Example sentences of "and [adv] [verb] [pron] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Chairman the , the mechanism is well practised and widely known it starts with the draft two two B in the January the Committee and after a period of about five to six months ' consultation within which the board programme of work of all capitalists are listed and put out to the community for response through their elected organization as to acceptability , five points of detail who were at relatively hirer one man to speak |
| 2 | However , the controversy obscured the clear military fact that Operation ‘ Apache Snow ’ was not intended to hold territory , but rather to keep the NVA occupied and thereby prevent it moving into the coastal provinces . |
| 3 | His mother generally runs after him and eventually gets him to sit in front of the TV with a snack in his hand . |
| 4 | They 're the ones that call radio stations and demand more airtime , scream when the station is not playing the new album , and eventually cause it to happen for you . ’ |
| 5 | Mrs Smith accepted a sherry from her husband and looked resigned about the outcome of the evening and eventually excused herself to see to the dinner , and Mr Smith poured more whiskies and ‘ something harmless ’ for Nutty , which tasted delicious and brought on an amazing feeling of optimism . |
| 6 | I swing round slowly , slowly , and slowly level it to aim at the spider , slowly push it forward against the pull of the concertina pipe behind . |
| 7 | Standing , and slowly lowering her to stand on her own two feet , he stared down into her bewildered face before dropping a hard , swift kiss on her mouth . |
| 8 | You give a good firm aid that would have your youngster wandering gently off to the left and suddenly find yourself falling off the side because the old hand did a sharp left turn ! |
| 9 | They played ‘ ’ Invitation to the Waltz' ’ on Radio 3 this morning' — she was speaking faster and faster , edging towards the gun — ‘ such a heavenly tune , I played it at school , and suddenly found myself waltzing round the kitchen , then Ethel leapt up and waltzed with me , and I thought perhaps there is a life after Hamish . |
| 10 | She felt like someone who suffered from vertigo and suddenly found themselves standing on the edge of a deep abyss . |
| 11 | Coughing and spluttering , she went under , treading water , and suddenly found herself supported by a pair of equally strong arms as she fought for the surface . |
| 12 | As well as saving the animals from dying of thirst , the relocation is also intended to take some of the pressure off the park 's vegetation , and so prevent it turning into desert . |
| 13 | More work is also needed to reduce the memory structures to dimensions of below five thousandths of a micron and so enable it to operate at room temperature . |
| 14 | Such bodies could ease the burden on central government and so help it to concentrate on matters of national importance . |
| 15 | He used to get bored driving around looking for locations alone and so bribed me to go with him by buying me a camera . |
| 16 | He used to get bored driving around looking for locations alone and so bribed me to go with him by buying me a camera . |
| 17 | Apathy occurs as a result of our suppressing negative emotions and feelings , not being able or prepared to deal with them and so letting them accumulate in our unconscious mind . |
| 18 | And so saying he went into the tiny village police station with its distinctive blue lamp and the lettering chiselled into the stone above the doorway which said ‘ King 's Magnum Parva Police Station ’ . |
| 19 | If there is n't anything being laid on , chase it and perhaps get something laid on this summer in the holidays and whatever . |
| 20 | These will probably be things that they would have kept as a matter of course in their store cupboard in earlier days , but have gradually dropped off their shopping list as they grew older and only had themselves to cook for ; so there is no question of giving them new ideas — only trying to revive old ones , which may tempt them to prepare more varied and nourishing meals to achieve a balanced diet . |
| 21 | But he changed his mind and only wanted me to play against QPR when Lee Sharpe went down poorly . |
| 22 | She collapsed , they turned her out of the house , and literally left her to die on the pavement outside . |
| 23 | I did not see the value in teaching him the English equivalents of these words , and merely reminded him to talk in English . |
| 24 | Evangelical religion furnished Hopkins with a powerful rhetoric to arouse mass meetings and personally motivated her to embark on a public career exposing immorality . |
| 25 | A scroll bar with up and down arrows above and below lets you move through the contents . |
| 26 | His original partner had been killed in a shoot-out four years earlier but instead of taking on a new partner Mauer now worked with the rookies , showing them the ropes and generally helping them to settle into the daily routine at the Mozartstrasse precinct as quickly as possible after their graduation from the Police Academy in Vienna . |
| 27 | You know all the guests and something about them ; you can greet , welcome , introduce and generally make them feel at home . |
| 28 | However , the text editor was more accommodating , and had all the utility of the address book except its auto-dialler , which only works with tone-phones ( you hold the machine 's tiny speaker against the phone ) and anyway makes you look like an idiot . |
| 29 | However , he is not certain to be suited by this stiffer test of stamina , and anyway has plenty to find with newcomer PURITAN on Flat form . |
| 30 | And not expecting everything to look as if it 's been lifted straight from the page of a glossy foodie magazine . ’ |