Example sentences of "and [verb] " in BNC.

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31 The old nun was as imperious as ever but she visibly thawed when she saw Corbett and beamed with pleasure at his gift .
32 He sat down and beamed his good eye at the shine on his toecap .
33 The waiter placed an enormous bowl of whipped cream on the table and Willi spooned lavishly , then picked up his fork , paused and beamed again .
34 She kissed Jake 's cheek and beamed at Shiona .
35 Rose never interested in clothes before , tried the lot on and beamed at herself in the long mirror .
36 At last Cranston belched , stretched , and beamed round the tavern , snapping his fingers to call Talbot over .
37 At the bottom Cranston immediately felt better , turned and beamed at Athelstan .
38 Captain 's microphone and headset when using the radio or intercom .
39 Co-pilot 's microphone and headset when using the radio or intercom .
40 Flight engineer 's microphone and headset when using the radio or intercom ; or
41 Flight engineer 's ‘ hot ’ microphone and headset ; or
42 First check all the electrical system , fuses , circuit breakers , microphone and headset connected .
43 It shocked the earth it slammed into , and those shock waves slammed into the soles of your feet and raged through your body and paralysed your mind .
44 New York : THE United States ' worst winter storm of the century killed at least 66 people and paralysed the east coast of the country , closing motorways and airports and leaving millions without electricity , officials said last night .
45 It both created the revolution and paralysed it .
46 I mean , I 'm well aware you do n't have to face single-handed and prattling , blowing your own cor-anglais and generally acting up before a captive crowd of thousands .
47 In Amalgamemnon , Xorandor , and Verbivore the fictional or mythic nature of the simulations and abstractions we take to be fact is demonstrated by simulations of these simulations which reveal them to be discursive constructs .
48 To her amusement , two black-cloaked figures in full face masks and tricorn hats detached themselves from a group on a parapet and arranged themselves in exaggerated attitudes of extreme sorrow , one studying a rose , the other a silver mirror .
49 Both heart rate variability ( the beat to beat variation in heart rate ) and baroreflex sensitivity are accepted measures of parasympathetic activity .
50 A practical objection to pre-publication orders , from an ‘ acquisitions ’ point of view , is that they clog up order files and complicate the order process — particularly when titles which have been announced are not actually published .
51 Such a tax would , they concluded , both ‘ constrain and complicate the government 's ability to manage the economy ’ and ‘ carry some possible risk to incentives and to the encouragement of inflationary wage demands ’ ( Layfield 1976 , App 8:211 ) .
52 I realized that she was n't going to tell him about events on Vadinamia so that he would n't jump to any conclusions and complicate things .
53 Then I show up and complicate matters … ’
54 As someone who lives just outside Brighton and commutes to Autocar & Motor 's office on the outskirts of Teddington , West London , it 's fitting that I should be the Clio 's new keeper .
55 I think she still lives in the parish and commutes in .
56 Affliction succeeds in taking the detailing associated with Raymond Carver-style dirty realism and fusing it with the pace of a detective story .
57 By contrast , for example , the development of the heart is much more convoluted , involving as it does the complex folding and fusing of tubes .
58 He hoped that the tightly packed deuterium atoms would be set in motion , their nuclei bumping into one another and fusing .
59 To me , who on a good day just about understood that there was no danger of the water 's getting into the wiring system and fusing everything or worse , and was amazed that the record-player did n't run erratically , the whole set-up was a major miracle .
60 When the battery is connected , all inputs and outputs first assume Logic 0 .
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