Example sentences of "and [adv] [verb] [pron] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When his solicitor had phoned to make the appointment , refusing to say why his client wished to see her , she had secretly prayed that fate might intervene and mercifully save her from this meeting . |
| 2 | Model B , on the other hand would effectively ‘ nationalize ’ the 90 or so major institutions and thereby remove them from local control . |
| 3 | ‘ What I 'm saying is that unless you take the opportunity to see the system installed and working you 'll be missing the chance of increasing your knowledge of the product and thereby depriving yourself of valuable information . |
| 4 | By the end of the first decade of the 19th century , he had become quite prosperous and eventually established himself in one of the old Bradley furnaces , building Bradley House around 1817 . |
| 5 | If you are ever attacked by a man with an erect penis , simply grasp it as firmly as you can , and forcibly rearrange it from 12 o'clock to six o'clock — and then run like hell . |
| 6 | Now more people have a stake , with some owning far more than others and most owning none at all . |
| 7 | A subordinate class , such as the working class will , by definition , be low on economic resources and this will reproduce its subordination ; but it may also possibly generate a collective ethic to cope with adverse circumstances and so reproduce itself in this way according to a common cultural identity . |
| 8 | These agents are toxic when given systemically , and so producing them at high concentration within the tumour is an attractive goal . |
| 9 | ‘ Yes , but perhaps he thought I might meet some wealthy man who would instantly fall in love with me and so relieve him of some of the responsibility , ’ she retorted , too angry to even think what she was saying , and then gave a derisive smile when she saw that he was half tempted to believe it . |
| 10 | There is a possibility that transient UOS relaxations may be unusually easy to trigger in some subjects and so predispose them to oesophagopharyngeal reflux . |
| 11 | After a while I stopped telling myself I was n't going to be sick , and — resigned to the fact that I was going to have to throw up at some point — kept telling myself instead that I 'd manage to hold it in until I was back in the flat , and so do it in private , rather than into the gutter in front of people . |
| 12 | Cooks and lawyers need to use words in their own special ways , and so do I in this book . |
| 13 | In 1466 a Bohemian visitor to England commented : … the peasants dig ditches round their fields and meadows and so fence them in that no one can pass on foot or on horseback except by the main roads ' ( 25 , p.53 ) . |
| 14 | By contrast Frances Spalding 's final chapter , ‘ The Modern Face ’ , is surprisingly tentative for such an experienced writer : she obviously contemplates deserting the more endangered of Bloomsbury species the rank amateur as opposed to the merely amateurish but in the end mounts a token defence , and so damns them with faint art history . |
| 15 | The plants are trained up a string which is zig-zagged up and down to train it in one place . |
| 16 | Some people tell us to keep Moby on a tight lead and only walk him in one or two places ; others tell us not to let him off the lead as his bones are n't yet strong enough to take the strain ; some tell us to relax and hope he grows out of it . |
| 17 | They deteriorated with time , and the only way to prolong their life was to store them carefully in airtight containers and only wear them on special occasions . |
| 18 | She did routine office stuff for the rest of the day , and only re-read it at five . |
| 19 | Styling outside and inside distinguishes it from big brothers |
| 20 | She would be hurting no one because , even if Rune had lied and was still involved in some emotional way with Lotta , the Swedish girl had already assumed they were lovers and obviously accepted them in that role without suffering undue pain . |
| 21 | Again from Australia had come Sister May Kenny with her method of nursing the child incessantly in the arms , massaging the withering limbs and gently lowering them into warm water . |
| 22 | We are aware that serial killers and the like are merely expressing themselves , working out their various hang-ups and generally freeing themselves from those inhibitions which might , if suppressed , make them less complete human beings . |
| 23 | Obviously there is a very delicate balance between erm demanding too much of people 's time in consulting and talking with you , and not involving them at all , and you have to be very sensitive to how much time people are prepared to give and how much they want to be involved in something . |
| 24 | I could n't stay here and not throw you on that bed and take you , again and again and again , until you could n't hide from me any longer ! ’ |
| 25 | As Gorbachev had himself told the Central Committee in February 1988 , in the ideological sphere above all they must be guided by their Marxist-Leninist principles and not forgo them under any circumstances . |
| 26 | If the two novels were to be recast in late post-Freudian terms it would be clear how completely our attitudes have changed towards amatory and social matters : it is difficult to read the Ruritanian stones now in the way Anthony Hope 's first readers did and not to dismiss them as mere escapist romances . |
| 27 | It has been known for caterers to come in at 8am , turn all the ovens on and not use them for three hours . ’ |
| 28 | At Sussex we actually make a third of the time they spend on the university component of their courses compulsory work in science — that is to say every student does it — so we can actually do something about it practically by looking at our processes of initial training and coming to realise what an important section of the world this is and training teachers accordingly , and not to leave it at that but to continue with erm progressive and planned in-service training of teachers . |
| 29 | At Sussex we actually make a third of the time they spend on the university component of their courses compulsory work in science — that is to say every student does it — so we can actually do something about it practically by looking at our processes of initial training and coming to realise what an important section of the world this is and training teachers accordingly , and not to leave it at that but to continue with erm progressive and planned in-service training of teachers . |
| 30 | That could , that needs to be maintained , it could also be extended , though of course they have great difficulties because of er their , their own financial restrictions , but we also , I think as a community , need to think about who these homeless people are , and , and not to regard them as some kind of alien population , but to realise that there are , they are our own neighbours , they are our own families that are in this predicament , and that collectively we need to join together and actually make demands on central government and locally to try and do something about it . |