Example sentences of "[adv] and [adv] [conj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If customers preferred more choice , as most do today , IBM 's existing subsidiaries could compete for their business more fiercely and profitably than they ever can as part of Big Blue . |
| 2 | The freephone number is open between 8.00am and 5.00pm and your call is free . |
| 3 | The wind grabbed him under the arms and flipped him outwards and back as it had the torn raven banner already . |
| 4 | She had fallen in love with it so slowly and gently and sweetly that she had never noticed it had happened . |
| 5 | She had taken to her marriage-bed , therefore , a certain natural innocence and all the ignorance considered essential to her station , of which Tristan had relieved her as gently and pleasantly as he had been able , his passion lacking the intensity which might , on those honeymoon nights , have alarmed her ; being , instead , a lighthearted matter , full of the nonchalant reflections of the man himself . |
| 6 | Liberation does not mean slaying the dragon , but rising above it , growing beyond it , seeing through its tricks and laughing gently and lovingly when it snorts fire at us . |
| 7 | She closed the door after her no less gently and purposefully than he had done , and snatching off her shoes , ran silently up the two flights of stairs to her own room . |
| 8 | All the actors interviewed seemed to feel , and state quite naturally and simply that there was really nothing else for them to do but act . |
| 9 | Curiously enough , once Don was on , he took over so naturally and hilariously that I forgot to be frightened , had a thoroughly rumbustious time and breezed through the remainder of the show . |
| 10 | As accessories , the Libyans who supplied those components were as guilty as hell , as guilty morally and legally as anyone directly involved in commissioning or committing mass murder . |
| 11 | M M My Lords , i it is important that whatever is taught to a child between the ages of five and eleven that the child is able to benefit from it educationally if the child is , is overloaded as it were by being presented erm a curriculum that they simply can not manage , then that 's going to create confusion , but it 's also important to say that one of the erm er objectives of this whole exercise is to underpin all education , both morally and spiritually and I believe we 're doing a great deal to get that right . |
| 12 | The council is spending prudently and efficiently and it 's spending as little hard cash as is compatible with meeting the essential needs of the people who live in the city . |
| 13 | According to Ian Hawkins : ‘ The recession has tested the ability of management to cope with a period of economic downturn deeper and longer than anyone expected , and the venture capitalists ’ ability to negotiate their way through it . |
| 14 | Yeah because if I work it out I 'll just know that i it made so and so but I wo n't know that it gave off that I 'll just remember that it made like zinc chloride or something I wo n't remember |
| 15 | Come and see us for a pint , I 'll meet you in so and so and we 'll go for a pint ’ , and all that , y'know . |
| 16 | And I 'm saying to Mrs Jones , yeah I 'll do whatever , y'know , I used to have some good contacts with Estate Agents and that and they would just ring me up and say will you come and do so and so and we want it done within six or seven days , y'know , a house that they were selling , that they 'd want completely doing from top to bottom inside and out . |
| 17 | Well , you know , practically , the governor or the head you see , he knows what he 's got ta work , but erm , I , I know because the lads do n't , but he generally tells them well I wan na work so and so and he gives me a bit of paper with the horses names on wants galloping . |
| 18 | Yeah well they 've got ta be cooked tonight so you got ta do so and so , so and so and so and so and he 's gon na be cooking all these sausages and stuff ! |
| 19 | Ask why someone reports to so and so and you will receive the answer that ‘ it has always been the case ’ , or that ‘ she gets on better with X rather than Y ’ . |
| 20 | I get everything answered and so and so and you learn quite a lot and I just ask . |
| 21 | And it 's easier to get along with brother so and so and sister so and so , but for goodness me I find , I find it ever so difficult to talk to sister so and so and there 's an area perhaps that we can er think about , stay awake by being respectful and obedient and that 's something that is very important because it 's completely opposite in the world today , respect for all authority and obedience to it is absolutely gone by the ways I find refrain from criticism and careless talk so there are the main points , but as we say we ca n't go into them all , well , so what we 're going to do is to try and just highlight one or two little areas which we could er enlarge on or put the magnifying glass on , so shall we do that ? |
| 22 | You can sit there and say , I could go so and so if I want , but not bother . |
| 23 | Erm and when she was talking to me about different people , I 'd never know who they was , because I was never I was never that interested in Bay to er to find out who they was or to remember she 'd point out somebody and say that 's so and so and then when she 'd mention him a couple of days later I 'd go , Who 's that ? |
| 24 | 1 Entertain only if you have a good reason for doing so and only if you have something of value to impart to the guest . |
| 25 | I remember how her country beginnings showed themselves then : she made no fuss about seeming to be lost , nor did she work herself up into a state as the aunts would have done , just stood there patiently and quietly while I untangled her and found the way ; and did not even grumble , although after that I let her decide where we should go , which was usually across a field near the sewage plant , and along a road near the gasworks . |
| 26 | Yeah , it wo n't be first she 's had you know , er eight o'clock till four o'clock and then if you want to , work , work any more hours erm |
| 27 | But you do n't you remember Carla had a bath Sunday she ha , we had a bath about nine o'clock and then when we got back she went to have her bath and she got in it and it was stone cold ! |
| 28 | ‘ We old Indians come to like this England less and less and we return to an imagined India . ’ |
| 29 | Everybody gets on with their own lives and old links get used less and less till they 're forgotten , and before you know it , people are dead and gone and it 's too late . |
| 30 | Can I just say a few brief things to this , firstly , I share their concern entirely and totally and I do n't think there 's an officer round this table who would n't agree with that , and I also believe , having met with all the board members this morning , I know that the board members similarly agree . |