Example sentences of "and [verb] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Furthermore , ever since it became an independent department it has wanted to stop being merely a postman between the Treasury and the recipients of funds , and aspires instead to set the policy framework . |
| 2 | ‘ The next few months will be extremely difficult but I am confident that our reputation for quality , forged with our customers over the years , will allow us to bounce back quickly and develop rapidly to create more jobs in the not too distant future , ’ Mr Dunn said . |
| 3 | For example , proposals such as those to base service provision on charges or vouchers are impractical and tend only to increase the differences between the services available in different areas and to shift the costs from the more visible budgets of the services to the less visible ones of the individual , relatively powerless consumer : either their pockets or their time and energy will be hit . |
| 4 | It had settled already on the mounds still lying heaped on the field , white as quicklime ; flesh not yet cold and consigned already to ashes ; bone , juice , and fibre still consuming its fuel , deflating from its last action ; sponging off the last image and led already to dust . |
| 5 | ‘ Is there anyone you know who thought Mills was a traitor and cared enough to see him dead ? ’ |
| 6 | Under ordinary circumstances , Nurse Goodman would probably not have given permission but ‘ the Major ’ , as he had become known , was such a mystery that she was glad to feel that at least somebody knew of his fate and cared enough to come to the hospital to see how he was getting on . |
| 7 | By which time the sexual revolution was also wearing a bit thin and became more to do with increasing women 's availability to men than the sexual autonomy and control over our own bodies we had all been promised . |
| 8 | The one who took the lead looked big enough and mean enough to relish a ruck if there was a chance of one . |
| 9 | Downes thumped the table with both fists with such ferocity that WPC Wright transferred her shorthand-book to her black-stockinged knee , and failed completely to register the next three words that Downes had thundered . |
| 10 | It was , however , a bodged job , probably by the farm labourers , and failed even to fit the opening properly . |
| 11 | Military units have frequently carried out arrests and failed promptly to hand over detainees to the police — a number have been held beyond the 72-hour-limit . |
| 12 | Artwatch , led by Professor James Beck , has called the tour hasty and sought unsuccessfully to keep it from happening . |
| 13 | However , the Secretary of State then came forward , in August , with a second , revised regulation , which dropped the exclusion of supplementary benefit and national assistance and sought instead to lay down a more restrictive set of conditions for back payments . |
| 14 | Sartre took the opposite course to Merleau-Ponty and sought instead to define a new authentic Marxism . |
| 15 | The atomistic theory of Epicurus , the methods of the Greek sceptics , and Zeno 's paradoxes concerning time and space may all have influenced the heretics concerned , but MacDonald could find no trace of any Greek theory combining material and temporal atomism and sought instead to attribute the occurrence of the latter in Islamic thought to Indian influence . |
| 16 | The LEA 's role in the Programme was an interventionist rather than a facilitating one : it devised PNP 's goals and strategy , and sought closely to influence and control the Programme 's implementation . |
| 17 | If you can scrape together a few hits and make enough to retire to a little place in the suburbs , you 've made the most of the opportunity . |
| 18 | Rufus was still lying asleep on the terrace , though at some point he must have awakened , for he was shaded from the sun by Hilbert 's old black umbrella which he had opened and propped there to shelter his head and face . |
| 19 | I have now resumed and read enough to assure my correspondent that he is lucky that his impatient reminder was directed at me and not at God , whose response to murmurings about the unforeseen delays in reaching the promised land was smiting with pestilence . |
| 20 | Erm , well as long as the child is , is young enough to believe in the bogie man , everything is fine , and that child may well go to bed on time and er , and er , shuts its eyes and goes straight to sleep er in fear . |
| 21 | If we were asking this question of an amphibian or reptile , which lays its eggs and goes away to live solitarily except when the mating season comes around again , we would answer it purely in terms of the physical ecology of the species . |
| 22 | Very quietly one gets up and goes noiselessly to check the bolt 's on the door . |
| 23 | Unlike the Beggar , the friend does return once , looks over Hoccleve 's work ( a translation from the Gesta Romanorum ) , and goes home to fetch him a better copy , including the moralising of the tale which Hoccleve 's copy lacks , and which he immediately begins to translate . |
| 24 | She has a room upstairs and goes there to paint . |
| 25 | This resulted in the loss of three of Schleswig-Holstein 's 14 constituencies , and goes far to explain why in the whole of the Federal Republic there were only four excess seats in seven general elections held from 1965 onwards compared with 13 in the previous four . |
| 26 | It can be argued that this confinement to land-use issues was the basic problem with structure planning and goes far to explain why the exercise has in practice proved so limited in its impact , but in this chapter the focus is precisely on the politics of land use , and structure plan intentions are of considerable importance . |
| 27 | I was shocked and fascinated enough to turn my attention , briefly , from the nastiness within to the nastiness without . |
| 28 | A check of the water 's temperature is often made on the spot and smaller samples may also be taken and treated immediately to enable a measurement of dissolved oxygen to be made , or to fix for the presence of certain substances such as cyanide . |
| 29 | Most other delegates dismissed this as quite unrealistic and agreed merely to encourage the International Socialist Bureau to continue seeking opportunities for a peaceful settlement , ‘ without annexations or indemnities ’ . |
| 30 | Doormen in red coats , royal blue silk lining flapping an appearance , peel off the foyer glass doors , and forge forward to park the car and muster bags . |