Example sentences of "and [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A route not to take unless you know no fear , is to walk straight up the sweeping southern flanks of the hill , which will leave you giddy and hanging on to craggy , near-vertical terrain with your teeth . |
| 2 | The Ego revels in guilt , since it is a way of clinging to the past , and hanging on to old payoffs . |
| 3 | Just like throwing out old-fashioned clothes and hanging on to old favourites , we decide to stop using those actions that did n't get us what we wanted and to continue to use those that did . |
| 4 | They fill their lungs to capacity , and change up to 90 per cent of the air with each breath , whereas humans only fill one-eighth of lung volume on an average breath . |
| 5 | But throughout his unrelenting , Rabelaisian first novel , Jonathan Meades is hard on his brainchildren , ludic with his fictional strategies , and generous with his lexiphanic complexities : wide-ranging , courting the surreal , and buoyed up with diabotic turpiloquence , Pompey reads like something by John Irving with Tourette 's syndrome . |
| 6 | A contemporary account des-cribes children " with their hands and feet on the black , dusty ground and a chain about their body , creep and drag along like four footed beasts , heavy loads of the dirty mineral through ways almost impassable to the curious observer " . |
| 7 | Right it is a hundred miles from King 's Lynn to London , the train takes two hours to do the journey the train does not go at a constant speed , it speeds up sometimes and slows down at other times it also stops at stations on the way and on once of course as it , as it 's stopping it 's going more and more slowly and as it 's er moving off again it starts slowly and starts to go quickly but because it takes two hours in all the train goes a hundred miles in two hours we say its average speed for the journey is fifty miles per hour . |
| 8 | Then the Cid bade his banner move on , and the Bishop Don Hieronymo pricked forward with his company , and laid on with such guise , that the hosts were soon mingled together . |
| 9 | Until it is universally accepted that nobody whatsoever has title to property other than that held under rules to be agreed and laid down by all humankind , as distinct from those alleged to have been the product of some ‘ god ’ or other , will the first step towards formulating those rules have been taken . |
| 10 | These data buttons have been chosen and laid out with great logic , giving the player instant and sensible choices for altering patches , or the parameters which go to make up those patches . |
| 11 | And second , it must be conceived and laid out in such a way as to support existing shops and shopping streets . |
| 12 | Eighty-five per cent in special assistance to the Länder Brandenburg , Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania , Saxony , Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia as well as to Land Berlin to cover their general financial requirements and divided up among these Länder in proportion to their number of inhabitants , excluding the inhabitants of Berlin ( West ) , and |
| 13 | Spectators , wandering along the pony lines , were amused to watch Fantasma , who 'd been muzzled to stop her savaging anyone , standing on her two front legs and lashing out with both back ones . |
| 14 | His last customer took the smile with him as he unwillingly left the warm room and limped back with chattering teeth to the unwelcoming flat at the top of the stone stairs . |
| 15 | You see when Steve used to erm come down to Selby I mean there were , there were occasions when I used to go into the college with him and sit in on some of his interviews . |
| 16 | TRANSFORMER 2 follow up their massive ‘ Pacific Symphony Too ’ club hit with ‘ Fruit Of Love ’ , already creating a stir and set to step out of the clubs and branch off into higher regions . |
| 17 | I get tired of all this from time to time and attempt to get off the Circle Line and branch out into new conversational territory . |
| 18 | Some residents enjoy being useful and helping out with domestic tasks , and a good Home encourages this . |
| 19 | Three months later she joined C&R on a full-time basis , although throughout her maternity leave she had been attending meetings and helping out on special project work . |
| 20 | Then I skidded and slanted through into Public Baths Surf . |
| 21 | You know , telling us everything about the Tories , what they 've done wrong and to go on from that , not telling us anything about how you 're gon na put it right . |
| 22 | Well jus just to lighten the mood for a moment and to go along with high-falooting words here are some |
| 23 | Still , a certain chiaroscuro grimness attached to their surreal exchange and cries out for some brainless , comic intervention . |
| 24 | There was a tongue of flame and Asa pulled back the column and levelled out at two thousand feet . |
| 25 | Rub through sieve , pour into sugar syrup and make up to 1.15 litres ( 2 pints ) with extra water . |
| 26 | According to the newspaper , the organisation has ‘ cut its budget by $9 million , is to sell the biggest of its seven ships and make up to 25 per cent of its 500 campaigners redundant ’ . |
| 27 | We , all of us had er a bed-sitting room of our own which we kept on between cases cos we had to have somewhere to live and erm and then of course we , we 'd come back there and make up for lost time really . |
| 28 | St Albans held on for the rest of the match to win 2–1 and take the ladies ' title for the second time and make up for four previous final defeats by Mutineers . |
| 29 | Oil demand will grow by less than 10% and make up about one-third of consumption in the year 2000 . |
| 30 | Women are severely under-represented in the urban trade union movement and make up under one-quarter of the total membership . |