Example sentences of "and [adv] [conj] [pron] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Very soon he stopped , juggled the engines to and fro until he reckoned the bows were a hundred yards distant from the buoy , had the anchor dropped , then moved just as slowly astern , the anchor chain being paid out as he went . |
| 2 | I suppose I must have accepted that whatever my parents told me was good and right because I had no reason to think otherwise . |
| 3 | Lanto Synge , Mallett & Son , London ( leading dealers in English furniture ) : Themes certainly do stretch us artistically and commercially but they present an interesting and challenging exercise . |
| 4 | Yeah but the Open University ones cover all of the material and they 're what I actually wrote the lectures from erm but there 's six of them which is why the o the only advantage of the other one is that it 's one not six and so but I mean the material is all covered text of which there are three copies of most of them in the library one on short loan and one on sort of a general loan so you |
| 5 | And erm and she kept doing this for ages and erm she was , she was sta starting to get worried because people might believe , find out that it was her and so after she killed a cow , she took out all of i , all it 's insides and hid in it and no one ever found her ! |
| 6 | And so when they changed the character to be twenty five in the film which w Mi Mike 's age , it totally changed the piece , totally and completely changed the piece . |
| 7 | It is a common experience in reading that you read something , then try to write about it ; writing about it gives you new ideas , and so when you read the original again you find new things in it because of the new ideas you have brought to it . |
| 8 | ‘ It had always been her ambition to go to the Holy Land and so when I arranged the trip I told her ‘ Right , now you 're going ’ . |
| 9 | If they have n't remained constant over our sampling period , right , then there 's no point in making our sample predictions , alright , we 've got to have at least the confidence that our model is re relatively stable over our small sample , right , in order to make any sort of predictions about the behaviour of the dependent variable that we are looking at and the parameter of interest out of sample more often than not when we have parameter instability that does n't always signal a change in government policy , it often signals the fact that you 've got a very poor model , a model er is mis-specified and so if we detect a structural change in our model , we first of all try and explain why it may come about |
| 10 | And so if you use the whatever what is it you wanted to use in yours ? |
| 11 | Declarer is marked with at least ace-king to five — or more likely six — in diamonds , and so if you cover the jack with the queen declarer will win with a top honour and West 's discard will make your ten the subject of a marked finesse on the second round . |
| 12 | So the acceptability of the work pattern will affect the , the quality and so if you want a general thing there , I 'd rather put down |
| 13 | You should , you , you 're advised not to jog on tarmac because the surface is hard and jars and so if you do a lot of it can you see and if , particularly if your joints are not equal to it , then you set up a lot of trouble . |
| 14 | Work him up and down while she licked the rest of his body , work her way up , lift herself over him , her fingers now slipping inside herself . |
| 15 | It will still bob up and down as it hits the successive wavefronts . |
| 16 | I am now expected to lift her , helpless as a fool that she is , out of that great bed , daily , across the room , into a chair , and back again , and to run up and down when she catches a chill , when her back aches from being pressed against the chair . |
| 17 | I finished the song and only as I left the stage did I realise I had wet myself with fear . |
| 18 | It was L-shaped and only when he reached the comer of the ‘ L ’ could he see the whole of the room . |
| 19 | Only on his way home did he suddenly realize that illness could have prevented her from meeting him , and only when he entered the farmhouse that evening did he discover that she was dead . |
| 20 | Dust lay thickly over the cracked flagstone floor and only when I ascended a dangerous staircase did I find a solitary reminder of the business that helped to make the Damianis one of the richest Arab families in Jaffa . |
| 21 | The there are parish ministers who are willing to listen and long before it reaches the stage of lawyers and divorce . |
| 22 | Of course , this strategy had a distinct disadvantage in that each time I moved towards the light to serve the gentlemen , my advancing footsteps would echo long and loud before I reached the table , drawing attention to my impending arrival in the most ostentatious manner ; but it did have the great merit of making my person only partially visible while I remained stationary . |
| 23 | Lancaster 's voice had suddenly become animated and loud as he recalled the sting of his betrayal . |
| 24 | ‘ You 'll be able to get a flat and all when you get a job . ’ |
| 25 | In general , a newly proposed theory will be acceptable as worthy of the consideration of scientists if it is more falsifiable than its rival , and especially if it predicts a new kind of phenomenon not touched on by its rival . |
| 26 | After all , people go into pubs for their individuality and not because they want a clone of McDonalds . ’ |
| 27 | And not because you 've a foolish wee fancy in your mind that I require cosseting ? ’ |
| 28 | People have to earn your respect and just because they have a big desk , long title or an impressive uniform it does n't mean you should automatically give way to their judgements and decisions . |
| 29 | People have to earn your respect and just because they have a big desk , long title or an impressive uniform it does n't mean you should automatically give way to their judgements and decisions . |
| 30 | Crilly reminds me that I 'm American too , and just because I know a few words of British slang , I should n't be getting airs about myself . |