Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] and [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clark found that around half of his sample had travelled only 10 miles or less and only a tenth 40 miles or more , with women tending to move over shorter distances than men . |
| 2 | On current projections , in 2001 there will be more than nine million people aged 65 or more , well over four million aged 75 or more and over a million aged 85 or more . |
| 3 | they take books out once or twice and then the older members do n't take 'em out |
| 4 | Slowly and surely the truth of what had happened came out , and slowly and surely the Elves rallied to the side of Caledor . |
| 5 | This new life reveals more and more the gifts of God , and less and less the human efforts we vainly try to make . |
| 6 | The ringisho ( request for a decision ) goes back and forth and eventually a consensus is achieved among the interested parties , with the president giving his final approval . |
| 7 | And more and more the fast-approaching deadline of the next dummy edition was pressing on his mind . |
| 8 | I 'll have a look , but I 've had him doing actual words , like first words er , you know erm , Ben and large and in and out and just the , the easy words and Luke and his own name , so he is already got the idea that when you write a letter you ca n't just write any letter , you 've got to make letters say something either as erm , as an alphabet or in the form of words , so of course she says to , would you all like to write me a sentence , well he 's already passed that stage , he thinks himself well I ca n't write a sentence , what he knows as a sentence consists of words that make sense , so they 're all sitting there going a N , N , N , Q , R , S , N , T , T , and they 're saying a sentence like I went to the shops with my nanny , well Alex has already passed that stage , he knows that that is n't sensible , so he must of turned to her and he said , I ca n't write like that , my mummy will shout at me |
| 9 | By that time there were brothers and a sister playing about the floor of the nursery in Hampstead , and now and again a new baby in the cradle . |
| 10 | The only people to phone were Joseph and Lily , and now and again a friend of Elaine 's from work . |
| 11 | The sounds of the party were faint here , and now and then a few bars of melody drifted toward us . |
| 12 | At this time of night the street was quiet : the occasional car , and now and then a group of rowdy youths asserting their masculinity like stags in rut . |
| 13 | The " alert " is sounded and a plane flies overhead every five minutes or so — the usual monotonous droning sound of the engines is heard and now and then the pop-pop of the guns and occasionally you feel the sensation of a slight earthquake when a bomb drops — |
| 14 | Even a little food could be had at a pinch , for here and there were a few pale twists of grass and here and there a dandelion . |
| 15 | I shuffled down the shingle until I felt the mush of dry seaweed , and then I explored it with my hands — yes , it was just the stuff one would expect , weed , and here and there a bit of wood . |
| 16 | Against walls , jars of oil , cheap wine , and black and red beer were stacked , and here and there a low table displayed jewellery . |
| 17 | The shadows provided some relief , and here and there a man or a donkey dozed in one . |
| 18 | If he squinted his eyes , he could just make out the greyness of the roof between the trees and here and there the stony finger of a chimney-stack . |
| 19 | There are mallards , teals , of which I have seen a few recently in the Camel estuary , always an abundance of moorhens and coots , and here and there the odd tern . |
| 20 | But today the real sea looked wonderful , silken , with a gentle running glitter where the tide moved , and here and there the tilt and flash of white wings in the sunlight as the gulls sailed out from the cliffs . |
| 21 | The flies crawled upon it and here and there the sharp points of gravel pressed up through the flesh . |
| 22 | There were cigarette burns on the carpet , and here and there the brown of the walls had been rubbed away to reveal a pinkish surface beneath . |
| 23 | The air was heavy with thick , herbal smells , as though it were already late June ; the water-mint and marjoram , not yet flowering , gave off scent from their leaves and here and there an early meadow-sweet stood in bloom . |
| 24 | Any way that was it and you st and you f forked them all round and you after it was er up you was put up to do the tramping round and round and you Every forkful you took it and saw that it was laid down and tramped it round like this , round and round and round and then the next one , till it was up . |
| 25 | And sure I , I 'm sure that the , the I mean th th the sentiment is more or less universal , I mean virtually everybody is opposed to war and yet again and again and again the leaders , who pay lip service |
| 26 | But slowly and surely the followers of Chaos gained the upper hand . |
| 27 | If the result is never in any doubt , so that it is not ‘ the people ’ but always and only a section and that the same section of them which confers consent on government , then those who feel themselves permanently excluded will also feel no great obligations to the regime . |
| 28 | They still , of course , have that function , but more and more the Fund 's resources are being invested in influencing those agencies which are capable of generating the much larger sums of money required to carry out these long-term programmes . |
| 29 | A tip , incidentally , that reminds us that the whodunit is by no means only a puzzle for the reader to solve before the author lets out the answer , but also and always a story . |
| 30 | She moved to the door and glanced back , warming to her mother , it was not often she expressed affection or even concern , she was a hard woman who had lived a difficult life but now and then a little softness crept into Win Morgan 's eyes that betrayed the real woman beneath the stern exterior . |