Example sentences of "[adv] and [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the first time — and it 's about time — we see Bertie Wooster as he really is , a bungling destroyer of sensibility , eagerly and inanely driving his men on to set up an advanced cricket pitch 100 miles behind enemy lines . ’ |
| 2 | She learned quickly and eagerly and soon acquired sufficient know-how to join Anne Mowbray in the small schoolroom . |
| 3 | It eagerly and uncharacteristically announced the results two days before the conference . |
| 4 | With its ethical imperatives , Idealism was perfectly suited to debate the ‘ boy labour ’ problem which was usually seen , in one way or another , as a problem of ‘ character ’ and , therefore , notions of duty , service , subordination , and so on , were eagerly and easily incorporated as desirable features in the making of the new image of youth . |
| 5 | Unfortunately those clergy who had so eagerly and diligently defended and justified the war were likely to be engulfed and damaged by the pessimism and disillusion which its failure provoked : pacifism was commonly embraced by the lollards . |
| 6 | Our thanks are also , of course , extended to , who has so professionally , purposefully and cheerfully dealt with hiccups such as the extra numbers at the first seminar and so on . |
| 7 | Enjoy the adoration of family and friends and sensibly and slowly plan your next races ( see Bruce Tulloh 's advice on page 46 ) or , if London ‘ 92 was a bit of a disaster , do n't feel sorry for yourself . |
| 8 | The pragmatist might acknowledge this point but would offer the further thought that , under normal circumstances , it is unlikely that a flea 's stray garment could be mistaken for anything else , and that the flea. its garments and any other intimately associated paraphernalia would be more sensibly and helpfully handled as a single record . |
| 9 | It 's a public statement and , if attractive enough and widely distributed , will win additional pupils to the school . |
| 10 | Many exam candidates lose marks simply because they do n't bother to read the question carefully enough and therefore fail to answer the question that 's posed . |
| 11 | True the banks made hundreds of imprudent loans in the 1970s and early 1980s ; they could hardly get rid of their money fast enough and virtually begged Third World governments to take it off their hands . |
| 12 | And Spurs coach Doug Livermore added : ‘ It is sickening to think we had done enough and then had to leave with nothing . |
| 13 | It came under her classification of Faye being ‘ temperamental ’ , but she found the dress for Belinda easily enough and then returned to her canapés . |
| 14 | Of course , he wrote ( and Goldberg typed ) , there may be nothing to leave , nothing to explain , nothing to understand , even though I have prepared long enough and only started when the time was ripe , even though I began full of confidence and managed to persuade myself , for a while , that I was well under way . |
| 15 | The metal yields easily at first , hardens somewhat and then breaks off in a brittle fashion . |
| 16 | I wanted to run out of the room , back to South London , where I belonged , out of which I had wrongly and arrogantly stepped . |
| 17 | Both slow movements are warmly and elegantly done , and if in the outer ones the soloist sometimes seems to be hell-bent on reaching the winning post first , the orchestra keeps up with ease . |
| 18 | This person 's manager , who had profit and loss responsibility for a large division within the company , was warmly and favorably described as ‘ non-political ’ : |
| 19 | Fleet Street journalists require a modest range of incentives to make them feel agreeably disposed towards something , and the maiden flight ( on a plane which had been named the Maiden Voyager ) was warmly and comprehensively reported in almost every national daily and Sunday newspaper . |
| 20 | 40 years on , linguists , psychologists , engineers , computer scientists know each other better and also have learnt why solving the general version of this problem is still years away . |
| 21 | Graded 3-star or better and privately owned , this type of accommodation offers private bathroom , colour television and telephone as standard and prices , from as little as £82 for 3 days , include the use of the car . |
| 22 | In fact , Byrne knew better and eventually resigned without making another move because he realised that he was due to be mated within four moves ! |
| 23 | It has since been cared for rather better and now appears much improved . |
| 24 | The Board have made four suggestions of ways in which the landscape can be used better and so attract more people : |
| 25 | READERS with longer memories will recall that Crystal Palace were dubbed The Team Of The Eighties by some people who should have known better and promptly began the decade with a 0-0 draw against Norwich . |
| 26 | ‘ I thoroughly disagreed with him on numerous issues , ’ said Teller , ‘ to this extent I would like to see the vital interests of this country in hands which I understand better and therefore trust more . ’ |
| 27 | It seems to follow from Darwin 's ideas that as the generations pass , so the organisms in a particular line of descent ( lineage ) must become better and better adapted to the prevailing conditions . |
| 28 | The army has made it endlessly and publicly clear that it does not want to get involved . |
| 29 | When the horse reared as Ana 's had done it seemed to grow in stature , holding the stance endlessly and then leaping into that strange jump , its forelegs not touching the ground . |
| 30 | Though his contact with Mary had been brief , formal and in no public way at all suggestive , disgust at the thought of Miss Skelton and her world suddenly and urgently spilled into his mind and he excused himself rather roughly — so abruptly , in fact , that a careful inquest was held among the company to uncover what possible offence he might have taken . |