Example sentences of "and [vb base] [conj] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 One so that I can go up there and sit and read and erm sit and knit and er learn to type
2 My therapist , Elinor , a man called Graham Young , suspects that the only way forward for me emotionally is to fasten my fingers round your windpipe and squeeze and squeeze and squeeze until your face turns black … ’
3 My therapist , Elinor , a man called Graham Young , suspects that the only way forward for me emotionally is to fasten my fingers round your windpipe and squeeze and squeeze and squeeze until your face turns black … ’
4 And he would bring back goods from the market , such as meal , and sell or exchange that for what the Dalesfolk had brought .
5 I do n't like it when people take monies from people and forget or pretend that we are the faceless people .
6 Because we must remember that Iraq has already had an eight years war and they 're used to a war , they used to withstanding a war and it was the only reason that Britain survived in the last world war because it could withstand attack , and wait and wait until they were ready to counter attack .
7 Struggle and cough until exhausted or until they find that a little cold drink will relieve .
8 then going over this sea blue and I was , so beautiful , you know Catholic used to say , when you di died in paradise , always want to go up the somewhere else paradise and it 's in here and look what happened they ruin and ruin and ruin and so be
9 The birds and it 's so peaceful , I mean you can go out the villa and walk and walk and walk and walk
10 The birds and it 's so peaceful , I mean you can go out the villa and walk and walk and walk and walk
11 Now at this st this stage usually the do-gooders who do n't know any better and put and insist that something should go in the mouth and it should n't , you never ever put anything in anybody 's mouth at all .
12 No no my dad thinks , he said he , he just said , he said cos when he was at Wellington he said there was this one boy and he used to go out under a bush or something and smoke and smoke and smoke all the time and stuff and he knew and everyone knew you see and he said that 's fine , you know , you can go and do things like that as long as you do n't get caught but like doing things like that in house and , and it 's like you 're the ideal for the removes and the younger people in the school , it 's like they see all the upper , lower and upper sixth smoking and screwing and they think God we want to go , we want to go and try it out , you know , cos that 's sheep
13 She read and read and read while her aunt mended the socks of her husband and brothers or sewed innumerable buttons on their shirts .
14 Well we 'll try and get some erm we 'll look down , the next time I 'm down the library and look and see if they 've got any Enid Blyton because that might just be a way in .
15 Well , they say that remarks that they would feel were friendly remarks directed towards students they stop themselves from saying and examine and think if I say that will I make her feel uncomfortable ?
16 To begin with , I think there should be training to erm governors , for example , to train them how to how they should be able to select the right person for the right job and try and try and get rid of this stereotype image .
17 But if you can , if you can understand the difference between simple time and the compound time and er try not to muddle the fact that six eight does not mean that there are six quaver beats in a bar , but it means that there are two dotted beats , and two dotted crotchet beats in a bar and try and get that into your head as soon as you can you 're gon na find it a lot easier .
18 Right , if you just want to come out of there and we 'll just have a look at the plot of the residuals , if you plot the residuals the test for serial correlation there well the test for serial correlation , right , and try and determine whether there 's a auto regressive structure to those parameters and I think Steve was talking to you about er auto regressions , so what the computer is doing essentially , it is getting the residuals from the model raised and it 's regressing them right on the residuals in the previous period , right , and it 's testing whether this parameter row , right , is significantly different from zero right , now if this is , if row is significantly different from zero , let's say it 's nought point six , that implies the residuals in T are not independent of the residuals in T minus one .
19 We started with a clean sheet of paper , we did n't start with one of our earlier proprietary products and try and convert that to Unix , try to move that into the open systems world .
20 And try and see if we 've got er forming on the lines .
21 Always use encouraging words see their point of view involve instructions as possible , understand what their , what problems they have and try and provide where possible erm reward positive feedback .
22 Well let's go ask and roundabout and go and see if there 's ah any cheap things cos we 've been to see her again and
23 A spokesman for the Amazonian Kayapo Indians , Payacan , says that scientists will be welcome if they can demonstrate that their activities will bring benefits to the Indians , but he adds that : " lots of scientists just come and ask and ask and ask and then go away and we never hear about their results " .
24 A spokesman for the Amazonian Kayapo Indians , Payacan , says that scientists will be welcome if they can demonstrate that their activities will bring benefits to the Indians , but he adds that : " lots of scientists just come and ask and ask and ask and then go away and we never hear about their results " .
25 Lentils coming from Ethiopia , you get wheat from the States , rice from the States , ap apples from France , tea from India , coffee from Brazil and Columbia , sugar from the Windward Islands , bananas from all over the place , you know those are the things that keep us alive , no , you know , whether we one think they are or not , but I mean them things are what keeps the economy alive for one , it 's also what keeps us personally alive if you do n't know why we take an interest in Third World issues , I would say that it 's that , we 're dependent on these countries , we could produce enough foods for our own needs , but we would n't have oranges , coffee , tea , sugar , you know cos we ca n't grow them in this country we , we really depend on those things to stay alive , and for that reason alone we should have some kind of interest , if you went to Kenya for example they would be staggered at how little you know about their country given how much they know about yours they know a lot about this country , a lot of it is a bit loopy , but then what you know about their country is probably a bit off centre as well , and you know I hope that this is something that we 're reversing in this section , our perceptions of the Third World or the south or whatever we choose to call it , colour a lot of the things that we think and do and say and it increases the amount of racism that there is around us all , all those kind of things , erm and I think that it is really important to look at what a perception is , you know , for example what 's your perception of this ?
26 We 'll wait and see when the second draft comes to this Council , when the Council will discuss my points and agree or disagree that they should be included or not .
27 The streets are narrow and twist and turn and it is not advisable to take a car up them .
28 Every touch with God and every touch of God can strengthen the soul for the journey through life and cleanse and sanctify and prepare it for life in the world to come .
29 All I wanted to do was write , and correct and edit and shuffle and store , all the things people said were so much easier on screen than on bits of bleached and pulped wood .
30 At the Aegean Sea drunken middle-aged men drink and sing and sputter as packs of walruses do , calling to us in obscene and gravelly voices .
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