Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] and [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he took not the slightest notice of her demand Laura closed her eyes , forcing herself to breathe slowly and deeply as she desperately tried to pull herself together . |
| 2 | Find another two people to be prayer partners with you once a week so that some of these prayer burdens can be shared and agreed on and so that you can be spurred on by each other 's zeal in prayer . |
| 3 | Yeah because if I work it out I 'll just know that i it made so and so but I wo n't know that it gave off that I 'll just remember that it made like zinc chloride or something I wo n't remember |
| 4 | When Hook , communing with his ego , murmured , ‘ How still the night is ; nothing sounds alive … split my infinitives , but ‘ t is my hour of triumph ’ , the mast creaked ominously and all but fell against the backcloth . |
| 5 | Despite the pain , he rode better and harder than ever and in the last five races stood on the podium four times and came within 12 seconds of his first GP win . |
| 6 | Liberation does not mean slaying the dragon , but rising above it , growing beyond it , seeing through its tricks and laughing gently and lovingly when it snorts fire at us . |
| 7 | His fortune changed suddenly and dramatically when all America watched his acceptance speech on TV . |
| 8 | In 1987 , when she entered the House of Commons as the MP for Norfolk South West — a safe-as-houses rural Tory seat — she was already 46 , with none of the outward trappings of a high-flier , merely a proven ability to work swiftly and effectively and an unthreatening charm . |
| 9 | Could our bodies glow red when we only have a day left so we could all sit down and wait comfortably and then when we snuff it we could just disappear . |
| 10 | Or you could make under-curtains in a lighter , toning or contrasting fabric to pull backwards and forwards while the original curtains remain stationary . |
| 11 | And Seren Haminh , in the instant before dissolution , saw and knew and understood that she was dying utterly and completely and forever , as the shock and agony and terror screamed to infinite depths , Fox linked and shared , high and higher . |
| 12 | To accept finally and irrevocably that there was no romance in her life , that romance was a deep killer , a consuming passion and that she was too tough a woman to be consumed . |
| 13 | All I could see of her was the tip of her nose on Richard 's other side , bobbing backwards and forwards as she walked , like a bird eating grain . |
| 14 | ‘ This sort of thing is happening more and more because the criminals think they can get away with it . |
| 15 | and it grown and that 's it , no , they 've got ta bombard it with chemicals and all sorts , they want more and more but what 's the good of producing more and more , but all these people all over the world dying of hunger |
| 16 | Cos he want more and more and more . |
| 17 | Tempted to back out while there was still time , Chesarynth knew she had to find out and quickly if she wanted to stay alive . |
| 18 | But when he was n't fighting shadows , he 'd just spend the morning dozing on his mattress while I paced back and forth and sometimes did a few push-ups and other exercises . |
| 19 | It is clear that time will be allowed for improvements to be carried out and only when it is clear that there is no prospect of the business in question being able to operate without causing an odour , which amounts to a statutory nuisance , will the court permit the issue of a writ of sequestration for contempt of court , in committing breaches of the undertaking not to cause a statutory nuisance , thus closing the business down without compensation . |
| 20 | I kept wandering around for a few hours , with no idea where I was or where I was going , then somewhere along the line I chanced upon an open space where there was the odd bench scattered here and there and I used one of these for my lie-down . |
| 21 | Quite often it has n't and even if it has it may be helpful to call the recipient with information on delivery and timing . |
| 22 | One thing that works at this time forget today and yesterday and all the week it 's the number of children that come into this playhouse now we have us we have a thing called work experience where they come from the school 's and the poor little bugger 's have got ta work with me . . |
| 23 | Peeling and torn adverts advertise the ‘ Summer Sun ’ a middle aged woman , in a tweed suit looks up and reads it as an excuse to turn away from her neighbour , an ‘ undesirable type ’ or a young again middle aged man greased back hair , a black fake leather jacket with sheep skin bits appearing here and there and a necklace protruding from his left nostril eventually attaching itself to his right ear . |
| 24 | This , in effect , ensures that all ferrets are ready and willing to work fully and properly and there will be no unnecessary delays or complications that could have been prevented . |
| 25 | The task facing the Supreme Commander changed abruptly and fundamentally but became no easier . |
| 26 | She tried again and again until Jack grabbed his own . |
| 27 | " Although I did my utmost to preserve an emotional detachment " , he writes , " I found again and again that the material under my hands was strangely alive ; it spoke to my condition in the most uncanny way . " |
| 28 | Their height is adjustable , and the rudder pedals can be wound fore and aft while the five-point harnesses have lockable inertia reels on their shoulder straps . |
| 29 | to go backwards and forwards and I 'll try this I think yeah and the last time you say was in September |
| 30 | certainly do n't think where we going is suitable for a puddy tat , hours and hours on end and not being allowed to go outside and even when we 're there , I say , we ca n't be running up and down them bloody staircases letting cats out , I could n't , I could n't bear the thought of it never going out . |