Example sentences of "and [pron] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Katherine turned her cheek for his kiss , and them immediately ushered both children towards the dining room . |
| 32 | Players hide the studs from referees by showing him their reserve pair — complete with regulation studs — and them quickly switch before the game . |
| 33 | So , unless she 'd had burglars — and nothing else had been taken — then Naylor , not caring to have his orders disobeyed , must have removed it . |
| 34 | Probably what goes in and nothing else happens . |
| 35 | A youth in Union Jack shorts and nothing else whistled approvingly and they laughed and sauntered back to the car . |
| 36 | Later in the same chapter , at the point of death , Dickens breaks into a further kind of rhetoric , the declamatory rhetoric he reserves for moments of high drama : [ 5 ] The golden ripple on the wall came back again , and nothing else stirred in the room ( 1 ) . |
| 37 | ‘ They are going out and pinching cars because they 've got no money and nothing else to do . |
| 38 | ‘ And nothing else to look at , ’ Jamie went on . |
| 39 | Parents are mostly unwilling to carry it out unless they are very desperate and nothing else has worked . |
| 40 | He did not love her as he had done , and nothing else mattered . |
| 41 | That is a measure not merely of misfortune and waste , but of positive neglect ; and nothing so symbolises the Tories ' failure as their abandonment of any pretence to commitment towards the unemployed . |
| 42 | Nothing could be willingly given up , and nothing once given up could be expected to be restored . |
| 43 | He returned to find the Cross of St George still flapping from the walls of Famagusta and nothing obviously changed except the weather , which would , of course , put out the slow-matches and the fire-missiles and make it increasingly unlikely that the tower of Famagusta was going to prove combustible . |
| 44 | I 've been thinking about it , and nothing better suggests itself . |
| 45 | But they had no follow-up written , and they knew the public would be perfectly happy if they just disappeared , leaving behind this one camp masterpiece , and nothing afterwards to spoil it . |
| 46 | The intersection is on your route home , and you do it every day , and nothing ever happens . |
| 47 | Whatever that one was , and , and coming rushing out of the place waiving your hand , and nothing ever happens , the guy never sends is . |
| 48 | Eight years ago the plant had 27 production controllers and nothing ever went out on time . |
| 49 | And , I applied for loads of jobs and nothing ever came back . |
| 50 | Astrology , however , does not operate like rational science , for it seeks to confirm its theories , and nothing ever seems to count against them . |
| 51 | In Ardeevan we just lay and rotted and nothing ever happened between Doctor Staples 's weekly rounds – except that someone died . |
| 52 | Croatian and Bosnian forces recaptured Mostar from the Serbs last June , but the shells still fall sporadically from the mountains , and no-one here believes the Serbs are finished yet . |
| 53 | Two of us in a great mass of strangers , and various things to do that you 've got to get right , like follow signs and collect your luggage ; then you get looked over by the customs , and no-one particularly cares who you are or what you 're doing there so the two of you have to keep one another cheerful … |
| 54 | ‘ And no-one else does . ’ |
| 55 | And no-one else had raised any objection . |
| 56 | He never discussed the failed raid ; and no-one else dared to , either . |
| 57 | She sits there all evening and no-one even talks to her . |
| 58 | We issued a statement pointing out that she was n't talking to the kidnappers in Beirut , and sent a letter to that effect to every MP , but it was a busy time and no-one really noticed . |
| 59 | And no-one really connected the two … until now . |
| 60 | I have phoned the company , but all I get is an ansaphone and no-one ever contacts me . |