Example sentences of "and [verb] [adv] [adv] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He described the Budget package aimed at the unemployed as ‘ desperately disappointing ’ , and attacked as totally appalling the decision to increase VAT on domestic fuel . |
| 2 | He nodded and crept forward carefully to examine the driver . |
| 3 | Let us hope and pray that we have faith strong enough and trust deep enough to bring the love that our world so desperately needs . |
| 4 | The system has been continuously discussed and amended in the light of experience and has also thereby provided a most valuable focus for staff support and development . |
| 5 | So a world-war type of war is now underway in the Gulf and has apparently already overpowered the clear and limited UN objectives . |
| 6 | His work remains largely in the hands of private collectors , and has so far escaped the reassessment and appreciation give to fellow Cubists Picasso , Braque and Leger in recent years . |
| 7 | The ‘ Compact Digital Disc ’ ( CD ) came on the market in 1982 , and has now practically replaced the LP as a distribution medium . |
| 8 | Instead of facing the music at Wembley on September 9 , Taylor 's team will play for expenses only on a Spanish Second Division ground that holds only 25,000 spectators and has never before staged a full international match . |
| 9 | Mr Foot took a principled but electorally disastrous stand against nuclear weapons in the 1983 election , and has always vehemently rejected the charge that he or Labour are unpatriotic . |
| 10 | In Britain , Ford Motor Credit has a banking licence , and has therefore already cleared the Bank of England 's ‘ fit and proper ’ hurdle . |
| 11 | The systematisation of common sense is generally a convenience and has sometimes even provided a breakthrough in a subject . |
| 12 | At least Dr Neil and Miss Mates were sitting ; McAllister was standing at the kitchen door , and moved sedately forward to answer the urgent bell . |
| 13 | Then she raised her head and shouted loud enough to make the man on the other side of the river glance towards them , ‘ With every day they waste , ’ before adding in a murmur : ‘ The thread Sam 's life hangs by grows thinner and thinner . ’ |
| 14 | He picked up an electric guitar at the Newport Folk Festival , assembled a band behind him and played loud enough to raise the roofbeams — just like he had done in his high-school days . |
| 15 | He reminded those who felt such concern that " since the war , Japan has dedicated itself to a purely defensive posture under our peace constitution and vowed never again to become a military power such as might pose a threat to other countries " . |
| 16 | The same is true of most Islamic coins , both of the modern and the medieval period , for Islamic rulers and states nearly always included the name of the mint and the date of manufacture as part of the design . |
| 17 | Erm so what I 'm saying is that there is a partnership between the states and the federal government , there is no single fixed correct relationship between the central government and the state government , it changes from time to time er more and more of the cards are coming to the hands of the central government but you would , you would be wise not to underestimate the independence and the diversity of the American states which have a , a genuine er sense of , of local er democracy and difference er and states very frequently resist the federal government . |
| 18 | The centre stands for compromise between president and parliament — and compromise no longer seems a solution to their bitter war . |
| 19 | Greed , frustration , and envy so easily replace a loving relationship . |
| 20 | Otherwise , they will try to stop a swing with the stick and rudder together thus putting the wing-tip onto the ground . |
| 21 | She saw Defries , and paused long enough to make a curious gesture : a closed fist , and the thumb sticking upwards . |
| 22 | Another rumour countered that she had always been unpleasant and had thus never had a love-affair , unhappy or otherwise . |
| 23 | Since the prohibition order was made , he had undertaken a stringent cleaning routine every night after closing and had also successfully completed a hygiene course on the advice of Sefton Council 's own public health experts . |
| 24 | In August he went again to Switzerland , and for a week in September he looked after his grandniece who had travelled to London to see him ; but then he contracted athlete 's foot and had once again to enter a nursing home . |
| 25 | When I was a child and had never even heard the word ‘ regression ’ , I was always fascinated by anything to do with the Tudor period of English history . |
| 26 | As he left court , Bartman said in a statement through his solicitor that he had been horrified and shocked by the murder and had always emphatically denied the allegations against him . |
| 27 | The film was immensely popular and had so clearly struck a chord that Hammer carried out a rethink of its production policy . |
| 28 | Anyway that thought decided me to make for the bedroom but I was late starting and had only just reached the top of the stairs when he was half-way up with the big brown teapot held in his pelting position . |
| 29 | Giancarlo had never known passion , and had only occasionally felt the pull of lust . |
| 30 | It looks like he just and come here just to get a book . |