Example sentences of "[verb] and [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The relatively fine grained unimodal sand deposits from many parts of the world yielded similar characteristics : beach sands were well sorted and negatively skewed , whereas river sands were less well sorted and usually positively skewed . |
| 2 | If it is to function as well as it possibly can , the body has several basic needs — nutrition , exercise , relaxation , sleep and so on — but , because of the hectic pace of twentieth century life , not enough attention is paid to ensuring that these needs are met . |
| 3 | Well , by taking into account things like she 's had to struggle and so on , and if her qualifications are actually as good then maybe she 's had to work harder . |
| 4 | It was in fact , ‘ by no means a bare collection of what was scattered in the former … but a performance so well designed and so well executed , … very acceptable to all who make gardening either their profession or diversion. , |
| 5 | One person chooses a way everyone is to move — such as jumping , hopping , walking and so on . |
| 6 | By using public transport , cycling and walking and so on , we are actually wasting far less of the world 's oil and all the other resources used to make cars . |
| 7 | You know , chambermaids , waitresses and so on . ’ |
| 8 | They reject help from outside agencies which they see as interfering and so often show a poor response to therapy and intervention . |
| 9 | ‘ Among us the sin of schism is too often committed and too quickly condoned . ’ |
| 10 | Christopher I do n't know and quite honestly I do n't care at the moment |
| 11 | The foliage in the park was turning to burnished gold and Rachel knew that in a few short weeks the temperature would drop , the leaves would fall and once again her favourite time of year would be over . |
| 12 | Before you take to the high street , it is worth spending time with your partner to think carefully about what you will actually need and perhaps more importantly what you both like : it is surprising how much tastes can differ over the smallest of items ! |
| 13 | Er , is right , the , the area of the mind that is open to , for example , sensory stimuli to your ears and eyes , touch and so on , things that you 're conscious of , is in your ego . |
| 14 | Which was a bad move as I hate jazz bores and usually much prefer the company of bored typists from Willesden . |
| 15 | But faded switches , pickup covers and so on have been next to impossible to find . |
| 16 | Many publishers too will be able to provide help with point of sale — stands , covers and so on . |
| 17 | This hierarchy shows the general subject area of building and its subordinate subject areas : building materials , auxiliary construction practices , construction in specific materials , wood construction , roofing and so on . |
| 18 | She hopped down to the floor , but it seemed further away than she had expected and now suddenly it was rising up crazily to meet her . |
| 19 | Down there they will escape the buffetings of the storms to come and there too , where temperatures are much lower , their bodily process will slow down and so use less energy at a time in the year when there is little for these animals to eat . |
| 20 | The workmen 's dialogue , which he co-authored , though filled with pieces of carefully observed slang , is none the less stilted and sometimes too obviously theatrical . |
| 21 | Most women grow up absolutely torn and still somehow knowing that they have to make some kind of choice . |
| 22 | Er we said last week that the on the only , the only real way that the peasants were gon na er mobilize was if they , they thought that they could actually win and so surely the violence would have been a means of saying we 're a credible force to be reckoned with |
| 23 | The long-term decline in the participation of older people , particularly older men , in the workforce can not be attributed to changes in the individual characteristics of older people themselves — their health , attitudes to work and so on . |
| 24 | He guessed his Mum would phone when she got to work and then maybe again when she took her break at half-three . |
| 25 | James Moir , head of BBC TV light entertainment , said : ‘ His unique gruff humour , his exceptional ability to use the English language to produce brilliant comic effect has rarely been equalled and surely now will never be surpassed . |
| 26 | The survey looked at the total cost of a funeral , including the fees paid via the funeral director for cremation or burial , minister 's fees , flowers , obituary notices and so on . |
| 27 | It made the readers share in the horror it described and thereby so disgusted , shocked and outraged them that instead of tending to encourage anyone to homosexuality , drug-taking or brutal violence it would have precisely the reverse effect . |
| 28 | Er , people with unknown ambitions , frontiers that they want to adjust and so on . |
| 29 | The interchange agreement should also deal with such matters as authentication of messages , liability for errors and system failure , system and message security , record keeping and so on . |
| 30 | I was still on the shores of the same great sea and yet had been transported into quite another world , a place on the edge of a China which seemed to have nothing in common with those islanders so forgotten and so far away . |