Example sentences of "and [adv] [adv] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes they would read our palms , finishing by giving them a little scratch that signified they were available — one scratch twenty douros , two scratches fifty douros and so on up the scale from an ‘ in and out ’ in the toilets or a ‘ short time ’ in a back room to a whole night in the brothel , with champagne and bath . |
| 2 | The syllabuses are labelled Class I , Class 2 and so on up the ladder . |
| 3 | The group of circles formed a genus , and the genera could similarly be arranged in circles , and so on up the scale to higher groupings . |
| 4 | And 6 per cent is better than 5 , 7 per cent better than 6 , and so on up the gradual , continuous series . |
| 5 | There was a time when five-star hotels were assumed to be better than four-star and so on down the line . |
| 6 | ‘ In those days the boys went into the church , the army , and so on down the family , and it fell to Charlie to go to the colonies . |
| 7 | Then take one step backwards again ( to the ‘ a ’ node ) and down the next route forwards ( to the ‘ c ’ node ) , and so on down the first route from each node , until the end of the graph is again reached ( i.e. the complete candidate string ljaclc ) . |
| 8 | Directors , whether of social services or in the voluntary field , are notoriously cautious in the light of committee opinion ; so are assistant directors and managers , and so on down the line . |
| 9 | This means , in a group of say ten hens , that the ‘ boss ’ hen is dominant to all the other nine hens , the second hen is subordinate to the boss hen but dominates the other eight , and so on down the hierarchy . |
| 10 | And so on down the years the litany of excitement and drama has continued . |
| 11 | We bypassed Shaibah of the famous and immortal song Shaibah Blues — which will be belted out by our sons and their sons I hope for evermore — and on to Bahrain where we landed and had a bit of a briefing by the CO of No 84 Squadron based at Shaihali , and so on down the Gulf to look for the City of Glasgow . |
| 12 | To take a classic example , the big toe relates to the head , and so on down the body . |
| 13 | If so , take a pair of tweezers and GENTLY easy out the offending bit of yarn . |
| 14 | He had gone up to Magdalen College , asked at the Porters ' Lodge , discovered the grounds were closed ; then just carried on walking over the bridge , around the Plain , and back again down the High . |
| 15 | And then later on the script she ha to say he had to say to her well , call her , you leave her and if she does n't come to you that 's not your dog and take her to the pound and have her put down . |
| 16 | By strolling up the Waterfall Road one can see first the old Lime Kiln and then higher up the Cranny Waterfalls . |
| 17 | We flew home , getting to our hotel at around 3 a.m. and then straight out the next day for the final event of the British season , the McVitie Challenge at Crystal Palace . |