Example sentences of "and [adv] [conj] [pron] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their heads were the size of flies and moved to and fro as they presumably spoke to one another . |
| 2 | I often wonder whether these pilots would react safely and effectively if they suddenly got their aircraft into a stalling situation . |
| 3 | It was lovely to meet you , and perhaps if you ever come over to England … ’ |
| 4 | I went out very early one morning , just after the sun came up and long before anybody else woke . |
| 5 | In those days , if you stuck an advert for the cinema in your window , you got free tickets , and long before I ever understood any kind of plot , we 'd all troop down to the local flea pit and watch whatever was showing . |
| 6 | Of course — and especially when you only want a single rose to fill a gap — it is all very easy to succumb to the highly coloured and neatly packaged entreaties to impulse buying , conspicuously displayed in supermarkets , DIY garden centres , and even the local street market . |
| 7 | Neither did I. I never imagined that a father could treat a dying child as cruelly and wickedly as we later discovered Heathcliff had done . |
| 8 | Basically it grew out of the idea that what the West represented , and the English middle class best of all , was something to emulate , look up to , admire — all the rest was just a bit rude and best if it politely disappeared . |
| 9 | If their hours of work can also be limited to less than 16 hours a week , then these workers will also fall outside the employment protection legislation , which means they can be used even more flexibly and cheaply as they then forgo rights to certain occupational benefits ( which now comprise a further 9 per cent of labour costs ) . |
| 10 | When he took not the slightest notice of her demand Laura closed her eyes , forcing herself to breathe slowly and deeply as she desperately tried to pull herself together . |
| 11 | Er and they developed these skills , as I said earlier , basically for their husbands for use in inclement weather and gradually as they obviously got to m make more and more they got these to trade . |
| 12 | I always felt that she cut me off just as we were becoming closer — and always when I most needed her . ’ |
| 13 | Mister Johnny sat quiet and still as he always did when she talked , watching her mouth and moving his own as if he were trying to copy her . |
| 14 | I would say to you that the history of North Yorkshire County is that the house house builders have built , more or less the building rate of planning policy , whatever that has been , and that is a matter of fact , and if and if and if we are in a situation where the market is being fettered , as is the policy , and it 's not a policy which we are seeking to go away from specifically , and it is inevitable that the house builders will build to whatever the policy building rate is , and comparisons of one building rate with another are simply telling you what 's happened in the past , not what needs to happen in the future er in terms of meeting the housing requirement , and quite clearly in any area where you are introducing a new settlement , if indeed that 's the conclusion we come to , er late later on , erm and I hope we do , but if we are introducing a new settlement you are bound to skew the building rates , and the more and more you reduce the area in which you consider what the building rate effect is the more and more that it actually gets skewed , er and erm you know , quite frankly , when the developers built a new estate at the end of my particular street the building rate went up alarmingly in my area , er and er you know , we can go on forever like that , I just think it 's very misleading to just deal with the judgement of building rates . |
| 15 | More emphasis will be given to social class inequalities , partly because they are more adequately documented and partly because they partially account for ethnic and sex inequalities . |
| 16 | Compared to other social groups , pensioners spend more of their budgets on fuel , partly because they need to heat their homes all day and are less active than younger households , and partly because they often have antiquated and costly heating systems to run . |
| 17 | Even a turn of phrase could affect her , however worn and faded in its application , and one of her mother 's favourite sayings " What ca n't be cured must be endured , " never failed to give her a certain thrill , partly because of the grim inevitability of the rhyme , and partly because it almost managed to lend a little spare dignity to her mother 's stoic outlook . |
| 18 | Based on the shape of this receptive field , they then search for the stimulus that gives the best response from it , and in Figure 7 you see that one particular cell responded best to movement of a bar oriented at a particular angle , and also that it only responded when this bar moved in one direction . |
| 19 | I have already stated that I discovered death at the age of six , and also that I never considered suicide as a possible course of action . |
| 20 | The question asked by a number of would-be high-bay constructors was whether insurers and legislators ( both in central and local government ) were overemphasizing the dangers of fire in high-bay warehouses and also whether they really understood the significant differences existing between different classifications of system . |
| 21 | Johnson 's work merits this special position both because it has been influential in this country — Bankowski and Mungham ( 1976 ) use it , for example , and it routinely appears on ‘ English Legal System ’ booklists — and also because he explicitly takes issue with ideologically determined empiricist and common sense definitions of professionals in terms of the ‘ traits ’ which they possess . |
| 22 | It all went very quickly and smoothly and he still had half the film left . |
| 23 | It may be that one strand of his personality has not yet matured , and even if it never does , that does not mean that he does not love you . |
| 24 | And even if you already have private medical insurance and life insurance , you may still need Lloyds Bank Accident Cashguard . |
| 25 | And even if you already have private medical insurance and life insurance , you may still need Lloyds Bank Accident Cashguard . |
| 26 | And even if you just pop in for a welcome drink , look out for our Happy Days bar promotions . |
| 27 | It was a compulsion I 'd starved for , and even if I never went hungry again I would feel that compulsion for ever . |
| 28 | At the age of four , she could read fast and well and she naturally began hankering after books . |
| 29 | And then when they eventually complained , when other people were involved , complained , Reverend he had n't seen this chap either . |
| 30 | and then if he ever wants to stay over a friends |