Example sentences of "and [vb base] [pron] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Extend both legs forwards and squeeze them together 30 times holding each squeeze for 1 second .
2 Extend both legs forwards and squeeze them together 30 times , holding each squeeze for 1 second .
3 Extend both legs forwards and squeeze them together 25 times , holding each squeeze for 1 second .
4 And sell it much dearer there obviously so er you know
5 Some people think you know really be testing er with language and mean something entirely different .
6 The air raids on London and Liverpool and Birmingham and Clydeside were to knock out communications and close roads and railways and make everybody so pig-sick that they 'd welcome Hitler with open arms .
7 He also has to learn not to watch his feet , because bending his head downwards will probably increase his spasticity , and make him more likely to fall .
8 Let us go , says the second proposition , and find somebody else , some wise man who will be able to answer the unanswerable , who can tell us which are the sheep who can properly raise their prices , and which the goats who ought to keep their prices stable or lower them ; and then , when he tells us , we will all go and scream blue murder at the goats and make them thoroughly ashamed and sorry for themselves .
9 • Strengthen your daily time-cues and make them as reproducible from day to day as possible .
10 So it is arguable that the select committees promote independence of mind among MPs and make them less willing to vote automatically as the whips would like .
11 Will the Government please review the workings of the Act and make them more effective ?
12 You do try and use them through that , and try and make them more confident in themselves , they 're you know people do accept this a lot more today , than they used to , erm and you know they need n't feel quite so self conscious .
13 All these moves are aimed at beating the stress which can weaken new stock and make them more susceptible to the other little problems of a new tank .
14 It will improve public services to the point of excellence , restore the morale of the people who deliver them and make them more efficient and capable of delivering good service to our constituents .
15 Erm , putting images into words is not always easy , a colour in a painting can give you a way in and the brown of Van Gogh 's jacket erm affected me with this one particularly and the sun flower I felt was inappropriate misplace , in a vase to , to small , erm and it gave me an image a very strong image of suffering and this poem is in its very early stages and its literally just a list of images and I wanted to be able to show you how I start off which is with a series of images and then I have to put some filler in and open them up a bit and , and make them more accessible and understandable , but this is just a list form .
16 At precisely the time that the Party leadership was extolling the horse as a modern and fuel-saving means of transport , it was also planning to increase the journey-times of the rural population and make them more dependent on motor transport — or perhaps to shorten the time they had left to themselves , to sleep , think and so on .
17 It is even possible that Gloucester 's claims of another plot against him were intended not only to justify Hastings ' removal but to impress the council with the gravity of the situation and make them more disposed , not less , to back Gloucester 's leadership as the one hope of stability in a worsening political climate .
18 It is even possible that Gloucester 's claims of another plot against him were intended not only to justify Hastings ' removal but to impress the council with the gravity of the situation and make them more disposed , not less , to back Gloucester 's leadership as the one hope of stability in a worsening political climate .
19 Conservative privatisation was supposed to break up the big monopolies and make them more competitive and accountable to the public empty propaganda indeed .
20 Soon he will change those plans , and make them more elaborate .
21 He wanted to take me where the cold would hurt me and make me more miserable .
22 And then he 'd lock the doors to the reception block , and he 'd retire to his back room and make himself as small as a child on his bunk in the corner .
23 We try and make everything as good as it can be and I write guitar lines that will be heard .
24 ‘ As the other dressers have vanished , you 'd better stay up this end and make yourself very visible .
25 I also , er , we are also putting in for your community computing scheme , erm , realising that it will not only , if we get it , increase our own expertise and make us more efficient , which heaven knows , all organisations need to be , but will also be ab enable us to give advice to all the organisations we represent , and thus have an enormous ripple effect .
26 The health benefits and disciplines gained enhance the balance between our mind and body and make us more able to achieve our aims and to counter disease .
27 Such rifts deepened by violence , intolerance and cruelty create ever more bitter hostility and make it increasingly difficult for persons brought up in one faith to transfer allegiance elsewhere .
28 While this is unlikely to be a problem in the early stages , being on a prolonged low-calorie diet which does not provide an adequate intake of these and other nutrients might have an adverse effect upon the body 's metabolism , and make it increasingly difficult to either lose weight or to maintain your exercise level .
29 He returned to find the Cross of St George still flapping from the walls of Famagusta and nothing obviously changed except the weather , which would , of course , put out the slow-matches and the fire-missiles and make it increasingly unlikely that the tower of Famagusta was going to prove combustible .
30 And make it completely anonymous .
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