Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] and [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He guessed his Mum would phone when she got to work and then maybe again when she took her break at half-three . |
| 2 | Er , people with unknown ambitions , frontiers that they want to adjust and so on . |
| 3 | If you got mice i , you can also make things easier by actually moving that arrow around until you get to the individual word that you actually want to find and actually then you stop your cursor there . |
| 4 | William says that he wants to win and then hopefully look towards the world championship and then the next Europeans … it 's been a good year so far so he hopes it ends like that anyway |
| 5 | The trouble is , you see , if Christopher 's doing what he wants to do , you 're doing what you all want to do and then both both of you crash in the middle it 's nobody 's fault particularly is it ? |
| 6 | Robbie flinched , tried to retreat and once again found there was nowhere to retreat to . |
| 7 | Alexander once said that people want to change and yet still want to remain the same . |
| 8 | Moreover , as a worker gets older , overtime , shift work and so on become less and less a physical possibility . |
| 9 | The intention is to design equipment so that when the maintenance engineer then calls he , or she , should be able to read off from a display on the machine which circuit board has failed and then simply slip in a replacement . |
| 10 | When it comes to neck shaping and so on , it is best to decrease the stitches back to the original number , by , for example , taking eight stitches back to four stitches if that is how you increased for the cable before shaping . |
| 11 | She 'd never seen either of us in a suit before — we were running them in , checking for labels we 'd missed and so on — and we had stood on her doorstep as if we were about to launch into the ‘ Have you heard the Good News … ’ routine . |
| 12 | However , shortly before the List 's publication , I received a visit from Harold Evans , then the editor of the Sunday Times , who came to breakfast and rather slyly asked if I had seen it ; to which I replied that I had not seen it and knew nothing of its contents . |
| 13 | Clearly , a large part of the job of a person making a submission to the court is to ‘ know ’ the judge , to try to predict what the judge does and does not want to hear and so on . |
| 14 | Well , by taking into account things like she 's had to struggle and so on , and if her qualifications are actually as good then maybe she 's had to work harder . |
| 15 | The most interesting aspect is how informing breeds informing , which breeds informing and so on , in what can be a time-consuming loop . |
| 16 | Now an extreme introvert , might be er sort of case you know , you 're , you 're erm er cutting up the sandwiches or whatever preparations you 've got to do and so on . |
| 17 | Eventually , the larvae begin to pupate and no longer exude their chemical messages . |
| 18 | It 's the first session when they have actually identified some of the strands that you are going to pursue and then subsequently looking is framed by that decision . |
| 19 | Er the other thing you 've got to have and very essentially , is coordination , got to cross those stepping stones if you could n't coordinate the action right , now this is vitally important this coordination , it 's the skilful interaction of the five senses , the brain , the nerves and the muscles , acting with the right degree of effort and timing . |
| 20 | Those who work with old people might consider compiling a list of regular tasks or activities and , as part of planned intervention , finding out what are most and least precious areas of independence to old people — choosing clothes , managing money , cleaning the kitchen , going shopping and so on . |
| 21 | See you ca n't be trusted , you 're a you get quite upset when you get accused and Pauly quite rightly accuses you . |
| 22 | After her fourteenth birthday she herself began to teach and never afterwards spent her days out of a classroom . |
| 23 | Then East German police began to arrive and shortly afterwards they burst into the tunnel . |
| 24 | One of the salient features about this process is a phenomenon that might be described as endogenous economies of scale : more business is attracted to contracts with low bid-ask spreads ( i.e. high liquidity ) , and that attracts more market makers and more arbitrage and speculative activity on the exchange , and this increased competition drives down bid-ask spreads and so on in a virtuous circle . |
| 25 | This is reckoned to be the largest exercise of its type since the reforms were put forward , blood pressure started to rise , nostrils began to flare and so on . |
| 26 | The nappy changes , the meal times , the endless trips round supermarkets , school times , getting dressed and so on ? |
| 27 | Of the 29 responses , 65 per cent had started off the evening unsure , doubtful or undecided , and during the evening had become informed and therefore more sure of their point of view ( whether pro or anti ) . |
| 28 | What , for instance , would Ken have in common with Andrew Ray , who was then just twenty-three years old ( Ken was now forty ) and who made known and very clear the attraction he felt for a pretty girl ? |
| 29 | But what is important is that there is opposition er Chairman at the national level which is set to continue and once again representations are being undertaken er to be made to local Members of Parliament and to Members of the House of Lords . |
| 30 | When you decide , you multiply the things you might have done and now never can . |