Example sentences of "[art] [adv] [coord] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Relying heavily on the stick , she clambered upwards , stopping every now and again to call , ‘ George ! |
| 2 | I mean Preston is about twenty miles south of er where we are but I know that there are gardens north of where we are that do grow good peaches but what they do they cover the er plants during the early spring round about February time and they cover it with very fine ne net , that 's all they need to do with it just cover it up when the flowers are out , make sure that they lift it off every now and again to do the pollinating , get them set and then when the frosts have gone take the net off . |
| 3 | The dog wanders through the cigarette smoke like a wan ghost , stopping bitterly every now and again to scratch like activated hell . |
| 4 | Working as quietly as I could , pausing every now and again to listen , I opened the outer gate wide . |
| 5 | If we had a well-oiled party machine , we should be able to move into a higher gear every now and again to win elections . |
| 6 | I do still have to pinch myself every now and again to convince myself it is really happening … ’ |
| 7 | The answer is to drop back to conscious competence every now and again to check things out and eradicate the bad habits . |
| 8 | He stopped every now and then to listen to the patient lapping of the water , the light breeze in the leaves , scurries and sounds in the wood which he could not identify but which helped to reinforce the solitude he needed . |
| 9 | As we lost height , just the two of us in a landscape of dazzling white , so Liena regained strength and interest in the day , and we would stop every now and then to sit on our rucksacks in the snow that coated the glacier and gaze in awe at the beauty of the scene . |
| 10 | Walking 's real difficult now , and I have to stop every now and then to steady myself against a wall or a lamppost . |
| 11 | In the water , it breathes with its gills like any normal fish , but like the bichir it uses its lungs too , rising every now and then to gulp air from the surface , a talent which is particularly valuable when the water in the pools becomes tepid and foul and loses most of its oxygen . |
| 12 | The trees had grown up beside it in the twenty-five years since the railway had closed , and the boy stopped every now and then to watch small birds hopping around the top branches . |
| 13 | The only movement from the reader was the lifting of the hand every now and then to turn over a page , and Mrs Phelps always felt sad when the time came for her to cross the floor and say , ‘ It 's ten to five , Matilda . ’ |
| 14 | He cut the bandages close to the man 's chin and began slowly unravelling them , pausing every now and then to lift the man 's head . |
| 15 | Is there any chance you could run a page or so every now and then to explain a few of the terms that crop up in the reviews ? |
| 16 | ‘ Sovereignty is not something that you either have or do not have , like a family heirloom which you take out and dust every now and then to make sure that it is still in your possession and still intact , ’ Sir Leon said . |
| 17 | He pops down to the shop every now and then to make sure things are ticking over . ’ |
| 18 | Pretty certain this must be the man , Paige set off down the street , stopping every now and then to look in shop windows and cast surreptitious glances backwards . |