Example sentences of "[adv] and [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | MDU leader Dzorig told supporters at a rally that eliminating the MPRP 's monopoly of power from the Constitution was not enough and demanded that the Hural , of which 93.4 per cent of the deputies were MPRP members , be dissolved to make way for a democratically elected legislature . |
| 2 | Once more , you want to aim with your research not just to acquire enough facts spread over your pages to give a feeling of the times , but to acquire so many that you have enough and to spare and can choose among your store for the one that does more than merely give a notion of the time you are writing about . |
| 3 | Mick Ronson , Woody Woodmansey and myself would be making backing tracks , having got the brief from David — it was E chord for 16 bars then an A chord for 4 bars and a B chord for 2 bars — and we were just banging out these backing tracks , and David would come into the studio , if we could tear him away from Angela for long enough and say whether he liked it or not . |
| 4 | It may be suggested that he may simply qualify somewhat and say that it is wrong for others to tell such lies and not for him , and that there is no purely logical inconsistency here . |
| 5 | I said you had better and go and ask Keith first . |
| 6 | It was a time before I began to understand her a little better and realise that a lot of this was actually a sort of ‘ attention-getting ’ — a bit of theatre just to see how people would react — to manipulate situations a little . |
| 7 | … the black and red patterned blanket folded over with the top sheet to form two parallel white borders from which the planes move slowly off , rise suddenly and vanish or come in out of the low grey cloud … . ( 10–11/404–5 ) |
| 8 | ‘ Bye , dreema , ’ she said suddenly and turned and fled into the house . |
| 9 | ‘ Go inside and see if you can find a light . |
| 10 | Without actually moving physically , I shook my head clear inside and decided that the big male would make a fine head for a Pole . |
| 11 | This ‘ long-rod penetrator ’ punches a hole through the armour of an enemy tank , destroying equipment inside and killing or disabling the crew . |
| 12 | Why not try and turn your thoughts outwards and see if there is someone else in the same position as yourself — what can you do to help that person feel more comfortable ? |
| 13 | They go , they got ta hold especially and try and get through ! |
| 14 | Answer yes or no to the statements below and see If it helps you to uncover the reasons for your family relationships — be they bad or good . |
| 15 | Look at the transcriptions of a number of words given below and see if you can work out ( for the accent in question ) the environment in which [ ] is found . |
| 16 | He glanced at the map of the Underground on the panel opposite and saw that they were approaching Embankment Station . |
| 17 | Madame Butterfly , he thought , for he had sneaked a glance at the soldier opposite and seen that he was now weeping , the letter crumpled in his fist , scrunching apple blossom . |
| 18 | Previously you could ask someone to type up first draft , second draft , maybe a third draft , but how far can you drive your secretary , and now they can be wholly in charge of this — they can change the layout of it as much as the words within it ; they can ask colleagues to come in and comment and even add a little bit . |
| 19 | They can ask colleagues to come in and comment and you can add a little bit . |
| 20 | As one teacher said , ‘ I rather resent people coming in and criticising when they have n't been in on a regular basis ’ . |
| 21 | The priests should be thrown in and burned as well . ’ |
| 22 | You know , you normally go in and rant and rave , we did n't , we did n't today because we said like , I mean I think everybody sensed that , even at three nothing first half . |
| 23 | They just walked in and saw that you had posters up and |
| 24 | Sergeant Bourne came in and hovered until Wycliffe spoke to him . |
| 25 | At first the ideas appeared as rumours and reports : that , although it had not yet been announced , the US had already taken steps to halt the fighting ; that , in Washington , ambassador Bonnet had been called in and told that a settlement was imperative ; that if the matter was brought up in the UN the US would not necessarily support France ; that the US wished to ensure that no Lend-Lease weapons were being used ‘ to suppress Vietnam — although it was suspected they were ; and that the head of Southeast Asian Affairs at the State Department ( Mr A.L. |
| 26 | Such freedom can only be exercised if the manager has the full authority to make decisions , without the need to ask a boss for approval , and without the chance that a boss might step in and alter or reverse the subordinate 's decisions . |
| 27 | It 's time people gave some of our youngsters the credit for realising the state the country is in and knowing that they are the ones who are going to have to put it right — and are prepared to work hard to do so . |
| 28 | Half-way through one driver came in and said that the Minister for Human Resources had spent half an hour longer than he had agreed . ’ |
| 29 | Yeltsin had given a dramatic description of tanks closing in and said that he believed that he had not much time left . |
| 30 | It was a pointless ‘ command ’ , for Baldwin was on the edge of nervous collapse , irritable , complaining and , in the closer judgment of Jones , ’ entirely without resource The Downing Street secretaries circumvented the King by getting an haphazardly chosen doctor ( they had previously tried fourteen others , all of whom were away ) to come in and certify that the Prime Minister had to go . |