Example sentences of "and [verb] [adv] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Centre for Corporate Strategy and Change also tends to implicitly adopt this model . |
| 2 | The allocation of the annual budget and grants also falls within its domain . |
| 3 | She , and could , found she could not fly and laid there looking at the sky . |
| 4 | Roll over and repeat both exercises on the other side : Hip and Thigh Extender x 15 ; Front Thigh Stretch x 5 |
| 5 | They spend months on end continuously on the wing , feeding by catching insects in mid-air , mating by coupling high in the sky and tumbling downwards interlocked for hundreds of feet , and presumably even sleeping on the wing . |
| 6 | But when he has gone I buy another whisky , and sit there musing on being a crunched-up spring . |
| 7 | Cadfael shepherded his charge within , and watched him subside gratefully on to the narrow cot , and sit there mute for a moment , laying his burden down beside him with a kind of caressing gentleness . |
| 8 | Lots of pictures of Super Sabres , Intruders , Thunderchiefs , Phantoms etc , all sporting colourful markings ( this was before ‘ low-viz ’ became the in thing ) , Crusaders , Corsairs and Skyraiders also feature in all their glory , as does the F–111 and B–52 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Some , encouraged by the EOC have offered Women into Accounting , Women into Management and Women into Public Life courses , aimed at women trying to break into areas of employment and influence usually monopolised by men . |
| 11 | In Leeds meanwhile he interested himself in educational ventures and became widely known for public service . |
| 12 | In 1958 Thomas was promoted group captain and two years later was posted to the Royal Australian Air Force , where he commanded the Tottenham station at Melbourne and became affectionately known as ‘ Father ’ . |
| 13 | In 1628 Cecil married Anne ( died 1649 ) , the Catholic daughter of Thomas Arundell ( first Baron Arundell of Wardour , q.v. ) , and became firmly identified with the Catholic faction . |
| 14 | With an effort she looked away and made some remark to one of the schoolteachers and became consciously absorbed in the conversation which followed . |
| 15 | In 1966 , Bechuanaland gained its independence and became officially known as the Republic of Botswana . |
| 16 | The Royal Society had its early beginnings in informal meetings and discussion groups , and became properly institutionalized in the 1660s , shortly before receiving Charters from Charles II . |
| 17 | Marks opened an office in New York in 1910 and became closely associated with Thomas Edison as patent agent , advocate , and personal confidant . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | A few days after his birth , as she pulled herself to life and became indissolubly bound by bonds of tender passion to the helpless being she had created , she had wanted to kill him lovingly herself . |
| 20 | One who had arrived there as the convulsions started was Charlton Heston who achieved almost instant stardom and became especially known for his appearances in the biblical epics . |
| 21 | For while she returned her kingdom to full doctrinal and liturgical conformity with Rome , many English Protestant exiles fled their homeland and took up residence in Strasbourg , Zurich , Emden , Frankfurt , and Geneva , where they gained first-hand experience of the Zwinglian and Calvinist forms of Protestantism , and became fully immersed in the Calvinist theology of grace and salvation . |
| 22 | Not only were the standard nineteenth-century British sanctions of fine , imprisonment and whipping commonly used during the eighteenth century , but the early British courts also punished offenders with branding , the pillory , banishment and the confiscation of property , all familiar punishments in Dutch and Kandyan times . |
| 23 | To allege that a distinction between rulers and ruled always exists in large and complex societies does not really say very much beyond the fact ( which is not disputed , except by certain anarchists ) that such societies can not be run by everyone simultaneously . |
| 24 | Directional planning involves identifying barriers and potentials and choosing a course in order to overcome the former and make best use of the latter . |
| 25 | The company notes that the action signals its ability to use early redemption or repurchase programmes as part of continuing efforts to reduce debt and make best use of its cash . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | To remove financial roadblocks and ensure US programme members ' financial success , the company is offering 52% discounts on appropriate equipment purchases and hardware- and software-maintenance support contracts ; options for equipment leasing and financing also based on the 52% discount ; access to the company 's East Coast and West Coast qualification centres , where access to a network of HP 9000 products and technical assistance is provided free of charge ; workday telephone access to technical conversion specialists ; and 24-hour electronic bulletin access to engineering notes and product details . |
| 28 | The man who links together his prayer with deeds of duty , and fits seemly actions with his prayer , is the man who prays without ceasing , for his virtuous deeds or the commandments he has fulfilled are taken up as a part of his prayer . |
| 29 | In order to control and make best use of their budget , GPs must have full knowledge of the cost and scope of the services they are purchasing . |
| 30 | 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 . |