Example sentences of "and [verb] [adv] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Turn out onto a lightly floured table top and knead thoroughly until smooth . |
| 2 | A route not to take unless you know no fear , is to walk straight up the sweeping southern flanks of the hill , which will leave you giddy and hanging on to craggy , near-vertical terrain with your teeth . |
| 3 | The Ego revels in guilt , since it is a way of clinging to the past , and hanging on to old payoffs . |
| 4 | Just like throwing out old-fashioned clothes and hanging on to old favourites , we decide to stop using those actions that did n't get us what we wanted and to continue to use those that did . |
| 5 | They fill their lungs to capacity , and change up to 90 per cent of the air with each breath , whereas humans only fill one-eighth of lung volume on an average breath . |
| 6 | But throughout his unrelenting , Rabelaisian first novel , Jonathan Meades is hard on his brainchildren , ludic with his fictional strategies , and generous with his lexiphanic complexities : wide-ranging , courting the surreal , and buoyed up with diabotic turpiloquence , Pompey reads like something by John Irving with Tourette 's syndrome . |
| 7 | A contemporary account des-cribes children " with their hands and feet on the black , dusty ground and a chain about their body , creep and drag along like four footed beasts , heavy loads of the dirty mineral through ways almost impassable to the curious observer " . |
| 8 | Right it is a hundred miles from King 's Lynn to London , the train takes two hours to do the journey the train does not go at a constant speed , it speeds up sometimes and slows down at other times it also stops at stations on the way and on once of course as it , as it 's stopping it 's going more and more slowly and as it 's er moving off again it starts slowly and starts to go quickly but because it takes two hours in all the train goes a hundred miles in two hours we say its average speed for the journey is fifty miles per hour . |
| 9 | Other evidence suggesting that LDL is important is that LDL enters the arterial intima from plasma at rates directly related to its plasma concentration ( Niehaus et al , 1977 ; Nicoll et al , 1981 ) and accumulates particularly in atheromatous regions ( Nicoll et al , 1981 ) . |
| 10 | Bob stayed away from home every evening , pursuing old Hitchcock films he had seen before to art cinemas in Kilburn , Tooting , and Putney , and eating cheaply in Indian and Cypriot restaurants . |
| 11 | Then the Cid bade his banner move on , and the Bishop Don Hieronymo pricked forward with his company , and laid on with such guise , that the hosts were soon mingled together . |
| 12 | Until it is universally accepted that nobody whatsoever has title to property other than that held under rules to be agreed and laid down by all humankind , as distinct from those alleged to have been the product of some ‘ god ’ or other , will the first step towards formulating those rules have been taken . |
| 13 | These data buttons have been chosen and laid out with great logic , giving the player instant and sensible choices for altering patches , or the parameters which go to make up those patches . |
| 14 | And second , it must be conceived and laid out in such a way as to support existing shops and shopping streets . |
| 15 | Eighty-five per cent in special assistance to the Länder Brandenburg , Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania , Saxony , Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia as well as to Land Berlin to cover their general financial requirements and divided up among these Länder in proportion to their number of inhabitants , excluding the inhabitants of Berlin ( West ) , and |
| 16 | The entire small intestine was removed , and divided equally into four segments , ( segments of jejunum I , jejunum II , ileum I , and ileum II from proximal to distal ) . |
| 17 | Spectators , wandering along the pony lines , were amused to watch Fantasma , who 'd been muzzled to stop her savaging anyone , standing on her two front legs and lashing out with both back ones . |
| 18 | His last customer took the smile with him as he unwillingly left the warm room and limped back with chattering teeth to the unwelcoming flat at the top of the stone stairs . |
| 19 | In the wake of the election in Haringey , an allegedly independent campaign , the Parents ' Rights Group , was set up and led largely by working-class women . |
| 20 | In reality , of course , the fascist variant of ‘ charismatic leadership ’ — there are obvious parallels in the Mussolini cult — was not only superimposed on existing bureaucratic power , but created new , extensive apparatuses of bureaucratic administration , and led not to diminished but to massively increased bureaucratic interference in all spheres of daily life . |
| 21 | It appears that having agreed on the structure , the meeting did not address the question of functions of the RAC and the development of jointly planned activity , outlined in Green 's original proposals , was ignored and led subsequently to competitive activity in Cambridgeshire , Essex and Norfolk . |
| 22 | The new guidelines will tell the police to give no more than two cautions , except in rare circumstances , and to caution only for minor offences . |
| 23 | You see when Steve used to erm come down to Selby I mean there were , there were occasions when I used to go into the college with him and sit in on some of his interviews . |
| 24 | If boiling , the potatoes should be placed in a pan , just covered with lightly salted cold water and boiled gently until tender . |
| 25 | Was it not buying businesses and influence abroad with worthless pieces of paper ? |
| 26 | TRANSFORMER 2 follow up their massive ‘ Pacific Symphony Too ’ club hit with ‘ Fruit Of Love ’ , already creating a stir and set to step out of the clubs and branch off into higher regions . |
| 27 | I get tired of all this from time to time and attempt to get off the Circle Line and branch out into new conversational territory . |
| 28 | She was small and dark , with rimless spectacles , and became matronly in middle age . |
| 29 | Some residents enjoy being useful and helping out with domestic tasks , and a good Home encourages this . |
| 30 | Three months later she joined C&R on a full-time basis , although throughout her maternity leave she had been attending meetings and helping out on special project work . |