Example sentences of "and [verb] [adv] [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And I 've just been back and checked just to be sure , ’ his mate added . |
| 2 | Speech is constrained by the situation in which it is produced and needs only to be appropriate to it . |
| 3 | ‘ You will freeze up again , become fierce and forget how to be alive . ’ |
| 4 | It sold more $500,000-plus machines in fourth quarter 1992 than the three previous quarters combined and looks forward to being able to use Pentium in its machines , because it says the new Intel Corp chip will reduce the gap between its machines and RISC in batch processing work . |
| 5 | The gorge walls , over 50 feet in places , came so close they nearly touched and , below , a river straight out of a canoeist 's toybox , not large by any standards but clean , powerful , unspoilt and appearing not to be reliant on heavy rainfall . |
| 6 | We ask for a plant 's eye view of life and death in a sward and hope ultimately to be able to collect these reductionist observations into statements about the population , the species or even possibly the community . |
| 7 | We might try to find such a conceptual unity by making the distinction between sentence-meaning and utterance-meaning , and hope then to be able to equate semantics with the study of sentence-meaning and pragmatics with the study of utterance-meaning . |
| 8 | On occasions it has been necessary for members to ‘ walk the pitch ’ and clear up before being able to play . |
| 9 | The literature in this area is fragmentary and tends either to be definitional or descriptive . |
| 10 | O K then that 's right , you go and sit down , get yourself together again , and get back to being able to cope with life . |
| 11 | She had her revenge ; she hastily boarded their ship , leaving her belongings on the other ship , and prayed not to be sick . |
| 12 | The most satisfactory extrinsic marker is [ 3H ] thymidine which , due to the rapid cell cycle of early post-implantation embryonic cells , is quickly taken up by the vast majority of cells and appears not to be deleterious to development ( 25 ) . |
| 13 | When the teacher inhibits the child from pointing and pretends not to be able to see the picture , the child understands that the communicative situation has changed , that she can no longer rely on the shared visual context and she makes her reference explicit ( the teddy ) , locates him verbally rather than by pointing to him ( on the chair ) and makes explicit how the second picture differs from the first ( there ai n't no teddy ) . |
| 14 | Then , she had to return and re-powder her forehead and compose herself and try not to be anxious that she was already late . |
| 15 | " Let me think , and try not to be impatient . " |
| 16 | Mr Trelawney had been to sea before and knew enough to be useful , and one of the men , Israel Hands , was a careful and experienced seaman who was able to help with almost anything . |
| 17 | I do n't want to do something that will be acclaimed today and turn out to be disastrous next year . |
| 18 | This reduction in pleural thickening could also be seen on the chest x ray ( Fig 5 ) making it very likely that the pleural thickening noted initially in October 1990 and thought then to be unimportant was neoplastic from the outset . |
| 19 | Rachel said huskily , walking to his bedside and trying not to be alarmed by his appearance as she hugged and kissed him . |
| 20 | Mr Chairman , I , would like to slightly and trying not to be parochial , but having looked at the erm , figures , I , I just can not believe that those are honest figures , I mean there are eleven hundred and sixty nine people unemployed in Craven Arms or something like that , and they 've lost over a thousand jobs over the last few years , and erm , very few of those have been replaced . |
| 21 | It was easy to see that in reality the tables were old and stained with coffee rings , the seats cheap and plastic , the magazines tatty and two years out of date , and the strange , tropical foliage too glossily green and perfect not to be artificial . |
| 22 | Charlie smiled as he placed his frozen fingers round the hot mug and sipped slowly to be sure that the simple pleasure lasted . |