Example sentences of "and [adv] [pron] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Would n't I like to curl up on the sofa ? — and mostly I enjoyed the sweaty heaving pleasures of the British Legion do , where the guests galumphed and the men got drunk and waved bottles around — and one thing I noticed through all the ranks of society , no matter what the background , or the income , or the form the party took , was that as the evening wore on women would begin to look pained and patient and longed to get home , but did n't like to say so for fear of being accused of ruining the evening 's fun . |
| 2 | Er and eventually we changed the foreman , the union changed the foreman . |
| 3 | ‘ I belong to the Duke of Gloucester Trust and eventually I persuaded the officials to try fitting one of my whistles . |
| 4 | I swallow , throat dry , tears finally coming into my eyes and eventually I squeeze the words out : |
| 5 | I had a good laugh about it and eventually she saw the funny side . |
| 6 | She sat at the breakfast table , trying to calm her nerves , and eventually she drew the envelope from her housecoat pocket and opened it , reading the words that were written inside , and feeling the blood drain from her face . |
| 7 | What is actually happening of course we know in that case what is actually happening , because nerves erm er neurones in , in the base of the brain are actually sampling the blood flow as it goes through with sugar level and when the sugar level drops to a critical point , some of those neurones start to fire and as they fire gradually the message is passed on up to the higher brain centres and eventually you get the feeling you 're hungry . |
| 8 | You carry on learning , and somewhere somebody knows the answer to it so you learn how they go the answer to it , and then perhaps later on you have a chance to have an opinion in science . |
| 9 | I have most of them already and besides I enjoy the reputation of being the best teacher . |
| 10 | The first thing that heralds the approach of Autumn is that you are outside one evening , not too late , thinking you 've time to mend the fence , move the sheep or clean the goat pen and suddenly someone turns the light off ! |
| 11 | The vehemence of his reply had taken her aback , and suddenly she heard the throb of her own heartbeat loud in her ears . |
| 12 | The guests , packed cheek by jowl , parted as he entered , and suddenly she knew the reason for the party . |
| 13 | Her eyes swept across his face , and suddenly she had the almost overwhelming desire to tell him that it was n't important at all , that she was , inside , what he 'd called a real woman , one who wanted a home and children to fill it , and most of all a husband , a man who would take her in his arms and kiss her until nothing mattered except him , kiss her as Nicolo had , make her want him as she 'd wanted Nicolo … |
| 14 | And suddenly he took the rumours and put them on like a coat . |
| 15 | Gradually you saw this self-absorbed monarch stripped down of all his trappings , until a wonderful scene when he was kneeling on the ground staring at his reflection , and suddenly he shattered the mirror against his foreheard . |
| 16 | ‘ She told you Alex was the father , and suddenly you saw the awful vision of history repeating itself . |
| 17 | The sun goes in and suddenly you feel the frost rising ! |
| 18 | For larger boats a life jacket like this one is fine , particularly if you are going further offshore but it 's too clumsy to wear in a small sail boat like the Topper and so we prefer the buoyancy aid like this one . |
| 19 | But this also breaks down for the same reason and so we resolve the problem by taking what is valid from thesis and antithesis to form a synthesis . |
| 20 | And so we followed the old man up the stone steps beneath the portico and into the long hall . |
| 21 | Rather like watches , they were practical , part of the furniture and so we wore the same one for all occasions . |
| 22 | We would rather have gone somewhere else if that was what we wanted ; it was n't quite right somehow and so we painted the windows up again . ) |
| 23 | Later , Faraday showed that moving charges made magnetic fields and so we had the electromagnetic field . |
| 24 | When beating the sideways force of the wind is at a maximum and so we need the daggerboard right down to get a good grip on the water and stop the boat drifting sideways . |
| 25 | A majority of the Group agreed with Professor Stubbs , and so we retained the examples , though with additional explanatory material . |
| 26 | In the first place , we had to come to know each other , to establish a community of interest , and so we used the early tours and concert schedules to play through the orchestra , s main repertory . |
| 27 | And so we used the small weapons we had . |
| 28 | Silencing her with a hand enveloping her face , I half-lifted her and so we entered the cave , the girl struggling furiously . |
| 29 | Our theological understanding is that our top priority should be to worship God and so we encourage the small groups to give time to this first . |
| 30 | probation officer with the state in Texas and they decide they want a trial at monitoring and they ask if I would be interested and so we begin the programme , the first in-house operative programme in Texas , and we set up our programme from scratch and started just kind of working on trial and error trying to make the thing worked . |