Example sentences of "and [adv] [adj] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moving southwards along the Worlds Edge Mountain chain he conquered tribe after tribe , and eventually all the Night Goblins of Red Eye Mountain joined the Waaagh . |
| 2 | The vociferation grew louder and louder all the time while I was serving myself at the counter . |
| 3 | I remember in my teens being determined to do something which was not very nice , turning to her for permission and her saying " Well , I would n't do that — but I think you are old enough to decide for yourself , " and suddenly all the joy in the plan faded away and I did n't do it . |
| 4 | Then a big rock began to move as well , and suddenly half the hillside was moving . |
| 5 | That English tradition of the amateur is of course a long one , and by no means ignoble , reaching back as it does through John Morley to Walter Bagehot , to Burke , to Addison , and so all the way to Philip Sidney and the Renaissance all-round man . |
| 6 | By the close of that decade even writers like Thackeray , who are content to believe that all is well in the other nation , are none the less keenly aware of the divide — though he sees no reason to cross it — between a gentleman and his servants , ‘ who live with us all our days and are strangers to us : so strong custom is , and so pitiless the distinction between class and class ’ . |
| 7 | Using lean production , the authors found the Japanese required just over half the engineering time , half the number of people , and only two-thirds the lead time as their European rivals to produce similar cars . |
| 8 | Rioja 's fortunes were high in the late Seventies and early Eighties , when flavoursome , oaky , mature wines were three times as old as anything from France and only half the price . |
| 9 | And only half the weight . |
| 10 | It was cut on the run with a small budget and only half the band : Ray arrived about halfway through and Roy joined later . |
| 11 | The efficiency of government could only be increased at the expense of its popularity ; the more corrupt and less efficient the government , the more acceptable it was to creole merchants and landowners . |
| 12 | The match was a little disappointing , mainly due to West Ham using 3 central defenders ( plus the two full backs ) , and basically all the midfield players dropping back . |
| 13 | Hamburger joints and up-market American-style restaurants have been spreading all over Britain in the last few years , and their food has been getting more authentic and better all the time — at least in terms of taste . |
| 14 | There 's one that 's very hot one side and extremely cold the other . |
| 15 | Ruth stood outside an open-fronted gift shop in a narrow cobbled street and gently unwrapped the clay whistle — a siurell , the shopkeeper had told her , an old peasant toy . |
| 16 | She poured the antiseptic liquid into a bowl , and gently unwrapped the towel while Rafaelo kept pressure on the vein to stop the bleeding . |
| 17 | Thirdly , those of us who are overweight tend to have higher levels of fats in the blood , and fibre-rich foods , when combined with weight loss , can help this enormously and thus lower the risk of heart disease . |
| 18 | And when it does that , you can put a needle in there and just all the stuff comes out all the |
| 19 | This was followed by a sliding of more material from the shoulder , and soon all the stuff was cascading off her . |
| 20 | And Peter and Sandy and they went back and forth all the Winter with that boat . |
| 21 | We travel back and forth all the time between Canada and England , and my husband has been in nearly every country of the world on business . |
| 22 | We must fill our minds with the utmost of irrelevant information so that things we look at will remind us of other things and the more distant and more ridiculous the analogy , the higher the chance of the idea being really valuable . |
| 23 | Graham said : ‘ It is a fascinating pastime which we enjoy at night and on weekends and the brighter and more colourful the topic , the better . ’ |
| 24 | But the larger and more complex the system , the further one can get by studying its workings . |
| 25 | It is rather like something that I used to do as a young groundsman coming up through the ranks , when I applied for vacant jobs all over the place , the bigger and more prestigious the place the better , and more often than not without the slightest intention of taking the job if it had been offered ! |
| 26 | The wilder and more extensive the view , the better she liked it . |
| 27 | As a general rule , the older and more stable the community , the more difficult it is to penetrate . |
| 28 | The wider and more drastic the clause , the more care must be taken to bring it to the buyer 's attention . |
| 29 | ‘ Here the contract of salvage was entered into in the Paracels and all the work of refloating and putting the vessel into a condition to be towed to Hong Kong and nearly all the tow , except for the last three miles , were completed beyond the territorial limits of Hong Kong and consequently I take the view that the profits must be said to arise outside of Hong Kong rather than inside . |
| 30 | And nearly all the time you 'll get it right . |