however , only reflects the complexity of the area and the difficulties of bringing together and understanding the diverse responses of individuals . |
| 22 | To get around this limitation Lotus Microsoft and Intel got together and invented a special type of memory — expanded memory or Lotus-Intel-Microsoft ( LIM ) memory . |
| 23 | A number of them , including Matthew Robert Burns , q.v. , and Walter Geikie q.v. , got together and established the Congregational Church for the Deaf and Dumb , Edinburgh , in June 1830 . |
| 24 | If we 're going to go in and make a positive impact in certain parts of the region , erm then both my staff and myself and our colleagues who are working in the arts in the region have got to pull even harder together to make sure that we can make the partnership between us bureaucrats and the artist really be as effective as possible for the broadest range of the community . |
| 25 | The key factor in all these possibilities is the capability of drawing together and distributing a wide range of interactive facilities within a single information environment . |
| 26 | But if Ken wanted to sit in and watching the good results coming in |
| 27 | Then they moved on and repeated the whole performance 's two streets away . |
| 28 | The problem seems to lie , as it lay for the requirement that there be no relevant falsehood , in the way in which new true beliefs can be added piecemeal and overturn the existing justification , while there remain yet further truths waiting in the background to overturn the overturning . |
| 29 | George Albert Smith was later of course erm to come on and make a big name , a world name for himself as the inventor of the first colour process , a very simple , two-colour process , but it was invented by him in Brighton , and it was the first world colour process . |
| 30 | It holds on and keeps the gentle tears away . |