Example sentences of "and [pron] [adv] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the end , however , they and everyone else came to the less romantic conclusion that these objects were rotating neutron stars . |
| 2 | In the end , however , they and everyone else came to the less romantic conclusion that these objects , which were given the name pulsars , were in fact rotating neutron stars that were emitting pulses of radio waves because of a complicated interaction between their magnetic fields and surrounding matter . |
| 3 | He 'd play a couple of quiet rounds and then when it got hectic and everyone else wanted to be playing , he 'd stay away from the course and just hit a few balls in practice . |
| 4 | ‘ There 's so much , as you say , and everyone else seems to them to be doing well enough to enjoy it all . |
| 5 | Players hide the studs from referees by showing him their reserve pair — complete with regulation studs — and them quickly switch before the game . |
| 6 | Later in the same chapter , at the point of death , Dickens breaks into a further kind of rhetoric , the declamatory rhetoric he reserves for moments of high drama : [ 5 ] The golden ripple on the wall came back again , and nothing else stirred in the room ( 1 ) . |
| 7 | ‘ And nothing else to look at , ’ Jamie went on . |
| 8 | He returned to find the Cross of St George still flapping from the walls of Famagusta and nothing obviously changed except the weather , which would , of course , put out the slow-matches and the fire-missiles and make it increasingly unlikely that the tower of Famagusta was going to prove combustible . |
| 9 | In Ardeevan we just lay and rotted and nothing ever happened between Doctor Staples 's weekly rounds – except that someone died . |
| 10 | He never discussed the failed raid ; and no-one else dared to , either . |
| 11 | She sits there all evening and no-one even talks to her . |
| 12 | ‘ It 's going to be a wonderful evening , ’ said Camille , ‘ with her drooling over the waiter , and me nearly dying of fright at the slightest sound , and you sitting there thinking . ’ |
| 13 | Someone has said I 'm a well-known gangland figure , and I probably ran into an ambush when I tried to return home . |
| 14 | As Chief Inspector of Accidents it was within my domain to agree or reject the proposal , so Geoffrey Holton telephoned me at my home that Sunday morning and I immediately agreed to the UK being responsible for the investigation . |
| 15 | I live next to a private golf club , and I regularly walk past the 3rd hole and 4th tee area , and rarely see either in use . |
| 16 | And I firmly believe in giving notes to others to ensure that the standard set on the first night is maintained . ’ |
| 17 | We start in ten days and I firmly rely on the goodness of Providence to grant me a safe and prosperous passage . |
| 18 | there must be a reason you know , they , they went well so I 've got sixty of them , they take them with me tonight and they said would there be any cakes available for Saturday and I , I think and I nearly said to erm , well last year you reckon you could n't sell cakes , but anyway I helped her |
| 19 | Cos Rita swears she 's been , I mean I was out with her once and we went in for a coffee and we finished , right , and we 're ready to go and I nearly said to her I hate it after you 've finished and Jackie lights up and then I have to sit there while she has a fag |
| 20 | Then something suddenly occurred to me and I nearly cried with relief . |
| 21 | And I just go through all the catastrophes that I 've bought you , so from now on it 's cash , just cash . |
| 22 | Lloyd and I just looked at him ( Rule of Life No. 28 : Everybody can be bought . |
| 23 | Then she asked what had happened to Alec , because nobody had told her , and I just looked at a spot about a foot above her head and let Frank do the dirty work . |
| 24 | I a lot , cos I remember erm when Claire was I got a really formal invitation to something and I asked Claire how you were supposed to reply and she told me the exact wording of how you should reply and I just looked at her I looked at her and I said I 'm not bloody writing that . |
| 25 | It 's just that , well , I was passing Mr Connon 's house and I just looked over the hedge and I saw someone . |
| 26 | And I just stay at home and other stuff like I bunked off a couple of days , whole days of school . |
| 27 | I just could n't believe it , it was , er , I just felt very very happy and I just break into tears , I just start crying , and I think it 's tremendous , erm news , I just want to see him safe home . |
| 28 | ‘ I had them on one night at the South Bank Poly and I just thought to myself , ‘ I ca n't be bothered with this , I really ca n't ’ . |
| 29 | so I tap on the window , had just gone past and I was just about to go in his room , you know , cos he 's standing there and I just tapped on the window come outside Nick had just walked by and Rick and were talking you know it 's not like the dead of night and everything 's quiet |
| 30 | So I got very , very depressed about it all and I just said to the officers , ‘ Put me in my cell and leave me alone . |