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 .
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