Example sentences of "and [adv] [verb] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Information Technology Sub-Committee has sought to make a contribution , and successfully put forward a reasoned scheme for the amendment of pleadings by non-coloured laserprinter which was subsequently adopted for a trial period within the Commercial Division under . |
| 2 | Nina resumed cracking nuts , adopting exactly the same grip on the hammer her mother had demonstrated , and successfully opened quite a few . |
| 3 | On the following day Jack still seemed to be sleep-walking his way around the course and I was not surprised when he visited the water a couple of times and eventually handed in a score of two over par . |
| 4 | Put in pan and slowly melt over a low heat , but do not boil . |
| 5 | The station as a point of departure literally and metaphorically took on a particular intensity for the post-First World War generation of young British literati . |
| 6 | no , there 's more schools than that , cos er the lady said that er , she goes I 'm , cos there is when you he went what schools are these ? , and so reading out a couple of schools , about four of 'em |
| 7 | One argument given earlier was that the processor might treat a proper name as signalling the status of main character , and so bring about a relatively high proportion of singular continuations made to this character . |
| 8 | The insect may be 50 yards away , and so make only a tiny image on my retina . |
| 9 | THE second law of thermodynamics always arouses interest because it is the only widely applicable law of physics that is not symmetric under time reversal , and so singles out a particular direction of time . |
| 10 | Clearly such references are not merely longwinded substitutes for a name : they draw attention now to this , now to that aspect of the same person , and so build up a many-sided picture of each character . |
| 11 | They presumably become familiar with all the small local anomalies and so build up a much more detailed magnetic map of the area they live in . |
| 12 | This is a great development because it allows us to accurately get information about where fish are and so work out a basic picture of the river environment . |
| 13 | They accept all too easily the public/private distinction and so rule out a consideration of those " privately " made decisions in the economic sphere that have profound implications for the life chances of millions of people . |
| 14 | One way round this problem that has been suggested is to complement our village-centred studies of micro-process with studies of institutional or bureaucratic micro-process ; to do , for example , ethnographies of the planners as well as the planned , and so to build up a composite picture of the social realities of people in different social niches . |
| 15 | To get as close as possible to sea-dwelling fauna ( and perhaps pick up a crustacean for the lunchtable ) , take a short course in diving and snorkelling . |
| 16 | ‘ My mother was a very careful owner and only did about a thousand miles a year between the end of the war and 1962 . |
| 17 | I need to do a CV for tomorrow and basically have n't a clue about structure or content . |
| 18 | He took 2–38 in 10 overs , and eagerly snapped up a chance offered by Graham Gooch off Peter Martin . |
| 19 | If it can be made intelligible , then it is only in terms of certain structural concepts which are all interdependent and mutually complementary , and together make up a logically self-subsistent whole . |
| 20 | I took sips of my wine and carried on with the supper , and at one point I went across to the bookcase and idly picked up a petal that was lying there . |
| 21 | Place in a bowl with the milk and gently heat over a pan of simmering water , stirring occasionally until melted and almost smooth . |
| 22 | To take a swab , net the affected fish into a bowl , take a plastic coverglass and gently scrape off a small amount of mucus . |
| 23 | ( vi ) Make preparations by dropping suspension from a Pasteur pipette on clean pre-cooled slides and gently dry over a low gas flame . |
| 24 | Can a company that is the holding company of a small group avail itself of the exemption under ss 248 and 249 of the CA 1985 , and apply s 8(a) of the standard and not prepare either a cash flow statement or a consolidated cash flow statement , whether it prepares group accounts or not ? |
| 25 | In Chalatenango , for example , the FMLN forces maintain that by preference , sexual relations should not occur outside of a matrimony ( understood in a broad sense and not implying either a civil or religious ceremony ) . |
| 26 | That evening , Mike Atherton made a curious but nonetheless accurate observation when he said that it was nice to get in early when the ball 's new and not moving around a lot . |
| 27 | For Allison was simply recording Wright 's 26th goal of the season , and not writing out a booking that would have put the £2.5 million England star over 21 disciplinary points and a Wembley semi-final ban . |
| 28 | In the larder , Kathleen Lavender stared Vaguely at various vegetables , at tins of soup , at flour bins and chutney jars , worrying about lunch and not understanding how a solicitor could be mistaken . |
| 29 | There are garden centres — and for the most part , they will be attached to nurseries where the plants are propagated and grown , not just bought in wholesale — where ‘ container grown ’ really does mean grown in a container , and not potted up a few days beforehand . |
| 30 | He wants to win with goals to spare — and not give away a goal . |