Example sentences of "[adv] and [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Surprise does n't register , instead , Devito plunges an eight-inch carving knife purposefully and repeatedly into the victim 's stomach . |
| 2 | Surprise does n't register , instead , Devito plunges an eight-inch carving knife purposefully and repeatedly into the victim 's stomach . |
| 3 | Sour old Mr Piggott , who had looked in at St Andrew 's , let fall an ejaculation quite unsuitable to its surroundings , and emerging from the vestry door , crunched purposefully and maliciously upon a piece of coke to relieve his feelings . |
| 4 | Whilst we believe in our biologically-determined nature , there will be no possible utopia apart from these two : a matriarchy run by morally superior women , where desire is excluded , and where our innate niceness means that we can all live happily ever after ; or , we let the chaos out , and we rule fiercely and savagely for a short-lived reign , our ferocious and insatiable desire destroying everything around us . |
| 5 | Before she could even breathe his lips were on hers , fiercely and demandingly in a kiss that seemed to last forever . |
| 6 | So the man was happy enough and even at the time , he realized that er it was n't this lad 's ch er mm fault entirely , because the reason he tripped was cos the carpet was loose on top of the stairs . |
| 7 | Fortunately most of the corridors were bright enough and only in a few of the darker , damper ones did he need his torch to see where he was going . |
| 8 | ‘ Oh Christ ! ’ screamed Frye , his upper arm sliding inexorably and impossibly into the wall . |
| 9 | He looked in that first moment like a spaceman who had landed suddenly and unexpectedly on a strange planet . |
| 10 | He died suddenly and unexpectedly of a coronary in 1962 . |
| 11 | In 1921 Lloyd George came suddenly and dramatically to an accommodation with Sinn Fein . |
| 12 | In merry companionship both men braved the hardship of the landlord 's sleeping arrangements and settled for the night , chatting idly and humorously across the partition like schoolboys in a dormitory . |
| 13 | Instead of standing stubbornly and heroically on the Right Bank , the French could have drawn back their hands from Verdun , which , since the dismantling of its forts , was in any case no longer such an indispensable defensive pinion . |
| 14 | He , he was apparently and then on the Saturday or Sunday h h he , he started to reject so he had to go back in . |
| 15 | They made it to the end of the road in Bombay where all the cars had to be steam cleaned inside and out for the last leg of the journey . |
| 16 | ‘ Work was done to improve the station 's appearance both inside and out for the benefit of customers , ’ said Mr Speke . |
| 17 | It was restored both inside and out in the 1860s by V. I. Ullmann and B. Wachsmann , although there are some remains of 14C frescos . |
| 18 | What is essential is to identify a ‘ critical mass ’ of people inside and directly outside the organization who must be committed to the change in order for it to succeed . |
| 19 | Place your thumbs on the chin and pull them slowly and firmly outwards and upwards along the jaw bone to the ear . |
| 20 | Smooth outwards and upwards towards the temples . |
| 21 | But the anterior of many other dinosaurs was aligned alongside and parallel to the posterior bone ( the ischium ) , instead of pointing forwards as with the saurischians . |
| 22 | Can this expense be offset against the director 's Schedule E assessment on the grounds that the guarantee had been given wholly , necessarily and exclusively for the purpose of the business ? |
| 23 | I 've held his hand gently and tactfully from the start . " |
| 24 | The Wenlock/Niagaran limestones spread gently and widely on the shallow shelves . |
| 25 | He put down his pen and stared out at the Britches , which shifted gently and continuously in the light wind . |
| 26 | There are theme parks and water slides which the children love , horse riding and tennis , plus a beach which shelves gently and safely into the azure sea . |
| 27 | This involves the hypnotherapist talking you gently and quietly through a basic relaxation exercise which is not unlike the early stages of yoga . |
| 28 | They watched the girl for a moment , walked softly behind the row of men at the bar , then slid gently and silently into the street . |
| 29 | Unemployment does not fall gently and evenly across the whole population . |
| 30 | Surely such a sensible little bird , a bantam so civilized as to sit gently and happily on the head of a human child , should have known that her removal from an ill-chosen resting place , in the wilds of hazel and rhododendron , was for her own good and safety ? |