Example sentences of "[adv] [coord] [verb] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I opened it , and I got my answer , and it set me thinking afresh and seeing clearly where I had formerly been blind . |
| 2 | Their bodies touched gently and came apart as they rounded a bend . |
| 3 | She squeezed his shoulder comfortingly and stepped away as Eddie reappeared with a cloth wrapped bundle . |
| 4 | ‘ Customers are spending less and thinking more before they open their purses . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Bill Mishkin , ’ says Bill Saltman , ‘ is a simple Russian boy from way out in the sticks who went through law school and inherited a couple of million from his uncle in the garment trade and could n't add two and two together and get more than four . ’ |
| 6 | I must say when I read that in 's letter , I did n't read that specific erm comment , I read something , something much much wider really , that , that really I felt that what she was saying was you know that when , when there is a group , then readers er musicians , everybody else reflect together and come together before they actually , you know , they do n't all operate the same but they come together and they reflect together on what the , the theme is , or you know , what was the main point of the readings . |
| 7 | Not enclosing any part into a particular hand , but all as one man , working together and feeding together as sons of one father , members of one family … |
| 8 | In recent years the habit of the All Blacks leaving together and returning together after a trip to Europe has disappeared . |
| 9 | He did not speak much but smiled broadly when she thanked him . |
| 10 | These new lamps last five times longer and need less than 20 per cent of the power used by an ordinary light bulb . |
| 11 | During a violent storm it broke away and drifted westwards until it hit land on the barren headland of San Quentin . |
| 12 | All other things being equal , a lighter car will accelerate harder , brake more easily and handle better than its heavier equivalent . |
| 13 | Chuck raised his rifle coolly and fired just as the bull launched itself on him . |
| 14 | Midwife Christine Hall told the hearing that she could not remember whether she notified the registrar when she noticed some deceleration in the heartbeat at 4.25pm but did so when she became worried at 7.30pm . |
| 15 | If you slow its metabolism by restricted diet , it will mature more slowly and live longer than normal : the clock of its life will slow down . |
| 16 | She nodded her head vigorously and chattered gaily though I could only understand half of what she said . |
| 17 | Work more effectively and close harder than the average sales person . |
| 18 | Do they go in a cupboard somewhere and stay there until the day comes when you 're in the ministry and you think oh those new magazines I 'd better get them , because we 're going |
| 19 | Monies are paid to a business in a variety of forms and all our services are designed to ensure that funds are received , processed , and credited to accounts as quickly and cost effectively as possible . |
| 20 | Their resistance developed too rapidly and disappeared long before ordinary immune reactions could appear . |
| 21 | John used to enter very simply , did his class ‘ not very well but with complete concentration , and between exercises , when others would talk , adjust their clothes , or wipe the sweat from their faces , he stood perfectly still and watched closely as the next group went through the exercises ; Margot Fonteyn would do that too . ’ |
| 22 | Conservative MPs cheered when he entered the chamber of the Commons yesterday and cheered again when he borrowed a phrase from Harold Macmillan to dismiss Norman Lamont 's vitriolic attack on his governance as a ‘ little local difficulty . ’ |
| 23 | The one-to-one teaching usually meant that they learned more and did better than they would have in the classroom . |
| 24 | It 's gone further and done more than 12 labours of the mythical Hercules . |
| 25 | And when you 've done that go home and stay there until it 's time for the evening performance . ’ |
| 26 | Firefighters wearing breathing apparatus arrived just before 6am and took more than two hours to bring the blaze under control . |
| 27 | I accepted this distinction at once and have ever since regarded it as an indispensable tool of thought . ’ |
| 28 | Educationally , girls work harder and do better than if they had still been in school . |
| 29 | so it was down to 10 men but why do teams always fight harder and play better when they 're one man short … |
| 30 | so it was down to 10 men but why do teams always fight harder and play better when they 're one man short … |