Example sentences of "and [verb] [coord] [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a precaution , Alexandra took her fork round to the far side of the wain , in case her mother should be looking from a window , and plunged and twisted it in most expertly in order to bring out a huge wedge of tawny grasses , cut last summer in these very meadows . |
| 2 | Byers Green was designated category D. Peggy Hutchinson objected and fought and saved it from demolition . |
| 3 | In June too , after an attempt to repel the rebels had failed , and the leaders of the royal force , Sir Humphrey Stafford and William Stafford , had been killed at Sevenoaks , the government had tried to placate the Kentishmen by arresting Crowmer and Say and sending them to the Tower , and when Cade 's men entered London in July , those two were among their earliest victims ( 16 , p.192 ) . |
| 4 | Whirlwinds , water spouts , twisting and entangling and spinning us to destruction . |
| 5 | ‘ Very likely not , but that does n't dispense me from taking nourishment at regular intervals , nor other people from cooking and serving and ordering it for me . ’ |
| 6 | Better to surrender quietly to that hell of pain , to slide into it , to crumble and fold like burning straw , to merge and coalesce and become one with it , until , phoenix-like , she floated away on the other side , whole and free . |
| 7 | The paupers continued under the care of the churchwardens and overseers of the parishes until the House had been built , but then the directors had powers to apprehend vagrants , single pregnant women , and other malefactors , to admit them , and to set and keep them at work — but only for a maximum of six months . |
| 8 | If you have to share , clean the used equipment immediately it was last used , separate the needle , barrel and plunger and clean them in hot tap water and washing up liquid , remove all traces of blood , rinse the works thoroughly with clean water and do the same with any spoons etc . |
| 9 | I shook my head , and she smiled and nodded and patted me on the shoulder and padded off to the kitchen . |
| 10 | It twisted and turned and bore her into an ominous and derelict suburb , stark in the orange street lights . |
| 11 | Jason and Rachel Sheffield rush between us , helping with the boat , and there is Jean who has been our main support and encouraged and organized us through all the long months of preparation , fed us , nagged us and even done my washing ! |
| 12 | They bound Guthlac ‘ in all his limbs … and brought him to the black fen , and threw and sank him in the muddy waters ’ . |
| 13 | For those who wish to escape the hustle and bustle and lose themselves in the peaceful Nottinghamshire countryside , the working farms of the Nottinghamshire Farm Tourism Group offer a taste of the rural tradition . |
| 14 | within the first-aiders and the , and obviously to try and try and drive it to them on that issue . |
| 15 | Then you 've got to go and try and find somebody from Birmingham saying and erm |
| 16 | Our business is to ensure that what we are doing now is done properly , not to take on board new activities and try and finance them at the expense of groups which are already suffering very poor , or at least inadequate services . |
| 17 | and I 'm just wondering if maybe , maybe we will just have to do a wee bit of work and try and get something on the go to see if somebody will |
| 18 | Buy a caravan with a horse , maybe , and try and make it into an adventure . |
| 19 | Because of the way that erm the school changed over from having a system of streaming in its first three years , to a system where mixed ability was introduced year by year from the first to the third year , I was able to follow two groups of pupils through the school — one lot of pupils in their streamed classes , and then another lot following them on in their mixed ability classes — and try and discover something about the differences in their experience of school in the two different modes , in the streamed and in the mixed ability classes . |
| 20 | Because of the way that the school changed over from having a system of streaming in its first three years to a system where mixed ability is introduced year by year from the first to third year , I was able to follow two groups of pupils through the school , one lot of pupils in their streamed classes and then another lot following them on in their mixed ability classes , and try and discover something about the differences in their experience of school in the two different modes , in the streamed and the mixed ability classes . |
| 21 | In the first instance we go to work in order to eat and drink and provide ourselves with shelter . |
| 22 | Would you like to take the trug from the kitchen cupboard and go and collect them for me ? ’ |
| 23 | They could all go hang ; she 'd switch them off and go and submerge herself in the bath for half an hour . |
| 24 | One day Tod took from the trash a framed certificate and went and hung it on the toilet doornail . |
| 25 | Watford were the better team in the second half they pulled level with a header from Julian Alsford and went and won it in the very last minute with a great strike from Gary Porter … |
| 26 | Watford were the better team in the second half they pulled level with a header from Julian Alsford and went and won it in the very last minute with a great strike from Gary Porter … |
| 27 | And he seemed more alert than when he had left , less inclined to shrug and yawn and leave everything to her . |
| 28 | Finding people and educating and training them without them being aware that it 's being done is very important . |
| 29 | And I would have got it together if I 'd had time had gone out to work instead of for days on end being unemployed and sitting and telling me about Karen . |
| 30 | Unless you 'd rather we all bowed and scraped and addressed you by your noble title , Roman ! ’ |