Example sentences of "and [adv] [v-ing] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I crept downstairs and was outside and successfully making for the front gate when Ted sprinted around the side of the house and grabbed me . |
| 2 | As I have argued elsewhere ( 1989 , pp. 169–71 ) , the temple functioned rather like a great medieval abbey , drawing and re-allocating large revenues from the surrounding area and thereby developing into a major centre of wealth and power . |
| 3 | He was a hulk of a man in his middle fifties , inches taller than Maxim and instinctively stooping under the low beams of the tap-room . |
| 4 | And although there are large numbers of people happily and effectively working with the same standalone , two-dimensional , text-based products that came free with their PCs several years ago , in the world of corporate computing a little more is needed . |
| 5 | The presence or absence of increases in anal pressures and external sphincter electromyographic activity during a maximum squeeze , straining ‘ as if to defecate ’ , and forcibly expiring against a fixed resistance ( blowing up a party balloon ) were noted , and where relevant the responses quantified . |
| 6 | It is perhaps more exciting , however , to leave one 's discoveries to chance ; thee can be great satisfaction in wandering round an old country church and suddenly stumbling across an 18th or 19th-century Persian rug that no one has recognized before . |
| 7 | In the same period , kin links were an important mechanism for recruiting labour , and so living in the parental household would have given young people increased chances of finding work , as well as providing them with accommodation which they might not have been able to afford on their own . |
| 8 | At Oyash , 50 miles north-east of Novosibirsk , a small wooden station with a distinctly Orientalist feel to its carved wooden decoration was dominated by a water tower , similarly decorated , which provided the upward thrust so common in Western stations in the nineteenth century and so lacking on the Trans-Siberian . |
| 9 | The idea was this : When the star becomes small , the matter particles get very near each other , and so according to the Pauli exclusion principle , they must have very different velocities . |
| 10 | It is pleasant to think of the two new Cuddesdon students , pushing their bicycles up the hill together from Wheatley station that July day of 1927 , and so meeting for the first time . |
| 11 | They contained articles by a variety of writers ( including politicians , and teachers ) each of whom had one common aim and purpose — to show that progressive methods in both primary and secondary schools were ‘ selling children short ’ and so contributing to the general permissiveness which ( they said ) was undermining the traditions of British society . |
| 12 | She hitched up her dress , and swiftly reaching beneath the full skirt , whipped her knickers down her shapely legs . |
| 13 | That is why , when we are about to take a free kick , Phil Meek will pull his bottom lip up over his nose and Micky Deere will leap up and down pointing to an imaginary burning Zeppelin . |
| 14 | Built in the hybrid style which has been dubbed ‘ artisan mannerism ’ , the house is exuberantly detailed and entirely lacking in the Italianate sophistication of the court style of Inigo Jones [ q.v . ] . |
| 15 | The church has had to decide whether it 's going to be on the side of the rich , the landowners , the establishment , who are a very small minority , or the poor , and generally speaking over the last fifteen or twenty years in Latin America it 's opted to be on the side of the poor and underprivileged , and theology has grown out of that terribly real situation , not something you learn from books , but something you do because you do n't have enough food in your belly , you ca n't provide for your family , the father 's been locked up , and that kind of theology , that kind of understanding of God , is really rather alien , I think , still to the kind of concerns most Europeans will have because they do n't face those very extreme conditions . |
| 16 | Greg went quietly up the stairs and saw Hilary Seymour-Strachey , in his shirt-sleeves , gazing , grunting , altering positions , and generally acting like a first-time mother . |
| 17 | She reluctantly followed Nicole outside , certain that she was verging on dragging her steps and generally acting like a twelve-year-old delinquent on the way to the principal 's office . |
| 18 | Clearly , this policing role , giving legal form to religious doctrine , and generally making for an ordered and ‘ tidy ’ society , was never successfully performed . |
| 19 | My old man had this thing about all of us [ a family of ten ] growing up in this society and not getting into a black thing . |
| 20 | Second , most people who are in work are keeping their heads down and not looking for a new job , so there is less competition from those in work . |
| 21 | Hodge : At 31 and not playing in the first team . |
| 22 | If you 're simply replacing the old cistern — and not putting in a new system alongside the old you will be without water for some considerable time while the job is done . |
| 23 | I would imagine what they 're doing is raising the roof and not putting in the second storey . |
| 24 | Politically , between-ness ‘ help[s] to abolish the frontiers of misunderstanding with frequent changes of partners loyalties convictions , free and easily stepping over the old boundaries ’ ( 43/437 ) . |
| 25 | Hermione Lee pinpoints what I feel about this novel — that although its subject is depression and waiting for death , it does not feel gloomy because of its own formal delight , its interest in language , including the contrasted languages of the sophisticated ‘ writer ’ , the Professor , a historian of the European exploration of America , and Tom Outland , the indigenous traveller , discovering the primeval inhabitants , but teaching himself to read Virgil , and thus exploring in the other direction . |
| 26 | Thus the endeavour to replace as much as possible of institutional with community care is a Sisyphean labour , which encounters the maximum obstacles , financial and organisational , quite apart from the fact that the responsibility for developing community care is fragmented and isolated through residing , in large part , with local health authorities and thus falling within a different system of finance and budgeting . |
| 27 | Derrida , of course , endorses this formulation , but stresses the principle of arbitrariness and differences as against the notion of the sign itself , since it risks degenerating into an entity and thus reverting to a metaphysical concept . |
| 28 | This is not an amalgamation for its own sake , it is not an amalgamation to manage a continuing and more comfortable decline , it 's not bolting together two super unions into one mega union and just hoping for the best . |
| 29 | I mean one day , I mean I was in a customer care meeting for three hours on Monday , so obviously I lost some there , but you know , that particular day I was on a , just on the phone personally on my B M S for just over three hours , and just looking at the other things that I had to deal with . |
| 30 | If you are female , more than two stones overweight , and just embarking on a weight-loss programme — as opposed to switching from another slimming diet on which you have already lost some of your surplus weight . |