Example sentences of "and [adv] [verb] [adv prt] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The day has come when India should go for new faces and not go on trying with the old ones , who have failed us miserably , ’ he said . |
| 2 | But , the layman may object , this does not mean that the communicating classes should be allowed to get an election wrong , and just carry on communicating as if nothing had happened . |
| 3 | If you 've just done a 12-mile ridge-walk then I 'm sure nothing will be further from your thoughts , but if you plan a weekend away with a person you 've fancied for ages and somehow end up heading for a bothy , unless you are totally alone any thought of a fumble in the sleeping-bag should be out of the question . |
| 4 | We were all absolutely fagged out , and promptly dropped off to sleep at 4 a.m. , only to be caught later by some children who betrayed us to the patrols . |
| 5 | Dr Neil , with many a joke , helped them , made change , and once went out to return with lemonade and glasses for all the ladies who were so busy manning the stalls , Mr Sands helping him — the rector being a vague benevolent figure who came in and blinked at them all , said , ‘ I am sure , ladies , that you will all gain treasure in heaven for your noble work here today , ’ and went out again . |
| 6 | But this first impression is grossly misleading — as you 'd realise if you heard Diversion 's rather wonderful EP , ‘ BZ ’ — four short , sharp pop songs which roll around experimentally in a wide field of influences and still come up smelling of roses , mainly because they 're all squashed together into spunky two and a half minute blasts . |
| 7 | She expelled her breath sharply , and automatically reached up to fiddle with the bun at her nape , easing her arms back , trying to release the tension mounting in her shoulders . |
| 8 | Anne Cains , a member of Stockton area International Training in Communication has won her heat in the organisation 's national speech competition , and now goes on to compete against five other clubs in the North-East in the regional heats . |
| 9 | The title and format might lead the casual observer into expecting just another general text ; but closer inspection reveals that the book assumes some basic knowledge of the subject and then goes on to concentrate on those aspects of geology of most direct relevance to society — seismic and volcanic hazards , landslides , erosion , subsidence , groundwater , and so on . |
| 10 | I hope Wilko cuts his losses with our Brian and then goes out to look for a decent striker . |
| 11 | Cox , the cold automaton , got a waltz and , as it ended , stole a kiss , and then ran off giggling up the hill , back to the nursery . |
| 12 | It is n't that all the matter in the Universe started off from one particular point in space and then kept on expanding into the rest of the space . |
| 13 | Visualise a senior executive switching on a notebook PC in a hotel room , plugging the modem into the telephone socket and then settling down to tap into information stored on any of the organisation 's computer systems , anywhere in the world , through a simple click-and-point action of the mouse . |
| 14 | After about 100,000 years or so , the needle of the compass would abruptly become unstable and then swing round to face in the opposite direction , so that what was once compass north would become compass south , and vice versa . |
| 15 | She may have discovered a nest of young rabbits , a delicacy indeed in her terms , had a very good meal and then gone off to sleep within the rabbit 's nest . |
| 16 | Pipkin , who looked round for Hazel and then came over to wait beside him . |
| 17 | Mrs Varden turned over to the next page ; then went back again to the bottom line over leaf to be quite sure of the last words ; and then went on reading with an appearance of the deepest interest and study . |
| 18 | I:58 ) ; and then went on to point to the difficulties faced by such statistical studies . |
| 19 | In a short series of talks entitled Let the Figures Speak , I meditated on the Three Gems , the Four Truths , the Five Great Precepts , the Eightfold Path , and then went on to deal with some of the statistics of Burmese life — birth figures , infant mortality , crime figures , etc . |
| 20 | A good-natured sandy-haired man , he welcomed me into his car with a smile , and then went on talking to the family sitting in the back , a young couple with a baby . |
| 21 | Well , I remember Strawberry Alarm Clock , a bunch of psychedelic nutters from Santa Barbara , who had a massive hit with ‘ Incense and Peppermint ’ in 1967 and then went on to appear in the Psych-Out movie . |
| 22 | His show ‘ A One Night Stand with Sean Hughes ’ transferred for a sell-out run at the Palace Theatre and then went on to play to capacity crowds at the Duke of York 's Theatre in the West End . |
| 23 | He explained about the garden wall and then went on to speak of Ballater 's visit . |
| 24 | He ate a dish of cornflakes while wandering around the kitchen and then went out to look at the Triumph , still parked in front of the house . |
| 25 | I rang immediately for an ambulance , and then went back to stay with her . |
| 26 | She waited for a moment and then walked off to stand in a different part of the ship . |
| 27 | So they follow their pseudo-parents as they set off for the village shops , until they feel themselves getting too far from the ‘ nest ’ , and then break off to return to safety . |
| 28 | As a citizen she was concerned that all too often social workers got an idea in their minds that ritual abuse was taking place , and then set out to look for it , The after-effects , though , were critical , according to Helen Martini . |
| 29 | Caton repeated some earlier experiments on the electro-physiology of nerve and muscle preparations , and then set about recording from the exposed surface of the brain . |
| 30 | We need , therefore , to understand the relationship of gospel to culture in general terms , and then go on to examine in detail its engagement with the specific culture in which we are involved . |