Example sentences of "and [prep] [adv] [pers pn] [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He 's taught me , and is still teaching me , so many things about football and about when you can do things and when you ca n't . |
| 2 | My hon. Friend the Member for Hyndburn ( Mr. Hargreaves ) spoke eloquently about them in general and about how they would apply in his particular case . |
| 3 | Since any argument that is not purely academic is about how the future is to happen then there is much room for subjectivity , both about how we think the future will happen and about how we should like it to happen . |
| 4 | And on a good night the stars would seem to brighten ; if you looked up it was like a clear winter 's night in the city , one of those nights when you find yourself on a dark street , one without streetlamps , and for once you can see that the stars have different colours ; they are like still fireworks . |
| 5 | The gleam in the missionary 's eye suggested that Jaq 's account of how much he could perceive — ‘ Even to a glimpse of the Emperor 's beacon ? ’ — and of how he could hide his own spark of phosphorescence , meant that this lad was singularly blessed . |
| 6 | As it turns out , our long way round through the deaf community , its history , sign language , memory and interpreting has given us an understanding of the concept of Total Communication and of how it might fit into the world of deaf people . |
| 7 | His undergraduates were thus given a sense of the progression of medical knowledge , and of how it might develop in the future . |
| 8 | But now Ellen the time I have long awaited has come and I write to tell you that an Italian maidservant by name of Gigia who is travelling home to Florence having been in Scotland with a family who are friends of the Brownings is to come to you to collect Oreste and take him to Liverpool where she will be joined by Mr Ogilvy and from whence they will sail for Italy . |
| 9 | Figure 8 shows the Utilities Screen and from here you can choose and run a variety of the helpful programs available in DOS5 . |
| 10 | Instead , they had taken up position in one of the shops opposite where they were concealed by heavy wooden boarding and from where they could see directly into Mordecai 's shop . |
| 11 | One could almost go over there to do one 's weekly marketing — or on into Rouen , where the big market day is also on Tuesday , and from where you could bring home butter made from unpasteurized cream , great bowls of tripes à la mode , and duck pâtés , and baskets full of big round Breton artichokes for a tenth of the price we have to pay here . |
| 12 | In elaborating such proposals there is admittedly a strong temptation to indulge in political rationalism : they are by nature proposals which give an important role to action on the part of a ‘ socialist government ’ or the ‘ state ’ within which a socialist government is installed , yet it is often unclear what such a socialist government would look like , how it might come into being and from where it would draw its mass support . |
| 13 | Erm what will happen is that we will er hopefully at this meeting er set a budgetary , budgetary position within the guidelines required by the policy committee and then that will go forward together with all the other service committees to the policy committee on the twenty seventh of January and from then we will go on to the County Council on the fifteenth of February . |
| 14 | That 's the sort of the general trend erm and from there we can go on to other things . |
| 15 | We 'll start down at the far end of what we call the lured mark and from there you 'll have to tack all the way up to this closest one , the windward mark . |
| 16 | The bell tower is the highest building in the city , and from there you 'll see a carpet of red-roofed houses rolled out below you . |
| 17 | These , like the basic set , begin with instructions for all these lovely patterns in the basic state and from there you can run through a gamut of colour alteration , tension experiments and striped treatments . |
| 18 | And from there he would rattle back to Wimbledon and his wife of twenty years . |
| 19 | ‘ I used to go and play basketball at this gymnasium , ’ recalls Randy , as though it were only yesterday , ‘ and from there I 'd go over to this drummer 's house and we 'd jam . ’ |
| 20 | He would have to wait , and until then he would keep as close as he could to the Russian . |
| 21 | To give all his players better club conditions he persuaded his directors to spend money on improving dressing and recreation rooms , and before long he could boast that the Town 's facilities were the best in the country . |
| 22 | He conducts great concerts , and before long he will make the lame walk — and then he does just a good concert and people are disappointed . |
| 23 | But that calculation had gone up in smoke with the original letter , and since then she must have bitterly regretted her rashness . |
| 24 | Leading journalists covering the particular sport were invited to attend the lunch and to give their views on how the sponsorship could best benefit the sport and on how they would like to be kept in the picture . |
| 25 | And also there 's my business card and on there you 'll see that you 've got a contact number |
| 26 | and to where you can hire balls |
| 27 | At Dunollie Point , where the bottom and the life varies considerably , we looked at natural navigation using the bottom , the current , the life , and at how you could use kick cycles , and time , to determine distance covered . |
| 28 | And at once I could do it . ’ |
| 29 | And at once I could smell it on the tied-on head-cushion — that same elusive , old-fashioned perfume of the towel , of the glove . |
| 30 | Unwisely , I let Dana see my drafts of these poems , and at once I could sense his disapproval , his jealousy even , that I had written the poems myself . |