Example sentences of "and [verb] [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Goblin wolf riders raid and pillage far afield , while outriders scour the surrounding countryside for any sign of enemy armies . |
| 3 | The next day , he got up , sat in the sun , stood up , and fainted so completely I thought he was dead . |
| 4 | 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 . ’ |
| 5 | 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 ’ . |
| 6 | Is it because Nancy has been hospitalized or are smack and crack no longer regarded as social evils numbers one and two ? |
| 7 | I felt absolutely no ill effects whatsoever , but then I was very fit , playing a lot of rugby and eating very well . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I am very dissatisfied with everything I have seen and heard so far . |
| 9 | They would be bound to seek the help of the pollsters , and we 've all seen and heard quite enough of them . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ The companies should be warned of the falling guillotine and urged to produce and ship as fast as they can . ’ |
| 12 | Once land is drained , this protection is removed from any underlying archaeological sites , and organic remains begin to decay and disintegrate extremely rapidly . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Lights and sound tower up and race across the ceiling to crash down and disappear once more into blackness . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Return to the lying position and repeat twice more to the same side . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The sunken eyes had filled up again with pus and gazed apathetically ahead . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The choice by the Queen of Lord Home in 1963 was of some importance since the circumstances in which it took place illustrated the difficulties of the process and led fairly quickly to the adoption by the Conservative Party of a leadership election process that was designed ( like the Labour Party 's leadership election ) to make the choice of a Prime Ministerial successor a constitutional formality . |
| 21 | Now the son , Paul , would replace this patriarch merchant , about whom the kindest words an outsider might have offered were that he had an ability to survive and prosper and stay as far away from conflict as possible . |
| 22 | Well erm my Lord I do n't know whether you 'd like to take certainly the rest of the afternoon and sit again tomorrow at ten thirty to get a clean start , having read all the documentation or whether you feel that you could read it before then . |
| 23 | You come and sit here please . |
| 24 | Rounding it off with a cocktail , we finish our meal and sit there doggedly describing it to the waiter , with the menus there to jog our memory . |
| 25 | When we came out of the Clerecia , after dipping hands in the holy water stoup and placing a drop on each other 's brows , as we had seen the novios and novias do ( the boy on entering a church would dip his hand in the water and transfer a drop to his fiancée 's fingertip so that they could cross themselves in unison ) , we would go into La Casa de las Conchas next to the Clerecia , with elaborate wrought-iron window-grilles and its tranquil courtyard , and sit there quietly for a while , thinking of the next poem , or of the one we were working on . |
| 26 | He knew nothing about Situationism , and cared even less ; but he suspected that what McLaren wanted to do was force Virgin , just as he had forced EMI and A&M , to drop them — and pay the appropriate price . |
| 27 | The wartime bombers did n't seem to care what went up ; by contrast the PIRA did and cared so deliberately as to set out selectively to destroy what is now an illusion — the sanctity of hospital in which , regardless of loyalty or background , so many thousands of victims of our vicious little civil war have received care since those nights in August 1969 . |
| 28 | ‘ Despite the new Golf 's unadventurous styling , ’ I wrote , ‘ Volkswagen deserves an accolade for putting its commercial weight and influence so heavily behind safety and environmental concerns … consistent emphasis on durability and reliability … inspired engineering of the VR6 version … ‘ |
| 29 | None of this means that they see perfect political competition in the interest group world , and influence as equally distributed among all groups and interests in society . |
| 30 | He described the Budget package aimed at the unemployed as ‘ desperately disappointing ’ , and attacked as totally appalling the decision to increase VAT on domestic fuel . |