Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [pron] [adv] [verb] and " in BNC.

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1 A wife 's role is to nurture this Izzat and bring up her children so that they too understand and respect it .
2 When you feel you have achieved your weight and inch loss to an acceptable level , you can work out your own routine of exercises so that you specifically tone and improve your problem areas .
3 I had a visitors ' visa , renewed annually but I simply forgot and let it go for two months .
4 He was jumping already so we just tripped and fell on him .
5 Staring at the door , Ellie seemed quite unable to tear her eyes away as it slowly opened and Feargal walked in .
6 Fascination with the older girls won just as it always did and she crossed the landing , an expanse of lino dotted with what her mother referred to as ‘ slip mats ’ , pushed open the door and went in .
7 He lowered himself gingerly to a gilt chair and stirred his coffee , the spoon circulating slowly until it finally stopped and he sat staring at it .
8 The former Spurs full-back , whose Wimbledon team were among the originators of the direct approach , complained : ‘ Leeds hoofed the ball about 50 times further than we ever did and relied on John Lukic knocking it on to Lee Chapman 's head for about 70 per cent of their attacks . ’
9 He stated , correctly in my view , that he had quote seen her much more than anybody else unquote and confessed that when he had first treated her on the day of the accident he had quote never expected to see her again , unquote .
10 And you hit it and it bends up and it just dies and I 've been sitting like , I mean I , I definitely do n't think that it is anything with the way I hold it in like cos I 've been sitting going and I just , just hit it and it goes ee , it just dies so you ca n't bend , that 's on too .
11 I tried to cheer him up but he only grunted and would n't respond .
12 Remember that many of out best writers now teach as well as write ( perhaps to supplement the income they earn from royalties , but also because they simply want and like to ) and that you can learn a great deal from the writers you admire .
13 But it was an hour later before they finally parted and went to their rooms .
14 The Foreign Office also said today that they warmly welcomed and supported the US move to step up their contribution .
15 even our grandchildren were , I mean er right from the beginning even if they only go and sit in the surgery and just watch , ju you know just go and visit
16 No I did n't but I just changed and came down here and put my feet up here .
17 The great Italian poet Leopardi had this to say : ‘ Works of genius have this intrinsic property that even when they give a perfect likeness of the nullity of things , even when they clearly demonstrate and make us feel the inevitable unhappiness of life , even when they express the most terrible despair , nevertheless … they always serve as a consolation , rekindling enthusiasm , and though speaking of and portraying nothing but death , restore to it , at least for a while , the life that it had lost . ’
18 For example if you had the London Mozart players here as we frequently did and frequently played to full houses , then even with a hundred percent house there was a subsidy required of something like seven or eight pounds per seat , in order to meet the cost of presenting that particular concert and we 've done it for years but sadly when we had to make cuts that was one of things the board decided they had to cut up they had to save money somehow .
19 She barked when I first went round there and she just shook and shook so
20 ‘ I 've no love for the SDLP either but I still went and spoke to them too .
21 My life is set to go on as it always has and no war can change it that I can see . ’
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