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 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | If boiling , the potatoes should be placed in a pan , just covered with lightly salted cold water and boiled gently until tender . |
| 16 | Was it not buying businesses and influence abroad with worthless pieces of paper ? |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | She was small and dark , with rimless spectacles , and became matronly in middle age . |
| 19 | Some residents enjoy being useful and helping out with domestic tasks , and a good Home encourages this . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Similarly , old cars can be reduced to they , and crash violently to disappeared ( the sentence as a whole is not reducible ) . |
| 22 | She reminded herself that it was unlikely that all people could possibly be as stupid as she supposed them to be ; that at some level even she , Lydia the clever , could find common ground and communicate intelligibly with other human beings . |
| 23 | Then I skidded and slanted through into Public Baths Surf . |
| 24 | Well jus just to lighten the mood for a moment and to go along with high-falooting words here are some |
| 25 | A turnstone in tortoiseshell plumage flicked over stones and pecked smartly at exposed food items . |
| 26 | We , all of us had er a bed-sitting room of our own which we kept on between cases cos we had to have somewhere to live and erm and then of course we , we 'd come back there and make up for lost time really . |
| 27 | ‘ Let the Council clear it up , ’ he said , and doubled up in silent mirth at the thought of flouting authority . |
| 28 | There is rather more to it than that , of course , for it brings together several novel technical features that KEF have developed and proven separately in other models over the years , the most recent being what they term Uni-Q , a two-way coincident drive unit featured in the current ‘ Q ’ range . |
| 29 | As for the Lost Boys , they were cast from a politically correct mix of ethnic groups and blimp shapes , and zipped around in funky MTV gear and Mohican hair-dos , spouting street jargon . |
| 30 | Drain and refresh immediately in cold water , cracking the egg shells to allow the eggs to cool more quickly . |