Example sentences of "and [vb -s] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Still , a certain chiaroscuro grimness attached to their surreal exchange and cries out for some brainless , comic intervention . |
| 3 | It uses Advanced Micro 's patented programmable macrocell technology and offers up to 16 product terms per output . |
| 4 | Cheltenham & Gloucester has launched a no-strings-attached , fully portable five-year deal fixed at 7.75 per cent , available on an interest-only or repayment basis on mortgages and remortgages up to 90 per cent of property value . |
| 5 | Blithe Spirit opens at the Everyman Theatre tonight and goes on until 19th June . |
| 6 | A debate that starts at 3.30 in the afternoon and goes on until 2 o'clock in the morning is hardly an advert for open government . |
| 7 | Grand Prix racing existed long before the formation of the World Championship in 1950 , and goes back to 1906 when the first French Grand Prix was run . |
| 8 | When it has stopped coming , he drops the body and goes back for another lamb and another , creeping down the earthen steps with his blood-stained knife and his feet and ankles splashed with red . |
| 9 | He arrives spot on time , is introduced in 15 words and goes off at high speed . |
| 10 | The light-weight rock froth itself is quite familiar , and turns up in British bathrooms ; it is , of course , pumice . |
| 11 | Selahattin Simsek is currently being held in Bursa Special Type Prison and has up to eight more years of his sentence to serve . |
| 12 | SunSoft holds quarterly DOE non-disclosure updates for 75 or more independent software vendors under the auspices of a Distributed Object Council , and has up to 100 engineers working on object stuff . |
| 13 | She stops , too upset to carry on , and sneaks back into one of the ground-floor apartments to wash and put on her pyjamas for bed . |
| 14 | The species has a short life under water , and lives up to 6 months in the aquarium . |
| 15 | The lower Auchtertyre horizon is about 80 m thick over a strike length of 8 km and contains up to 1.6 per cent Zn and 0.1 per cent Cu over 3 m ( MRP 93 ; Fortey and Smith , 1986 ) . |
| 16 | The garden is pretty and looks out onto six acres of fields and a copse , and contains a tennis court which guests are welcome to use . |
| 17 | He follows a hill-track on his journey home , and looks out with startled pleasure when the coastal plain emerges below him . |
| 18 | Surely the way of transgressors is hard , and stands out in striking contrast to the ways of the Lord , which are experienced by those who walk therein to be pleasant and peaceful . |
| 19 | As far away from bleeping techno ambience as they are from indie grunge guitars , their debut EP , ‘ This Is Freaky Realistic ’ , strides boldly across four decades ( from Dylan to Da Lench Mob ) , musical genres ( funk , rock , folk , hip-hop and pop ) , and heads off into some hitherto uncharted dimension . |
| 20 | The material is used in a ‘ montage-style , which … juxtaposes and cements ruins and fragments up against one another ’ ; as examples he cites Mahler and 1920s We ill . |
| 21 | A few seconds later , all is done — the screen changes to show you the status of the transfer , and drops back into split screen mode as soon as it is finished . |
| 22 | The R4000 SuperMax comes in an eight CPU configuration and incorporates up to eight disk controllers , 20Gb disk and can support up to 1,000 workstations — prices start go from £30,000 to £300,000 . |
| 23 | One process known as ‘ NOx Out ’ uses urea and achieves up to 80 per cent reduction at a quarter the cost of SCR . |
| 24 | The Lynx goes further and allows up to eight players to link together . |
| 25 | An exception is the Norwich and Peterborough building society which has a flat rate dealing fee of £8 , ( plus VAT ) and allows up to four members of a family to trade their combined holdings in a single deal . |
| 26 | An exception is the Norwich and Peterborough building society which has a flat rate dealing fee of £8 , ( plus VAT ) and allows up to four members of a family to trade their combined holdings in a single deal . |
| 27 | It has 14 individual funds and allows up to four switches without charge in any calendar year . |
| 28 | Shortly it reappears upon another set of metals , and bears down upon more trucks . |
| 29 | He puts it on his head and spins around in one motion . |
| 30 | It is often apparent in sophisticated users of the language , and shows up as recurrent mistakes , usually of syntax , one school of thought , however , to be discussed later , considers this another strategy and not interference ) . |