Example sentences of "and [vb -s] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes they were so drunk they fell asleep where they were and lay without pillows or covers until I returned from work , and then I would rage at them in Arabic , telling them that thanks to them my room was no better than the Italian 's pigsty at home ; we used to spit on the ground whenever we went near it , children and grownups alike , shouting exclamations of disgust , even though all we could see of it was the outer fence . |
| 2 | Furthermore , ever since it became an independent department it has wanted to stop being merely a postman between the Treasury and the recipients of funds , and aspires instead to set the policy framework . |
| 3 | The schoolmaster of St. Andrews was ambitious ‘ and aspires eagerly to the dignity of being professor of humanity in this university ’ . |
| 4 | There is insufficient information to resolve the phylogenetic relationships between anomalocariids , onychophores and arthropods exactly , but the first group may be a glimpse of what early arthropod-like protostomes were really like . |
| 5 | But there 's a small issue of beams and motes here . |
| 6 | He refused to listen to Norman Adler , the political consultant hired by a local foundation ; ‘ He simply puts on his army boots and marches ahead , ’ Adler says , regretfully . |
| 7 | But then , about one year in six , some fortunate swirl in the currents brings them back to the island where they first fell into the water a month earlier and at a high tide in December , a horde of tiny crablets no bigger than ants suddenly emerges from the waves and marches valiantly up the beach and on inland to restock the forest . |
| 8 | From early on March 28 the whole of Moscow city centre appeared to be under siege , with lorries and armoured cars blocking all approaches to the Kremlin , water-cannon trucks , mounted police and troops in gas masks stationed in backstreets , and troops on street corners keeping shoppers and sightseers away from the Kremlin . |
| 9 | To keep the Moldavians and Gagauzes apart two regiments of USSR Interior Ministry troops were despatched to the Gagauz districts at Snegur 's request on Oct. 28 . |
| 10 | Other evidence suggesting that LDL is important is that LDL enters the arterial intima from plasma at rates directly related to its plasma concentration ( Niehaus et al , 1977 ; Nicoll et al , 1981 ) and accumulates particularly in atheromatous regions ( Nicoll et al , 1981 ) . |
| 11 | One important question in this area awaits a final answer : if , on its proper construction , the statutory authority exempts the undertaker from Rylands v. Fletcher liability and imposes only an obligation to use due care , upon whom does the burden of proof lie ? |
| 12 | The allocation of the annual budget and grants also falls within its domain . |
| 13 | The social fund is a scheme which makes loans and grants mainly to people getting income support . |
| 14 | She pulls back , laughs , and skips upstairs . |
| 15 | Steve Stoutt , Grimsby 's defender , has joined Lincoln for £10,000 and plays today . |
| 16 | He has been particularly praised as an exponent of the French repertoire and plays regularly for Radio France and in French concert halls . |
| 17 | Neil teaches at the Guildhall School of Music in London and , like most of the artists listed here , teaches and plays regularly for the European Summer School of Arts and Languages at Oxford . |
| 18 | While the 7EGNS has a low action and plays easily , there is a tendency for the strings to buzz , and close inspection reveals the cause to be nut slots cut too deeply on the A and D strings . |
| 19 | He had been talked into editing the Complete Poems and Plays as early as 1959 , with the blessing of the present Lord Ash , an elderly Methodist peer who was a descendant of a remote cousin of Ash himself and heir to the ownership of the unsold manuscripts . |
| 20 | And probably the best thing to do is say is say , Trumpet plays horn two , and plays quietly all the way through , |
| 21 | A team works hard and plays hard , ie its members not only achieve challenging objectives but enjoy themselves as they do so . |
| 22 | A workaholic who rises early and plays hard , he has eschewed the cult of personality which accompanied the rise and fall of so many high-flying retailers of the 1980s . |
| 23 | ‘ I prefer to play the 1963 model because it just looks and plays better , ’ she says . |
| 24 | Cheap fabric soon frays and leather-look plastic stains and splits easily and looks cheap . |
| 25 | I did two kicks , cartwheels and splits then she told me to get dressed . |
| 26 | It cuts well , and splits beautifully , an burns even when it is green ; and it is a fast grower . |
| 27 | With every day its voice got louder , its punches and kicks more hefty . |
| 28 | Lots of pictures of Super Sabres , Intruders , Thunderchiefs , Phantoms etc , all sporting colourful markings ( this was before ‘ low-viz ’ became the in thing ) , Crusaders , Corsairs and Skyraiders also feature in all their glory , as does the F–111 and B–52 . |
| 29 | module names and details ( module names and subtypes only if transfer mode is inhibit or delete ) , |
| 30 | It appears in many guises , and persists even in the communicative approach , despite claims to put language skills in a subsidiary position to communicative skills . |