Example sentences of "and [verb] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then he went to the john for twenty minutes and squelched back clicking and ticking like a geiger counter . |
| 2 | Furthermore , ever since it became an independent department it has wanted to stop being merely a postman between the Treasury and the recipients of funds , and aspires instead to set the policy framework . |
| 3 | The Centre for Corporate Strategy and Change also tends to implicitly adopt this model . |
| 4 | Striking the right balance between continuity and change undoubtedly holds the key to Courtaulds Italia 's future . |
| 5 | ‘ The next few months will be extremely difficult but I am confident that our reputation for quality , forged with our customers over the years , will allow us to bounce back quickly and develop rapidly to create more jobs in the not too distant future , ’ Mr Dunn said . |
| 6 | The Barclay and Cumberledge reports on social work and nursing respectively laid strong emphasis on patch-based working for the 1980s . |
| 7 | Some ratepayers , especially in larger towns and cities , were persuaded to finance the building especially of workhouse infirmaries separate from the main workhouse building , where standards of treatment and nursing gradually improved — the room for such improvement being considerable . |
| 8 | The allocation of the annual budget and grants also falls within its domain . |
| 9 | It means eating a variety of foods , going easy on fat , sugar and salt , and eating more fibrerich starchy foods like bread , pasta , rice and potatoes . |
| 10 | She , and could , found she could not fly and laid there looking at the sky . |
| 11 | He chose a place between two snoring servants and laid down to sleep , oblivious to the figure watching him from the shadows . |
| 12 | Roll over and repeat both exercises on the other side : Hip and Thigh Extender x 15 ; Front Thigh Stretch x 5 |
| 13 | Indeed , more than 30 per cent of clients are women who are generally more successful as they are better listeners and tend not to rush at obstacles . |
| 14 | For example , proposals such as those to base service provision on charges or vouchers are impractical and tend only to increase the differences between the services available in different areas and to shift the costs from the more visible budgets of the services to the less visible ones of the individual , relatively powerless consumer : either their pockets or their time and energy will be hit . |
| 15 | With regard to homage , it will suffice to say that there was as yet no papal decree against the homage of ecclesiastics to laymen ; and Anselm certainly thought that there was no objection in principle . |
| 16 | And INFOWORLD recently called Version 4.0 ‘ the nest graphics package for the complex technical graphs wanted by most scientists and engineers . ’ |
| 17 | They spend months on end continuously on the wing , feeding by catching insects in mid-air , mating by coupling high in the sky and tumbling downwards interlocked for hundreds of feet , and presumably even sleeping on the wing . |
| 18 | It had settled already on the mounds still lying heaped on the field , white as quicklime ; flesh not yet cold and consigned already to ashes ; bone , juice , and fibre still consuming its fuel , deflating from its last action ; sponging off the last image and led already to dust . |
| 19 | They could even lose and stay up providing two of their lower-placed rivals lose . |
| 20 | They could even lose and stay up providing two of their lower-placed rivals lose . |
| 21 | Above FIGURE 6 On a cold day in the fields , red-legged partridges can become spherical in shape , and sit round looking like a collection of footballs . |
| 22 | We 're all horrified by one another , we humans , and there 's an end to it , but I shall be a good boy and sit quietly stroking Hosanna who is , when all 's said and done , my only true friend . ’ |
| 23 | Should we then insist that it is all SEGLAB 's fault and sit back waiting for it to improve ? |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | But when he has gone I buy another whisky , and sit there musing on being a crunched-up spring . |
| 26 | Cadfael shepherded his charge within , and watched him subside gratefully on to the narrow cot , and sit there mute for a moment , laying his burden down beside him with a kind of caressing gentleness . |
| 27 | Now you just and sit there watch it now . |
| 28 | Come and sit down come and sit down . |
| 29 | Out of the corner of her eye she watched Travis unroll the sleeping-bag and sit down to remove his boots . |
| 30 | I take my jacket off again and sit down to look through the War files … |