Example sentences of "and [adv] [verb] [pers pn] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Making herself examine this thought , slowly and properly turning it around in her mind , recreating the scene which she could see so vividly of Jasper and Bert with the two I.R.A. , she had to admit that Jasper and Bert had made a bad impression . |
| 2 | You will thus benefit from being clear in what you are aiming at and successfully achieving it more often than not |
| 3 | There is a profusion of these ruins in this area , a testimony to how heavily and successfully populated it once was . |
| 4 | Some employers will cease the opportunity as a chance to pay less and thereby making it even more difficult to make ends meet . |
| 5 | But he survived his brush with death and eventually made it back to an English hospital . |
| 6 | I waited and waited for him at the points and eventually met him about three or four o'clock in the morning for the first time . |
| 7 | It meant that Ince , who again succeeded in filling the void left by the absence of Robson , and Phelan could hunt down Keane and eventually run him out of the game . |
| 8 | The long aisles of trees threw Twoflower 's voice from side to side and eventually tossed it back to him , unheeded . |
| 9 | It is this experience which first tempted Sohl to seek out the Geordie and eventually bring him down south . |
| 10 | Brooke-Rose started writing the novel in 1964 , but she became blocked and eventually put it aside in order to write Such . |
| 11 | Azhag fought the Troll , and eventually chased it back to its lair where he slew it after a bloody struggle . |
| 12 | You thought my motives were suspect , that all I wanted was to get control of your practice and eventually edge you out altogether . |
| 13 | Provided he could use the motion , he might be able to rock away at the melancholy and eventually shift it off its fierce sticking point . |
| 14 | He tugged at the flask of whisky inside his tunic and eventually worked it out . |
| 15 | and eventually hauled me aboard as we set off for Blackpool . |
| 16 | Beat back a pawn storm on Queen side and eventually turned it round . |
| 17 | Ashley was frowning at the flames which had begun to dart around his feet when two other drivers appeared , grabbed hold of an arm apiece and forcibly dragged him away . |
| 18 | He pulled the syringe out , and weakly flung it away . |
| 19 | My way is to burn a hole in using a soldering iron , or by heating up a similarly shaped piece of metal on the gas oven and slowly easing it through . |
| 20 | Maybe he caught some virus from a jungle or a desert somewhere , and it infected his brain and slowly ate it away and he got hallucinations and tremblings and gnashings of teeth till eventually he fell into a coma and was flown home . |
| 21 | He saw Rosie stretch up , catch the damp pants between her teeth and slowly draw them down to her grimy sacking , intent on ripping them to shreds . |
| 22 | She bought a pine table from a junk shop and slowly sandpapered it down in the garden , and then sealed it , something she 'd never done before , never even thought of doing before . |
| 23 | As you breathe out you will trap some of this air in this mask and slowly breathe it back in . |
| 24 | ‘ How what , Jannie ? ’ asked Bob , taking a teaspoonful of sugar from the jar and slowly licking it up . |
| 25 | Once she was satisfied that Petion and the Marines were far enough away , Ace triggered the energy beam at the base of the door , and slowly drew it upwards , describing an arch wide enough for two people to pass through . |
| 26 | I did not dare move , and yet I did : I put my hand on his thigh , and slowly moved it up towards the centre of my desire . |
| 27 | He had lifted the locket on its fine gold chain and deftly fastened it around her neck . |
| 28 | Channell introduced him to a friend , Ralph Hixon , ‘ a very devoted Christian ’ , and discreetly left them together to pray ; Channell watched a bit through the glass . |
| 29 | His mother was ambitious for her boy , and her ambition took the form of constantly encouraging , rebuking and endlessly telling him how he could improve . |
| 30 | ‘ It took a lot of thinking about — living in your own home and happy there for fifty years and suddenly to give it away . |