Example sentences of "and [adv] [verb] [adv] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.

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1 On Feb. 7 riot police in Cairo outnumbered and forcibly broke up the first protest march against the war by opposition leaders and 50 supporters .
2 Paying independently for research would be far too expensive , and as Payne acknowledges candidly , ‘ If we 're paying commissions and thus get literally the first call on the telephone , we have an edge when it comes to news items .
3 In order to succeed in their desire to pass on their property to their children , men first introduced the rule of monogamy and thus brought about the first great change .
4 As Beatrice and Orage became lovers , she worked for the paper , assuming increasing importance editorially and soon writing about a third of the contents herself as reviewer , poet , satirist and literary adviser .
5 But last March AMD stole a tenth of this market within months of launching its version of the 386 , and now claims almost a third .
6 Turner was arrested after the first offence but released on bail and then carried out the second offence .
7 And though the visit could have given him an opportunity to kill his father , and then drive down the next day to discover the body , that was the one crime which every logical motive screamed against .
8 Sam Reed scored twice and then set up the third goal for Tom Cox .
9 In the end we decided to go to bed , and then set out the next morning just in time to catch the ship to Hamburg .
10 You 'd 've been better off to have been booked in here for a good night 's sleep and then driven up the next day but then you 're virtually sort of getting up there turning round and coming back are n't you ?
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