Example sentences of "and [adv] [prep] [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some 80 km from the Ugandan border , Torit was strategically placed on the land route to Kenya and since 1989 had been a stronghold of the SPLA and latterly of Garang 's Torit faction . |
| 2 | Our shared experience in that campaign was in marked contrast to the role played by the right hon. Member for Islwyn ( Mr. Kinnock ) who , throughout that campaign , spoke vociferously and vigorously against Britain 's membership of the European Community . |
| 3 | The staccato vocals , and Morrison 's sudden interjections , utterly transformed the song , and the duo moved on to swap vocals to and fro in Lewis 's hit , What 'd I Say . |
| 4 | Their demands were to have a radical effect on British livestock on a national basis and a massive trade developed in which cattle were reared in the more remote northern and western regions , sent in droves to fatten on grass and turnips in the Midlands , Norfolk , Essex , Hertfordshire , Middlesex and Surrey , and thence to London 's slaughterhouses in due course . |
| 5 | I talked too much to the other girls over coffee , I went on and on about Eliot 's Chinese jar moving perpetually in its stillness , how ironic , and you could hear them wishing I 'd stop and somehow I could n't . |
| 6 | On 23 November 1917 , the Battalion entrained for Italy and , after a six day journey , arrived at Marseilles and from there along the French Riviera to Ventimiglia and on to Villa del Conte to become part of the XIXth Corps , taking over positions on the Piave , and then on the Asiago Plain . |
| 7 | ‘ Thompson at your service , ’ said the landlord coming to meet him with a welcoming smile which disappeared quickly as he saw Midnight — his glance sliding from the metal collar to the handcuffs and on to Jess 's flushed face . |
| 8 | The system has worked flexibly and effectively to Britain 's advantage . |
| 9 | The task now imposed on everyone , and especially those preparing to spend the weekend in Strasbourg , is to think big and flexibly about Europe 's future . |
| 10 | I feel a certain sympathy for their wallflower purity , none for their legislators ' regard for the morals of others , and most for Mapplethorpe 's prophylaxis . |
| 11 | He shot it straight out of his jumpsuit sleeve , through the skin and bones of his human hand and right at Rex 's throat . |
| 12 | And so with Simon 's . |
| 13 | Leaving the phone-booth , Quinn walked back into Blandford Street and down to Blackwood 's Hotel . |
| 14 | Gavin 's hand rubbed up and down on Janice 's lap . |
| 15 | Tommy 's over him , leaning forward with his palms against the wall , jumping up and down on Christopher 's chest , breaking every rib in his body . |
| 16 | When you have experienced past disappointments , hardship and disillusionment , you know you have been up and down on life 's waves . |
| 17 | ‘ He hath unpacked his carriage and made it run a mile or two up and down in River 's great room , making it carry the fire shovel , tongs and poker . |
| 18 | He arrived back at the appointed spot some ten minutes early , and spent an irritable half-hour tramping up and down before Lefevre 's return . |
| 19 | Her frustrated jumping , which sent her thick , straight , dark hair — Anna 's hair — flying up and down like dog 's ears , was no more than a maddened expression of how she felt when reminded of school , of a world where she was doomed to remain odd . |
| 20 | I would put more emphasis on the role of schools and teachers in dissuading girls from science , and less on girls ' internal states . |
| 21 | One 's impetus was such that , provided there was nothing in the way , one would be carried through Bridge Street , right over Patrick 's Bridge , and halfway into Patrick 's Street , Cork 's main thoroughfare , before having to put foot to pedal once more . |
| 22 | Paul distressed other bishops by offensive remarks about ‘ dead exegetes ’ , and especially about Origen 's notion that the pre-existent divine Word , a kind of second-level God , became incarnate by the Virgin Mary . |
| 23 | We ask that they may know of your daily provision of all kinds of needs , and especially for Rob 's studies , that he may be able to learn and think with Your mind at all times . |
| 24 | It is not for this , however , that she is remembered , but for her writing on domestic matters and especially for Beeton 's Book of Household Management ( 1859–61 ) which in its various editions made ‘ Mrs Beeton ’ a household name in a double sense . |
| 25 | Benjamin 's allusions in this passage are not just to the dominance of image and sensation and the devaluation of meaning in surrealism , not just to its characteristic patterning by eruptions of the primary process into consciousness , but also and especially to surrealism 's unconditional refusal to consider art as of a different order than life . |
| 26 | Benjamin 's allusions in this passage are , not just to the dominance of the figural and the devaluation of meaning in surrealism , not just to its characteristic patterning by eruptions of the primary process into consciousness , but also and especially to surrealism 's unconditional refusal to consider art as of a different order than life . |
| 27 | Its election campaign , focusing not so much on criticism of communist rule as on demands for a redefinition of Slovenia 's status within Yugoslavia , was attuned to the resentment felt by many Slovenes of the lack of political reform elsewhere in the country , of the hostility of the military leadership to Slovene reforms , and especially of Slovenia 's subsidizing the economies of the " backward " southern republics : with only 8 per cent of Yugoslavia 's population , Slovenia produced 20 per cent of its national product and 25 per cent of its exports , while paying nearly 4@1/2 times more in federal taxes to subsidize other republics than it received in federal finance programmes . |
| 28 | Epitomized in this struggle over Athman , and especially in Gide 's correspondence with his mother , is a hesitant yet certain knowledge of how sexual discrimination relates inextricably to other kinds of discrimination . |
| 29 | During the Renaissance , and especially in Shakespeare 's case before the First Folio , such textual authority did not exist . |
| 30 | By his day the sort of German pressure on Denmark experienced by Harald Bluetooth was a thing of the past , for Henry was fully occupied with campaigns in Italy and Lotharingia , and especially against Cnut 's uncle Boleslav of Poland , and may have troubled little about Swegen and Cnut , who were presumably happy to leave the Germans largely to their own devices while they were subjugating England . |