Example sentences of "and [adv] [verb] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Berlin , for example , I heard of a woman addressed as Fräulein ( ‘ Miss ’ , literally ‘ little woman ’ and widely regarded as a put-down , so that many German women have abandoned it in favour of Frau ) by a male bus driver , who said ‘ Danke , Fräulein' when she tendered her fare . |
| 2 | Although it was difficult , in practice , to stop war from breaking out , serious attempts were made to control it by emphasising that only a war duly and properly declared by a soverign authority could be regarded as just . |
| 3 | CBP100 may correspond to ICR and thereby function as a repressor of the cAMP response in UF9 cells . |
| 4 | Using committees internally to overcome restrictions on information and thereby arrive at a decision . |
| 5 | Uncharacteristically , he decided to gallop about , and freakishly collided with a shed , badly injuring his hock . |
| 6 | I , personally , always tried to avoid being drawn into any kind of union or political affairs , but in the case of the Association I made a slight concession in that I agreed to become Editor of our newsletter , which started out as a news-sheet and eventually grew into a magazine called " Coastlines " , featuring articles , reports from the cutters , poems and competitions . |
| 7 | Between the two the unquantified aspect is easier , you just have to push and push and eventually get to a kind of measurement . |
| 8 | Strictly speaking , these refer to dreams where you are pursued and eventually overpowered by a monster . |
| 9 | Enthusiasm was sustained over a number of weeks , read out in instalments to the class and eventually produced as a book . |
| 10 | The Forget-me-nots were billed as ‘ the smallest song and dance act ’ and eventually blossomed into a team of eight , fronted by Amy Knott . |
| 11 | They constantly fought with the music business and eventually drowned in a pool of legal wrangles , interband arguments and the inevitable financial problems . |
| 12 | I was intrigued by this and so he went to the store room and eventually returned with a pile of prints . |
| 13 | They are the hermeneutic code through which an enigma is posed and eventually solved in a text ; the semic code which determines themes ; the symbolic code which is the sphere where meanings become multivalent and reversible ; the proairetic code which determines action and behaviour ; and finally , the cultural code which provides social and ‘ scientific ’ information . |
| 14 | Waves broke on the shore and eventually expired in a froth and myriad of bubbles . |
| 15 | Graham climbed from the car and instinctively ducked as a mortar exploded in the distance . |
| 16 | Somewhat more accessible could have been an object such as the bronze strigil found in the Caerleon Fortress Baths , including six of the Labours and presumably paired with a companion to complete the Dodekathlos . |
| 17 | Attention was first drawn to them in 1988 when a 17-year-old resident complained she had been held in continuous confinement for seven weeks and forcibly injected with a sedative . |
| 18 | A new Constitution , which was drawn up in late 1986 and overwhelmingly approved in a referendum in February 1987 , provided for presidential elections to be held in November 1987 . |
| 19 | This early ‘ satiating effect ’ was dose dependent and most marked at a dose of 40 µg per animal ; about equimolar to procolipase secretion during maximal stimulation with secretin and cholecystokinin ( CCK ) . |
| 20 | The more structured the source of words , the more likely it is that the terms in the source will already be in a standard form ready for lifting wholesale and little modified into a thesaurus . |
| 21 | The Ford slowed down in front of them and slowly came to a halt , blocking the entire road . |
| 22 | Since Mr Haynes owns 62% of the group 's equity and gladly confesses to a liking for general publishing , it seems likely that his views on keeping the division will prevail . |
| 23 | The brush should be dipped and loosely scrubbed over a surface wetting the area , rather than cleaning , then dipped again and used to scrub rapidly the wetted area . |
| 24 | The one major attempt to apply the Third period model in Latin America , in El Salvador in 1932 ( where the Comintern operated through International Red Aid ) , was quickly and brutally suppressed by a massacre of over 30,000 people . |
| 25 | On now to Barry Humphries ' autobiography , More Please ( Penguin ) ; Carol ( second wife of Walter ) Matthau 's memoirs Among the Porcupines ( Orion ) ; Ranulph Fiennes ' search for the city of Ubar ( the Koranic version of Sodom and Gomorrah ) , Atlantis of the Sands ( Penguin ) : A N Wilson 's Jesus ( Flamingo ) , coming at the same time as Barbara Thiering 's Jesus the Man ( Corgi ) , as they also did in hardcover ; and Miranda Seymour 's much-praised life of Ottoline Morrell ( Sceptre ) , £25 in hardcover and so welcome as a £7 or £8 paperback . |
| 26 | She had been adopted as a small child by the counsellor 's wife , now dead — so said my companion , adding that it was well known that she would marry Victor , and so come into a deal of money . |
| 27 | For Augustine , mystical experience operated in the gap between the Creator and creature , enabling man to recognise his own true nature and so come to a knowledge of God — a process possible only because of the Incarnation , the love poured out from the being of God to his creatures which revealed how He could be known . |
| 28 | The Methodists first established a chapel for worship in 1828 , in a small building later converted into the Oddfellows Hall , and so named until a couple of years ago when it became a private residence . |
| 29 | The Marind of New Guinea believe that fire has its origins in sex , and so indulge in a rite whereby a girl has to be raped in order to keep that fire alight . |
| 30 | For the most part , what is good for the business will also be good for the shareholders and so speaking of a duty to benefit the business will often be accurate enough . |