Example sentences of "and [pron] [verb] [adv] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The investigator gave her his attention and everyone leaned forward slightly to hear the answer . |
| 2 | So really it sounds the sort of thing that 'll be nice for you and I to go really just to get away from the children . |
| 3 | Oh , I 've been hearing strange noises up in the loft lately and I got up there to see what it was . |
| 4 | ‘ And I got close enough to count them as they rode past . |
| 5 | ‘ There is much to say and I know not where to begin . |
| 6 | Each of them has reached me and I know not how to save myself . ’ |
| 7 | I know that you 're in love with someone and I know exactly how to fuck all that up . |
| 8 | The proof of the pudding as we all know is in the eating , and I thought where better to sample the pudding than at RAF Uxbridge . |
| 9 | But on my way through the old garden I had a strange feeling that something was wrong , and I ran back upstairs to check that Miss Havisham was all right . |
| 10 | When I was about 14 , I remember my sister and I pledging quite seriously to grow up and defy convention ; to be women who still wore jeans and long hair at 30 . |
| 11 | There was a harshness to Inspector Drew 's questions , despite their quiet , almost conversational delivery , and I tried hard not to become uncomfortable under his eye . |
| 12 | I 've I 've got a knitting machine and I worked out how to do it on my knitting machine and made a cot blanket for my newest grandchild and it does really look very effective . |
| 13 | ‘ Such a shame about the weather , and you have n't long to enjoy our Mediterranean climes , have you , my dear ? ’ |
| 14 | ‘ I do n't doubt that , Claudia , but you also want to keep me away from Garry , ’ she added shrewdly , ‘ and you want even more to keep me away from Roman . |
| 15 | In fact , whatever else it may be , Lighthouses is a cornucopia of virtuoso orchestral effects , a continuously shifting , shimmering kaleidoscope of sonority by a composer who seems to know just about every effect in the book , plus many he 's discovered for himself , and who knows just how to use them . |
| 16 | She was back in the present and she knew how best to fill every moment of it . |
| 17 | It was all too obvious what her plot was and she went straight away to see Mrs Browning , resolved to ask outright if Ferdinando was to go to France and if so to plead her case . |
| 18 | It 's her home , and she has nowhere else to live . |
| 19 | Then she realised that the sensation was becoming too pleasant , and she tried once more to pull away . |
| 20 | This was to pay dividends , and we had not long to wait . |
| 21 | And we went away up to gather the violets . |
| 22 | She was feeling thoroughly angry , but she hid it from Jean as she went on , ‘ Ling has shown us where the cakes , sandwiches and asparagus rolls are in the deep-freeze , and we know exactly when to defrost them in the microwave ovens — so why should we worry about Doreen ? ’ |
| 23 | The boats picked us up at a pre-arranged rendezvous and we sped off again to do a foot patrol on the lough shore road . |
| 24 | We need the information the last Labour government er when they were banking er banking crisis in the early er in the early seventies , instituted a series of inquiries , there was an inquiry into London and counties , there was one into London and capital , a series of inquiries which were published , the information was there , we knew what had gone wrong and we knew therefore how to deal with it . |
| 25 | She nodded , and they set off again to find a Venice few tourists saw . |
| 26 | They had little interest in the apparent winners of the elections ; and they seemed no longer to care much what would happen next . |
| 27 | The people who implant the bugs are very specialised and they know exactly where to drill the hole , so it wo n't harm the furniture . |
| 28 | And they went on then to consider lack of understanding of consumers about G M technology as a whole , and made recommendations for erm , er , better labelling , and for a erm , information campaign to be launched as well . |
| 29 | Because they said they 'd always done it and they had nowhere else to put it . |
| 30 | Fortunately the Royal Hotel was on the front , and they had not far to go . |