Example sentences of "and [verb] [adv] and " 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 | ‘ I suggest you have another glass of wine and sit there and I 'll sort it out . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | You come to see me and sit there and say nowt . |
| 11 | 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 . ’ |
| 12 | The hostess rang and asked tactfully and hesitantly if I felt like it . |
| 13 | Burrows , now clutching at straws , looked into it and became more and more interested in the actor . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | They 're mowed in summer and grazed afterwards and wild flowers including orchids come up and it is unique |
| 20 | to think logically , communicate clearly , and read critically and with understanding . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | They had n't been encouraged and treated well and led to believe that they had brains and insights like she had . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Good references required and given here and in the South . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ The understanding of our history we achieved in preparing for the 70th anniversary of October is not something frozen and given once and for all . |
| 27 | More importantly , they show how , even in what is regarded as the most basic type of communication , the context that is relevant to the disambiguation of deixis should be seen not as a physical setting that is fixed and given once and for all , but rather as a cognitive space that is actively constructed by participants in the course of the interaction . |
| 28 | Sing and dance together and be joyous , but let each one of you be alone , |
| 29 | There is a stony silence , Dolores hides her head and turns away and it 's left to Fergal to say in solemn tones : |
| 30 | The motives appeared to be mixture of low living standards in China , the prospect of personal advancement and gain overseas and also patriotic sentiments . |