Example sentences of "and [adv] [v-ing] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Du Caurroy 's Fantasies a III , IV , V et VI parties ( 1610 ) are so old-fashioned — instrumental motets , sometimes with long-note cantus firmus , on plainsong or Huguenot melodies — and so lacking in rhythmic vitality that one suspects they were composed long before their posthumous publication . |
| 2 | In my own particular section of the clothing and textiles the union fought long and hard to gain the same rights and conditions for temporary workers , and so leading to permanent employment in most cases . |
| 3 | Rural-urban migrants were able to take advantage of the former , often sending financial assistance back to their relatives in the countryside and so contributing to increased income levels there . |
| 4 | Or — and something came apart in his stomach and turned a revolution and plummeted downwards — were they all politely and patiently waiting with well-controlled longing because it would not be too long now before they could get home and carry on with the lives they preferred without him ? |
| 5 | Attached to the wall of the castle were forty of the creatures , hanging upside down and gently hissing at each other . |
| 6 | O K. It seems to me that and just looking at human nature something is that right ? |
| 7 | George did n't bother to explain the process by which he had deflected the first demand — that Maxim go round to Century House by himself — by a counter-offer of Number 10 ( ‘ As it 's a Saturday , we could use the Cabinet Room ; think how that would look in your memoirs ’ ) — or one of his clubs , naming the one that had been effectively the HQ of the Intelligence Service in the heady days of World War II , and finally agreeing on this no-man's-land . |
| 8 | Henry Livings describes the character of Valentine Brose as ‘ pale and totally lacking in human fire . |
| 9 | These have been followed by a number of local area surveys usually commissioned by Labour-controlled councils and usually focusing on inner city areas . |
| 10 | But the French referendum on closer European ties left a huge headache for Premier John Major , currently EC president and still reeling from last week 's pound crisis . |
| 11 | For example , go to Piccadilly Circus in London and see the statue of Eros , bow in hand and still balancing on one foot after all this time . |
| 12 | Our main 1979 survey was designed largely to throw light on this relationship between people 's knowledge about credit and how they make actual shopping decisions — the first major study to explore this in this country , and more searching in this respect than even the valuable American studies carried out recently for the National Commission on Consumer Finance and the Federal Reserve Board . |
| 13 | This concern should focus first on understanding ‘ how it is possible ’ for corporate crime to be endemic in our ‘ law and order ’ society , and second , and hopefully flowing from this understanding , ‘ how can it be contained or regulated ? ’ |
| 14 | Each one seizing his or her bundle of wraps and nearly tumbling over each other on the narrow stair leading down to the cabin deck . |
| 15 | I wrote to tell him this , and also referring to another book he had sent me , and I received a reply dated 19 March 1937 : |
| 16 | On his journey , fearful and probably suffering from reactionary depression , he slept a night under a broom bush , where he dreamed that an angel touched him on the shoulder and bade him rise and eat . |
| 17 | Radar studies also yielded a more accurate value of the mass of Venus by determining with great accuracy the distances between the Earth , Venus and Mercury , and hence establishing with great accuracy the variations in the orbital elements of these planets . |
| 18 | The products , internally tested over the last six months and now going into formal beta test , will be available direct and through value-added resellers in the current quarter . |
| 19 | The products , internally tested the last six months and now going into formal beta , will be available direct and through VARs in the second quarter . |
| 20 | It should therefore be advertised internally and externally according to agreed recruitment practices , to adhere to CA 's equal opportunities policy . |
| 21 | The work naturally becomes more analytical and mathematically challenging at this stage . |
| 22 | For the tongue-tied it 's worth preparing some stock comments and even preparing for social chit-chat by noting interesting stories in the media . |
| 23 | From Shrewsbury School Hillary in 1937 went up to Trinity College , Oxford , starting to read philosophy , politics , and economics and then moving to modern history . |
| 24 | He marvelled at the girl 's patience as her charge ran hither and thither , collecting shells and seaweed , splashing in the waves at the water 's edge , letting out little shrieks of excitement and then relapsing into relative quietness when food and drink were produced out of a knapsack . |
| 25 | You ask the first question , and within moments six people are disagreeing vehemently with one another in Greek , breaking off to explain courteously in English what each thinks the answer should be , and then disagreeing with equal passion in English . |
| 26 | When they reached the shearers ' quarters she became a bundle of activity , doing all she could to assist Matt in setting up the large barbecue , and then searching for dry wood to boil the water for the billy tea . |
| 27 | No but as erm Mrs has mentioned to me , when it comes to er converting an existing garage into a den or a study and then asking for another garage to be built . |
| 28 | When it is necessary for us to replace cross-grain cornice mouldings we have found that there is no satisfactory alternative to the time-tested , original method , i.e. saw-cutting and then finishing with large radius carving gouges and plenty of sanding . |
| 29 | oh well , there you go paint it all a fairly pale green and then rubbing on dried powder paint like , almost like using pastels |
| 30 | In this Jarmusch does not follow the cinematic norm of letting a sequence develop to a climax and then cutting to another sequence . |