Example sentences of "[adv] and [adv] [verb] [pron] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So if you would usually start the programme with the address from the mayor at 9.30am , consider having the mayor speak at a breakfast at 8am and then give everyone a two-hour break from 11am to have a sight-seeing walk or shopping session before returning for lunch . |
| 2 | They do not refer to those behaviours which objectively and avoidably cause us the most harm , injury , and suffering . |
| 3 | I you place your hands on your hips with your fingers pointing backwards and then move them an inch or two higher over the bottom of the rib cage they will cover the loins . |
| 4 | It would do this twice more and then call it a day . |
| 5 | Her own sleep the light , fragmented pre-waking kind by this time , Maria realised what was happening at once and merely gave him a sleepily complacent smile , pleased to see the disturbance in his eyes as he regarded her suspiciously . |
| 6 | Saint Simon describes how Louis XIV 's adored granddaughter-in-law , the Duchesse de Bourgogne , was standing in conversation with the King , while a maid lifted her skirt from behind and discreetly gave her an enema . |
| 7 | As she hitched up the fox fur draped about her neck , she was tempted now and then to give them a regal wave but decided that to sit back in dignified hauteur was more fitting to her role . |
| 8 | She was the living embodiment of '80s values — the self-made , in-control businesswoman and keep-fit fanatic , heroine of a materialist generation , who ruthlessly and determinedly made herself an icon , flirting , taunting , toying with sexual and religious imagery and playing dangerous games with the madonna/whore complex at the very heart of the feminine psyche . |
| 9 | Less than a year later we got married and I moved down here and eventually found myself a job . |
| 10 | Spotting a hatch in the far wall , she walked across and gingerly opened it a crack . |