Example sentences of "and [adv] [vb base] [adv] the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 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 ’ .
2 These are filled with blood vessels and so help cool the animal , but they also collect and funnel sound into the earhole .
3 Yes , and also assume thereby the difference between a cow herder , and a student of his or whatever
4 He gave the city not eighty or so acres of ground , but more like two hundred and twenty , he burned to have the funds to take up lovingly every acre of those two hundred and twenty , and tenderly brush away the dust of centuries from every artifact he expected to recover ; and his expectations were high .
5 The new philosophers ‘ cut off and deny the noblest parts of nature and then sweep together the dust of agitated atoms and tell us that they have resolved all the phenomena in nature ’ .
6 well listen , I think I think he will have a day off today because he certainly was n't very well yesterday and then go again the day after .
7 She carefully digested the headlines and then read only the news that interested her .
8 If we are to make any further progress , then , we must now abandon the assumption that the practice of the social sciences must conform to our existing philosophical intuitions , and instead consider seriously the possibility that we might be able to develop a better theory of social explanation by way of examining the successful practice of the social sciences .
9 Ivanov was capable of using his considerable social skills to cultivate and subsequently exploit successfully the acquaintance of a susceptible person engaged in strategic work .
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