Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] and a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jack might be jolly enough and a fine fellow when spending his hard-earned cash ashore , but he very quickly became " Poor Jack " when , after months cooped up at sea , he found himself fleeced by prostitutes , brothel keepers , slop-sellers and crimps for no better reason than exploitation of his hunger for female company and his desire for entertainment and refreshment . |
| 2 | Despite her anxiety she registered both the relief that Phoebe should have acted so promptly and a tiny flicker of jealousy , which she quickly quashed . |
| 3 | In the back kitchen was a dresser , three pails of water a yard or so apart and a small scattering of drawing-pins . |
| 4 | He eased his horse round and they ambled along the ridge until the ground fell steeply away and a great valley stretched below them , a silver river sketched through it . |
| 5 | The showery activity and strong winds eased during the 12th-14th as the offending depression drifted away northwards and a slight thaw was sufficient to help life return to normal on low ground . |
| 6 | The door swung open again and a blond man as muscled as the first and cleanshaven in white T-shirt and faded jeans paused casually at the kerb , looked right then left and walked after the bearded man . |
| 7 | The outside door banged open again and a fourth stranger , also wearing a greatcoat , pushed inside and squeezed past Pearce and the Constable . |
| 8 | Regional Training Days have continued and class members have enjoyed meeting together in two rallies , one held in April in Timsbury organised by Barbara Potticary , when it was refreshing to join in classes given by Edith Harlow once more and a local class rally held in Devon was very well supported and a most pleasurable event . |
| 9 | It was always there and a good time . ’ |
| 10 | The more enquiring ventured further afield and a young Yorkshireman , Thomas Johnson , apprenticed to a Mr William Bell in 1620 , paid particular attention to botanical discovery . |
| 11 | Because of this many more people are looking further afield and a significant number are considering relocation . |
| 12 | His own seminal research work is referred to by other writers , and his experience in studies of the history of child care , policy trends , practice and organizational issues enables him to take both abroad and a detailed view of this complex field of human need and the research carried out within it . |
| 13 | It was an odd foursome indeed but rehearsals at Manchester 's Twilight Studios went incredibly well and a live set was swiftly formulated . |
| 14 | The benefit of getting it there early and a little leap word which takes you from a feature to a benefit |
| 15 | Come over here and join us by all means — but not too many of you , so we 'll vet you as you come in ; and not make getting in pleasant or easy ; and just please stick to your own districts , and keep your own religion and dance away to tambourines , or bow to the East , or whatever you like to do to remind you of home — or home as it used to be a hundred years ago but certainly is n't now — and are n't we clever , and kind , and good , the way we give you your roots back ? , and with any luck your children will grow up well-behaved and pleasant ; ours certainly are n't ; because your children come of a society which , being somewhere else and a long time ago , is probably better than ours . |
| 16 | It is an ideal opportunity to play constructively together and a useful way for everyone to make new friends . |
| 17 | And then the drive curved and the house came into view , a huge solid new house , built of the same neat grey blocks as the gatepost , with enormous sash windows staring blankly out and a shallow slate roof with heavily moulded eaves . |