Example sentences of "[adv] and [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Before she could even breathe his lips were on hers , fiercely and demandingly in a kiss that seemed to last forever . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | He looked in that first moment like a spaceman who had landed suddenly and unexpectedly on a strange planet . |
| 6 | He died suddenly and unexpectedly of a coronary in 1962 . |
| 7 | This involves the hypnotherapist talking you gently and quietly through a basic relaxation exercise which is not unlike the early stages of yoga . |
| 8 | Read through your full speech several times , preferably aloud and preferably into a tape-recorder , but do not try to memorise it word for word . |
| 9 | ‘ When somebody is in a situation where they feel there is no way out , feel trapped , lost , unloved , helpless , powerless , they are in a definite negative spiral and are getting deeper and deeper into a place where they are more and more frightened and despairing . |
| 10 | Memories of the marathon " sew-in " before she left home for the International Youth Congress could not have failed to bring a smile to Eva 's lips , or those of her sisters , if they could have seen her stitching away patiently and efficiently on a hand-driven sewing machine . |
| 11 | Adam sat motionless in one of the corners — looking less and less like a real person , Ruth noted ; he never spoke now , or appeared to hear if anyone addressed him . |
| 12 | An ally is a nation which you beat fair and square in a war some time ago and which is now on your side . |
| 13 | A BOAT that can run swiftly and silently without a churning propeller has been the dream of naval commanders ever since the first submarine slid gurgling beneath the waves . |
| 14 | ‘ Often as he sat in Davin 's rooms in Grantham Street , wondering at his friend 's well made boots that flanked the wall pair by pair , and repeating for his friend 's simple ear the verses and cadences of others which with the veils of his own longing dejection , the rude pheoboric mind of his listener had drawn his mind towards it and flung it back again , drawing it by a quiet inbred courtesy of attention , or by a quaint turn of Old English speech , or by the force of its delight in rude bodily skills , for Davin had sat at the feet of Michael Cussack the game , repelling it swiftly and suddenly by a grossness of intelligence , or by a bluntness of feeling , or by a dull stare of terror in the eyes , the terror of sole of starving Irish village in which the curfew was still a nightly fear . |
| 15 | We have fought long and hard for a certain amount of privacy in society , especially within the home , but this has not been without cost , and now we search for ways of re-establishing the collective level , as it is a part of women 's nature to do . |
| 16 | Our end of the village has thought long and hard for a couple of weeks about John Major 's new honours system and we 've decided to go for it . |
| 17 | ( 6 ) Finally , and importantly , the study of homoclinic orbits can be undertaken relatively easily and cheaply on a computer . |
| 18 | But in addition to the church 's calling to be the invisible yeast leavening the whole dough and the salt savouring the whole meal , it is also called to be a light placed prominently and strategically upon a lamp-stand so as to light the whole house . |
| 19 | It is however I think relevant to the debate on policies I five and I twelve , to the extent that the County Council adjustments to the wording of policy I five which would provide for the distributional strategy and its emphasis on directing development to locations in and adjacent to main urban areas , main towns and small towns , to be modified so as to pe permit major employment allocations to be made elsewhere and indeed on a scale which effectively improved distributional strategy . |
| 20 | people are shopping already and normally on a Wednesday we we 're we 're really bustling , it 's our busiest day of the week . |
| 21 | All you have to do then is to take up the handles maintaining line tension , and either take two steps backwards smartly or pull the arms backwards and downwards in a smooth tugging action to set the kite aloft . |
| 22 | So erm he travelled backwards and forwards for a year prior to us coming to live here permanently . |
| 23 | He was allowed to drive the drill backwards and forwards for a couple of dozen times . |
| 24 | In order not to alarm her unduly , he moved into a space about ten yards ahead of her , and started to walk backwards and forwards on a ten-degree arc in her direct line of vision . |
| 25 | It 's a frustrating exercise to wander backwards and forwards through a full-sized abstract , its plans and pages held together by a thread or a rusty pin , pursuing some trivial and tedious point . |
| 26 | A wheelbarrow , to be exact , which carried an old woman backwards and forwards across a bare stage — pushed by Richard Burton , her son , in search of a sign from God . |
| 27 | This has an additional pivot , allowing the easel to swing backwards and forwards from a pathway along its length . |
| 28 | This has an additional pivot , allowing the easel to swing backwards and forwards from a pathway along its length . |
| 29 | It was too big , a great covered space where people strode backwards and forwards in a hurry . |
| 30 | Iron jaws and iron claws , opening the cotton , chewing it , champing it , throwing out the cotton , spewing it , stamping it , backwards and forwards , backwards and forwards , backwards and forwards in a ruthless and remorseless inescapable refrain : |