Example sentences of "[verb] [noun pl] [conj] [adv] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 Now that 's the kind of information that is absolutely vital for them to understand , in fact for us — I mean I myself am from the Third World — to understand what the problems are , but which can only be achieved with centres in the developed countries that are prepared to make this into a working programme erm for the benefit of both , because in very many cases improving erm the lot of the Third World on the question of revenue from commodities will also improve their position , or the British or the American , or the European consumer , by eliminating intermediaries and so on and so forth .
2 At the end of the nineteen twenties the policy from Moscow , not just to the Chinese Communist Party but actually to communist parties all over the world swings dramatically to the left and Stalin is arguing that there 's , there are going to be revolutionary explosions all over the world the Communist Party must forge its own path , it must put itself at the head of these struggles , it must give a lead to the masses by launching insurrections and so on and so forth .
3 Two others , wearing raincoats over their underwear , would be waiting at the bar or similar , ready to join the fray shouting ‘ Boozebusters ’ and things like ‘ Your wife/secretary/boss is taking you out of here now ! ’ and then they would spray foam , throw cards , pop party-poppers and so on and drag the victim out to a waiting fast car .
4 The second half of the century was a period of intolerance , of deepening division not only between Catholic and Protestant — though a Catholic emperor , Maximilian II , could still favour Lutherans and as late as 1583 a Catholic Archbishop of Cologne could contemplate marriage to a nun — but between Lutheran and Calvinist and even within the various religious camps .
5 Freud assumed that the nervous system 's main task is to abolish stimuli and as far as possible ‘ maintain itself in an altogether unstimulated condition ’ .
6 ‘ Since the situation is unavoidable I suggest that now you 're better you make yourself as useful as possible , preparing meals and so on while I get on with my work .
7 Knights come first , then come DBEs , then come CBEs and so on and so forth , until you get down to the lowest award , which I think is the British Empire Medal .
8 You can produce a directory listing , move between directories , invoke PI routines , copy and edit files and so on as you would expect from the $ prompt .
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