Example sentences of "and [adv] [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Robert Norster , national team manager and most definitely a product of the new enlightenment , ventures to hope that at last it is changing . |
| 2 | Mr Chairman erm I would like personally take up a suggestion that was in The Star about the possibility of a regional company being based at the playhouse in other words for a few months I would see it as people getting to know this company and rather like a repertory theatre of old then people would want to come and see these people in different roles and I think that would add to the you know repetitive . |
| 3 | So I took the name and address and so eventually a summons came through for this old lady . |
| 4 | Such rocks are rare in the forest , and so sometimes a queue forms to use one . |
| 5 | In addition , our use of our mother tongue is often so automatic and habitual , and so much a part of our individual and social identity , that help is needed to stand back and reflect on aspects of language with some degree of objectivity . |
| 6 | He uses crack and cocaine and amphetamines , then more crack and more cocaine and perhaps even a speedball to round things off . |
| 7 | uncomfortable a bit uncertain and perhaps even a bit threatened . |
| 8 | Jenkins ' quotation of Hugh Dalton 's account of the Sunday morning gathering will induce a sense of déjà vu : ‘ Dalton recorded that ( Douglas ) Jay took the lead , and advocated dropping further nationalisation , loosening the link with the trade unions , changing the name from ‘ Labour ’ ( as too class-conscious ) , and making an alliance , and perhaps even a merger , with the Liberal Party . |
| 9 | This brochure is full of sociable holidays for the hyperactive ; Houseparties are sociable holidays too , but more for people who prefer unusual places , good company , a hefty novel , good food and perhaps just a dabble at watersports . |
| 10 | What is wanted is not only the name but a statement of the legal points involved in the decision , and perhaps also a consideration of its standing — i.e. whether it has been approved or criticised . |
| 11 | If we are reduced to a handful of Scottish Back Benchers and perhaps only a couple of Opposition Scottish Back Benchers on the Standing Committee , that will be deeply resented . |
| 12 | You see , four of us going up and down twice a day , morning and evening , makes sixteen times altogether , and Mr Evans thinks that 's quite enough traipsing . |
| 13 | Around half of those who replied ( 56% ) had never before visited the Library 's exhibitions , and only about a quarter ( 23% ) had previously visited exhibitions more frequently than once a year . |
| 14 | ‘ The bull is a valuable asset , ’ he said smoothly , ‘ and only occasionally a liability . |
| 15 | I 'm amazed that this country appears so stable as inflation , they say , has gone up 250% ( ! ) in the last 3 years and wages have only kept pace with about half of that , and only yesterday a newspaper posted on the canteen wall announced a massive corruption deal whereby the country 's leaders made 81 billion cruzeiros out of currency exchange . |
| 16 | There is a need to help those who are lonely to feel sufficiently secure in themselves , and sufficiently still a part of life that they want to keep up the struggle to go on coping ( see case study 4:1 ) . |
| 17 | They set it up deliberately so that we force ourselves to do more than any three men could do , and naturally quite a lot of the time we ca n't manage it . ’ |
| 18 | Quickly Robert inserted the needle into the thigh muscle , and in about a minute , the small body went limp . |
| 19 | The female dog flea ( 1 ) lays her eggs on the floor ( 2 ) or in bedding and in about a week they hatch into larvae ( 3 ) which spin cocoons , inside which the pupae ( 4 ) develop into adults within two or three weeks . |
| 20 | All of whom have taken away bumf and seem interested , and in about a week I 'm going to follow it up by writing to them . |
| 21 | There had been Lewis , the guy who was down on cutlery and condiments , and much earlier a bloke called Evans , who maintained that Old Mother Walsh was really a man in drag and that it behoved members of the Church ‘ to wear the clothes of the other kind ’ . |
| 22 | The home-made aspect makes the relinquishing of the dead much easier and much more a part of life . |
| 23 | They discussed the rudiments of the Charleston , that still over-sophisticated exercise in dancing , a world apart from the slow foxtrot and not yet a familiar of Irish Hunt Balls . |
| 24 | After a brief goodnight and not even a peck on the cheek he looked down , then said , ‘ I 'll be in touch some time , Sarella . ’ |
| 25 | When he 'd arrived home there had been nothing to eat and not even a bed of his own . |
| 26 | But give him his due , he does not give up for a scratch or two , and not even a dagger could hold him off for ever . ’ |
| 27 | The Flag Cichlid is Mesonauta insignis , but the American Flag fish is quite different , and not even a Cichlid . |
| 28 | If someone was looking for The Bar in those days — because there was no name written up or sign for it , no lights at all , and not even a number on the door , Madame liked to keep it that way even when she did n't have to any more — I mean when she opened up we may all have been in a sort of hiding , and not many people knew about The Bar and our life there , but it was n't that way later , and now you know we can have lights and advertising and you see boys queueing up outside every night , very public , and I like to see that — but in those days , in those days if somebody arranged to meet you for a date there , and it was their first time and they were n't sure how to find us , you 'd joke with them , and you 'd say well first there is a wedding , and then there 's a death , and there 's the news , and then there 's us ; meaning , first there 's the shop with the flowers , the real ones , and next door to that is the undertaker 's with the fake flowers in the window , china , all dusty ; and then the newsagent 's and magazine shop , and then right next door to that is The Bar . |
| 29 | ‘ It was a feeling of being suspended — it was not a negative feeling and not even a loss to be mourned , but I just could not see a way ahead . |
| 30 | The shoemaker 's daughter was pretty enough but poorly dressed with a Welsh shawl over her shoulders and not even a hat to cover her hair . |