Example sentences of "and [vb infin] [subord] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You may now question and comment if you choose . ’ |
| 2 | He rummaged under the counter and produced a colour chart , and , shoving the display-case of cakes to one side he flattened it out so that everyone could see and comment as they saw fit . |
| 3 | Erm , Derek said , and Derek said that erm that he now hoping you 'd go down and stay when they get naughty pictures ! |
| 4 | But he did not mean that a bishop was utterly free to act and think as he thought fit . |
| 5 | When she left I was free to stay and paint as I pleased . |
| 6 | Together they were the opposite of women who will nod and nod as they pretend to listen to another , waiting for the first pause of breath to muscle in with the growing pains and glories of their own house , the impatience showing on their faces as they wait . |
| 7 | If you have saved the Carrion attack until now ( see Dead Wings in the previous section ) , there is a chance that the adventurers will slip and fall if they engage in any combat . |
| 8 | Barons could most readily huff and stomp when they did indeed own their papers , rather than being chairmen , liable to be sacked by their directors . |
| 9 | On Channel 2 , the unctuous host of the Gerry Springer chat show had apparently taken a serious oil overdose as he presided over a freak show of truly terrible cases of giantism and dwarfism by telling his goggle-eyed studio viewers they were each of them there ‘ so that next time we may understand and empathise when we meet a woman 7ft 10ins tall . ’ |
| 10 | Stormily , she went on , ‘ I suppose I was meant to sit back and wait while you danced attendance on your number one girlfriend , was I ? |
| 11 | However , after having reached a position out of range of detection by the Cherbourg defences , P/O Atherton and his crew must have decided to circle and wait until they felt that the defences would have assumed that the attack was over and would therefore have relaxed their alertness . |
| 12 | Yeah , yeah you can sit and wait if you like oh no go away and come back again . |
| 13 | You can sit and wait if you want |
| 14 | ‘ You 're not expecting me to go home and wait till they shoot that boy on Friday ? ’ |
| 15 | They used to giggle and splutter when they saw the old man , thinking of him sitting on a toadstool in the moonlight . |
| 16 | The ordinary German people could only sit and watch while he reduced their homes , possessions and friends to rubble and a tangled , indistinguishable mess . |
| 17 | Joan Gibbs an owner says it 's a good night out … you can sit and watch while you have a meal … have a bet … it 's everything … |
| 18 | These sparkling crystal green pools look ideal for swimming , but beware dangerous undercurrents , the fact that they are deeper than the look , a temperature cold enough to freeze-dry your internal organs , and an audience of 50 tourists who will stand and watch as you try to get out of the water and back into your underpants with some dignity and without swearing . |
| 19 | In both cases this is a real emergency , because in the event of a cable break the pilot does not have time to realise what is wrong , and he may well stall and spin if he flies by attitude and tries to turn without checking the actual speed . |
| 20 | He 'd grow and grow until he burst the house apart . |
| 21 | No good saying , trying to pick and choose cos you get what you 're given in the end |
| 22 | He says he will have time enough to relax and carouse when he 's had a smash hit with his first novel . |
| 23 | Everyone will order me around and I will just have to smile and do as they say or they will not look after me when I am an old woman . |
| 24 | Two-year-old Bethany Hudson 's alarm started to smoulder and smoke as she lay in her cot . |
| 25 | The mistakes are made in investment terms when you actually rush at something , and you decide to go ahead and invest before you 've really studied all the options . |
| 26 | Turned down he said now of course we have to wait and see whether they go to appeal , as , as of course he said they 're entitled to do , but er |
| 27 | So , just have to wait and see whether we get an invitation or not . |
| 28 | She would have to wait and see whether he wanted their meetings to continue , or whether he wished to turn his back on his previous life and start another . |
| 29 | Now you 'll then have to look and see if they tell you to give it to the nearest metre or the nearest maybe the nearest maybe the nearest point one of a metre or three significant figures or three decimal places . |
| 30 | I 'd like you to look along and see if they go to that line and stop and they g you can see some over here . |