Example sentences of "and [adv] [pers pn] [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | From that point we searched and searched for blues music and eventually we evolved into a ‘ blues band ’ . |
| 2 | replied the doctor in his delightful Scottish accent ( and rather I think with a lovely Highland lilt to it ) . |
| 3 | Caroline looked back at him and suddenly she thought of an old fable , the one in which a traveller had to choose which of two doors to open , knowing that behind one lay safety while behind the other crouched a tawny black and gold tiger . |
| 4 | And so they came to a negotiated settlement by which the Soviets agreed to withdraw the missiles and the United States promised that they would not interfere with Castro again , although from that day to this they have maintained of course their economic embargo . |
| 5 | And so they came to a negotiated settlement by which the Soviets agreed to withdraw the missiles and the United States promised that they would not interfere with Castro again , although from that day to this they have maintained of course their economic embargo . |
| 6 | Because of a longstanding health condition , her father was not considered physically suitable for the armed forces and so he worked in a munitions factory not too far from their home . |
| 7 | They had nothing to drink , nothing to eat , they kind of hibernated and apparently they lapsed into a state of , of a kind of hibernation and inactivity , but they were still alive and they were alive when they , when they were pulled out fourteen days later . |
| 8 | But your er basic style of steering , and naturally we come from a training establishment , we think and we practise the push-pull method . |
| 9 | The girl opened a door with a Yale key — giving even this limited movement a lucid flow of limb — and together they stepped into a dark room . |
| 10 | I think in any marriage or in any family the father and the mother both play different parts , and in my own life I can remember things my mother did and things my father did and together it made for a happy home . |
| 11 | The untouched paper was left to represent the dense central mass of twigs , and the more open lattice of branches above and below it silhouetted against a lighter background . |
| 12 | One day in April he was summoned for an interview at Group Headquarters in connection with this application , and away he went with a dispatch rider in a motorcycle and sidecar . |
| 13 | When you reach a signpost saying White Creek and Arnside , cross the broken wall , turn left and soon you emerge onto a grassy clearing giving a first class view onto the sands — and no wood ants ! |
| 14 | Open pastureland succeeded the neglected wood as I walked on , and soon I came to a rough circle of boulders on a mound — Lisheen , the little fort , home of fairies . |
| 15 | It was difficult to believe that she was only a few years younger than his mother ; both mentally and physically she belonged to a different generation . |
| 16 | She strolled around the perimeter of the room as he poured the pale amber liquid , her fingers skimming over a small marble figure of a faun , then across a tiny enamelled box , and finally she paused before an oil-painting of a man . |
| 17 | Time after time I stumbled over some hummock of tough grass , and once I went into a creek up to my shoulders . |
| 18 | And again you would expect socialization and environmental factors to operate , and clearly they do in a trivial sense . |
| 19 | HAVING the only large area of concrete within the town boundary , Wallingford 's forecourt has become the ‘ traditional ’ assembly area for all the local activities from scouting to carnival parades and now it seems for a 1920s engine boiler ! |
| 20 | His tone had changed again , and now he spoke like a worried father who still lives in hope for his son . |
| 21 | She came of a family whose heads felt cold in the night ( their father had worn a nightcap ) and now she rose to a sitting position looking , in the gloom , like some eastern potentate , her beautiful nose and high forehead all surmounted by what seemed to be a turban but was actually some sort of woolly garment skilfully disposed about her head . |
| 22 | But that was as far as you could go and often he became in a rather dubious position himself through doing that sort of thing . |
| 23 | If I saw the duck-rabbit as a rabbit , then I saw : these shapes and colours ( I give them in detail ) — and I saw besides something like this : and here I point to a number of different pictures of rabbits . |
| 24 | Only the spire of the church could be saved , and today it stands as a stark reminder of that devastating night in August 1989 . |
| 25 | Ignoring the paladin 's complaints , Cleo kicked Contralto 's flanks to make him trot , and presently they came to a place where the path widened . |
| 26 | We soak the feet in nice , erm , antiseptic soapy water , and when we think the feet have soaked enough for the skin to become soft , we take the feet out and then we rub with a foot file to get rid of the hard skin . |
| 27 | And then we went to a few Western shops to get our costumes for the Urban Cowboy premier . |
| 28 | And he bou he bought me this top and he bought me a , a polo neck and bought me a C D and then we went out to supper and then we went to a pub and everything and erm , you know , had a really decent conversation with him and just talking to him makes me think , you know , and it dawns on me that he 's just a big he 's just a big child and he 's not , he 's never grown , he 's not , you 're not gon na grow up . |
| 29 | Oh yeah all the all the hits er like er Bunch of Time and and Maggie and Old Flames and after all these years , if did n't do those you 'd be shot afterwards like but er what we do with the songs that that were like you know hit singles and that people really come to hear we make sure that you know that we do those and then we put in er you know what we think would be the favourite ones from albums and then we add in a sprinkling of the stuff from the new album so you know we give them a good cross-section for an hour and a half and then we have a good first half of the show as well we 've got first half of the show as well and our band go on with him for forty minutes and er they perform as well a few soloists and er then Tony and myself come on and we do an hour and a half and we go right everything we do on stage we have recorded at some time , we do n't do something that we have n't recorded . |
| 30 | I suppose we had gone about half the distance we had to cover , and then we broke into a trot and some of the men began to shout . |