Example sentences of "and [verb] [adv] [conj] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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1 | The UN will have to understand the complexities completely , and act firmly and sensitively to encourage re-unification and co-operation . |
2 | In the spring of 1937 , June went to Bellevue in Manhattan to have the baby , and returned quietly and resolutely to begin the charade that had been pre-determined , that the child had been born to her mother and father , Ethel and John . |
3 | But when she thought about the future , about staying at home , then marrying Georg and just moving over the ridge , and starting there and then to have babies and spend every day in the dairy the way her mother did , a terrible sense of panic overtook her . |
4 | Faced with the prospect of Nissan 's Washington plant in the UK training its sights on the mainland and upping exports to as much as 70 per cent of production — that 's 140,000 cars a year by 1992 — the two most powerful men in French industry locked themselves behind doors and decided then and there to up the ante in the fight against the Japanese . |
5 | He applied his right eye to the hole and blinked once or twice to accustom himself to the darkness . |
6 | Affronted , Grunte urged the driver onwards , and determined there and then to abandon any idea of making a formal speech and to encourage questions from the girls instead . |
7 | He felt strong and wanted more and more to reach somewhere that had less evidence of the patterning of Man . |