Example sentences of "and [adv] [verb] [pron] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Making herself examine this thought , slowly and properly turning it around in her mind , recreating the scene which she could see so vividly of Jasper and Bert with the two I.R.A. , she had to admit that Jasper and Bert had made a bad impression . |
| 2 | But he survived his brush with death and eventually made it back to an English hospital . |
| 3 | I have to dress in my sweaty , dirty clothes and go back down to the kitchen , grumbling while she makes me a coffee , and I complain about my wet boots and she gives me a fresh pair of William 's socks to wear and I put them on and drink my coffee and whine about never being allowed to spend the night and tell her how just once I 'd like to wake up here in the morning , and have a nice , civilised breakfast with her , sitting on the sunny balcony outside the bedroom windows , but she makes me sit down while she laces my boots up , then takes my coffee cup off me and sends me out the back door and says I 've got two minutes before she arms the alarm and puts the infrared lights on stand-by so I have to go back the way I came , over the estate wall and through the wood and down into the stream where I get both feet wet and cold and I fall going up the bank and get all muddy and eventually drag myself up and through the hedge , scratching my cheek and tearing my polo-neck and then trudging across the field through heavy rain and more mud and finally getting to the car and panicking when I ca n't find the car keys before remembering I put them in the button-down back pocket of the jeans for safety instead of the side pocket like I usually do , and then having to put some dead branches under the front wheels because the fucking car 's stuck and finally getting away and home and even in the street light I can see what a mess of the pale upholstery my muddy clothes have made . |
| 4 | It meant that Ince , who again succeeded in filling the void left by the absence of Robson , and Phelan could hunt down Keane and eventually run him out of the game . |
| 5 | The long aisles of trees threw Twoflower 's voice from side to side and eventually tossed it back to him , unheeded . |
| 6 | It is this experience which first tempted Sohl to seek out the Geordie and eventually bring him down south . |
| 7 | Azhag fought the Troll , and eventually chased it back to its lair where he slew it after a bloody struggle . |
| 8 | You thought my motives were suspect , that all I wanted was to get control of your practice and eventually edge you out altogether . |
| 9 | Provided he could use the motion , he might be able to rock away at the melancholy and eventually shift it off its fierce sticking point . |
| 10 | He tugged at the flask of whisky inside his tunic and eventually worked it out . |
| 11 | Beat back a pawn storm on Queen side and eventually turned it round . |
| 12 | My way is to burn a hole in using a soldering iron , or by heating up a similarly shaped piece of metal on the gas oven and slowly easing it through . |
| 13 | He saw Rosie stretch up , catch the damp pants between her teeth and slowly draw them down to her grimy sacking , intent on ripping them to shreds . |
| 14 | Twice before she reached the opposite bank Jenny missed her footing and plunged -chest-deep into the river , but each time she was able , to grasp the slippery stepping-stone and slowly haul herself up on to it . |
| 15 | She bought a pine table from a junk shop and slowly sandpapered it down in the garden , and then sealed it , something she 'd never done before , never even thought of doing before . |
| 16 | As you breathe out you will trap some of this air in this mask and slowly breathe it back in . |
| 17 | ‘ How what , Jannie ? ’ asked Bob , taking a teaspoonful of sugar from the jar and slowly licking it up . |
| 18 | Cornelius fanned at his trouser bottoms and slowly drew himself back into the vertical plane . |
| 19 | I did not dare move , and yet I did : I put my hand on his thigh , and slowly moved it up towards the centre of my desire . |
| 20 | He had lifted the locket on its fine gold chain and deftly fastened it around her neck . |
| 21 | Within days Charlie had lost all the profit he had made in the past year and suddenly found himself back to square one . |
| 22 | If we are looking for advice on a particular situation which affects us then impartiality of the second type is particularly important ; for instance , the judge who assesses the relevant facts and selects the relevant moral or legal rules must not be someone who has something to gain or lose by the outcome , although this presupposes the correctness of the rules to be applied and so takes us back to the impartiality normally associated with legislators , which is a matter of their involvement in determining rules which are not only universalisable but are actually to be universalised , at least within a given community , and to their impartiality in the third sense namely the adequacy of the consideration given to the various relevant considerations . |
| 23 | That God 's creatures should revolt against him , and so cut themselves off from the ground of their own being , is an ‘ impossible possibility ’ which has nonetheless been actualised . |
| 24 | I felt disinclined actually to hand to him the piece of paper I was holding , and so put it down on the end of his bed . |
| 25 | It was a year since her wedding , and on that bright cold morning her unspoken hope was to win over her husband 's family and so persuade him back to her . |
| 26 | Of how a man might contrive to open a cylinder of phetam , and perhaps set us up as a God-King himself , on a more salubrious world … |
| 27 | You have to be able to hold it up there and perhaps put it down on paper or apply it . |
| 28 | It would discourage profit and perhaps take us back to that nadir of Labour party policy when Shirley Williams was able to say with some pride that profit levels were the lowest they had been for years . |
| 29 | You will say I ought to have informed you I would not part with the boy in such circumstances as you had taken trouble to describe but until I saw the girl I was not sure in my own mind what to do and only made it up when confronted with her and not taking to her at all . |
| 30 | ‘ At first he would get angry and only push me around . |