Example sentences of "[adv] [coord] [adv] [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Lawrence , when an Italian student permitted the taxi-driver to take money in excess of the correct fare , was not the driver doing what he was expressly or impliedly authorised to do ? |
| 2 | But Mr Mellor said many local authorities found the restrictions imposed by the 1950 Shops Act outmoded and ‘ rightly or wrongly have refused to enforce it . ’ |
| 3 | Many exam candidates lose marks simply because they do n't bother to read the question carefully enough and therefore fail to answer the question that 's posed . |
| 4 | And Spurs coach Doug Livermore added : ‘ It is sickening to think we had done enough and then had to leave with nothing . |
| 5 | 40 years on , linguists , psychologists , engineers , computer scientists know each other better and also have learnt why solving the general version of this problem is still years away . |
| 6 | The kit system worked well until 1990 , when the donor country suddenly and unexpectedly decided to reduce funding . |
| 7 | Countless stories exist of swimmers whose feet become trapped inside giant clams that snap shut suddenly and then refuse to release their victims . |
| 8 | We did it inside and then had to go outside cos it was raining . |
| 9 | If the temperature also rises above the bees ' favoured level of 35°C , a group of workers position themselves near the entrance with their tails pointing outwards and then start fanning their wings so that the stale air is wafted out . |
| 10 | The Chartley type , possibly influenced by the Longhorn , extends outwards and then tends to curve downwards rather than up . |
| 11 | Uncover , stir gently and then continue to cook for another 15 minutes , or until most of the liquid has evaporated , and you are left with a browned , thickened sauce . |
| 12 | The correct feeling must be one of turning away sufficiently and then staying turned away , holding the right side back and making the clubhead win the race , followed by the hands and with the body action then pulled through in third place . |
| 13 | But he was not a poor man and had been naturally and sensibly alarmed to hear of the 50,000 — disgruntled people who had attended the " martyr's ' funeral in Sheffield , which had given the Chartists something to build on . |
| 14 | At the same time , the EC is politically , morally and economically bound to respond to those emerging economies by allowing freer access to their products . |
| 15 | Henry III was indeed morally and financially committed to support the policies of Pope Innocent IV and his own brother , Richard of Cornwall , towards Sicily . |
| 16 | There 's a sense in which I think you are saying something which I 've often heard people say recently , and that is that in a day , in a time of rapid change , we personally and collectively need to make sense of where we 're going , our futures , in terms of our past . |
| 17 | He always brought his reviews into offices personally and sometimes got taken out to lunch . |
| 18 | Well our M O T guy , fair do you know and he 'll say so and so wants doing , can you take it away and do it ? |
| 19 | Sometimes , if the child writes in there first I say , I concur with what so and so has said , Well done or something like that . |
| 20 | had to notify the authorities that so and so has signed up for one . |
| 21 | So and so has started , or will start , alright . |
| 22 | The commonest and most visible indices of field officer performance are negative , as an agency head explained : ‘ An area supervisor will sit there and say , ‘ So and so has let me down again . |
| 23 | So and so 's , so and so 's lame , and so and so 's got a big leg so and so caught hiself this morning , had an overreach . |
| 24 | no wonder it was , me dad was trying to get her into the house and everything and she said oh well so and so 's got me key well I said I 'm not bloody phoning er their Nora |
| 25 | There 's quite a lot of things happening on there , we never have it on , but I have had it on and there now , they say so and so 's got something for sale or |
| 26 | I mean people were dying , men were dying , my brother died , he got killed in the War , pe every day you went to work and somebody would tell you , So and so 's died , you remember so and so , he 's died . |
| 27 | Most of these were ‘ coppiced ’ — cut to the ground every 20 years or so and then allowed to regenerate . |
| 28 | As the terms of the game allowed anyone out without scoring to return to bat after the team were all out , Colin did so and still failed to score second time around ! |
| 29 | It is most commonly apparent where staff are employed to provide night cover only and therefore contracted to work specific hours to provide one , two or three night 's cover per week . |
| 30 | D' you think it 's very perverse of us to want to be together and yet keep finding ourselves apart ? ’ |