Example sentences of "and [verb] [adv] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here too the distinction was not absolute , and hides many other differences ; but the bulk of the lower clergy were half educated at best , and led quite a different life from their superiors . |
| 2 | She lifted a hand to her face and wiped away a greasy sheen of sweat . |
| 3 | It was not itself a centre of manufacturing , but it outstripped all other ports as a point of transit for English exports and became thereby a major entrepot of international trade . |
| 4 | His red , lumpy features were transfigured and he stopped being a badly assembled mass of fleshy fragments and became instead a vital man . |
| 5 | Paid-in capital by member countries amounts to about 10 per cent of subscribed capital and represents only a small part of the total funds obtained by the EIB . |
| 6 | Then I 'm going to take another triangular bandage and I 'm going to open it up and make just a little fold , this is going to go on her forehead and that little fold just helps with keeping it firm and stopping the bandage slip , now , just put it around the forehead like that , okay ? |
| 7 | Sort of looking out of your window and seeing just a blank concrete wall in front of you , day after day after day . |
| 8 | Even when compared with the 1983 landslide victory , the Conservative share of the vote increased in the South East ( including Greater London ) , East Anglia , West Midlands and East Midlands , and registered only a marginal decline in the South West ( albeit with a share of the vote still in excess of 50 per cent ) . |
| 9 | Ann Winterton , Tory MP for Congleton , called for a full legal review and a policy decision by the Home Secretary , Kenneth Clarke , to examine the options and bring forward a new law . |
| 10 | In his first independent act as king he established his authority on a sure foundation and revealed both a sound political judgement and a determination not to allow himself to be dependent upon a small group of powerful nobles . |
| 11 | That may be so , but the prince was ousted from power by the Lon Nol coup back in 1970 , and made only a brief comeback as a Khmer Rouge figurehead in 1976 . |
| 12 | They were used mainly to provide public works and made only a marginal impact upon the distressed : the Poplar workhouse was severely overcrowded in both winters . |
| 13 | The smoothing recipe described below generally gives satisfactory results and involves only a limited amount of computational effort . |
| 14 | The preferred model , which allows individuals to treat sources of income receipts other than benefits and earnings differently , gave very good results , and passed both a statistical test and a theory check for consistency . |
| 15 | Two or three numbers might be required as input to a calculation lasting several hours , impossible to accomplish except by computer and producing only a small volume of output . |
| 16 | That 's torn it , thought Lydia , swallowing the smile , extinguishing the sexuality which she knew she had caused to flicker about her like burning brandy round the Christmas pudding , and adopting instead a workmanlike , country-walking air . |
| 17 | ‘ What you can be sure of , ’ said Thorfinn , eluding the question , ‘ is that the Pope and the Emperor Henry both know , and that one is dying while the other enjoys indifferent health and has only a three-year-old son to succeed him . |
| 18 | But at that time the plaintiff had no actual existence ; was not a human being ; and was not a passenger — in fact , as Lord Coke says , the plaintiff was then pars viscerum matris , and we have not been referred to any authority or principle to show that a legal duty has ever been held to arise towards that which is not in esse in fact and has only a fictitious existence in law , so as to render a negligent act a breach of that duty . |
| 19 | The amazing naked cat — the Canadian Sphynx — lacks both guard and awn hairs and has only a soft fuzz of down hairs on its extremities . |
| 20 | Around the turn of the century , there was much disenchantment with freemasonry because it was negating its original secrets of the occult and becoming more a social club and friendly society . |
| 21 | Only when he trawled his memory of leaving the room earlier , and found there a distinct recollection of checking that he had locked the door behind him , did irritation turn to anxiety . |
| 22 | This new construction can be cultured and develops quite a nice tooth , but now the sheet of cells that would have become the skin of the foot is induced to make enamel . |
| 23 | Then she seated herself opposite him , and drew forward a small table , on which were two packs of cards . |
| 24 | He may have been in his forties and driving either a grey , silver or light metallic-coloured car . |
| 25 | My own approach is not biographical , and assumes neither a clear-cut persona nor a narrative sequence . |
| 26 | Perhaps through your letters page you will allow me this opportunity to urge all pencil manufacturers to consider making available their full range of leads ( coloured as well as graphite ) for holder use and saving annually a small forest of cedar wood and other trees used in producing the pleasing but expense and wasteful product . |
| 27 | Duncan and Lisburn 's Neil McGrann were side by side after 50 metres , but it was the Ards swimmer who produced that little bit extra and came home a comfortable winner in a time of 1.10.13 . |
| 28 | I knew he hoped to take the treasure , cut every honest throat on that island , find and board the Hispaniola at night , and sail away a rich man and a murderer . |
| 29 | It was nice to fill up with Perrier till your bladder was bursting , then go in the gents and let forth a good stream . |
| 30 | She was determined that it was n't he who had affected her appetite either , and went down to dinner that night and ate quite a substantial meal , only to return to her room and spend the next hour again having trouble ousting the wretched man . |