Example sentences of "and [verb] [adv] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Harry Smith , 71 , his wife Mary , 72 , and their 47-year-old wheelchair-bound son , Harold , were tied up and stabbed repeatedly and battered in a frenzied attack . |
| 2 | Erm the tools were made up in a kit and er every time there was a work study exercise done on a job , er the tools were all numbered and laid aside and registered for that particular item . |
| 3 | Cheap fabric soon frays and leather-look plastic stains and splits easily and looks cheap . |
| 4 | Tensions submerged in the earlier campaign now came to the fore and led more and more to a coercive policy of sexual regulation , especially of working-class prostitutes . |
| 5 | Aunt Bessie used to go and stay there and take Mother along too . |
| 6 | ‘ Come and sit here and tell me about yourself . |
| 7 | and sit together or are we just go |
| 8 | ‘ I suggest you have another glass of wine and sit there and I 'll sort it out . |
| 9 | I want to try and get one before May before the exam , but there is a superb production on i the summer , it 's on June and July and it 's at an open-air theatre erm in Lincolnshire and what people do is they go and take a picnic and you sort of take your rug and sit there and cos it it 'll be hot in the summer it would be really nice and you watch it outdoors and it 's in this big stately home which is in it 's own grounds and there 's gift shops and restaurants and bars and obviously wo n't go in the bars but you know there 's lo it 's beautiful and like a big stately home you can wander round the gardens for a bit and then go and watch the performance and if it rains then there 's a canopy you can pull the canopy over like at Wimbledon and you know it 's a really nice day . |
| 10 | No , I mean actually come to one of the officers and sit there and they do the work , so it does n't bother us at all . |
| 11 | You come to see me and sit there and say nowt . |
| 12 | It is strange stuff , fugues and suites of the last age , crabbed and knotted sometimes and not at all in the modern taste , but I do assure you , Stephen , there is meat in it . ’ |
| 13 | The hostess rang and asked tactfully and hesitantly if I felt like it . |
| 14 | The biographical sources mention a few facts and anecdotes attributable to this period , among them the fact that toward the end of his life he was afflicted with ophthalmia and became nearly or totally blind . |
| 15 | Burrows , now clutching at straws , looked into it and became more and more interested in the actor . |
| 16 | But for a schoolboy , you will appreciate this was not easy , and became more and more difficult as the amount of lecture work and breeding costs increased . |
| 17 | Justifications were forthcoming , and became more and more adequate as better and better telescopes were constructed and as optical theories of their functioning were developed . |
| 18 | Henry Fielding perceived this in 1751 when he wrote : … the commonality by degrees shook off their vassalage , and became more and more independent of their superiors . |
| 19 | Their pupils could be learning either to duck and cover again or to stop worrying and live with the bomb . |
| 20 | The new Final Examination will include a four-hour , interdisciplinary case study requiring candidates to identify key issues , evaluate the relevance of the data provided , undertake financial analysis , use their professional judgment in making decisions , and communicate logically and clearly in writing . |
| 21 | He raised his wings and pulled them back a little , bent his head forward , slightly opened his beak , and lunged forward and down at the white flesh of the hand that was pushing itself with a piece of sandwich through the front bars of his cage . |
| 22 | And that tuned in well with my inclinations to look for formal qualities and make more or less abstract patterns out of nature . |
| 23 | They 're mowed in summer and grazed afterwards and wild flowers including orchids come up and it is unique |
| 24 | In many societies , but more particularly in modern societies , there are numerous different centres of political thought and experience : educational institutions of various types ; party organizations ( including party schools and research institutes ) ; the mass media ; more or less official ‘ think tanks ’ ; the central offices of trade unions and employers ' associations ; international agencies ; and a considerable number of private associations devoted to political research and education , some of which have grown out of social movements and remain more or less closely connected with them . |
| 25 | to think logically , communicate clearly , and read critically and with understanding . |
| 26 | If for instance erm Fred Bloggs at the end of the office is sick on Friday he turns off his P C at lunchtime and goes home and we do the software upgrade during the afternoon on Friday , then his P C wo n't get the upgrade to the software because we 're sending it down the network . |
| 27 | I think he 's done it , I think he 's across the river and safe and there 's a buzzy glow of vicarious accomplishment starting to well up within me , but then there 's a cracking noise and he falls ; I think he 's tripped and fallen forward but he is n't lying flat on the snow , he 's sunk up to his waist in it and there 's a pool of darkness spreading on the whiteness around him as he struggles , trying to lever himself out and I ca n't believe this is happening , ca n't believe Andy is n't going to jump free ; I 'm yelling in fear now , shouting his name , screaming out to him . |
| 28 | They had n't been encouraged and treated well and led to believe that they had brains and insights like she had . |
| 29 | Shabby , he 'd thought , and plain , so that he was taken aback by the neatly-rounded woman who answered his knock , a most presentable person in a dark , well-cut woollen dress with what looked like a gold brooch at the neck , her smooth oval face miraculously ironed of the creases he remembered , her mouth smiling the serene welcome of a woman who has no reason to expect trouble from a knock at her door , a woman who eats well and sleeps well and can settle all her bills . |
| 30 | Er yeah exclude your short story , otherwise it could mean on you know it could be taken out and sold somewhere and then in interest you would sell your own for selling your own word you know that could be a possibility . |