Example sentences of "and [adv] [verb] [prep] a [noun sg] " 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 | It is Tom Courtenay , the programme says so , but beneath a straggly white wig , black beret and tattered frock coat with trousers surely cast off by Cyril Smith and insecurely fastened by an army of safety pins , it is difficult to recognise him . |
| 4 | CBP100 may correspond to ICR and thereby function as a repressor of the cAMP response in UF9 cells . |
| 5 | Le Monde of Oct. 5 , 1989 , reported that Parliament had approved a law allowing the establishment of local private television stations and thereby bringing to an end the state broadcasting monopoly . |
| 6 | Using committees internally to overcome restrictions on information and thereby arrive at a decision . |
| 7 | Uncharacteristically , he decided to gallop about , and freakishly collided with a shed , badly injuring his hock . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Between the two the unquantified aspect is easier , you just have to push and push and eventually get to a kind of measurement . |
| 10 | Strictly speaking , these refer to dreams where you are pursued and eventually overpowered by a monster . |
| 11 | Enthusiasm was sustained over a number of weeks , read out in instalments to the class and eventually produced as a book . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | They constantly fought with the music business and eventually drowned in a pool of legal wrangles , interband arguments and the inevitable financial problems . |
| 14 | I was intrigued by this and so he went to the store room and eventually returned with a pile of prints . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Waves broke on the shore and eventually expired in a froth and myriad of bubbles . |
| 17 | That magnificent engineering achievement the Humber Bridge is further opening up the area , improving communications and eventually leading to an East Coast motorway , linking up with newly completed roads on the north bank . |
| 18 | Graham climbed from the car and instinctively ducked as a mortar exploded in the distance . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 ) . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | But the idea germinated and slowly grew into an obsession . |
| 25 | The Ford slowed down in front of them and slowly came to a halt , blocking the entire road . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |