Example sentences of "and [verb] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nathaniel Sherman looked at his sons and beamed proudly as they joined the group around the governor . |
| 2 | Some of the tunes are noodling , familiar and limp rather than languid . |
| 3 | On the other hand , churches with poor workmanship , of small size , and altered rather than rebuilt , may well indicate poor localities , or a lack of interest in the church . |
| 4 | They do this mainly as eggs , and then hatch out and develop rapidly once it rains and a pool forms . |
| 5 | Partially-sighted Mr Clarke , 72 , had been tied up and stabbed more than 40 times . |
| 6 | ‘ She started shivering and sneezing soon after we left Carlisle . |
| 7 | Then , just ten feet below the fox and some seventy feet from the ground , he stopped and clung tightly as the pole swayed in the wind . |
| 8 | Claudia , sleeping hardly at all and eating only when a worried Myra stood over her , got through them as best she could . |
| 9 | And we can appear and disappear just when we like , which can be very convenient . |
| 10 | Her intention had been to move nowhere — that everything necessary would be said here , and then she 'd back off and disappear faster than Joe could follow . |
| 11 | Most were working to clean weapons or saddlery , and only a few looked up and gazed incuriously as the party rode past . |
| 12 | I go and sit there while she works . |
| 13 | He found himself wishing he was at home again , at Polly 's home , and could creep stealthily into the twins ' room and sit there as he sometimes had at night , on the floor among their discarded toys and cuddly animals , with his back to the wall , listening to the sound of their breathing . |
| 14 | Take that stool and go inside to the cloakroom and sit there until you 're called by me to come away from it . ’ |
| 15 | However , unlike Mills they see professional groups as losing their power and influence rather than as joining the power elite . |
| 16 | But if he lied , saying that he came to Parfois with no felonious intent , and attacked only when he was surprised and frightened , Isambard would have won a better victory . |
| 17 | module names and details ( module names and subtypes only if transfer mode is inhibit or delete ) , |
| 18 | She smiled as Athelstan approached and asked softly if all was well . |
| 19 | She rang down to the reception , and asked tetchily whether she had been given the correct room number . |
| 20 | He arrived to find them just finishing and asked hopefully if any prints had been found . |
| 21 | In the furnace control office I found shift foreman Keith Thomas and asked innocently if he had any physical problems : ‘ Not since my vasectomy . ’ |
| 22 | Though they appear green and contain abundant chlorophyll , productivity of these mats is generally low : much of their material is moribund , and persists only because of an absence of decomposers . |
| 23 | The core is aligned with one coil picking up the north-south field and inclined at roughly 67° to the horizontal and adjusted so as to produce the largest positive output from the amplifier . |
| 24 | Where there is only one in-situ anchor , or else you are making your own anchor points , the first person down should have back-up protection , clipped independently into the abseil ropes , and adjusted so as to come into immediate effect if the main anchor fails , but without directly supporting it . |
| 25 | Intercourse is safe throughout pregnancy , unless you had a previous miscarriage , in which case it should be avoided during the first 14 weeks and avoided altogether if you have a history of miscarrying . |
| 26 | Sadly , so many dogs seem to end up in classes run by loud , aggressive people , where they are yanked cruelly on choke chains and punished physically if they do n't do as they 're told . |
| 27 | I grinned then , I recall , and brought the stunter down fast and acute across the weeds and the water , the sand and the surf , scudding it in across the wind to jerk and zoom just before it hit the girl herself where she sat on the dune top holding and spasmodically jerking the string she held in her hand , connected to the sky . |
| 28 | ‘ At 13 or 14 , I should have been taken away from my family and placed somewhere where I would have felt loved and like a real person . ’ |
| 29 | In the stunned silence George Felse got up , without speaking , and crossed the room to where Gus 's jacket hung on the back of a chair , turned towards the replenished fire , and steamed gently as it dried . |
| 30 | In any event , the proposal came close to being passed , and failed only because of last year 's legislative jam-up , Helping it along were the customary health-lobbying tactics , such as having Senator Barry Goldwater , still recuperating from a double hip-joint replacement , hobble into a hearing room on crutches to testify on behalf of the proposed institute . |