Example sentences of "and [pron] [verb] [adv] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The investigator gave her his attention and everyone leaned forward slightly to hear the answer . |
| 2 | So really it sounds the sort of thing that 'll be nice for you and I to go really just to get away from the children . |
| 3 | Oh , I 've been hearing strange noises up in the loft lately and I got up there to see what it was . |
| 4 | ‘ And I got close enough to count them as they rode past . |
| 5 | The proof of the pudding as we all know is in the eating , and I thought where better to sample the pudding than at RAF Uxbridge . |
| 6 | But on my way through the old garden I had a strange feeling that something was wrong , and I ran back upstairs to check that Miss Havisham was all right . |
| 7 | When I was about 14 , I remember my sister and I pledging quite seriously to grow up and defy convention ; to be women who still wore jeans and long hair at 30 . |
| 8 | ‘ Such a shame about the weather , and you have n't long to enjoy our Mediterranean climes , have you , my dear ? ’ |
| 9 | ‘ I do n't doubt that , Claudia , but you also want to keep me away from Garry , ’ she added shrewdly , ‘ and you want even more to keep me away from Roman . |
| 10 | She was back in the present and she knew how best to fill every moment of it . |
| 11 | It was all too obvious what her plot was and she went straight away to see Mrs Browning , resolved to ask outright if Ferdinando was to go to France and if so to plead her case . |
| 12 | It 's her home , and she has nowhere else to live . |
| 13 | Then she realised that the sensation was becoming too pleasant , and she tried once more to pull away . |
| 14 | This was to pay dividends , and we had not long to wait . |
| 15 | The boats picked us up at a pre-arranged rendezvous and we sped off again to do a foot patrol on the lough shore road . |
| 16 | She nodded , and they set off again to find a Venice few tourists saw . |
| 17 | They had little interest in the apparent winners of the elections ; and they seemed no longer to care much what would happen next . |
| 18 | And they went on then to consider lack of understanding of consumers about G M technology as a whole , and made recommendations for erm , er , better labelling , and for a erm , information campaign to be launched as well . |
| 19 | Because they said they 'd always done it and they had nowhere else to put it . |
| 20 | Fortunately the Royal Hotel was on the front , and they had not far to go . |
| 21 | George got financial support from Parliament for troops to defend his Electorate and they did well enough to maintain his position , but he could not establish in office the ministers he really wanted , who would have been committed to full-scale involvement in Germany , so that he had to put up with a government which was not completely devoted to fighting on the continent of Europe . |
| 22 | His appearance caused a rapid scattering of employees who had outstayed their coffee break , and he sat down contentedly to munch a doughnut with his coffee . |
| 23 | I was wearing a large theatrical ring with an enormous ‘ emerald ’ surrounded by paste diamonds and he bent more closely to look at it . |
| 24 | Its small herd included two sturdy calves , and he ducked down excitedly to report to his father what he had seen . |
| 25 | He was the only champion to go forward and take the microphone , and he stayed behind afterwards to sign autographs and pose for photographs . |
| 26 | In former times he might have been a nobleman 's factotum , now I dare say he is a film director 's personal assistant , and he leans forward obsequiously to catch his companion 's every word . |
| 27 | When words bring the required response there is less need to scream and it becomes all right to ask . |
| 28 | And it becomes all right to ask even though the answer is sometimes ‘ No ’ . |
| 29 | Her voice sounded clipped , rather staccato , and it seemed not properly to belong to her any more . |
| 30 | And it needs not only to provide access to files or data , but actually to connect applications running anywhere on the network — and through the application , to connect the minds that are putting the applications to work . |