Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [adv] and [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The time demanded in maintaining roses is not great , it does not mean a number of hours or days a week , but it does mean a regular tour around , if only of a few minutes ' duration , perhaps in the evenings , with secateurs in hand to snip or prune away faded flowers , and a puff or spray here and there as and when you find aphids or other pests . |
| 2 | The hostess rang and asked tactfully and hesitantly if I felt like it . |
| 3 | Could our bodies glow red when we only have a day left so we could all sit down and wait comfortably and then when we snuff it we could just disappear . |
| 4 | Liberation does not mean slaying the dragon , but rising above it , growing beyond it , seeing through its tricks and laughing gently and lovingly when it snorts fire at us . |
| 5 | My plan was to increase my pace from normal ( around 3 miles per hour ) to brisk ( 3.5–4.0 miles per hour ) and to walk longer and further as the weeks went by . |
| 6 | And the nearly murdered baby , how was it , where was it , Liz wondered , and found herself involuntarily doing a head count of her own stepchildren and children : she could see Jonathan , Alan and Sally ; her younger daughter Stella was away in Florence studying Italian , for her A levels , and staying safely and respectably as paying guest with art-historical friends of Esther ; but where was her middle stepson , Aaron ? |
| 7 | After all , some people confronted with the same issue might smile quietly and respond gently and constructively until the issue blew over . |
| 8 | They would never , as a family , be rid of her now , for she had now fallen in love with Liz and moped sadly and dangerously when excluded from Harley Street for too long . |
| 9 | Eve knew the battle had to be fought and won there and then before the other students arrived . |
| 10 | If a horse stops pulling once he has settled down and works sensibly and correctly after say , 20 minutes of ‘ whoopee ’ then it is a matter of working through the exuberance stage with as many exercises in the form of transitions and ‘ things to do ’ as possible to occupy the horse 's mind and so try to make him concentrate on his work rather than other exciting stimuli . |
| 11 | Sure enough , a sparkling line of firelight was twitching its way up the hill , the red gleam of flame shifting constantly in the slight breeze , and disappearing now and again as the marchers tracked up or down slopes in the road . |