Example sentences of "[subord] [vb infin] [adv prt] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ever since you left SIS , you 've done nothing except mope around and complain . |
| 2 | Maxim chewed thoughtfully on something he had decided to eat rather than take out and look at ; he had chosen the hamburger . |
| 3 | Like you , I used to be overcome with shyness and would hover outside a roomful of people rather than go in and meet them . |
| 4 | The Steptoe & Son of ambient soup are back , following their Number One album ‘ UFOrb ’ with , well , a Number One single , Sensual , meandering and long , this is the equivalent of a BBC Sound Effects disc — you use it rather than sit back and enjoy it . |
| 5 | It was the usual pattern of finding something to do — anything — — rather than sit down and face the empty page , except that that day the uneasiness was extra . |
| 6 | Rather than turn back and shelter with Idris , I kept moving . |
| 7 | It was the first time that he had seen his father do anything but ride about and talk to people and sail boats and race and jump and swim and lay wagers at horse-fights on feast days and drink . |