Example sentences of "and [verb] [indef pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To me , who on a good day just about understood that there was no danger of the water 's getting into the wiring system and fusing everything or worse , and was amazed that the record-player did n't run erratically , the whole set-up was a major miracle . |
| 2 | She disappeared , then reappeared behind the counter and whispered something to the girl who was on duty there . |
| 3 | The little maid whom Elisa had seen earlier standing by the door in the sitting room came into the dining room on both occasions and whispered something into his ear . |
| 4 | The proprietor took over , and was still serving the portions when one of the waitresses came in and whispered something to Delaney . |
| 5 | The dark man had embraced her before he mounted , and whispered something no one else could hear . |
| 6 | Cousin Jane looked across at her and smiled and whispered something to Mike . |
| 7 | Then he leaned forward and whispered something into his left ear . |
| 8 | She gasped , and whispered something incoherently , her body shaking . |
| 9 | I watched as he sat next to him , and whispered something into his ear , the small man cringed slightly and looked as the middle aged woman had done at the tattered ‘ Summer Sun ’ adverts . |
| 10 | I hate to say you should be American , because of course , no-one should , but this one single evening of Great British Music — Spiritualized , Curve , The Jesus And Mary Chain , in that fixed order — is three and a quarter hours that compounds and crystallises everything that is vibrant and clever and downright sex-mad- filthy about what squares call ‘ alternative ’ . |
| 11 | I 'm here to protect and oversee everything . ’ |
| 12 | My conviction is that as we take action , and show that we mean business , we will find that it is at that point precisely that the Holy Spirit comes to help us in our weakness and change everything from a mechanical discipline to an encounter with the living God . |
| 13 | Then Paul has to get the Tipp-Ex out and change everything round , but it never really looks right . |
| 14 | Er , you will be listened to , er , and that will create , and you will have influence , and that cycle will take you back into the positive memories for the next time you try and change something . |
| 15 | And then if they come along and change anything we hit , we hit them for the , the extras . |
| 16 | To understand music-hall and vaudeville one has to fight through layers of myth and romance and one has to undo a whole view of the past that uses nostalgia for pre-1914 as a touchstone . |
| 17 | When the firemen finally arrived I pointed at the sacrificial pyre still burning and burbled something about my priceless slide-collection . |
| 18 | and they go and drag somebody up in |
| 19 | I do n't want to see inside the castle , I just want to walk around the outside and sketch anything that looks interesting . ’ |
| 20 | THIS is usually the jolliest month of the year because you can justify buying up the High Street and nursing lots of hangovers . |
| 21 | The reason it ends up swallowing and eating everything is that it 's seen as the only choice . |
| 22 | Mrs Widdup explained : ‘ There is always a danger of the animals trespassing or the horses leaning over and eating someone 's trees . ’ |
| 23 | They 've seen and heard nothing to convince them . |
| 24 | They had seen and heard nothing unusual . |
| 25 | In an ideal world we would be recycling and re-using everything , but this is n't possible and we have a long way to go before we can turn all our waste into a resource . |
| 26 | I think it would be fun to use fabric paints rather than hunting for and knitting lots of different colours . |
| 27 | He 's a scratch golfer , too , and plays everything from hockey to squash with much skill . |
| 28 | They wanted to stop equality for black people and to kill anyone who did n't agree with them . |
| 29 | The intellect could not be forced further , but something else took its place and led one further — intuition , inspiration , spirit ? — this last I echo . |
| 30 | They were opened with huge and ancient keys , and led one into a secret world of liquid green shadows . |