Example sentences of "[adv] and [adv] [to-vb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He worked without an easel and with the minimum of fuss , placing his canvas on a chair and painting quietly , ‘ interrupting only now and then to take a gulp of alcohol from a bottle . |
| 2 | Colin Campbell strode through the lengthening shadows , pausing now and then to try a door handle before moving on . |
| 3 | When a system of individual assessment is implemented , teachers seek regularly and conscientiously to perceive a child 's success ( be this in reading , in mathematics , or in the slow mastery of a concept in history or science ) against the understanding that child showed yesterday , last week or last year . |
| 4 | First , however , we consider briefly what may happen further upstream , partly to illustrate how the long memory comes about and partly to make a link with earlier discussions of wakes ; i.e. we look at the ‘ intermediate wake ’ , ( intermediate to the ‘ near wake ’ immediately behind the obstacle and the ‘ far wake ’ which has become self-preserving ) . |
| 5 | and erm , he 's got in the , in the fabric one he 's got double doors and all the rolls of carpet and erm , he 's got a table in there and obviously to make a cup of tea , got a couple of beds in there cos he 's sold them and it 's like a big warehouse and erm all around there there 's a big concreted area , you know , and er all these units and that 's where we , we reckon it is . |
| 6 | These reprisals set out specifically and successfully to drive a wedge of animosity between the Palestinians and their increasingly resentful hosts in south Lebanon , the Shiite community . |