Example sentences of "and [adv] [verb] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 After a few reasonable take-offs and landings , said those dreaded words feared by all trainee pilots , ‘ Do you think you can manage on your own for one circuit ? ’ , and promptly got out of the plane , leaving me to do the usual pre take-off checks , taxi to the beginning of the runway and nervously accelerate down the runway to do a fair take-off .
2 Pulsatilla seemed to cover the case as it now presented and successfully treated both the anxiety and the palpitations .
3 Describing Gloucester 's subsequent attack on the Woodvilles , More continues : ‘ [ Gloucester and Buckingham ] said that the lord marquis had entered into the Tower of London and thence taken out the king 's treasure and sent men to the sea .
4 Describing Gloucester 's subsequent attack on the Woodvilles , More continues : ‘ [ Gloucester and Buckingham ] said that the lord marquis had entered into the Tower of London and thence taken out the king 's treasure and sent men to the sea .
5 The dark rim around the bright mound is artefactual : the coverslip has pressed the top of the mound down into the plane of optical section and thereby pushed down the epidermis around the foot of the mound below that plane .
6 The frost causes the bracken to die back and thereby opens up the canopy to let in more light .
7 But I am not too keen on performances which concentrate entirely on rhetorical expression , and thereby lose both the singing quality , and the logic of the ‘ long line ’ .
8 In the long run , investment will also affect the supply side of the economy , raising its productive potential and thereby pushing outwards the production frontier .
9 The Bank , by rejecting offers at r 1 , is in effect reducing its demand for bills ( D 1 to D 2 ) , and thereby drives up the rediscount rate to r 2 .
10 A proposal that public money should be spent on a measure which is likely to aggravate this position ( the low birth rate ) by making contraception universally available on request and thereby to affect adversely the continuity of the state , is one which we feel we can not endorse .
11 On the following day Jack still seemed to be sleep-walking his way around the course and I was not surprised when he visited the water a couple of times and eventually handed in a score of two over par .
12 Some of those attending the final farewell wept as personnel manager Mr Parry , 46 , stood beside his son 's coffin and courageously poured out the family 's feelings .
13 But he thought better of it and slowly breathed out the air through his nose .
14 Perhaps for the first time he felt something akin to Eliza 's feelings , as he watched his boxes and bottles winched aboard ship and slowly disappear over the horizon .
15 Old Herky turned around and slowly started back the way he had come .
16 With what I swear was a scathing look that said something like " Wally " , he launched himself gracefully on to the air and noiselessly flew down the gill out of sight .
17 He slipped a hand beneath Corbett 's cloak and deftly drew out the clerk 's knife which he stuck into his own sturdy leather-studded belt , and almost dragged the horse across the market-place .
18 no , there 's more schools than that , cos er the lady said that er , she goes I 'm , cos there is when you he went what schools are these ? , and so reading out a couple of schools , about four of 'em
19 One species of beetle in Brazil , when alarmed , immediately folds up its legs and flattens itself sideways , exposing its white underside and so takes on the appearance of a bird dropping .
20 A good catalogue , therefore , makes life easy for its user , and so builds up the supplier 's reputation .
21 If the risk-free hedge is seen to produce a greater return than the risk-free rate then arbitrage will take place as investors offer to write more calls and so bring down the price of the option .
22 If the forecasts are believed , they will affect the actions of agents and so take on the role of expectations .
23 If you use drugs , you will need to consider that drugs can deplete your immune system and so speed up the progression of the illness .
24 These are filled with blood vessels and so help cool the animal , but they also collect and funnel sound into the earhole .
25 Rather than face up to change , however , politicians , especially in the Conservative Party , campaigned for the use of the tariff to keep out foreign goods and to provide subsidies to British industry and so slow down the process of adjustment .
26 For the diminutive Andy — people often wonder how he hauls around the pro bags that stand as high as him — the triumphs he has shared with Nick Faldo are something of a fulfilment of his own ambition of winning the titles himself : he started as a tournament professional with dreams of a major championship before realizing he would not make the grade as a pro , and so took up the bag instead of the club .
27 Each mobile electron in the system is represented by a point in k space such that the vector from the origin to the point is proportional to the electron 's momentum , and so represents both the magnitude and direction of the momentum .
28 ‘ If students are going to be landed with a debt at the end of three years , they are going to choose vocational courses so that they can be certain of getting a job when they graduate and so pay off the loan . ’
29 The curtains were not drawn half across the window and so closing out the light as most curtains were wont to do , but were wide apart showing , of all things , a piece of grassland parched by the sun but , nevertheless , still giving evidence that it was grass by the strip in the shadow of the house .
30 They accept all too easily the public/private distinction and so rule out a consideration of those " privately " made decisions in the economic sphere that have profound implications for the life chances of millions of people .
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