Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [coord] [adv] [subord] " 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 | A team functioning with all its different required ministry components in place , resources set up — ie Care Trust families , housegroups that sense God 's call , liaising with statutory organisations — Social Services , Social Security , HIV and AIDS agencies , Housing Department , Drug Dependency units — Police communication and legal systems in place , doctors , a formal prison link … and the list goes on and on as you can imagine . |
| 3 | Companion stuff from the new album — a gloriously lolloping ‘ Step It Up ’ , the pre-packed next single ‘ Ground Level ’ — rubs slick shoulder with pre-acceptance vintage like ‘ Lost In Music ’ , and the show goes on and on until people are dripping off the walls , and the last kind of urban excitement we need is a joke security alert on Charing Cross Road , which means we are all shepherded out of the Marquee 's tradesmen 's entrances like nuisances , sticking to each other and sapped of claustrophobic dancenergy . |
| 4 | This process goes on and on until eventually the position is as shown in Table 16.9 . |
| 5 | Shoes that must obey the call of the music and dance on and on until their wearer fell from exhaustion . |
| 6 | There is nothing worse than sitting through shots which wobble around and zoom in and out while the camcorder operator is getting things sorted out . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | So they 'll have the run of the place then and then they 'll be able to , be able to go in and out once they please I suppose . |
| 10 | I remember too the suppressed terror I felt one Saturday morning when there was a daylight raid over London and a swarm of black flies appeared in the blue sky and seemed to come on and on as we looked out of our house high on Hampstead Heath . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | His fortune changed suddenly and dramatically when all America watched his acceptance speech on TV . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Or you could make under-curtains in a lighter , toning or contrasting fabric to pull backwards and forwards while the original curtains remain stationary . |
| 15 | She phoned Meg again and told her she was so silly , she 'd made a muddle with the dates of two concerts , and it would be perfectly all right for them to come tonight but only if Meg was absolutely sure it would n't be too much trouble , it was so sweet of her … |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | ‘ This sort of thing is happening more and more because the criminals think they can get away with it . |
| 18 | His large adam 's apple moved up and down as he swallowed his nerves . |
| 19 | Matron sneaked some soup to Mould , giving him a lift on her motorbike , and Endill paced up and down until he felt dizzy . |
| 20 | Tempted to back out while there was still time , Chesarynth knew she had to find out and quickly if she wanted to stay alive . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | She tried again and again until Jack grabbed his own . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Do whelks fed on prey a grow faster or slower than those fed on prey b ? |
| 26 | They submitted that the commissioner had no jurisdiction to adjudicate on the status of the road verges generally or otherwise than for the limited purpose of deciding what entries should be contained in the register . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Retention control Retention control training involves the child 's learning to wait longer and longer once the sensation of wanting to pass urine occurs . |
| 29 | Nothing could be more unsatisfactory than Ellen 's barely decipherable notes which came rarely and only after money had been remitted . |
| 30 | He indicated this would be done by a public works policy which ‘ would have a balancing effect on development and can be turned on and off as circumstances require ’ . |