Example sentences of "and [adv] [adj] [conj] [adv] [art] " in BNC.

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1 But in the evening , on what was to prove his last visit , the prisoner was so long and so quiet that eventually the carabiniere who had remained to guard him banged on the door .
2 I chose Tufa which is cheap and easily obtainable and quite a good substitute for real coral rock .
3 In ( quite accurately ) evoking the hoary old spirit of punk , it helps that The White Horse is smaller and more cramped than ever the original Marquee was ; that the stage is only centimetres off the floor and resembles a cloakroom , as bags and coats are dumped onstage ; that there are mates and friends standing virtually onstage and the whole place is a hot , airless , shambolic morass of so-called Huggy nationalists .
4 He was fair and quite softly-spoken and actually a little shy-looking , and he 'd made a point of taking off his uniform cap when he talked to her .
5 Where there is such a controlling stratum it must become socially and politically dominant and therefore a ruling class .
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