Example sentences of "and [adv] [conj] [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shoes that must obey the call of the music and dance on and on until their wearer fell from exhaustion . |
| 2 | I know they do Jed but but I mean what I 'm saying if priority states other forces have probably been waiting and rather than us sort of trying |
| 3 | For example , we now brief recruits on their rights and tell them and encourage them to actually come forward with their complaints , we very carefully brief and select our N C Os , we have open days for parents , we bring parents in so that they can feel part of the set up right from the start and so that their sons join the army and they tell their other friends to make sure they do to . |
| 4 | To prove his importance and so that his entrance was emphasised all entered in order of precedence . |
| 5 | Now I also said that the states which make up the United States were , for a brief period , independent entities themselves in the gap between the ending of revolutionary war and the framing of the constitution and so when their representatives assembled in Philadelphia in the summer of seventeen eighty seven , they were mindful of their independence and they were jealous of that independence , they wished to protect it against encroachment , they did n't wish to exchange one form of dominance for another . |
| 6 | ‘ And so when our conversation was out of sync before — ’ |
| 7 | And so as their freedoms increase , their numbers dwindle . |
| 8 | If she had had any talent , if she had been born in another period and perhaps if her spirit had been lodged in the body of a man , she might just have been heroic . |
| 9 | Men tend to put greater store by their work once there are children ( perhaps because of the burden of being the sole earner , and perhaps because their place at work is not unchallenged in the way it may be at home ) and housework , which before may have been shared equally , often now falls to the woman . |
| 10 | For ten to twenty minutes he would lie there without moving , except for one eyebrow which jigged up and down while his mouth twitched sideways . |
| 11 | The shadows on the wall from his light were jumping up and down as his hand shook . |
| 12 | Yet , considering the sordid life to which the modern underclass is committed , and especially when their life is compared with that of the contented majority , it is an occasion for wonder that the discontent and its more violent and aggressive manifestations are not greater than they are . |
| 13 | In 1351 Edward III granted John the woodward of Raskelf a pension of 3d. a day ‘ for good service and especially because his eyes were torn out and his tongue and his fingers cut off by malefactors in the Forest of Galtres in the time when he was one of the King 's foresters there ’ . |
| 14 | Their Lordships emphasised that the reviewability of discretionary power should be dependent upon the subject-matter thereof , and not whether its source was statute or the prerogative . |
| 15 | Since people 's self-assessments tend to reflect the way they wish they spoke , Trudgill took it that women wished to identify themselves with a higher social class , and thus that their status aspirations were higher than men 's ( with male informants he found the opposite tendency , which will be discussed later on ) . |
| 16 | They put pressure on their own elected councillors all over Glasgow to support our housing project and just before our deadline was reached , GDC coughed up all the remaining monies . |
| 17 | It was already poured , and just as his hand closed on the last glass with pale gold contents , he caught sight of Meryl near the window with Gladys . |
| 18 | Still try to feel that you are swinging down and through and your follow-through should travel roughly the same distance as your backswing ( photos 3–6 ) . |
| 19 | Portugal was an apostolic fief from 1179 and soon after his accession Innocent wrote to Sancho I about the payment of the papal dues . |
| 20 | Mums who were 40 and over when their children were born were twice as likely to have left-handed children as those mothers who were under 25 . |
| 21 | In his speech , Charles praised my ‘ sterling contribution ’ to the school and shortly after it Paul came up to me and made the touching suggestion that I should give some classes in the summer term — if I was still free . |
| 22 | He was also a great lover of grand and light opera , and ever since his seminary days had enjoyed producing Gilbert and Sullivan operettas for performance by amateur groups . |
| 23 | And the market researchers tell the companies more and more that their customers want something more tailored to their special requirements . |
| 24 | Wigan , going for their 20th successive victory at St Helens tomorrow , have the opposite problem , playing so well individually and collectively that their coach , John Monie , has not enough places , especially with Martin Dermott and Steve Hampson fit again , to satisfy demand . |
| 25 | ‘ These have been Jeremy 's best sessions so far , and hopefully if his luck changes the team will not be surprised if he should get into the points . |
| 26 | I have a small , immediate family and up until my cancer I would say that I had very few friends . |
| 27 | Spain is a Euro-enthusiast partly because the EC gives it lots of regional aid , and partly because its policy of ‘ convergence ’ reassures foreign investors that Spain will get richer and continue to be a good home for investment . |
| 28 | This is partly because of the need to make the publications truly publicly available — thus satisfying the legal requirement — and partly because their producers do not normally have any financial or other incentive to make them available online . |
| 29 | Professor Michael Stubbs felt strongly that it should be retained , partly because journalists would draw attention to its omission , and partly because our readers needed to understand the truth about dialects . |
| 30 | Yet , although making war was a fairly routine element in the life of an active nobleman , it was very rare indeed that one was killed ; partly because , in the face of danger , a noble could don his expensive and effective armour , his helmet and coat of mail ; and partly because his opponents did not try to kill him — if he should be so unfortunate as to be at their mercy they preferred to capture him and ransom him . |