Example sentences of "and [adv] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And importantly he concluded : |
| 2 | Dandelions are natives of Europe and Asia , and botanically they form a difficult and much varied group with many microspecies , but for the herbalist 's purposes , these are of no moment . |
| 3 | He did n't think she threw knives these days and mercifully she had n't sung ‘ The Cowboys ' Christmas party ’ since their time in Chelsea . |
| 4 | And luckily we 've both got a very good alibi for last night . |
| 5 | so I put it in the paper and luckily somebody came along |
| 6 | And he come there and luckily he went on top of the table to lie down . |
| 7 | There 's a café on the site , and luckily it stays open late , so come along . ’ |
| 8 | Still in relatively few numbers , and luckily it seems mostly enthusiasts — the tourists have n't blazed a trail to the top of Donard in the way they have on Snowdon or Nevis . |
| 9 | We ended up buying a cheap gas picnic stove for which cartridges were sold everywhere — and luckily it did us proud . |
| 10 | And luckily it did . |
| 11 | The stone did n't hit him and luckily it did n't come through the front window or something more serious could have happened . ’ |
| 12 | I have had people ring me up at weekends and luckily I 've had the stuff and taken it back . |
| 13 | The ball come across and er I see Bedford had his back to the goal , and I could see he was going to swivel and hit it with his left foot , and I 've just come across the goal and er , he just hit it down low to my right hand side and luckily I 've come the right way and pushed it wide . |
| 14 | Some of the sound tests were done by a computer and luckily I had access to a computer from my dealer in Bath that enabled me to set the sound up perfectly . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The idea seems to be that you have tacitly accepted the protection of the laws and thereby you have tacitly undertaken to obey them . |
| 17 | She paused and mostly everyone nodded . |
| 18 | ‘ It happens hundreds of times a day in this city and mostly they get away . |
| 19 | Zuwaya said they should not watch television together ; sons should not smoke in their father 's presence , nor try to wheedle or coax money from them ; and mostly they did not do those things . |
| 20 | It could be done in less than a week by men working with vigour , and mostly they did , for their own new lands looked to the forts for protection and warning . |
| 21 | And mostly you got a dusty answer because if you had n't got shares to put down as collateral , you did n't get your loan . |
| 22 | Would n't I like to curl up on the sofa ? — and mostly I enjoyed the sweaty heaving pleasures of the British Legion do , where the guests galumphed and the men got drunk and waved bottles around — and one thing I noticed through all the ranks of society , no matter what the background , or the income , or the form the party took , was that as the evening wore on women would begin to look pained and patient and longed to get home , but did n't like to say so for fear of being accused of ruining the evening 's fun . |
| 23 | E he just pushed it off with a long thing like that and and on they went and did it . |
| 24 | On and on they went , and the scenery never changed . |
| 25 | They cursed and uttered muttered threats to desert , but on and on they walked until they made out a herd of wild cattle staring at them hostilely through the rain , and clambered aboard . |
| 26 | And on they sped so swiftly that she might almost have cried out with Ostanes , less in trepidation than delight , ‘ Save me , O God , for I stand between two exalted brilliances … |
| 27 | On and on they flew until day turned into dusk and they reached the big supermarket on the edge of the town . |
| 28 | And on they travelled through the forest until they came to a place where the roads crossed and there sat an old woman resting on a stone . |
| 29 | And on they travelled until they reached the rise in the land . |
| 30 | On and on they travelled , rattling appallingly fast over the rutted roads so as to outstrip the pilgrims who followed them out of each town and village . |