Example sentences of "and [verb] [adv] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Station cafés like the one at Temple Meads — I saw the freckly man with the ginger hair , stared him straight in the eye but he did n't recognize me — you ca n't sleep there at night , Vern said , but you can buy a coffee during the day and sit there nodding off and they think you 're just tired from travelling . |
| 2 | Military units have frequently carried out arrests and failed promptly to hand over detainees to the police — a number have been held beyond the 72-hour-limit . |
| 3 | However , the Secretary of State then came forward , in August , with a second , revised regulation , which dropped the exclusion of supplementary benefit and national assistance and sought instead to lay down a more restrictive set of conditions for back payments . |
| 4 | A LETTER reproves me for singling out rotten spelling in other places , notably The Guardian , and goes on to point out that this magazine is not immune . |
| 5 | The beggar is plainly moved , and goes on looking curiously at Howard for some moments after he has walked on . |
| 6 | If we were asking this question of an amphibian or reptile , which lays its eggs and goes away to live solitarily except when the mating season comes around again , we would answer it purely in terms of the physical ecology of the species . |
| 7 | Surprised into consciousness , alone in the black hemisphere , he cries until he laughs ; then he uses the chamberpot that Rosa readied , and goes back to sleep quickly , despite the pain . |
| 8 | This resulted in the loss of three of Schleswig-Holstein 's 14 constituencies , and goes far to explain why in the whole of the Federal Republic there were only four excess seats in seven general elections held from 1965 onwards compared with 13 in the previous four . |
| 9 | It can be argued that this confinement to land-use issues was the basic problem with structure planning and goes far to explain why the exercise has in practice proved so limited in its impact , but in this chapter the focus is precisely on the politics of land use , and structure plan intentions are of considerable importance . |
| 10 | The gentleman flung out an accusing finger at the window , through which the flickering and crackling still lingered on . |
| 11 | In 1072 William led a large army up to Stirling , forded the river there , and rode on to join up with his fleet entering the Tay . |
| 12 | Sitting in the airless games room in the basement of the St James ' Club , he stares out of the window , dreamily tracing the pattern in the glass , then stops , vaguely embarrassed at what he 's doing , and turns round to face yet another tape recorder . |
| 13 | After which , his empty sledge on his back , he would walk and clamber slowly back up the steepness to enter once more into the dripping slate shaft and repeat the exhausting process . |
| 14 | No , we 'll have to have a look tomorrow they 'd better hurry up and eat though had n't they ? |
| 15 | He tried both of these old tricks on Eleanor and got thoroughly told off . |
| 16 | Another mortar team has moved into the orchard this evening , 13th June , and got down to work straight away by sending off several rounds of high explosives in quick succession in the direction of the enemy positions . |
| 17 | Perkin tried to pull them apart and got smartly knocked down by Nolan , quick and tough with his fists as with his riding . |
| 18 | I saw a whole host of caterpillar tracks near the entrance of the Channel Tunnel , started to follow one on my hands and knees — and got promptly knocked down by a bulldozer … ! |
| 19 | In an effort to keep weight out of the eyes of the yacht , the stemhead roller may be unshipped when not in use and stowed away further aft . |
| 20 | The art of surviving is to understand how the system works not to be frightened by it , and to know when to seek more expert help . |
| 21 | She 's full of sly ways and has yet to work off her debts to me . ’ |
| 22 | From the financial services market , Sherwood picked off Consort Data Ltd ( CI No 2,017 ) , with its personal computer stockbroking systems , for £250,000 — and has already notched up eight sales . |
| 23 | A good example is Dances With Wolves which cost us four thousand as a and has already sold over a hundred and twenty thousand copies . |
| 24 | The Venice Soprintendenza certainly does not intend to miss out on such an opportunity and has already come up with a proposal , ‘ Dal Museo alla città ’ ( From Museum to City ) , which it estimates would cost L3.8 billion ( £1.76 million ; $3 million ) . |
| 25 | Chris Vaughan , a management consultant from Farnham , Surrey , bought his just before last Christmas and has already clocked up thousands of miles . |
| 26 | On this basis , Britain was the world 's biggest generator of invisible earnings , and has probably remained so this year . |
| 27 | Britain had become the most urbanized nation in the world by the late nineteenth century , and has probably remained so ever since . |
| 28 | I ‘ m sure you will all be aware of the projected plan to allow building on the land known as Curriemuirend and the action group that was formed to rally support to oppose this and has effectively done so . |
| 29 | But he has denied murdering and kidnapping Julie , two charges of blackmailing Leeds police with a demand for £140,000 , and has also pleaded not guilty to demanding £200,000 from British Rail with menaces . |
| 30 | But he has denied murdering and kidnapping Julie , two charges of blackmailing Leeds police with a demand for £140,000 , and has also pleaded not guilty to demanding £200,000 from British Rail . |