Example sentences of "and [adv] [vb base] [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since the Second World War , swings Left and Right have had a knack of coinciding on both sides of the Atlantic , with Wilson riding on the post-Kennedy-Johnson wave , Callaghan coming back with Carter , and Margaret Thatcher heralding the Reaganite counter-revolution . |
| 2 | If a more powerful lord had been shot , with a vast estate , many men might have been thrown out of work and so have borne a grudge against the gunman . |
| 3 | ‘ For your information , I 've still got most of my own teeth and only have to use a walking frame when it 's damp and my arthritis starts giving me gyp . |
| 4 | This suggests that it may be difficult to maintain large power differences and still hope to keep a group happy . ’ |
| 5 | As they are hand reared these spiders become accustomed to Goblins and quickly learn to accept a rider . |
| 6 | They need assistance with the flap mechanism and really need to inspect a Percival Proctor , ideally a dismantled one , to examine the cranks . |
| 7 | A marriage can do the same , provided the couple are prepared to talk things through and really want to make a go of it . |
| 8 | They may also be concerned with relating these types to the symbolic meaning of each code within the community ( an aim which brings them within the scope of ( 3 ) below ) and even seek to establish a theory with predictive power , i.e. the ability to predict instances of switching within a stretch of discourse . |
| 9 | Requests for assistance or consultation lead to a fairly high level of interruption and noise in the office , which may slow down other work and even make holding a telephone conversation difficult . |
| 10 | If anyone would like further information about the tape , and even wish to buy a copy , then telephone . |
| 11 | Will it wait to deal with them when the bills drop on the doormats and then try to compile a list of people entitled to a rebate after the council tax has been introduced ? |
| 12 | Make more use of your tutors — compile a list of queries and then arrange to see a tutor for help . |
| 13 | Recently there has been a certain amount of paranoia from agents who have been tied to short-term agreements , and then have lost a band to the highest bidder just as the act is becoming successful . |
| 14 | and then want to eat a lot , so it 's like , it 's like acidy |
| 15 | But excavations have so far failed to support this image and indeed have indicated a town in decline . |
| 16 | Rebaya and her daughter purchased the materials necessary to men to make incense sticks and again have achieved a degree of financial independence which six months before could not have been expected . |
| 17 | Many retailers today rely simply on jacket design and advertising budgets and never bother to read a text at all . |
| 18 | A more serious problem is the bias of the sources , which reflect the views of the ruling class rather than those of the rebels and therefore tend to paint a picture of disorder rather than to record the grievances which prompted the revolt . |
| 19 | Given their ( rational ) expectations , firms agree to set prices at P in periods 1 and 2 and therefore expect to produce a level of output in both periods equal to y n . |
| 20 | Older people are acutely conscious of the possibility of making too many demands , and commonly try to avoid a situation where they have to rely on their children too much . |