Example sentences of "and [adv] [verb] [pers pn] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The relief sought by the applicant was , inter alia , ( 1 ) an order of certiorari to quash the section 2(2) notice dated 24 June 1991 issued by the Director ; and ( 2 ) an order prohibiting her from requiring or further requiring him to attend and comply with the requirements of a notice issued pursuant to section 2 of the Act of 1987 without ( a ) affording him a reasonable opportunity for his application for legal aid to be processed and thereby affording him the opportunity to be legally advised on such requirements and to be legally represented at such time as he was required to comply with them and ( b ) causing him to be cautioned in accordance with Code C , paragraph 16.5 before being required to comply with those requirements . |
| 2 | ‘ I think it 's time we left , ’ she muttered , standing up and thereby giving him no opportunity to deliver another of his pointed snubs . |
| 3 | The Abbey National was the first society to allow borrowers to see valuations and duly sent her a copy . |
| 4 | Going around listening to the fat and the rich of the land confessing their secret sins , and secretly mocking us every time we reach a stone wall and can go no further ? |
| 5 | Saint Simon describes how Louis XIV 's adored granddaughter-in-law , the Duchesse de Bourgogne , was standing in conversation with the King , while a maid lifted her skirt from behind and discreetly gave her an enema . |
| 6 | ‘ I guessed , ’ he replied , and suddenly gave her a lop-sided grin — and all at once Leith discovered she was feeling most unexpectedly lighthearted . |
| 7 | But friends assured me there was more to this grand range of mountains than my experience had suggested , and so to give it a chance I went back to climb Cairn Gorm properly , giving the bridies as wide a body swerve as possible . |
| 8 | Whitaker , a committed and active Guild member , recognised in Coburn a considerable talent and so offered him the not insubstantial opportunity to shape a BBC drama series from grass roots , by writing its pilot . |
| 9 | His family knew nothing of education and so gave him no support or encouragement , still less active aid . |
| 10 | We have already emphasized the value of coins as evidence ; among other things they sometimes reveal the number of minters at work in a city , and so give us a hazy but valuable indication of the relative size of the towns of a kingdom . |
| 11 | This project aims to analyse the business and social composition of London at that crucial stage of its development , and so to make it a substantial contribution towards our understanding of the emergence of the modern British state and its economy . |
| 12 | Incomes policies aim to persuade workers to accept lower money wage increases ; deflation aims to weaken their bargaining position , and so offer them no choice . |
| 13 | On such whimsical criteria , and perhaps thinking them a good omen , did we decide our preference . |
| 14 | To come back on something that Mr said and perhaps take it a stage further . |
| 15 | Now why do n't you introduce her to the office routine — and perhaps show her the chalets ? ’ |
| 16 | It is hoped to have another polo match here next year and perhaps make it an annual event . |
| 17 | ‘ You 've ruined my Gnome costume and perhaps lost me a lovely bicycle . ’ |
| 18 | Thus , to make the whole hard disk open for others to read , the owner would publish the root directory ( C : \ ) and perhaps give it a name ( eg. |
| 19 | Does the horse come to the stable door to investigate you , and perhaps give you a friendly nuzzle ? |
| 20 | Spotting a hatch in the far wall , she walked across and gingerly opened it a crack . |
| 21 | Give me the leave to make the best of my fortune and only pardon me the abuse of your house . |
| 22 | It may be full of microbes and rotting vegetation , but these are natural and organic and only give it an attractive flavour . |
| 23 | Her own sleep the light , fragmented pre-waking kind by this time , Maria realised what was happening at once and merely gave him a sleepily complacent smile , pleased to see the disturbance in his eyes as he regarded her suspiciously . |
| 24 | but it 's not though , it 's not , it 's her fault for being so bloody stupid and not telling us A , what we 're supposed to be doing and B , the fact that I was not having any lunch to go half an hour , what do you mean ? |
| 25 | I … that is I , my wife and my children … we , I , do not like to invite a friend to a party and not give him the best . |
| 26 | ‘ For de Raimes , for believing that bitch at Gloucester even for a minute , for losing my damnable temper and not giving you a chance to tell me the truth . ’ |
| 27 | This was made explicit by Louis Agassiz , a Swiss who had in 1840 recognized marks of glaciation all over northern Europe and thus given us the idea of ice ages . |
| 28 | No servant should be at liberty to carry it off to a rival in trade and thus save him the expense and expertise of doing it himself " . |
| 29 | She was furious with Isobel for preferring God to any man , and thus denying her the status of grandparenthood , and furious with her husband for dying before her . |
| 30 | And just to give it a centre . |