Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] and [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had not been eating properly and had been drinking more than usual . |
| 2 | For readers there were books and rooms set apart as libraries , and there were people who learnt a great deal and people who read furiously and learnt nothing . |
| 3 | From her student days Pavlova was fired by stories of her legendary predecessor Marie Taglioni , who had travelled widely and appeared to great acclaim in St Petersburg during the 1837–9 seasons . |
| 4 | She has travelled widely and has lived in four countries in the Commonwealth . |
| 5 | A gust of wind throws rain against the window and shakes the frame ; it 's loud and surprising and I flinch but he just turns slowly and looks out into the darkness with what could almost be contempt before laughing and putting an arm round my shoulder and suggesting we have another drink . |
| 6 | Lads like Saints ' Gary Connolly and Alan Hunte have matured tremendously and have great potential . |
| 7 | As the date of the exam came nearer , he decided to go somewhere and read by himself . |
| 8 | This in turn depends on the relevance it has , how important it is to them not to get pregnant , and how easy emotionally and practically it is to go somewhere and ask for it . |
| 9 | He could feel his heart thudding furiously and hoped desperately that he 'd succeeded in making his voice sound casual . |
| 10 | Yet the survey also found the same drivers were far more likely to drive badly and to flout the law . |
| 11 | Right , now this is steep hill so I 've got to go slowly and hang on to you tightly so th buggy does n't run away from me . |
| 12 | ‘ I ca n't remember a horse so far ahead in the Grand National at this stage ! ’ enthused commentator Julian Wilson on BBC television as Crisp came to Becher 's Brook for the second time , still looking uncatchable : galloping relentlessly and jumping brilliantly , he was thirty lengths clear and showed no signs of flagging . |
| 13 | Faithful , reliable dog provided it is treated properly and trained with firm kindness . |
| 14 | Forty four ( 93.6% ) of the remaining 47 patients were dilated successfully and had complete relief of dysphagia . |
| 15 | He has consulted widely and trained , lectured and organised major conferences and seminars both in the UK and overseas . |
| 16 | Push the connector firmly into the boss shoulder making sure it is aligned properly and remove surplus cement |
| 17 | Patients aged between 18 and 75 years presenting to the Royal Hallamshire Hospital , Sheffield with duodenal ulceration were treated medically and had an endoscopy to confirm ulcer healing . |
| 18 | The patient was treated medically and released without further consideration of potential zoonotic disease . |
| 19 | The whole application can be developed locally and split into client/server afterwards . |
| 20 | Eating badly and gaining weight is an unpleasant experience , and should be so different from your new lifestyle that you never want to do it again . |
| 21 | Demand switched , from charters produced locally and confirmed by the attachment of a princely seal , to those written in a prince 's name by his own clerks in his writing office . |
| 22 | Others painted professionally and relied on the sale of works of art to earn a living — these included Thomas Davidson , William Trood , Rupert Dent and John T. Rennie Reid . |
| 23 | The Minchmoor Road turns right and drops down to Yarrowford . |
| 24 | The furniture came with the smell : soft , shiny , billowy and over-decorated like great banks of flowers ; the little lampshades around the walls were all tassels and fringes , the ornaments were fiddly coloured glass and the not-quite-velvet curtains draped artistically and bound with golden cords . |
| 25 | First , the bidder does not have to deal with a series of forms of acceptance from accepting shareholders , making sure that they have been completed properly and dealing with any lost share certificates . |
| 26 | From all this information the team drew up a matrix of crafts , materials and local resources , analysed technologies applied locally and attempted to order skills development in level of difficulty and in relation to social custom as a preliminary to curriculum design . |
| 27 | It leaves it unsolved , but all right , given that our ancestors had this because they wanted to swim sinusoidally and eat , you know , filter feed and do things like that , we do n't swim sinusoidally and filter feed why on earth do we are we so conservative ? |
| 28 | L'Auberge expanded , necessitating the employment of Arnold , a young chef who took over most of the day-to-day running of the kitchen , and Olive , a restaurant manageress who , like almost all the waitresses , lived locally and had been trained on the job by George . |
| 29 | He did n't look back at the sudden commotion behind him and , when a shadow passed over him , merely gibbered weakly and tried to burrow into the horse 's mane . |
| 30 | I was now able to breathe properly and started to feel over my body with both hands . |