Example sentences of "and [adv] [prep] a [noun] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 I qualified in 1979 and have worked as a social worker and latterly as a team manager in various London boroughs .
2 On 17 December ‘ Reynolds ’ and his wife ‘ Anne ’ , with Blake safely hidden away , left Britain on the Dover ferry to Ostend , drove across Belgium to West Germany and thence to a border crossing-point with East Germany where they arrived on 19 December .
3 Designer Nina Campbell has licensed the manufacture and distribution of her wallpaper and fabric designs to quoted group Osborne and Little in a cash deal expected to be worth £200,000
4 Designer Nina Campbell has licensed the manufacture and distribution of her wallpaper and fabric designs to quoted group Osborne and Little in a cash deal expected to be worth £200,000
5 Swivelling his head left and right like a tennis spectator , Larsen kept watch on both sets of stairs and waited , his gun held ready , barrel pointing towards the ceiling .
6 Several people complimented her on the beauty of the surroundings , because it was her picnic and so for a while Wales was her dining-room .
7 these are recommendations from a joint working party D of E of the erm local authority association and they are to almost unbelievable for us to consider and I can only assume that the that we must remember that this is really a response to what I call Heseltine 's last squeeze which was the idea of executive mayors and so in a sense lip service which has to be paid somewhere along those lines but it does recommend that we think seriously about cabinet govern government about single party committees and I ca n't imagine how anybody in their right minds would argue now that the cabinet government when they see what cabinet government leads to in Westminster and what de facto cabinet government leads to in majority ruled councils up and down the country erm , there is of course a I think a misleading er er brownie point the idea of relaxing restrictions on members allowances but members must realise why that is in there .
8 She was desperately thirsty and perhaps over a drink Fernando would calm down enough to open the gates for her to drive out and back to Palma .
9 However , we think that the specialist experience of the Birmingham Centre would be most valuable to advice bureaux and individual workers who have to help consumers with their problems , and so we would like to see wider use of the Birmingham Centre 's experience in training programmes for general advisers , and perhaps in a back-up service for them .
10 What I want to do is get to play in a band situation so I can sit back and solo like a horn player again , using the MIDI .
11 And only in a minute fraction of the actual collisions does theory suggest that a W particle will be produced ; many different processes compete to take place each time a proton and antiproton meet .
12 Sift the flour over the mixture in the bowl and fold in quickly and gently with a metal spoon .
13 Cutting should be about 9in long , cut just below a leaf joint at the bottom , and just above a leaf joint at the top .
14 They reflect money balances and just as a mirror image shows everything literally as a mirror image , everything is the opposite way round , so too are the balances in the mirror accounts in relation to the balances in the NOSTRO and VOSTRO accounts .
15 In both groups the teams play each other home and away on a league basis .
16 And once in a while Elvis did dash off on some divine business or other .
17 And always on a Sunday morning , when you got up , Sunday morning , epsom salts .
18 Breakfast is buffet style , while dinner is four courses , often with local specialities and always with a salad buffet .
19 She almost dropped the line in disgust , but managed to hold it and started to swing it back and forth like a skipping rope in wider and wider slow arcs .
20 Our supervisors are skilled tradesmen who are being forced more and more into a teaching role without any kind of recompense for it .
21 Sussex , some long-haired , denim-clad veteran of the sixties complained , was looking more and more like a housing estate for first-time buyers .
22 Wilson had to trot briskly , to keep up with his wife ; and he trotted responsibly , because there was no doubt that he was proud of his charge — tall and upright as a Grenadier Guard as she was , and issuing instructions in the way that I imagine a Grenadier might , so that when they were at home her voice would sometimes float right up the road and into our garden , ‘ Wilson !
23 One of the two pressurized water reactors initially suffered the loss of normal feedwater supply which led to a turbine trip and later to a reactor trip which subsequently resulted in significant damage to portions of the reactor core .
24 Bald started work in 1809 and soon secured other appointments in Mayo , first as one of the engineers employed by the government to survey the bogs of Ireland and later as a road engineer .
25 He works for a time as a gardener on the estate of the rich Mrs Mgulu , and later as a construction worker in her house .
26 He served during the war of 1914–18 in the Honourable Artillery Company , first as a gunner in Egypt and later as a trajectory officer in France , being badly wounded in October 1918 .
27 Beforehand he worked as a probation officer for Berkshire Probation Service and later as a research officer for Somerset Probation Service where he undertook the research reported here .
28 As a teenager , and later as a club reporter , city-dweller Kieth waterhouse relished his chances to explore the lush countryside and wild moors of the Yorkshire Dales , tramping by rills and becks and over craggy rocks and soaring hills .
29 This modern urban vision of the street was only further extended by Otto Wagner , first as established Ringstrasse architect and speculator , and later as a Secession leader and critic of the Ringstrasse .
30 Flight tests were conducted by F/L Ian Little , initially under tow behind a Jeep and later behind a Tiger Moth .
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