Example sentences of "[prep] and [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was fast becoming the most sought after and most beloved interviewee in Britain . |
| 2 | ‘ The car was very well looked after and meticulously maintained . |
| 3 | And she was so relieved to be out of that place that she ran after and even overtook him . |
| 4 | Has it been looked after and well maintained ? |
| 5 | In the 1990's , we may well be heading towards the classless society so sought after and well documented of politicians , yet the Royal Berkshire Club , built within the existing framework of a society which demands ever higher standards in its leisure facilities , remains a class act in its own right . |
| 6 | Our housework was hard and long and laborious and erm we 'd got two children to look after and then I 'd got my brother who did n't leave home until he was thirty and er , you had n't got the time , you know , to do too many things , so er my interest was the young wives ' and it was really a as regards the erm the Guild itself , I was thrown in at the deep end when this lady who was with my mother , mother was treasurer , she was secretary , erm she used to come down for me and , I know you should n't canvass but she used to canvass and say erm you know the voting , you know , will you , will you come and vote ? |
| 7 | The to infinitive after and then , on the other hand , creates the impression of a delayed reaction ; it suggests that it took a moment 's reflection for the person to realize the import of what he had seen , this realization being what triggered his sudden cry . |
| 8 | national account manager who 's specifically looks after and then go and see on a regular basis but call on them but invariably the accounts that those account managers deal with at erm will be split all round the country and will be controlled by our local sales executives in those areas |
| 9 | Oh yeah , what oh yes , oh without a doubt Joan , er you can do it , you could have the name and you could have who talked to them and , and then I can tell 'em that what , I 've done this you see and that 'd be the end of it it does suggest that you do n't tell them before you tell them after and then you sort of give them the opp the opportunity of me knocking , not recording it you see , wiping it off the tape , because it stunts the conversation . |
| 10 | Long before the rest of us , Ralph had recognised the quality of those intimate plein air sketches of Welsh valleys and sunlit Neapolitan walls , today so sought after and so expensive . |
| 11 | ‘ They have a good idea who they are after and now they are looking for evidence to back it up . ’ |
| 12 | But why is it that Northern towns , like anywhere else , have their monumental civic buildings , public libraries and baths , named after and often founded by the old city fathers , local entrepreneurs , the class enemy ? |
| 13 | Paintings and old prints of Madeira are always sought after and sometimes change hands for high prices . |
| 14 | Although the process has not turned them into ordinary men they have , in some degree , become betwixt and between . |
| 15 | A beautifully-measured diagonal pass to the wing gave Lennon the chance to lob Bonner , who was caught betwixt and between after coming off his line . |
| 16 | A beautifully-measured diagonal pass to the wing gave Lennon the chance to lob Bonner , who was caught betwixt and between after coming off his line . |
| 17 | Suddenly she felt confused , uncertain of what she was being accused of and equally uncertain of how to defend herself . |
| 18 | Well as you approach the site from D er from north on the A Nineteen , you can catch glimpses of and also of the houses to the south of Church Lane , |
| 19 | And as for all special schools there is an obligation to provide a scheme for local management of special schools with effect from April this year er we consulted there was a little bit of chasing which had to take place in which you can see in section four of the report but following that chasing , we now ascertain meeting schools on favourable proposals for or against and once a week that , a view of and also undertaking as you know . |
| 20 | The addition of such accessories as steering wheels , steps and hosepipes can encourage imaginative play where spatial ideas such as inside , outside , on top of and underneath are likely to be explored . |
| 21 | So I flipped some cattle from the farm of and right between Egilsay and Rousay just a short distance , oh maybe a quarter of a miles or thereby , and oh did the shipping perfectly well and and went home and by the time I got home the message had arrived back before me that the there were two old cattle among the younger ones that the fellow had put there just to feed up and the last we saw of them was going up over the island and that was okay we thought everything was okay . |
| 22 | According to the standard seventeenth-century view , there exist , independently of and antecedently to our perception of them , material bodies . |
| 23 | This is , in a more mathematical form , the signal extraction problem discussed earlier : how to work out the values of and separately from knowledge of . |
| 24 | This is the exact opposite of and neither more nor less correct than the practise adopted in civil engineering analysis of soils and aggregates . |
| 25 | When Adobe did Caslon I know that they had certain things in their minds they could n't get out of and thus it 's not real Caslon . |
| 26 | We use the study of coinage in default of and particularly to supplement other sources of historical information . |
| 27 | He told the appeal judges it would not be ‘ just an empty gesture ’ to vary the orders complained of and instead impose postponement orders . |
| 28 | I was arguing that gay people have nothing to be ashamed of and yet my troops remained invisible as though they needed convincing too . |
| 29 | The use of And yet in the third paragraph , for instance , gives the impression that the writer is thinking aloud , or perhaps just moving back and forth along the same line of argument — as one would do in chatting to a friend — rather than firmly wrapping up one stage in the argument before moving on to the next as is the case in the German text . |
| 30 | These things alter amazingly you know , I mean it 's incredible that the , the sort of and yet that they both work . |