Example sentences of "and [adv] [pron] [verb] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From the way his eyes kept darting to and fro she guessed that he had something more important to say and that he was waiting until Eleanor was safely out of sight and earshot . |
| 2 | He asked if he could stay with them , and eventually they agreed that he could , but only if he worked . |
| 3 | And eventually they understood that , so now I can kiss them , hug them and be open with them . |
| 4 | They called him twice again , and eventually he appeared that evening once it was explained the family was n't used to this sort of treatment ( and once he realised the best salmon stream in the area ran through the estate ) . |
| 5 | For some time he struggles to explain this feeling , and eventually he realises that the taste is of course exactly the taste which he enjoyed as a small boy when his Aunt Léonie gave him a madeline dipped in an infusion . |
| 6 | Then there was the controversy over how many centuries Gooch had scored and eventually it meant that the ton Gooch scored against India Under-25s at Cuttack at the end of last month was , in fact , the 99th , and not the magical 100th . |
| 7 | In your letter you present the fact that yourself and the Deputy Director have opted for an increase based on the Grade 1 salary and presumably you saw that as a gesture of good will or a concession to our demands . |
| 8 | I thought about this for a long time and slowly I realized that I was not extraordinary in this . |
| 9 | He was due again and suddenly they heard that the prince himself was bringing him . |
| 10 | ‘ They live to get to 18 so they can vote and be an adult member of society , and suddenly they find that they ca n't drink in local hostelries until they are 21 , ’ he said . |
| 11 | And suddenly I realised that there was a whole lot more going on than I 'd even thought of . |
| 12 | But by then various other children were misbehaving too , so I sent them out , and suddenly I realized that half of my class was outside the door having a whale of a time ! |
| 13 | It was a meadow ready for cutting and suddenly I realized that it was high summer , the sun was hot and that every step brought the fragrance of clover and warm grass rising about me into the crystal freshness of the air . |
| 14 | And suddenly she wished that they were alone somewhere , just the two of them . |
| 15 | She held her breath , her hands at her mouth , as the dying plane sped out of sight ; and suddenly she knew that the pilot in the burning plane was not her enemy . |
| 16 | Dane had told her she had to stop running from the ghosts in her past , and suddenly she realised that in that , at least , he was right . |
| 17 | He did smile then , and suddenly she realised that he was capable of charm . |
| 18 | And suddenly she decided that she would go and call on Mr and Mrs Wormwood that very evening . |
| 19 | She took a step backwards , and suddenly he realized that it had n't been easy for her to come here . |
| 20 | And suddenly he saw that it was right . |
| 21 | But what if you 're there , trail-blazing in the business world or on track for great success in one of the professions , and suddenly you realise that this path is not the one you want to take after all ? |
| 22 | It may be that you receive praise for a piece of work well done , and suddenly you feel that you made the right decision to leave the family home and strike out on your own . |
| 23 | On the other hand , as Pasteur so wisely pointed out over 100 years ago ‘ fortune favours the prepared mind ’ , and so we thought that a theme based on understanding the science rather than say on product development ought to tip the balance of probabilities in favour of the unexpected innovation we are looking for . |
| 24 | And so we know that particles that were thought to be " elementary " twenty years ago are , in fact , made up of smaller particles . |
| 25 | And so we decided that Lex should have pups . |
| 26 | The C-axis must be perpendicular to the plane of the three heavy atoms and so we deduce that the c-type bands are due to b 1 vibrations . |
| 27 | And so we find that , apart from its use with predicate qualifiers , keep can also figure as the verb in an adverbal response to the question What … do to … ? ; as in : ( 36 ) what did the President do to the rebels ? he kept them incarcerated in Castellòn till 1835 Notice the inappropriate relationship of the question with how ? in this case , confirming that we are not dealing here with a predicate qualifier : ( 37 ) how did the President keep the rebels ? |
| 28 | The reader is urged to continue reading and so we find that Dickens has succeeded in one of the most difficult aspects of a novel — providing an exciting opening for it . |
| 29 | When he says that erm that sort of , that 's what the C C P leadership thought and so they thought that if they were n't getting the land then something must be going wrong with the policy |
| 30 | In the first three months , three thousand miles , that does n't tend to happen in fairness erm and something like that would come up erm within that time scale , so , yes , I mean they have the right to go back to the dealer and I must admit in my overall view of the motor trade these days they do they are trying harder and harder to look after their customers because obviously they 're in business like everybody else , they know that their policy holders are covered by the Sale of Goods Act merchantable quality , erm and so they realize that if these things happen then they will endeavour to put the situation right . |