Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] and [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Seeing the glow of a red and yellow Shell sign ahead , she drives on and pulls into the forecourt of a self-service petrol station . |
| 3 | They contain endlessly frustrated plantation slaves who are rebellious at assessments and in encounters with professionals , but whose views only reach daylight in fragmented and unvalidated form ; and they contain house slaves who agree with everything that goes on and use ‘ massa 's ’ language and concepts , but who believe something else all the time and are waiting for the day . |
| 4 | It goes on and uses the picture of the children of Israel in the wilderness , how they harden their hearts . |
| 5 | Now Agnew again , great ball for Speedy and that 's the kind of defending that Forest have been missing from Colin Cooper Just hurt his shoulder then but he 's er still holding it as play goes on and Whitlow quite clearly holding Collimore then |
| 6 | So Mr is actually going to er talk about that but I just wanted to go through a little sort of resolution , I mean if , if you looked at it , if you looked at number one , it says express this opposition to further expansion and then it goes on and lists Stansted and Luton , but this expansion goes now I mean Stansted is expanding erm daily . |
| 7 | You can fill in the results as the season goes on and re-print it whenever you update it . |
| 8 | Ah but th th th there 's a rack and w one goes on and holds the horn post up to the boot while it 's driven , then it comes out and there 's two , one 's half a tooth , so it ensures one or the other 's in , and they work like that . |
| 9 | And he then actually goes on and writes the passage I began by reading of straight autobiography . |
| 10 | Right I 've mentioned questions you 'll notice that we 've got money and retirement mister John from now most of you may have seen the name in various erm very good speaker John you 'll a you 'll appreciate ca n't really say enjoy his talk because he really goes on and gives you a lot of information you 'll appreciate it rather than enjoy it . |
| 11 | For the searcher who goes on and comes to believe , this is the only possible starting point — a sense of need which may range from a mild discomfort to a deep conviction , but which spurs him to look for a solution beyond himself . |
| 12 | Yes she keep , goes on and do you know three times a day that poor dog walks |
| 13 | Spatial boundaries may vary in their openness , the degree to which they permit outsiders to inspect the phenomenon in question , to find out what goes on and to gain thereby a knowledge of it and a competence in dealing with it . |
| 14 | Well I do n't believe this sort of thing goes on and suggest that Jon Ronson made it all up after reading a dodgy magazine . |
| 15 | The Minchmoor Road turns right and drops down to Yarrowford . |
| 16 | It builds in and reinforces their dominance , but it damages the weaker economies . |
| 17 | When the Farmer has finished he sits down and goes to sleep and begins counting to 100 . |
| 18 | sits down and says . |
| 19 | The student or executive who sits down and works non stop for two to three hours is not using their time productively , as , after fifty minutes , memory , concentration , and attentional skills decline . |
| 20 | Every September we have the small ad hoc Cabinet committee known as the ‘ Star Chamber ’ [ MISC 62 ] in which Lord Whitelaw sits down and tries to bang heads together , and then the Prime Minister comes in at the last minute and bangs heads together even more . |
| 21 | Everyone else sits down and resumes work as though nothing had happened . |
| 22 | Perry sits down and unravels six tiny envelopes , cut of magazine paper , on the low coffee table . |
| 23 | He sits down and writes me a receipt in the shadow of a sign which says ‘ You do n't have to be crazy here but it helps ’ . |
| 24 | To begin with , the trainee sits in and observes the therapist 's assessments ; later their roles are reversed , so that the trainee can be given feedback about his performance . |
| 25 | Take the opportunity to clean out the channel the cover fits in and to fill it with grease . |
| 26 | Secondly , he must make sure Hirst knuckles down and gets his feet back on the ground . |
| 27 | And although he co-produces with Michaela Strachen , she is clearly positioned as his — she 's the bimbo who goes along and enthuses about the dancers , whereas he knows where it 's at musically , because he is , after all , a famous producer — he is the man with the knowledge . |
| 28 | Alternatively the decrease might be due to a progressive increase in vortex pinning in the superfluid as the neutron star slows down and cools . |
| 29 | If too much water is added , the process becomes anaerobic too soon ; if too little water is present , bacterial activity slows down and ceases . |
| 30 | This movement , perhaps only a few metres per hour , continues until the supply dies away at source , and the nose of the flow gradually slows down and stops , still and silent . |