Example sentences of "and [adv] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nik Cohn , the writer , described him as , ‘ an amiable fatman from Catford , a bit of a slag and conspicuously so but shrewd , funny and hard to dislike . ’ |
| 2 | The bottle was in his right hand and he swung it to and fro once or twice , apparently judging its weight . |
| 3 | We have n't been trying hard to persuade the Garrimperos to adopt different technologies , more modern technologies that would avoid the contamination of the mercury , but as I said I believe the only way of reaching this goal is if we can organize the Garrimperos to have er a kind of er institutionalized way of exploiting gold , not the sort of gold rush i that is being on and on On and off in Brazil for two centuries right now . |
| 4 | So it 's , it was n't a new thing when they brought but nevertheless erm that went on and on and on then and er cos the staff really went down , the requirements for staff went down and erm I , I think erm , they got it down when I left there to round about a hundred and forty six staff was , was all that was required . |
| 5 | Also , in Deanos support , He does work hard and effectively even when he s not scoring . |
| 6 | and and presumably even if they 're not floppy as a result of their illness they 'll they 'll sort of go floppy after er a period of institutionalisation yeah mhm yeah yeah mhm so er . |
| 7 | However , it is obviously important that the targets are relevant ( e.g. based upon international comparisons ) , that reasonable detail on the outcomes is available , and most importantly that clearly defined action is taken to improve poor performance . |
| 8 | There are many references to our caves but the writers do not seem to have gone beyond the entrances and we are left wondering what they are like inside and most importantly whether they were ever lived in , and if so , by whom . |
| 9 | The anarchic and the political , the anger and the boredom , are all active in Wilde 's transgressive aesthetic , and most especially when the survival strategies of subordination — subterfuge , lying , evasion — are aesthetically transvalued into weapons of attack , but ever working obliquely through irony , ambiguity , mimicry , and impersonation . |
| 10 | It was simply that most people , while wanting the ends , preferred to walk away from the means : especially when they were distasteful , and most especially when they failed . |
| 11 | But they were also attracted , initially by London 's highly developed foreign exchange market , later by its development of ‘ parallel ’ markets and most recently because of its importance in the markets for Eurobonds and currencies . |
| 12 | When comedy work has been thin on the ground , Allen has carved out a healthy career as a straight actor , popping up in the unlikeliest of places : as a minion of fictitious Prime Minister Harry Perkins in A Very British Coup , as an impeccably sleazy reporter in Scandal and most recently as permarandy Rex , the dyspeptic boss of Lyne Electronics in the BBC 's Making Out . |
| 13 | Yet discussion during the evening was about the company and little else and samples of fabric were passed round the table at most meal times . |
| 14 | ‘ I 'd rather keep Horan and Little together but if Lloyd is a raging success against Neath , it might change our thinking . ’ |
| 15 | He moved more heavily and slowly so that often they had to pause to allow him to keep up , and they rested for his sake more often than they would otherwise have done . |
| 16 | The ultimate strength of capitalist global hegemony is that it continually works , and works very hard , to persuade people that the system is natural , fair and fundamentally better than any realistic alternative . |
| 17 | it 's a two hour video with a it takes you through landing at Liverpool and somewhere else and studying . |
| 18 | Sir , If you please to send me a scarlet Cardinal [ a short red cloak ] , and let it be full yard long , and rather longer than a yard long , and let it be full , for it be for a large Woman , they tell me I may have a long one , and a handsome one , for 11s but I shou 'd not be willing to give more than 12s , but if you have any as long as that , either duffil or cloth , if it is cheaper , I shou 'd like it as well as , for I am not to give but 12s for it . |
| 19 | There were clusters of robes that seemed to pulsate and breathe , and there were others that slithered sinuously and rather nastily when she approached . |
| 20 | Was n't he totally different from the boys who had fumblingly and rather horridly and wetly , she thought , kissed her and said they quite fancied her ? |
| 21 | Erm in the nineteen fifties and right up until I became a full time official , erm there was generated an opinion that if companies were financially well off , due to the effort of the employees , then there was some formal entitlement for employees in these particular undertakings , to put forward a separate claim at domestic level , to , to enhance their pay . |
| 22 | What would these people think , I wondered , if they knew he 'd been living like an Apache most of his life and right up until a little while ago ? |
| 23 | And right up until that time Fred Hann , managing director of FWH , was urging English Estates to let him buy the freehold of his Nelson Street warehouse . |
| 24 | It was thrown there on neutral territory between the two ranks and the person who was successful in breaking through and taking up the crown and running right down … round , circling their opponents , and right round and coming back without being caught , that person was successful . |
| 25 | If you decide to design your own lace pattern , do remember that you must transfer to both left and right rather than in just one direction or you may finish up with a definite bias in your knitting . |
| 26 | These were not less than two acres in size , and rarely more than twenty acres . |
| 27 | Such systems usually comprise rows of back-to-back adjustable pallet racking up to 12 metres high and separated by gangways as little as 1.2 metres wide — and rarely more than 1.9 metres wide . |
| 28 | ( a ) Only a single parameter of record type need be passed in most sub- programs , and rarely more than four . |
| 29 | The ways in which internal charges are weighted can encourage users to feel that storing everything is cheaper and altogether easier than managing it more actively . |
| 30 | The Crown accepted that the income of the settlement arose or accrued to the three trustees jointly and not jointly and severally so that none of them was entitled , in law , separately to any particular share or fraction of the income . |