Example sentences of "and [adv] [coord] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He drove grimly and skilfully and he drove very fast as if he could not wait to get her on the plane to England and out of his sight . |
| 2 | This , in effect , ensures that all ferrets are ready and willing to work fully and properly and there will be no unnecessary delays or complications that could have been prevented . |
| 3 | Betty , suspect , generates a larger than average amount of her own static electricity aggravated by pushing the carriage to and fro and she has begun to discharge herself through the machine . |
| 4 | But he had been there at the right time , he had acted swiftly and effectively and she was alive . |
| 5 | Lanto Synge , Mallett & Son , London ( leading dealers in English furniture ) : Themes certainly do stretch us artistically and commercially but they present an interesting and challenging exercise . |
| 6 | You may be fumbling in the dark — both literally and metaphorically -but you might as well know what it is you might find ! |
| 7 | They came on him rapidly and powerfully and he decided that all he could do was to circle in a gentle way to indicate that he was not hostile , his heart filled with joy to see his own kind . |
| 8 | Yeah but the Open University ones cover all of the material and they 're what I actually wrote the lectures from erm but there 's six of them which is why the o the only advantage of the other one is that it 's one not six and so but I mean the material is all covered text of which there are three copies of most of them in the library one on short loan and one on sort of a general loan so you |
| 9 | Yeah because if I work it out I 'll just know that i it made so and so but I wo n't know that it gave off that I 'll just remember that it made like zinc chloride or something I wo n't remember |
| 10 | and so but it it 's back . |
| 11 | Come and see us for a pint , I 'll meet you in so and so and we 'll go for a pint ’ , and all that , y'know . |
| 12 | And I 'm saying to Mrs Jones , yeah I 'll do whatever , y'know , I used to have some good contacts with Estate Agents and that and they would just ring me up and say will you come and do so and so and we want it done within six or seven days , y'know , a house that they were selling , that they 'd want completely doing from top to bottom inside and out . |
| 13 | And so and we were bringing in deals and they were phoning the clients back and saying , Look yeah great alarm systems blah blah we have an alternative one cheaper . |
| 14 | And it 's easier to get along with brother so and so and sister so and so , but for goodness me I find , I find it ever so difficult to talk to sister so and so and there 's an area perhaps that we can er think about , stay awake by being respectful and obedient and that 's something that is very important because it 's completely opposite in the world today , respect for all authority and obedience to it is absolutely gone by the ways I find refrain from criticism and careless talk so there are the main points , but as we say we ca n't go into them all , well , so what we 're going to do is to try and just highlight one or two little areas which we could er enlarge on or put the magnifying glass on , so shall we do that ? |
| 15 | So , for example if somebody does reject a young man in a way that erm is n't appropriate in his eyes , he might then go around and start calling her all sorts of names and generally making other men think of her in bad way , and of course no eighteen year old woman wants young men to think badly of her , and so she puts pressure on herself not to reject advances too openly or too obviously or something like that , and the whole cycle starts again , and so and I think this is the sort of thing the college just can not have anything to do with , because that really is going too far , that 's interfering with the the one thing we could do , perhaps , is talk to the young women and make it clear that they do have the right to reject advances and that what they 've got to be concerned about whilst they 're at university is they 're academic career and making sure that that is n't affected by harassment . |
| 16 | Ask why someone reports to so and so and you will receive the answer that ‘ it has always been the case ’ , or that ‘ she gets on better with X rather than Y ’ . |
| 17 | I get everything answered and so and so and you learn quite a lot and I just ask . |
| 18 | Well , you know , practically , the governor or the head you see , he knows what he 's got ta work , but erm , I , I know because the lads do n't , but he generally tells them well I wan na work so and so and he gives me a bit of paper with the horses names on wants galloping . |
| 19 | Yeah well they 've got ta be cooked tonight so you got ta do so and so , so and so and so and so and he 's gon na be cooking all these sausages and stuff ! |
| 20 | ‘ We old Indians come to like this England less and less and we return to an imagined India . ’ |
| 21 | As long as he can write fast and legibly and they write it up as fast as he , they can . |
| 22 | She 'll swallow that down nice and gently and it 'll coat her tummy and it will gradually work its way through into the bowel and quieten them down as well . |
| 23 | An announcement informed the vacant platform and Rachaela that this train was the London via somewhere , calling at something and elsewhere and who cared at all ? |
| 24 | Early tennis players were already up and away but we dawdled on enjoying yoghurt and fruit , scrambled eggs , bacon and excellent Greek bread as we watched , across the turquoise Aegean below us , the sun changing the colours of the mountains behind Corinth . |
| 25 | He gloried in the cunningness of it , the feeling of having outwitted the others , of knowing what they did not ; that he was out and away and they were back there where he 'd left them , ignorantly worrying where he was , searching ; wondering . |
| 26 | I have seen the effect of the struggle on him intellectually , emotionally and physically and I have seen the affect on his family life . |
| 27 | We keep we keep going on for longer and longer but it 's taking a lot longer for us to get any closer . |
| 28 | The Trees were moving slowly and painfully and it was terrible and marvellous to see them . |
| 29 | Can I just say a few brief things to this , firstly , I share their concern entirely and totally and I do n't think there 's an officer round this table who would n't agree with that , and I also believe , having met with all the board members this morning , I know that the board members similarly agree . |
| 30 | I suggested putting an old lady sitting on a bench with a lace shawl erm er sculpture of so that it represents er Nottingham lace and etcetera and I said it would look more attractive and catch people 's eye than what 's there at the present . |