Example sentences of "and [verb] [adj] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We were caught and got four strokes each . |
| 2 | He has been working well recently and looks sure to take all the beating in an uncompetitive contest . |
| 3 | And swallow all save this lile [ little ] house |
| 4 | Sir Leon Brittan tells a famous story of how the Chancellor once raised interest rates half an hour after the Bundesbank , and uses this to illustrate that ‘ British sovereignty lasted for 30 minutes ’ . |
| 5 | But in fact they were so ill prepared that they lost their naval base of Minorca and seemed unable to organize any effective counter-measures . |
| 6 | Minton , meanwhile , became more and more extrovert and seemed determined to break all the rules . |
| 7 | At British Gas South Western we monitor national weather forecasts and receive four reports each day from the Bristol Weather Centre , and two from Plymouth . |
| 8 | Both sides threw the ball about and scored five tries each . |
| 9 | But eventually they come to accept the situation and seem able to live each day more perfectly and more beautifully than the rest of us are able to do . |
| 10 | ( This latter was used to good effect by the hard-up Gordon Comstock in Keep the Aspidistra Flying ; he would go to a party with a single cigarette in a packet and get free smokes all night long on the strength of it . ) |
| 11 | For example , if you are catching the ball in front of the body , then you have the freedom to throw the ball in any direction but if you catch the ball behind the body , you still have to come back to the position to the front of the body and to do this takes more time . |
| 12 | The National Audit Office is investigating the inspectorate 's efficiency , while the National Society for Clean Air said recent restructuring had ‘ resulted in confusion and disaffection and seems unlikely to achieve any improvement in pollution control ’ . |
| 13 | The singing and the speaking voice are part of the same continuum , and doing this stretches all the vocal cords . |
| 14 | ‘ From the way both drivers got out from their vehicles and looked ready to tear each other apart , I doubt it , ’ Ven answered , and halted at her bedroom door . |
| 15 | After the surgery Donal had speech therapy and felt able to do some work . |
| 16 | I 'd 've loved to have been in there and gone mad pull all them windows out and put all nice new wee windows in . |
| 17 | And do that do that . |
| 18 | These fellows for fun would pinch one and put it on another step , and do this going all down the road . |
| 19 | Although the jury heard eight hours of videotaped testimony by Reagan [ see p. 37241 ] , the former President was often confused and vague about operational details and did little to shed any further light on his involvement in the affair . |
| 20 | In the fast passages the choir sang as one voice and did much to render some mannered readings of appoggiaturas and dynamics thrilling . |
| 21 | It produced forecasts for various markets , and said those showed some were clearly earmarked for success in the future while others should be taken on only by those with a ‘ real taste for a challenge ’ . |
| 22 | And does that does that work out ? |