Example sentences of "and [adv] [conj] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Camels go on and on and on until they die ; and then one has the option of eating them , altogether far better tasting than a Michelin tyre , ’ writes Rene Dee in The Traveller 's Handbook . |
| 2 | goes on and on and on until you can get something that 's erm a straight forward one letter to the power so you can differentiate it . |
| 3 | And he said no , and I explained it , er , you know , first of all you created universe and then you , then you get all these very important people , geologists and they put er satellites and find th this oil underground , and then you drill , well it 's usually under the sea anyway , so you produce a , and this go on and on and on until the guy 's now wondering what you 're talking about |
| 4 | Already across a wide range of different activities he points to advances in the process of ‘ breaking up , dissolving and methodologically as well as critically reconceiving the unitary field ruled hitherto by Orientalism , historicism , and what could be called essentialist universalism ’ . |
| 5 | Erm and when she was talking to me about different people , I 'd never know who they was , because I was never I was never that interested in Bay to er to find out who they was or to remember she 'd point out somebody and say that 's so and so and then when she 'd mention him a couple of days later I 'd go , Who 's that ? |
| 6 | And so as soon as she mentioned clairvoyants that was it . |
| 7 | Even before he was consecrated , and perhaps as soon as he was elected , at a moment when , by ordinary rules of prudence , he should have been thinking of equipping himself with all the forms of expert knowledge required by his new position , he chose one of the group of English monks to be his closest and most constant companion . |
| 8 | These findings offered important support for theoretical proposals about children 's acquisition of the meanings of more and less as well as of other adjective pairs ( e.g. , big/small , tall/short , wide/narrow ) , in that they appeared to show that children first learned the meaning of the unmarked term for a dimension ( e.g. , big , tall ) , and interpreted the marked ( negative ) member ( small , short ) of the pair as if it had the same meaning as the unmarked ( positive ) member ( see H. Clark , 1970 ; Clark , 1973a ) . |
| 9 | The psycholinguistic approach takes this into account , but the teacher who is concerned with accurate decoding rather than — and not as well as — obtaining meaning will find ‘ mere guessing ’ unacceptable . |
| 10 | And just as soon as you feel up to it , we 'll be taking you round the garden for some good lungfuls of God 's air . ’ |
| 11 | And he came down he would have been working for he would have been at that time my great grandfather maybe or and he came down and he lived in lower Millfield after that and just as soon as he was out of his house , they just had the house demolished . |
| 12 | Ruth never showed Rachaela anything — her art work , her homework or a book — but Rachaela gave her the use of the bookcase , overloaded now , and once or twice when money had been freer had bought Ruth books of fantastic art , Kay Nielsen , Vali Myers . |
| 13 | She was seeing Hector Henderson , and more and more as the days went on found that she needed him , his simplicity and his jolliness . |
| 14 | One pulse beat higher and harder and faster than any other , and as Damian touched it she gave a gasp of shock , staring at him , and he arched above her , the expression on his hard face making the blood roar in her ears . |
| 15 | The square , window-type frame gives practice with moving in and out as well as up , down and over the top of , and there is experience of being enclosed within a three-dimensional shape . |
| 16 | But they did that to me when I was their age and now as soon as I get to fourteen when when you can , when you can , when you could do that And now today it 's not fair . |
| 17 | Thus it is likely that no more than 1 or 2 per cent of the total budget would really be available for new projects and plans — and even that only if pupil numbers were retained and no other emergencies developed in any particular year . |
| 18 | One suspects that Arsenal and Norwich are facing disrepute charges partly because of TV coverage at home and abroad and partly because between Saturday afternoon and Monday morning various sections of the media had built up a fine head of steam in demanding that the FA take action . |
| 19 | But I hope you will join me tonight in saluting ALL the correspondents and crews — from the BBC , ITN , BSkyB and other broadcasters here and abroad as well as those from newspapers and agencies like Visnews — join me in saluting those who risk their lives in appalling circumstances to tell the world the truth about what was Yugoslavia . |
| 20 | And this this we see , it 's er quite interesting , this you notice this bit here is not plastered , and this has not got these dimples , so we think that what actually happened is when they first did this the the the the this bit of the window was blocked up with wood or wattle and daub or something like that , and so it was a a a and then when then when the vestry came down this these stones were put in here to block it up again . |
| 21 | She explains : ‘ I take a very deep breath before I get on the plane and then as soon as I am on board I get out all my make-up and put it on the table in front of me and spend hours putting it on . |
| 22 | So I got up , took the dog a walk , got back in , bolted down my breakfast , and then as soon as I 'd finished , on the garden digging . |
| 23 | And then as soon as I can find somewhere else , I 'll move out and leave you alone . |
| 24 | And it was n't a lot , and then as soon as the event was over it was all smartly taken off , you know . |
| 25 | Keep two cartridges in your hand all the time , and then as soon as you 'd handed your gun , and you were taking the other one , and he was the empty one . |
| 26 | You know then we thought right , we 're not just gon na forget about this you know , we 'll we 'll carry on for a little while longer and then as soon as the ball really started rolling , er personally I thought well you ca n't back down now , . |
| 27 | And then as soon as our office gets that it 'll be two to three weeks . |
| 28 | And then as soon as he started his courses and he met somebody . |
| 29 | And then as soon as they went away she got her out and sat and had a . |
| 30 | And then as soon as . |