Example sentences of "[adv] and [adv] [to-vb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the child is able to speak , he can answer many questions which are asked gently and naturally to test how much he has learnt . |
| 2 | … including particularly , in the light of recent events , a paragraph on prison security on the general lines that prisons should be better to live in and harder to get out of . |
| 3 | Those with short-term orientations will not have the tenacity to hold on , to fight , to be pushed down and still to get up again , simply because their time orientations are too short ( 6 months to 1 year ) for the longer-term perspective ( 5 to 10 years ) . |
| 4 | bloody ages doing things like if , if mode so and so to work out whether it 's a Monday or a Tuesday or something and then trying and everything else to try and get |
| 5 | But a decade or so later , the Darlington Wagon and Engineering Company was finding there was less and less to boast about . |
| 6 | When in the late 1960s wages and unemployment began to move together and then to accelerate rapidly the Phillips curve became somewhat discredited , despite various theoretical attempts made to rescue it . |
| 7 | While little direct evidence is available on the fate of the mountain populations during this period , there is little doubt they were too weak numerically and organizationally to put up any effective resistance to either power . |
| 8 | Remedies can be given both pre-operatively and post-operatively to speed up healing and to counteract any effects of anxiety , shock and the anaesthetic . |
| 9 | He sensed her bewilderment and became a shoulder for her to lean on and sometimes to cry on during this painful period . |
| 10 | Non-European countries were more and more to take up the methods and manners of Europe . |
| 11 | He felt strong and wanted more and more to reach somewhere that had less evidence of the patterning of Man . |
| 12 | The top rail is joined to the uprights by dovetail housings and to cut the mortises for the laths I found that it was best to hold the rail in the vice with blocks to pack it out and then to cut down vertically . |
| 13 | She watched him along the road and then ran in the opposite direction , singing a high , careless tune , breaking off now and again to laugh rather wildly , so that several people in the street turned to stare at her , surprised . |
| 14 | I made my way slowly through the crowd of people , pausing now and again to chat briefly to people I knew . |
| 15 | She was the last person living to speak the language of the native islanders , so it was a pity that she could no longer use her tongue , except now and then to rasp out a harsh fragment of a song . |
| 16 | The only movement from the reader was the lifting of the hand every now and then to turn over a page , and Mrs Phelps always felt sad when the time came for her to cross the floor and say , ‘ It 's ten to five , Matilda . ’ |
| 17 | The adult females bob and dance with excitement , standing upright , craning their heads back and forth to see just what is going on . |
| 18 | ‘ But PDAG has organised a seminar at the Copthorne Hotel today and tomorrow to discuss how to transfer their work to the quangos . |
| 19 | At last , when they had all gone home , I started woozily and happily to clear up . |
| 20 | And , of course , if the ferret is half-starved its first and understandable reaction on encountering a rabbit in a burrow is to kill immediately and then to settle down and eat it . |
| 21 | So it looks as though at the very beginning of the 1830s , trade unionism was already disposed to settle into the primary role which it was fully and consciously to adopt later in the century , a role which would be ameliorative rather than revolutionary . |
| 22 | erm towards the end of the century it was just about possible for middle class girls , or a few middle class girls to get a reasonable academic education at one of the G P D S schools — we 've got one in Hove , you know the girls ' public day school trust foundations — but only very few went there and got what would be equivalent now to a kind of secondary education and a very , very , very , very tiny minority of those girls could go on to university if they faced an enormous amount of opposition when they got there and also to get there in the first place , but for most girls there was only a basic elementary education , which increasingly stressed the sort of domestic side of a girl 's vocation . |
| 23 | and just the , the part here , I mean this , this I do n't know if it 's right or if it 's wrong but when you said I wan na put twenty quid towards my children 's future perhaps the way I would see is I , I would think twenty quid 'll go nowhere for their future , it 's gon na be a lot more expensive so as you 're openly offering me to take the money off you for that I would have perhaps gone down to try and commit you towards that need there and then to see how important it is and then , because when I er eventually bring back erm the sort of agenda and say look it 's gon na cost you a hundred and twenty quid a month erm you 're sort of sold on the idea . |
| 24 | Understandably , he decided there and then to write off the two weekly instalments he was due to collect from a customer there , and never to lend again in that place . |
| 25 | He made them sing softly and then to sing loudly — smoking a cigar and strolling up and down with his walking-cane he had everyone in the audience completely under his control . |
| 26 | You need to be able to hold the board in one position without it drifting downwind and also to sail backwards which is invaluable in tight situations . |
| 27 | But with increasing public awareness of what good eating means , it is becoming easier and easier to eat out without compromising your health . |
| 28 | In between these two extremes comes the large mass of honourable and intelligent outdoor enthusiasts who listen to the frothings and bayings back and forth between the two factions with alarm , but without the detailed information from both sides which would enable them freely and democratically to make up their own minds , and if necessary bring their concerted pressure to bear on one side or the other to desist . |
| 29 | It seemed to her like the anus of the entire factory : a black tunnel that extruded the castings , still encased in black sand , like hot , reeking , iron turds , on to a metal grid that vibrated violently and continuously to shake off the sand . |
| 30 | He saw Marius and myself and told us quietly and firmly to go back to our rooms . |