Example sentences of "and [adj] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I find often that nothing clear and definite comes until sometime later , possibly on the next morning , sometimes when carrying out the seemingly pedestrian duties of the day , when a short , crystallised thought comes into the mind with clarity and authority . |
| 2 | Long before this , however , the groundwork has been well laid for a sense of personal autonomy that is not in conflict with attitudes of dependency ( since assistance is simply to be expected and does not , as we have seen , entail subordination ) and that persists throughout life . |
| 3 | There 's some ducks and that sheltering under some bushes . |
| 4 | If it is required to register this release at HM Land Registry ( and that depends on the practice by the mortgagee ) the original ( plus copy ) should be sent ( together with fee of £40 ) to HM Land Registry who would note on the Charges Register that the charge had been varied . |
| 5 | The only major reference work using systematic names i Chemical Abstracts and that does at least cross-reference the common trivial names . |
| 6 | It 's so , I mean , wake up Christmas morning and they put a tray out , the first thing they do on , the last thing at night , Christmas Eve they put a big tray out and on the tray they got it 's a called and they 're like chocolate biscuits , they 're like biscuits , right , and that gets with every member of the house , say there 's ten in that house , that that gets lined round the outside of the tray , right , and then inside of that 'll be now a circle of the wine , and then they have like whatever drink they got in the middle and the first thing that happens Christmas Eve morning is they get up and that gets poured and the tray goes round , if you sit down |
| 7 | Omit the pallor , which is an odd and perhaps over-modest intrusion into the account , and that sounds like Defoe or Dickens or Proust — or Murdoch : its converse , the crystalline novel , being ‘ a small quasi-allegorical object portraying the human condition , ’ which sounds like Rasselas , Waugh 's Decline and Fall or Orwell 's Animal Farm — not to mention the fiction of Muriel Spark , which can be artfully , even heartlessly , diagrammatic . |
| 8 | ‘ And that sounds like the right Carol . |
| 9 | The partial recovery of the economy after 1983 was to show that some of it was misplaced , and that fears about national ungovernability and inability to adapt were ill-founded . |
| 10 | Essentially they retained the belief that nursery education should be free ( even if that meant there was little of it ) and that to charge for nursery classes would be the thin end of the wedge , soon leading to charges for ordinary schooling . |
| 11 | This means that the individual items in each notebook can rarely be dated with any precision and that notes in one notebook may , and often do , presuppose plans in another ; even within single notebooks it is not always possible to determine whether items in a sequence belong together . |
| 12 | As the story of a white woman who rides into the Mexican mountains to be sacrificed , naked and unprotesting , to the god of the Indians in order to maintain for them ‘ The mastery that man must hold , and that passes from race to race ’ , this piece , particularly when contrasted with Sweeney Agonistes , makes clear the essential difference between Eliot 's interest in the savage and that of Lawrence . |
| 13 | I need the life I know , the life that I 've made , and that belongs to me . ’ |
| 14 | Colleagues , we are gon na deal with that section of Mick 's report that deals with the public services and that commences on page thirty four , thirty five , yes . |
| 15 | But the point is , I 'm now older than most of this tribe will ever be and that feels like a chill wind . |
| 16 | Animals come here and the only contact they have with man is a prod or a kick and that combines with the stress of the journey and the noise . |
| 17 | And that presupposes in that calculation , if you were taking the worst case , that that would all be greenfield land . |
| 18 | A special Convocation group studied the University 's own investigation and that prepared by consultants . |
| 19 | Now , of course , it may well be that such a vision exists in your church , and that to insist on the importance of spiritual warfare , some of you might say , is only to preach to the converted . |
| 20 | After considering a variety of cases their main conclusion is that , operationally , the genome ( the genes of an individual animal ) is a common unit of selection and that to refer to individuals as units of selection is not necessarily in error . |
| 21 | That 'll save us on Monday if we 've got swimming and that to go to . |
| 22 | I gather that the cloth has really been dated , found to be the wrong age and that disposes of the matter . |
| 23 | If you produce a lovely little item which fits perfectly on a particular radio programme , or newspaper , and that happens to be the week that it 's the county show , or an earthquake , or something like that , there 's no way you 're going to get it in , because there 's too much competition , and the next week it 's dead . |
| 24 | Having tracked down Amy , we asked her to explain what attracted her to ‘ Believing ’ : ‘ I 'm obsessed with flamenco at the moment and that fitted with the ‘ Believing ’ references to exotic South American styles . ’ |
| 25 | Yes , they are the largest settlements and that proves to the world and proves to everybody how the Palestinians chose Kuwait as a place to live , rather than Iraq or any other state . |
| 26 | She watched it slip and slide this way and that to fall at her feet . |
| 27 | And then there 's there 's dog dirt on the wheels and that goes on the , in th then that 's |
| 28 | and that goes on that |
| 29 | And that goes on aggregate on the night , yeah ? |
| 30 | Love from Uncle Willie and that goes for him too . ’ |