Example sentences of "and [adv] [vb pp] [to-vb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Reportedly it wanted a leg up on the business to reduce its development time and eventually aimed to take over the whole project . |
| 2 | Then , against all her better instincts , she stopped and slowly turned to look back down Lyra Street . |
| 3 | and kinda wanted to go down early . |
| 4 | Ian Clarke , a Bank of England executive , and his wife Jacqueline promptly turned back to Surrey so they would be nearer Heathrow and Gatwick airports — and better placed to take off for Australia . |
| 5 | If not they would have been abandoned and merely allowed to fall down . |
| 6 | The Prussians were horrified to learn that in Pomerania and Danzig the surviving Polish nobility were reluctant to work for the new authorities and much preferred to lease out their estates to tenant farmers while they lived off the income in Warsaw . |
| 7 | But according to several Washington commentators and analysts , in sending senior aides to China , Mr Bush may have signalled that the Administration gave priority to continuity in relations over moral outrage , and thus helped to shore up the repressive Beijing regime . |
| 8 | Mrs Frizzell fumbled with handbag , parcel and gloves , and finally managed to pick up the teacup as well , and to serve herself with sugar . |
| 9 | Wade Smith was given salesman of the year in January and promptly left to set up shop on his own . |
| 10 | It was the smell as much as the taste which convinced me that I was still Joe Bodenland , and still destined to struggle on among the living . |
| 11 | Both gentlemen were lean , sharp-eyed characters with a highly developed taste for baksheesh ; and both liked to dress up , whatever the heat , in their thick serge uniforms : the mali in his blue gardener 's donkey-jacket with its shining brass buttons , Mr Shahiduddin Postman in his official Indian Postal Service khaki . |
| 12 | Harrison had arrived for the Sports on the previous evening , taken a couple of glasses of beer in the Fish — complimented the landlord on his brew — and then gone to sleep out the night in a barn . |
| 13 | Gazza should now be encouraged , not discouraged , and then disillusioned to find out that he is to be overlooked until next February . |
| 14 | She looked up at him , clearly terrified to be speaking to him , and yet determined to go on . |
| 15 | Polycarp , the second-century Christian leader in Smyrna , faced a hostile mob and quietly refused to go back on his faith in Christ : ‘ Eighty and six years have I served him , and he hath done me no wrong ; how then can I blaspheme my King who saved me ? ’ |
| 16 | At the very least they must be contained and never allowed to sally out . |
| 17 | Many said they felt full after every meal and never needed to eat in between . |