Example sentences of "and [verb] [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the fondant feels a little dry , add a few drops of water and knead in well . |
| 2 | And hanging over both kitchen and dining room tables are colourful Tiffany-style lampshades . |
| 3 | As we leave him , he is blurredly registering clumps and layers of passing foliage , his lower lip moist and hanging out slightly , with an uncomfortable draught agitating up his trouser legs from the hole that was his very own creation . |
| 4 | He found his father 's suits , carefully folded and smelling even now of camphor , and his mother 's wedding dress , the silk rotting and the lace yellow with age . |
| 5 | Goblin wolf riders raid and pillage far afield , while outriders scour the surrounding countryside for any sign of enemy armies . |
| 6 | The next day , he got up , sat in the sun , stood up , and fainted so completely I thought he was dead . |
| 7 | He drove on through and then turned around in a gateway and cruised back more slowly . |
| 8 | After knocking off her old man , Jessamyn rose through the ranks in the Psychopomps , and racked up quite a score . |
| 9 | One could never say ‘ I have reached the limit of my religious development ; it is time to return to the secular plane and develop there correspondingly . ’ |
| 10 | It comprises nearly 150 oil paintings , collages , gouaches and sculptures from all periods of Picasso 's career and is a rich illustration of the opinion advanced by John Richardson in the first volume of his biography of the artist that still-life was a subject which Picasso ‘ would eventually explore more exhaustively and develop more imaginatively than any other artist in history ’ . |
| 11 | He was on the rocky slope he knew already from more than one climb , and somewhere here on these smoother protected faces of rock were the plans he had scratched and pondered over so many months ago . |
| 12 | Is it because Nancy has been hospitalized or are smack and crack no longer regarded as social evils numbers one and two ? |
| 13 | I felt absolutely no ill effects whatsoever , but then I was very fit , playing a lot of rugby and eating very well . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ I am very dissatisfied with everything I have seen and heard so far . |
| 15 | They would be bound to seek the help of the pollsters , and we 've all seen and heard quite enough of them . |
| 16 | Some of these locomotives took part in the railway ‘ race ’ from London to Aberdeen in 1895 , when there was keen competition between the west and east coast routes for Anglo-Scottish passenger traffic , and averaged well over 60 m.p.h. from Carlisle to Aberdeen on severe gradients . |
| 17 | ‘ The companies should be warned of the falling guillotine and urged to produce and ship as fast as they can . ’ |
| 18 | Once land is drained , this protection is removed from any underlying archaeological sites , and organic remains begin to decay and disintegrate extremely rapidly . |
| 19 | The very concentration of attention on female breasts seemed to swell them with pride to melon-like proportion — or disproportion , for they would flatten and disappear just as mysteriously ten years later . |
| 20 | Lights and sound tower up and race across the ceiling to crash down and disappear once more into blackness . |
| 21 | He had been talked into editing the Complete Poems and Plays as early as 1959 , with the blessing of the present Lord Ash , an elderly Methodist peer who was a descendant of a remote cousin of Ash himself and heir to the ownership of the unsold manuscripts . |
| 22 | It turns out , from Flaubert 's travel notes , that the business-card was n't pinned in place by Monsieur Frotteur himself ; it was put there by the lithe and thoughtful Maxime du Camp , who had scampered ahead in the purple night and laid out this little mousetrap for his friend 's sensibility . |
| 23 | Quotations in verse should be indented , like long quotations , and laid out as closely as possible to the original . |
| 24 | Return to the lying position and repeat twice more to the same side . |
| 25 | Cedric sank happily on to the tattered hearthrug at his feet and gazed up adoringly at his new master . |
| 26 | Having changed this stage in the argument to his liking , Dwight Kronweiser began contemplating his next deathless paragraph , and gazed fixedly ahead of him as polysyllabic concepts moved through his mind like heavy artillery on parade . |
| 27 | With a little inner sigh Shiona turned to the window and gazed out thoughtfully at the loch . |
| 28 | The sunken eyes had filled up again with pus and gazed apathetically ahead . |
| 29 | It ca n't be done , and if it could it would n't be any use ; If you play innocent and unnoticing too well , you wont attract suspicion , but you wo n't notice anything other . |
| 30 | Cati went in to Rosa , who lay gripping the down coverlet , to cram it into her face and muffle her sobs ; she climbed up next to her , and stroked her head , and tried to cradle her with a thin arm across her shaking shoulders and felt herself going dry in her throat and choked up too ; Rosa twisted , her red face glowered up at Cati . |