Example sentences of "and [adv] [verb] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | I decided to specialise in patio pot plants but nothing thrived , and I 've just discovered that woodlice have invaded the pots and even eaten away the linings of wall baskets . |
| 32 | For all its talk of fostering artistic freedom and widening participation in the arts , Jack Lang 's Ministry of Culture frowns upon middle-brow bourgeois culture and exclusively cultivates either the avant-garde or pop . |
| 33 | Many fishing vessels take catches well in excess of the TAC , and simply dump overboard the surplus dead fish . |
| 34 | On the other hand if the strategies of parental involvement are n't thoroughly and frequently reviewed then the scene is set for all sorts of problems to arise . |
| 35 | Jon Scargill 's five-year-old has been in good spirits this year , finishing fourth to Night Clubbing on his reappearance at Newbury and then chasing home the well handicapped Azhar at Doncaster . |
| 36 | As the splenic flexure is an anatomical region easily reached and identified by an experienced endoscopist , we found easy access to this region and then advanced either the endoscope or the guidewire into the transverse colon . |
| 37 | as if to prove that a Shetlander 's work is never done , the same storms that sank the Braer and then cleaned away the oil caused erosion of the coast along the edge of the unexcavated portion of Jarlshof , and emergency coastal defences had to be installed prior to the provision of a permanent seawall . |
| 38 | WHITE WINE WHITE GRAPES ARE FIRST CRUSHED AND THEN PRESSED ONLY THE JUICE IS FERMENTED IN THE VATS . |
| 39 | The new philosophers ‘ cut off and deny the noblest parts of nature and then sweep together the dust of agitated atoms and tell us that they have resolved all the phenomena in nature ’ . |
| 40 | well listen , I think I think he will have a day off today because he certainly was n't very well yesterday and then go again the day after . |
| 41 | The fingers of his other hand beat a sensuous tattoo on her rounded bottom , stopping to tap and then sweeping away the notes with a furious stroke . |
| 42 | Remove the shoot tip to leave a cutting about 9 inches ( 23cm ) long , and then trim away the lower leaves to leave only the top two . |
| 43 | From the very first page , where he both mistranscribes and then mistranslates further the opening of Terce in a Book of Hours , he matches marginal pictures with random words of text beside them , wildly associating words out of context with pictures near them in the margins , apparently grasping the flimsiest of puns and word associations . |
| 44 | She carefully digested the headlines and then read only the news that interested her . |
| 45 | And Preston 's heart , too , seized and violently squeezed , and then released so the blood pumped wildly . |
| 46 | When in the late 1960s wages and unemployment began to move together and then to accelerate rapidly the Phillips curve became somewhat discredited , despite various theoretical attempts made to rescue it . |
| 47 | His successors defeated the Seljuks in 1243 , overcoming the Ismaili Assassins at Alamut in 1256 , and then swept away the Abbasids two years later . |
| 48 | Baldwin would go to the Ministry of Labour and there meet both the unions and the owners . |
| 49 | The terror , rather than tepidity , of the priesthood , it had undoubtedly been in many an Italian city in the late eleventh and twelfth centuries ; and even more , perhaps , in the bloody riots in Cologne in 1074 which nearly subdued the pride of the prince archbishop of the city — or the riots in Laon in 1112 which erupted in the murder of the unpopular Bishop Waldric , and gravely shocked both the chivalrous King Louis of France , and his neighbour the English king , Henry I , whose chancellor Waldric had been . |
| 50 | In this case a bass line must be chosen which avoids the forming of an excess of conventional triads and yet gives just the right harmonic equilibrium : ( In the above example , so as to follow the ‘ step-by-step ’ method of our exposition , we have deliberately avoided any alteration to the tenor part , and confined our changes to the bass only . |
| 51 | If we are to make any further progress , then , we must now abandon the assumption that the practice of the social sciences must conform to our existing philosophical intuitions , and instead consider seriously the possibility that we might be able to develop a better theory of social explanation by way of examining the successful practice of the social sciences . |
| 52 | Carefully locate all the window holes and neatly cut away the icing over them , smoothing over the joins . |
| 53 | Ivanov was capable of using his considerable social skills to cultivate and subsequently exploit successfully the acquaintance of a susceptible person engaged in strategic work . |
| 54 | He raised the lid , gazed for an instant at the contents and quietly blew away the dust from the tops of the brightly coloured pots . |
| 55 | She sat with Nellie and Brigid Drennan , Tommy 's wife , at the corner table and never said much the whole night . |
| 56 | It is shareholders who , at least in theory , appoint the chairman and should ensure a balanced board and therefore have perhaps the primary role in enforcing the Cadbury code . |
| 57 | After matching the tension , the garments in the original and substitute yarns would have much the same number of stitches knitted throughout and therefore need much the same yarn length . |
| 58 | After matching the tension , the garment in the original and substitute yarns would have much the same number of stitches knitted throughout and therefore need much the same yarn length . |
| 59 | So from then on they learnt the discipline of budgeting and faithfully sent home the pound themselves . |
| 60 | Forming into a huge and solidly packed square the combined army began to move steadily back towards the gate . |