Example sentences of "and [adv] [conj] the [noun pl] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had to sit out in the corridor at Windsor listening to Electrophone transmissions of some opera that went on and on before the warblers saw fit to die with some interminable aria . |
| 2 | Huli men and women live separately , and so when the women go to bed at night , it 's the pigs they curl up with . |
| 3 | The ratchet , discussed earlier , is nearly always geared to profit and so if the managers take out too much in the early days , they may adversely affect their interests in the medium term . |
| 4 | so you could pull it up and down and the effects went out the bottom of the tube , the tube came up like that and it came over , and like that and then the shade would be like that and then you could swing it round |
| 5 | As the fund is used up , the income becomes less and less and the amounts withdrawn from the capital of the fund become greater and greater , because the total sum to be provided in such year — the £3,750 — is assumed … to remain constant throughout the relevant period . |
| 6 | If Samoa , Mount Silisili and yesterday were indeed somewhere out there , I would have to take their presence on trust : I doubt if the visibility was more than five miles , and less as the squalls rolled in and drenched me in my eyrie . |
| 7 | The roar beats toward Keith , unleashed fifteen-year-old energy , suddenly let out , wild , the crowd joyous to find themselves together braver and better than the individuals had imagined themselves to be . |
| 8 | ‘ And all because the ladies love Laurent Perrier Rose ! ’ she finished . |
| 9 | And interrogatories may be administered to determine on which of certain prescribed grounds the directors have acted , but not as to their reasons for rejecting on these grounds , and not if the articles provide , as they often do , that they shall not be bound to state their reasons . |
| 10 | And not because the imperialists have become wiser and kinder , but because they have become weaker , because the camp of peace is now strong as never before . ’ |
| 11 | And ever since the birds have been coming to overwinter at the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust in Slimbridge . |
| 12 | My plan was to increase my pace from normal ( around 3 miles per hour ) to brisk ( 3.5–4.0 miles per hour ) and to walk longer and further as the weeks went by . |
| 13 | In fact , however , the second point — the reality of God 's giving himself to be known in Jesus Christ — was always the real focus of his concern , and he came to stress it more and more as the years passed , and as he moved away from what he later said to have been the one-sidedness of his earlier writings . |
| 14 | The importance of this Sunday is being realised more and more as the Churches face the sharp edge of unemployment . |
| 15 | She was seeing Hector Henderson , and more and more as the days went on found that she needed him , his simplicity and his jolliness . |
| 16 | ‘ This sort of thing is happening more and more because the criminals think they can get away with it . |
| 17 | This was undoubtedly due partly to the war and partly because the statutes contained criteria which were felt to be less justiciable : if the minister stated that a regulation concerning trademarks was necessary for securing the safety of the realm the court would not adjudicate upon this . |
| 18 | And then we had the er the battledress was issued , the khaki , and erm we was had our head headquarters were started , the headquarters were started in an office at , one of the office rooms at the at the Bloxwich Lock and Stamping Company by the , the top offices we used to call them , by the gates , we had one of the rooms there for and it eventually became the armoury when we got some equipment because rifles etcetera was in very short supply after Dun Dunkirk So eventually we had a few rifles and er when the er we got a few rifles and er the sirens went it was the practice at the beginning when the sirens went in this area for everything to stop and everyone down the shelter but it happened four or five times , everybody realized how non-productive this was , that the time that was lost and there was nothing happening in this area so it was decided by the R T B that we , the , the people off the shop floor would n't stop work until the attack was really imminent or it had started because if this , this was happening all over the Midlands area and of course if you , if you multiply that by the number of people at work you can imagine how much production was lost erm and also when the sirens went Major at the factory used to get the chappies out from off the shop floor , get the few rifles we 'd got , take we in to King George 's playing fields there was a , a brook running across King George 's playing fields then , it had n't and a trench which was extended to stop er aircraft from landing in King George 's cos it was just a big open space . |
| 19 | However , because of the high levels of use , particularly during the dry periods of spring and early summer , and also because the courts have lain idle while the issue of land ownership was resolved , the surfaces have deteriorated to the point where complete refurbishment is necessary . |
| 20 | The defendant occupiers were held not liable , as they could assume that sweeps would be aware of this particular danger and also because the sweeps had been warned of the danger . |
| 21 | He hated goodbyes , and now that the women had been safely delivered into Orcadai 's hands , he was urgent to be away . |
| 22 | And even if the drivers had never visited London , they would have no excuse for mistaking the building ; the throng around it-was already twenty or thirty deep , spilling far over the pavement and into the street . |
| 23 | And even if the tests show there is no serious problem , he will take at least a couple of weeks to build up his strength again . |
| 24 | Golden Oldies are cricketers over 40 years of age and even if the legs do n't run so fast , standards are still high . |
| 25 | At present , only 18 people in the Health and Safety Executive are working on those regulations , and even though the provisions have been in operation for about two and a half years , fewer than one third of the safety cases have been accepted as being proper working documents . |
| 26 | And then when the invitations to speak to the Housewives ’ Register and Parish Council started rolling in , I realized that CHE had been noted as a part of the life of the town and it had a lot of potential friends . |
| 27 | John Hill says he started racing with a ski boat and then when the engines got bigger he had to have a go at powerboating which he really enjoys … |
| 28 | It 's pretty good cos when the lights go off I can see me and Marie in the window like it 's a mirror — and then when the lights come on , we disappear . |
| 29 | Oh oh yes yes the union did erm get that er sorted out you know , and er and then when the buses began to run it made it easier for those worked in Willenhall and er and it just be about threepence of fourpence in our money go there then , but erm and then the hours were altered you see , eight o'clock and finish at six o'clock and er and then it used to be seven to seven you see . |
| 30 | I mean Preston is about twenty miles south of er where we are but I know that there are gardens north of where we are that do grow good peaches but what they do they cover the er plants during the early spring round about February time and they cover it with very fine ne net , that 's all they need to do with it just cover it up when the flowers are out , make sure that they lift it off every now and again to do the pollinating , get them set and then when the frosts have gone take the net off . |