Example sentences of "and [adv] [verb] [adv] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 This is also an area where the LEA could assist a school in offering its services as a ‘ critical friend ’ , able to stand back and perhaps judge more objectively than those working in the school itself .
2 Nothing she said , just a way she has of slightly turning and doing something else and not replying as quickly as she might .
3 I 'd rather him not travel it , I 'd rather him stop here on Sunday and not come home so that he 's got ample rest , cos he 's not getting it I , I , I du n no , I , I might be wrong , but he moans at me cos I knock me
4 Equity says no , and soon goes so far as to lay down a rule that a mortgage is a mere security for money , and something quite different from a genuine transfer of the ownership .
5 He condemned Crilly for his hash , and once went so far as to yank a steaming thick spliff from Crilly 's hand and toss it down the lighthouse cliff .
6 However , before then , in 1901 , the first batch of electrically driven trams were introduced in Chiswick , with a service running from Shepherd 's Bush to Kew Bridge and later extended as far as Hampton Court .
7 I leave Skye returning to Inverness with his account very similar to my own experience barring the missiles and the guides and honestly think once again that the number of visitors to some ‘ beauty spots ’ in the Highlands and Islands were far in excess of those of today .
8 She had done everything in her power to force him back and now knew quite clearly and definitely that she did n't want him .
9 Jean raged and argued , and even went so far as to attempt tenderness in her effort to get Ted back to ordinary but working unhappiness .
10 Indeed Holt saw it as a mechanism for controlling the curriculum and even went so far as to suggest that the staff of the APU were concerned to promote desirable curriculum development .
11 Mr. Philipson also submitted that the Bank of England could properly exercise their supervisory powers under the Act without the breaching of customers ' confidences , and even went so far as to submit that the Schedule 3 information could be so furnished by clothing details of customers ' loans or deposits with anonymity .
12 ‘ You could wear this Indian bedspread as a shawl , ’ suggested Robina , and even went so far as pull it off the bed and advance towards Penelope with it .
13 As his armies grew in number and strength Grom ventured further and further west , devastating much of Stirland , Talabecland and even going as far as Hochland in the shadow of the Middle Mountains .
14 The new " cats " are made out of copper and chromium ( as opposed to the normal platinum , rhodium and palladium ) , and reportedly work as effectively as normal ones while avoiding the production of by-products such as nitrous oxide and hydrogen sulphide .
15 He looked at her speculatively , wondering at the expression in her dark eyes and then said very slowly and carefully , " Well … it is true , we do need bodies to practise on … "
16 Two antimony pH probes ( Monocrystant Mod 0011 , Synectics Medical , Sweden ) were calibrated at Ph 1 and 7 at 35°C before the study and then passed transnasally so that the upper probe lay 5 cm proximal to the upper border of the manometrically determined lower oesophageal sphincter and the lower probe 10 cm distal to its lower border .
17 One can think of these fluctuations as pairs of particles of light or gravity that appear together at some time , move apart , and then come together again and annihilate each other .
18 And then come home here if you 've got any homework do it take a sandwich .
19 From what we know , it seems that the prudent PC user will do well to wait a while and see what other goodies DOS 6 will provide and then upgrade as quickly as possible .
20 At the top of the next gradient , the line crossed over the railway by some timbered cottages and then turned right again and descended Ringstead Road which was narrow and on a steep gradient .
21 He stretched out his arms and then turned slowly so that I could view the recycled Archie from all angles .
22 Perhaps it was only because of the Substitute 's presence that he added , ‘ At eleven o'clock , ’ and then turned away quickly because the technician was about to protest .
23 Quantum mechanics implies that the whole of space is filled with pairs of ‘ virtual ’ particles and antiparticles that are constantly materializing in pairs , separating , and then coming together again and annihilating each other .
24 She glanced back down the path and then leaned forward so that her lips almost touched his ear .
25 He broke off , repeated a passage , and then stopped as abruptly as he had begun .
26 To light it at arms length and then to stand well away while it fires and never return to a firework if it does n't seem to go off .
27 And in a nut shell , it is our case , we say the police , what the police did was reasonable in the circumstances and indeed to go any further and say what they did was necessary in the circumstances .
28 George V tried to dissuade him from this course and indeed went so far as to register a formal protest :
29 Haslemere were playing some good football and almost went further ahead when Whiston headed just over .
30 How we bury people , how we marry people — First Spiritualists are always married as close to 3 February as possible , and , when the bride has made her vows , someone pours a bottle of milk over her head ( ‘ to feed her young ’ ) — how we pray , how we hang sheets out of the upstairs window to celebrate a birth , how we seem so utterly and completely deranged and yet feel so utterly and completely sane .
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