Example sentences of "and [verb] [adv] [adv] [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In some cases , the star may explode and throw off enough matter to bring its mass below the limit . |
| 2 | Their freedom to pursue careers and to be liberated from child-care and housework depends on the labour of another woman who , although financially independent , is actually struggling and has yet more work to do when she gets home . |
| 3 | His family has been farming the same land for generations but this year he has sown no cereal crops and has not even bothered to string the hops in the hop gardens . |
| 4 | Equally , psychology has been seeking acceptance as a ‘ real ’ science , and has not therefore wanted to emphasize the social side of human action , but rather the physiological , behavioural and physically measurable aspects of human behaviour . |
| 5 | The aircraft had previously been flown in the USA as N190DH until a crash at Sellersburg , Indiana , on September 22 , 1987 , following which it was imported into the UK in 1989 and has only recently completed rebuild in the capable hands of Cliff Lovell , giving us a second airworthy DH.90 alongside Wessex Aviation & Transport 's G–AEDT . |
| 6 | ‘ That the spy here must have special means of conveying such information to his master and has so far failed to use it . |
| 7 | Then common sense and anger got the better of her and she firmed her mouth and concentrated on gently trying to wriggle the key free . |
| 8 | Of course , unless the pilot is aware that the glider is stalled , he is bound to respond instinctively at first , applying full aileron and rudder to try to stop the rapid wing-drop and pulling right back to try to stop the nose dropping . |
| 9 | Forget all those tales of our taking our position at dawn and staying there hardly daring to move . |
| 10 | Many men simply assume that women are on the Pill and do n't even bother to ask . |
| 11 | I normally work on a 33MHz 486 , and do n't ever have to wait much for anything to happen . |
| 12 | ‘ What if I go and do n't never get to come back ? ’ said Dot . |
| 13 | I think by and large that will have no effect on us at all , since most of the independent films that we 're responsible for tend to go out under club showings and do not therefore need to have certificates . |
| 14 | At first I was humiliated to tears ; later I became hardened ; later still I accepted it as a fact and did not even try to deny it . |
| 15 | We can rediscover the continuity of time only in the novels of that period when time no longer seemed stopped and did not yet seem to have exploded . |
| 16 | She spent seven years working for Harper 's Bazaar as a fashion illustrator , also producing book illustrations , and did not really begin to concentrate on painting until during the war , whilst living near Regent 's Park which inspired the spiky pastoralism which often served as a poignant background to her paintings of children . |
| 17 | She turned and ran with her bike the way she had come , and did n't even stop to jump on again , until the-cows were out of sight round a bend ! |
| 18 | Yet she was n't afraid and did n't even bother to open her eyes to find out if she would have to get up and run with Gloria for the shelters . |
| 19 | Papers abroad realised they just could not match us — and did n't even bother to try . |
| 20 | I have in mind a large ball , organised by and in aid of the Book Trade Benevolent Society ( since it failed to put on its annual Carol Service last month and did n't even bother to tell anyone ) , at which the whole book business could get together and celebrate the introduction of the new VAT regime as a way of warding off the post-Christmas blues . |
| 21 | Ace fell over , and did n't even attempt to stand again . |
| 22 | ‘ And to think that I had specially brought that card all the way from Croisset and did n't even get to put it in place ! |
| 23 | ‘ I did n't know her then , ’ he said , repressively , uneasily conscious that he had given Francesca no thought at all that day and did n't much want to think about her now . |
| 24 | She had quite expected him to stop the car on the way home and make a grab at her and she was all prepared to cope with it , had her little speech ready about what a wonderful evening she 'd had but at the moment she was concentrating on her career and did n't really want to waste time on that kind of thing . |
| 25 | He said today : ‘ I was n't sure what was going to happen and did n't really expect to make a decision . ’ |
| 26 | She had known Rose since before Rose was born , and had long since resolved to think nothing about Rose except what suited her . |
| 27 | She had never known anything about that occasion ; her mother had never mentioned it — and had certainly not seemed to suffer any ill-effects herself . |
| 28 | He was nineteen years of age and had only just qualified to receive the King 's shilling ; but now he was a couple of inches taller , shaved and had even come near to losing his virginity . |
| 29 | Her mother feared the trauma of being snatched from her could bring on an attack , and ran around frantically trying to find both the inhaler and the child 's tablets . |
| 30 | Sometimes he gets out of bed and does n't even want to play tennis at all ! ’ |