Example sentences of "[verb] and [noun] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There the black slaves , no matter how angry or unhappy they felt , as soon as a white man approached began to shuffle and smile so as to look harmless and contented . |
| 2 | But one time er I 'd been er I were wounded and I 'd come out of er they bring you to casual clearly stations , thousands got into one I in this ward er tents and best way they could you know and nurses there and all . |
| 3 | In addition , the waffle-textured interior makes browning and frying easier than ever . |
| 4 | Idealism here has nothing to do with ‘ ideals ’ in the ordinary English sense of ethical or spiritual values : it is connected rather with ‘ ideas ’ , and serves to label any kind of philosophy which puts the emphasis on mind , understanding and reason rather than on experience and the senses . |
| 5 | With well written characters the words fit and flow so that the actor can ride with ease , and the thoughts , no matter how disjointed , have a natural quality that is at once ‘ actable ’ . |
| 6 | What might help are more guidebook writers concentrating on climbs below E1 ; and more of the policy occasionally adopted by the FRCC of sending graded route lists to distant climbing shops , cares and pubs so that all and sundry far away from the writing team can voice their opinions . |
| 7 | She must n't let the sense of happiness grow and blossom just because she had met him . |
| 8 | When you get angry you pump all sorts of different chemicals around your body and they do n't do your body any good that 's for sure , you know you get the adrenalin that starts making everything well making the blood move faster heart beat faster you get other chemicals ready and if those chemicals are n't used properly or if something does n't happen and it uses those particular chemicals and they 're left inside the body then that causes eventually physical illness in some sort of physical wearing of some sort or another , so gradually just the opposite of this where you 're you 're not internalising your throwing it out , but there 's a hell of a lot in there that 's been stored up there and bottled up there before it throws out , and when you do tend to be aggressive it 's not because you 're being aggressive on purpose it 's because it 's just something that just happens and wells up when you get to a particular point and whoosh out it comes . |
| 9 | So if I sort of stumble and start now and again you 'll get an idea of what the problem is . |
| 10 | Yes Celtic certainly look like they 're back from the brink coming forward at every opportunity and it paid off with John , he ball , Steven could n't clear and Brian well and Celtic in control Aberdeen nil Celtic one . |
| 11 | Erm came and shower occasionally and if you bath , I said to him , do your mother ever , to pick a , a damp towel up off the floor , but , did you have a bath , and all , |
| 12 | ‘ Support and involvement rather than nagging are the watchwords . ’ |
| 13 | Do you want to go and shimmy off while I get them ready for bed ? |
| 14 | They walked away , and the exhibit , full of inertia and its own importance , continued to slide and pump long after they had walked on into the next display . |
| 15 | it was the Old Stager 's habit the while to extract half a marmite sandwich from a plastic bag and munch and snarl quietly while the great ones chatted . |
| 16 | She ran across the airport like a newly born antelope unsteady on its legs , and stood with elbows bent and legs apart as though afraid of toppling through her fantasies into womanhood . |
| 17 | Most of us would prefer when ill or very elderly to be looked after by those we know and love rather than taken to a strange and unfamiliar place . |
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| 19 | Another problem may be that you only have one machine for both recording and playback so that only one of these activities can go on at one time . |
| 20 | More and more power in organizations is shared and cooperation rather than physical violence is how work gets done . |
| 21 | Until the autumn he was paddling about twice a week and most competitive activity has been running and squash rather than paddling . |
| 22 | Similarly , he retained a strong christocentrism , but tried to find a ‘ non-religious ’ interpretation of Jesus as ‘ the man for others ’ in whom God is indeed present , but present in weakness , suffering and hiddenness rather than in the authoritative majesty which was so markedly appealed to in Barth 's earlier writing . |
| 23 | Blocks of this kind have the advantage of being regular and of uniform size , making planning , estimating and building easier than if using natural stone . |
| 24 | ‘ Neither , ’ he continued in the same gentle tone of voice , ‘ am I prepared to be cast as some Viking lover straight out of a Hollywood film , rampaging and raping so that you can put the full responsibilities of your actions on me . |
| 25 | Credit , the debt level , presses on everyone and causes people to save and struggle rather than spend . |
| 26 | Of course plenty of wooden steamships were built but the tendency was to turn to iron and steel earlier than in the case of sailing ships . |
| 27 | They chose carbon dioxide subjected to heat and pressure so that it acquires a state between liquid and gas known as a " supercritical fluid " . |
| 28 | The philosophy of planning services centrally in order to achieve equitable distribution has clearly been abandoned by the new NHS philosophy which concentrates upon local decision making and competition rather than cooperation between hospitals . |
| 29 | And he would walk away muttering the names Endill and Edward over and over to himself . |
| 30 | And we 're we 're well erm getting a whole of trees planted and field there cos her field is hardly ever used and we gon na be getting a whole lot of trees for that . |