Example sentences of "and [adv] [prep] a [noun sg] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | He looked her up and down in a manner that was no longer respectful . |
| 2 | The refusal is apparently based as being unsuitable for the railway and not of an era that is presently being sought . |
| 3 | Laverne trots back and forth like a dog that wo n't give up , outside an entrance the size of a tea-cup . |
| 4 | The truth of the matter was that even before she had agreed to take over the club she had been plagued more and more by a feeling that she had done all she could do in the music business . |
| 5 | The feeling in the backswing has been one of turning the back to the target , and hopefully with a feeling that the right hand is going to generate power through impact . |
| 6 | As the world 's longest-running film festival , we hope that our event can fulfil its role in Scotland and internationally in a city that film-makers and audiences from across the world want to visit . |
| 7 | These variations between arts are important in themselves and also as a reminder that the social relations of artists are closely related to the technical means of production of each specific art . |
| 8 | The UVF also used the black explosive shotgun powder last week in an attack which injured a building worker in North Belfast and also in a bomb that was attached to a car in the New Lodge area . |
| 9 | Before she could even breathe his lips were on hers , fiercely and demandingly in a kiss that seemed to last forever . |
| 10 | Just as characters in the plays switch from Thou to You and back in a way that seems to us to have no evident rationale , so in the Sonnets Shakespeare uses both forms indifferently , and indeed switches from one to the other within one poem ( Sonnet 24 ) . |
| 11 | During the previous three years , Crawford had written hundreds of letters to producers and directors in his search for work , but it was his love of cycling — he sometimes rode from South London to Brighton and back in a day that landed him his first work in repertory theatre . |
| 12 | This approach places a heavy emphasis on the institutions of the state alone ; it describes institutions and institutional relationships in suffocating detail ; and because it focuses on constitutional " law " quite uncritically it tends to see the connections between state and society formally , simply , and legalistically in a way that ignores informal patterns of power in society and economy . |
| 13 | The eyes widened , the mouth opened to form a smile , and then a gaping O , and then with a cry that Bernice heard in her mind rather than with her ears the nose and chin split in a vertical line , the eyes moved apart , and the entire face divided in two . |
| 14 | Conceptual arguments in favour of employment deconcentration can be traced originally to the need to decant industry from over-congested conurbations to adjacent market towns ( Woods , 1968 ) and then to an acceptance that the extreme population concentrations of older industrial societies was neither economically necessary or inevitable ( Commins , 1978 ) . |
| 15 | and again as an approximation that is when the show flat is available , the public are coming on site to view |
| 16 | ‘ I felt again and again as an actor that we simply were not gaining the audience 's confidence . |
| 17 | They must try again and again for a compromise that is fair and honourable . |
| 18 | Always make cuts at a slightly sloping angle — as shown in the sketch , and never at an angle that would allow rain , dew , and heavy moisture to lie on the open cut . |