Example sentences of "and [verb] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The latter relax annoyingly when not in use and tend to slide out of place . |
| 2 | There is often a large sag in the line-up of boards , because although the people at either end are confident that they are not over the line , the people in the middle can not judge their approach precisely and tend to hold back in caution . |
| 3 | A lot of the arts fellows think Humphrey 's a bit of a twit and tend to talk down to him . |
| 4 | ( 1986 ) and Borgman ( 1980 ) have found from their studies that older children especially are not willing to move to a new family if contact with their biological families is to be severed , though of course some children may be unable to voice their reluctance and tend to go along with the plans . |
| 5 | Many of these have since been taken on by the wider society and are to be found in all its corners influencing even those who would now deny them any real significance and tend to look back on the decade as only times of silliness and self-indulgence . |
| 6 | Barn owls roost during the day in the main tree in the picture , and tend to fly out between the bushes on the right . |
| 7 | He was a strange figure in his too-large clothes , with fear and hate staring out of his eyes . |
| 8 | I have finished my letter and sit staring down through the orchard thinking about those who have occupied the slit trenches since 6th June : Taff , the mortar team , the others who have gone and have been replaced by new faces . |
| 9 | Here there was a powerful tradition of French interest and influence tracing back to the Crusades , and some history of earlier French educational effort . |
| 10 | The contradictions were beginning : a man almost more famous than his work , his best work largely ignored , and expected to play up to his own eight by ten . |
| 11 | It is possible to let resentment and hurt linger on for years , when it should have been released long before . |
| 12 | quite a few people have seen the conditions here and asked to go back to where they came from |
| 13 | The final example is perhaps an unexpected mathematical experience as there is no discussion of the tower itself but rather the child has been carried to the top of the high tower in his imagination and asked to look down at the people below . |
| 14 | Dreams of Comfort and Anthony and David mixed with memories of the war and became tangled up with the figures on the painted ceiling above her bed and the work she had been doing for Kesselring 's trial . |
| 15 | Making and editing getting on for fifty films would take time , but Karajan was well ahead of the game . |
| 16 | Martin netted a peach of a goal within 17 minutes of his debut at Walsall on January 2 , but he only managed one more goal in the following seven appearances and failed to live up to his Hammers pedigree — he had played for the West ham first team on three occasions . |
| 17 | I have already discussed the notion of relative novelty in the course of an analysis of habituation ( Chapter 2 , pp. 44–5 ) and failed to come up with hard evidence that might require us to accept its reality . |
| 18 | Maginnis , and by implication the Official Unionists , were weak and failed to stand up for the common man . |
| 19 | But what a pity that , when the heat was on — when the law of the land was being challenged by Labour councillors up and down the country , and by Members of Parliament — the Opposition Front Bench was found wanting , and failed to stand up to the rule of law . |
| 20 | Some winners in the past have been temperamental and failed to get up in the morning , but on the whole they go out as boys and come back as men . ’ |
| 21 | PARENTS of Escomb School at Bishop Auckland are searching for cowboys and cheerleaders to help out at their summer fair . |
| 22 | Many of the knitting pattern diagrams are very simple shapes and make drawing up to full size and shaping , as far as armhole and neck , quite basic . |
| 23 | Jan. 24 Siyad Barre hands over power to new 25-member government formed by Arteh , and offers to step down in exchange for a ceasefire . |
| 24 | ‘ Very good ! and oh ! up jumps the bee and goes buzzing over to the other side — to — to Max 's book , and he says to Max , bzz , bzz Mr Max , have you got any flowers for me to eat ? and Max says — ssh , can you hear him … ? ’ |
| 25 | Sara stopped asking questions about Portugal and ceased to look out of her window in the mornings to see if any new ships had anchored in the lee of Beenbeg Point . |
| 26 | If she had slept with him , he had meant , and agreed to move in with him as he had wanted . |
| 27 | At times like that , you call on your mates , and Kenny Everett kindly got us out of a spot of trouble there and agreed to come on at short notice . |
| 28 | Perhaps she would come back and want to pick up with Fernando where she had left off . |
| 29 | Ringed plover and sanderling pass through in great numbers on their way further south . |
| 30 | The farewells they made to him , as they took his pony 's rein and made to turn back for home , were quiet and constrained , but clearly friendly . |