Example sentences of "and [verb] [indef pn] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She gasped , and whispered something incoherently , her body shaking . |
| 2 | The intellect could not be forced further , but something else took its place and led one further — intuition , inspiration , spirit ? — this last I echo . |
| 3 | And expected everyone else to do the same . |
| 4 | After some time of searching for the right facility they have had to go back and build something anew . |
| 5 | Good girl ! " he commended Lally as kindly as he would any keen bitch , and asked nothing further . |
| 6 | It 's all right , honey , I do n't really talk like that , I do it to irritate Matt , though it usually does n't because he 's so thick-skinned and thinks everyone else talks like that anyway , so I guess I do it for my own private amusement . |
| 7 | He keeps his nose to the grindstone and thinks everyone else should . |
| 8 | He had that irritating manner of believing all was well and trusting everyone completely . |
| 9 | He shook two cigarettes from a paper packet , lit them , and placed one gently between her lips . |
| 10 | Some people think you know really be testing er with language and mean something entirely different . |
| 11 | He describes ufology as ‘ a war zone in which everyone desperately defends their own theory and hates everyone else . ’ |
| 12 | The air raids on London and Liverpool and Birmingham and Clydeside were to knock out communications and close roads and railways and make everybody so pig-sick that they 'd welcome Hitler with open arms . |
| 13 | The idea burst into her mind , a sudden radiant solution , that she could rush along to the pet shop at lunchtime and apologize , ask him to forgive her and make everything all right . |
| 14 | To comfort you , to hold you and make everything all right — that was all that mattered . ’ |
| 15 | We try and make everything as good as it can be and I write guitar lines that will be heard . |
| 16 | Advocacy means representing and pursuing someone else 's interests as if they were your own . |
| 17 | One person in the middle is the naughty monkey and has to try and make everybody else either move or laugh . |
| 18 | ‘ The way I see it , my job will be to settle the guys down and bring everyone together . |
| 19 | And bring everything else you stole from Frank Griffith . ’ |
| 20 | Later the gadget acquired a popular name — the safety pin — and made someone else very rich . |
| 21 | He was awakened by a minor earth tremor during the night of the seventh to the eighth , but went back to sleep again and experienced nothing else untoward during the night . |
| 22 | ‘ I 've only had twelve hours ’ flying instruction and flown one solo — never even frightened a German — but people keep telling me I 've saved Britain . |
| 23 | The atmosphere was one of people enjoying themselves in their own way and allowing everyone else to do so too . |
| 24 | What 's the point of returning to work and allowing someone else to bring up the child ? |
| 25 | She agreed to dance with him because , she says , she knew she had nothing in mind but to dance ( line 15 – 16 ) : i.e. from her point of view it was all innocent and involved nothing more serious than dancing . |
| 26 | It was as if he had n't really wanted freedom , only to assert his right to be free if he chose , which is quite a different thing and has something both sad and comical about it . |
| 27 | This may have been the same object as that lent by Gaston I to Clement V. The pope agreed to keep the talisman safely and to excommuni-cate anyone else who attempted to use it . |
| 28 | If you 've a few grey hairs and want something more lasting try their colouring emulsion for grey hair which lasts two to three months . |
| 29 | If you do not wish to keep just goldfish and want something more ‘ exotic ’ , try Weather Loach , Bitterling , White Cloud Mountain Minnows , Paradise fish or Sunfish . |
| 30 | If not I 'll go and buy one tomorrow . |