Example sentences of "and [verb] [adv] [to-vb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , more than 30 per cent of clients are women who are generally more successful as they are better listeners and tend not to rush at obstacles . |
| 2 | I take my jacket off again and sit down to look through the War files … |
| 3 | Under ordinary circumstances , Nurse Goodman would probably not have given permission but ‘ the Major ’ , as he had become known , was such a mystery that she was glad to feel that at least somebody knew of his fate and cared enough to come to the hospital to see how he was getting on . |
| 4 | By which time the sexual revolution was also wearing a bit thin and became more to do with increasing women 's availability to men than the sexual autonomy and control over our own bodies we had all been promised . |
| 5 | If you can scrape together a few hits and make enough to retire to a little place in the suburbs , you 've made the most of the opportunity . |
| 6 | He begins by presenting the information content of several protein families and goes on to deal with a variety of subjects , such as the evolution of the genetic code , neurobiology , the primaeval soup , black holes and cosmology . |
| 7 | Along with senior managers , Mike hosts site visits for all sorts of groups including schools and colleges and goes out to speak to local community groups . |
| 8 | The two have an argument and vow never to speak to each other again , whereupon Serena leaves for a holiday with Rupert on a volcanic island in the Aegean to which Rusty and his wife have recently been transferred . |
| 9 | You will also find it valuable to allot a certain amount of time each day to evaluate your progress in order to see how you are doing , to study any problems you have encountered , to decide what you need to do next , and to plan how to go about it . |
| 10 | Secondly , at the end of the story he engineers a fall of quails that drives the people mad with greed , and turns quickly to plague in their mouths . |
| 11 | Alice smiled and nodded , and got up to stand at the window , looking out . |
| 12 | God damn Humber , I thought , and got up to write on the charts on the bed-table . |
| 13 | ‘ Tank you , ’ he said , being unusually polite , and toddled off to rummage in his toy box which sat in the corner . |
| 14 | The transfer of David O'Leary was a disaster as seen in him missing injured since the third game and has yet to return to full fitness . |
| 15 | The sinewy elegance of these figures is unusual , and has perhaps to do with the fact that the Aeginetan sculptors are recorded as preeminent in bronze . |
| 16 | If one has to resort to such an intentional framework in order to make sense of the behaviour , in order to explain what the creatures are doing and why , and has so to resort after exhausting all possibilities of more austere , less anthropomorphic frameworks of explanation , then one is on the route to linguistic meanings . |
| 17 | The Prime Minister lacks executive powers and has therefore to work with and through ministers who have executive powers vested in them collectively . |
| 18 | When the counsellor faces this situation it is often more appropriate to leave the subject of drinking , and to try instead to focus on the nature of the social distress that the individuals are experiencing . |
| 19 | He got in alongside her , slammed the door , and moved forward to speak to the driver . |
| 20 | When the dance ended , he released her without a word and moved away to talk to his mother and sister , who had been crying passionately in the church as they watched Damian become Rachel 's husband . |
| 21 | Pete nodded and moved off to look for some more of Bob Ivie 's jungle juice , and Diane eased her way through into the ballroom . |
| 22 | Then she coated the thick planks of the door and moved along to work with Mina on the walls and eaves . |
| 23 | She squared herself , and moved along to look into the nearest of the rooms . |
| 24 | Dot pushed back the blanket , slid off Gloria 's lap and moved back to sit by her window . |
| 25 | Closely-related snow buntings Plectrophenax nivalis winter in small flocks where the snow is thinnest on the southern tundra , and fly northward to breed on the high arctic tundra in summer , when snow still plentiful on the ground ( Pattie , 1972 , 1977 ) . |
| 26 | The government finally agreed to fresh negotiations and promised not to proceed with legislation on banning strikes for two years . |
| 27 | The BMC immediately leapt on the white chargers they keep permanently tied up outside Crawford House in Manchester and thundered southward to deal with the problem once it arose . |
| 28 | ‘ Yes , ’ she whispered , then smiled when he went very still and drew back to stare at her . |
| 29 | After a while she came over to Tallis and bent down to peer at the human . |
| 30 | As soon as the cold fingers let go for a moment , I pulled my hand quickly back , put a pile of books in front of the broken window , and tried not to listen to the desperate cries outside . |