Example sentences of "and [adv] [vb pp] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 'd heard stories about people being attacked and their handbags stolen and so decided not to walk across town alone . |
| 2 | The P. pictus were very active and could be seen at all times of the day , the Bumble Bees were a lot more secretive and only ventured out to grab some quick grub and late at night . |
| 3 | I should have called round sooner but I 've been on holiday and only returned yesterday to hear the news . |
| 4 | Players with scores of 79 and better qualified automatically to join exempt players Craig Kilgour , Dareen McGee and Adrian Green in the championship proper which gets under way at Heworth Golf Club on June 27 ( four scores of 80 also qualified ) . |
| 5 | It is also a famously independent place , for long the capital of this little region of Baréges , and sufficiently cut off to administer itself as another of the remarkably enlightened mountain ‘ republics ’ . |
| 6 | She is asking you to leave her , and not come back to see her . ’ |
| 7 | Do n't worry , stay calm and just set out to enjoy the experience . |
| 8 | I have been in Paris for 4 days and just got back to read the 100 messages from the list ! |
| 9 | Gillian sat in the back and soon dropped off to sleep . |
| 10 | We were all absolutely fagged out , and promptly dropped off to sleep at 4 a.m. , only to be caught later by some children who betrayed us to the patrols . |
| 11 | Chris avoided tedium very successfully ; he resisted having an agenda for as long as possible and always refused point-blank to have a vote on anything , so meetings never got hung up on procedure , nor were they subjected to much prior lobbying . |
| 12 | Profiled foam is layered and permanently welded together to form a very expensive block of media which Cyprio claim is four to five times more effective at filtration than Flocor and their own Cypripack . |
| 13 | The whole shooting match is being computerised and guides will be held on disc and hopefully updated constantly to ensure the minimum of delay in publishing a new volume . |
| 14 | Where politicians have challenged him , he has outmanoeuvred them until such time as he perceived his work to be done ; and then — Vienna 1964 , Berlin 1989 — he simply and quickly stepped aside to move on to fresh projects . |
| 15 | Certainly Disraeli and Gladstone thrived on the electoral reform of the 1860s and quickly learned how to discipline their followers and manage them so as to translate the wishes of the executive into votes in the House . |
| 16 | Having delivered the presents , however , her next stop was the basement , which had been hastily and frugally fitted out to house the appeals office , with its six telephone lines and fifty cramped volunteers drafted in to handle the money as it flooded in . |
| 17 | She expelled her breath sharply , and automatically reached up to fiddle with the bun at her nape , easing her arms back , trying to release the tension mounting in her shoulders . |
| 18 | There will be a need at some stage for an international agency large , influential and well staffed enough to oversee and monitor measures to reduce green-house gases and perhaps administer aid funds . |
| 19 | He would put privacy to one side , and consciously set out to become what Freddie Laker had been : his company 's most visible and effective public relations asset . |
| 20 | She felt the shivers again as she ate her meal and frequently looked up to find him watching her , his eyes on the glitter of her silvery hair . |
| 21 | Federalists and functionalists alike regarded it as a great achievement and a decisive breakthrough in the fight for a united Europe , and immediately set out to make the new body a more effective organ of integration than was apparent in its charter . |
| 22 | She greeted him warmly but he responded with a perfunctory nod and immediately got up to leave . |
| 23 | Taff decided to do the first two and a half hours on the gun so I crawled to the back of the trench , curled up and immediately dropped off to sleep . |
| 24 | But the brother of chat-show host Jonathan Ross lived up to his crime-busting image and immediately pulled over to lend a hand and give himself up to police . |
| 25 | The fear and revulsion felt by such parents has been well documented by the many parents who have initially wanted their child to die , and then gone on to bring up and care for their mentally handicapped child . |
| 26 | Lynch , who fell on Barney Maclyvie at the first 11 years ago , said : ‘ I have been told that a lot of good jockeys have fallen at the first fence in their first ride in the National and then gone on to win the race next time . |
| 27 | She may have discovered a nest of young rabbits , a delicacy indeed in her terms , had a very good meal and then gone off to sleep within the rabbit 's nest . |
| 28 | It mounted the kerb , where it struck Miss Chui and then carried on to hit a fence and a lamp-post before coming to rest in the middle of Elmstead Road . |
| 29 | The two were greeted with a champagne reception in a VIP lounge and then taken out to board Concorde . |
| 30 | You are obviously determined to believe that I deliberately and maliciously set out to destroy you , knowing as I did how much you had already been hurt . ’ |