Example sentences of "[verb] and [verb] [adv] a " in BNC.

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1 I personally see this is as one of my major objectives over the next year or so , and in a sense it makes me trebly grateful to be here today , because I hope some of the contacts I might make today will enable me to work alongside you in what might be called even local Berkshire band , and to try and get more a multiplicity of views from different organisations channelled through our own value objectives .
2 What has happened , in fact , is that Cutler has been forced to try and squeeze together a neo-Benjaminian theory of productive forces and a picture of productive relations which is positively Adorn Ian !
3 The same chapter in Chronic Diseases highlights this thus ‘ In taking one and the same medicine repeatedly ( which is indispensable to secure the cure of a serious chronic disease ) , if the dose is in every case varied and modified only a little in its degree of dynamization , then the vital force of the patient will calmly , and as it were willingly receive the same medicine even at brief intervals very many times in succession with the best results , every time increasing the well-being of the patient . ’
4 Naturally , I heard the stories and one morning saw a bloody trail of gore where the wolves had attacked and dragged away an old beggar woman who used to squat on the corner of the Rue St Jacques .
5 Er er but the second time the police came and asked quite a lot of questions about it .
6 With the Ark rested upon the mountains of Ararat , the seventeenth day of the seventh month and the waters went away and decreased until the tenth month and the first day of the tenth month , the tops of the mountains appeared , and after the end of forty days , Noah opened the window of the Ark , which he had made and sent forth a raven which went out , ever going and coming again until the waters were dried up upon the earth .
7 Plants such as shepherd 's needles , pheasant 's eye , corn gromwell , corn cockle and mousetail flourish in farmland that is lightly tilled and cut once a year .
8 What I lose is my full ability to monitor and assess correctly a given situation .
9 We also note that [ F , R ] 3 causes the 3-cycle of edges to vanish and leaves just a pair of 2-cycles of corners .
10 He was sweating and looking just a little desperate as he bent over yet again .
11 Stephen is a boy of mixed Jamaican and St Vincentian parentage , born and raised only a few miles away from the white girl who provided the first narrative .
12 Thus the remarkable situation developed in which the top-ranking male Kendo and his younger brother Fitz were completely excluded from the meat-eating scrum , and the number-two male Macho was barely tolerated and allowed only a few tiny morsels .
13 ‘ Joy riding ’ is in fact nothing more than common theft and anyone who takes and drives away a car without the owner 's permission is simply a criminal .
14 Eventually more than ten people , including Bott , were arrested and spent over a year in jail before the end of the lengthy legal proceedings .
15 Is it about to rupture and spew forth a real-live Alien in a fountain of blood and shit ! ?
16 The old pals reunion at White Hart Lane … that 's Spurs v Swindon finished as it started all square … former Town favourite David Kerslake set up the Spurs goal for Jason Dozzell … and then another old County Ground hero Colin Calderwood went and gave away a penalty … it looked like a handball at first but Calderwood was guilty of pushing …
17 They went and gave away a goal after only 5 minutes .
18 And er he advertised and got quite a few .
19 Other commands to validate and execute either a search , navigation or trail request are parsed and then sent to the appropriate process .
20 He was pursued and caught , and would appear at Southend Magistrates ' Court charged with taking and driving away a Jaguar car without the owner 's consent from the Foulness road on Saturday afternoon .
21 A candidate for the degree of MPhil is required to investigate and evaluate satisfactorily a chosen topic or topics , and to show lucidity in the presentation of the thesis and an understanding of the context and significance of the work .
22 Then she reported another bit of foolishness : she had concealed and taken home a knife which had been sent to Eliot .
23 Friedrich Engels singled out the river Aire in Leeds and the Irk in Manchester for special mention : ‘ In dry weather , a long string of the most disgusting , blackish-green slime pools are left standing on this bank , from the depth of which bubbles of miasmatic gas constantly arise and give forth a stench unendurable . ’
24 It is revealing , for example , to compare Engels ' description of Manchester courts close to the Irk , ‘ from the depths of which bubbles of miasmatic gas constantly arise and give forth a stench unendurable ’ , with Mrs Gaskell 's account of a Manchester court in Mary Barton .
25 Anne chuckled and looked only a little abashed .
26 The Angels later paired and spawned about a year later .
27 ‘ I 've known him a long time , ’ Maggie said desperately , knowing quite well that she was being taunted and feeling just a little defenceless .
28 The result is very different from the ideas expressed in chapter 6 , where it was suggested that one of the many results of the rise of material culture as a mode of cultural form was its ability to multiply and keep apart a plethora of hierarchies and diverse spheres .
29 The fact that it is very difficult to do does n't prevent a lot of people wishing to achieve it , but it is very seldom that , in the industrial world , anybody has achieved and held continuously a pre-eminent position over a very long period of time .
30 The Labour government sought from the start to construct and hold together a support bloc around the theme of a ‘ social contract ’ , and I propose to organise my account of the development of political forces in this period around that same theme .
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