Example sentences of "and [adv] [prep] an [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'm showing Melanie the neighbourhood , ’ said Finn , clutching his sister 's shoulders and rocking her kneeling form to and fro in an embrace which made her laugh soundlessly until she looked like a young girl . |
| 2 | Scotland was still a divided and badly governed nation and David thought that progress to a well-ordered State could be achieved most quickly and effectively by an extension of Norman influence . |
| 3 | The immediate reason for not using Labov 's concept is that the vernacular must be an idealization — on a par with other idealizations such as dialect or speech community — and so as an idealization it must be inaccessible in practice ( recall that you do not observe the language : you observe people talking ) . |
| 4 | It 's certainly something of a treat to have three such delectable instruments to look at , and so in an attempt to be logical I 'll examine the T4-SB four string first , then the five and the six last . |
| 5 | At the age of eleven I became an errand boy for a working tailor , and every Saturday , and perhaps on an evening in the week , delivered the suits and costumes that he had made , though often the finished article was well behind the promised date , so the errand boy received critical comments rather than a small tip . |
| 6 | At that moment , and perhaps for an hour afterwards , I was on Cloud Nine — in a state of happiness , contentment , euphoria , joy and utter peace such as I have never experienced before or since : everything is all right , an inner voice said , and everything from now on will always be all right ; how wonderful to know that life can be like this . |
| 7 | Spence later caused £681 worth of damage when he jumped up and down on an Escort . |
| 8 | Lucille Castineau stared gravely at her reflection in the mirror which , because it was only a small broken sliver , was being held by her maid , Jeanette , who was forced to tilt the glass up and down in an effort to show her mistress the whole dress . |
| 9 | and erm someone was trying to explain simple harmonic motion They start piston going up and down inside an engine and you think well what what what 's a what 's a piston ? |
| 10 | I 'd been jumping up and down like an eejit for a couple of minutes before the bloke next to me tapped me politely on the shoulder to point out the linesman and his flag . |
| 11 | A single Troy ounce can be beaten into a sheet a hundred feet square and only of an inch thick . |
| 12 | She felt depressed , and only with an effort was she able to chat to Matt with any degree of cheerfulness . |
| 13 | It is due to a more far.reaching failure — the failure to conceive the full meaning and possibilities of national education as a whole , and that failure again is due to a misunderstanding of the educational values to be found in the different regions of mental activity , and especially to an underestimate of the importance of the English language and literature . |
| 14 | Occasionally , and especially in an area of scattered settlement , buildings which still survive can be identified in the tax returns . |
| 15 | Lords at one end , a working class hero at the other , and in between an encounter with the history which linked and divided their fortunes — that , surely , is a walk with a theme to remember . |
| 16 | And to lead the horse we need to go somewhere ; perhaps around the house , across the lawn , over the concrete path , under the clothesline with flapping socks , past the dogs , and in to an environment of strange things the horse has not seen before . |
| 17 | E.M.I . Records Ltd. v. Spillane [ 1986 ] 1 W.L.R. 967 and In re An Inquiry under the Company Securities ( Insider Dealing ) Act 1985 [ 1988 ] A.C. 660 , H.L. ( E. ) distinguished . |
| 18 | ‘ I have a lot to thank Nigel Mansell for and obviously as an Englishman I know what sort of pressures there will be on me . |
| 19 | While ( 9 ) does imply that he actually swam across the lake on several occasions , all that it in fact expresses is the past existence of the ability to swim , so that swimming is thought of as a potential event and not as an actualization . |
| 20 | Louis XVIII , another restored monarch , accepted a constitution in 1814 on condition that the constitution was reasonably ‘ balanced ’ and was seen as an act of grace by the crown and not as an imposition upon it . |
| 21 | Representing an action as predictable also implies seeing it as something potential , that is , as an action that has ( or had ) high chances of being performed , and not as an actuality . |
| 22 | I saw it as Men must see it and not as an eagle does . ’ |
| 23 | Structuralism is revolutionary because it can be adopted only as an alternative and not as an addition to traditional academic habits . |
| 24 | She would have preferred a romantic candlelit dinner for two , but even more , she wanted Josh to see David as one of life 's pluses and not as an interloper . |
| 25 | They talk about it as an expenditure and not as an investment . |
| 26 | All the above types of violation of a person 's autonomy involve what Kant described as treating the person as a means to someone else 's end , and not as an end in themselves . |
| 27 | But the point is that making profits for shareholders must now be seen as a mechanism for promoting the public interest , and not as an end in itself . |
| 28 | The following were some the most important features of these rules : 1 ) The contractual undertaking involved was to perform or to procure performance of combined transport by two or more modes of transport , such as by sea , inland waterway , air , rail , or road ; 2 ) The document of title function was retained by the CTD , but it was predicated upon presentation of the CTD only to the Combined Transport Operator or his representative ; 3 ) The issuer of the CTD for the entire multi-modal carriage had to assume liability for the whole carriage , including delayed delivery , and this assumption of liability was as a principal and not as an agent of the shipper ; and 4 ) Abstraction protected third parties relying in good faith on the text of the CTD , and this protection was couched in terms similar to those of the Hague-Visby rules . |
| 29 | It is most important that the pupil , especially if he has difficulty with spelling , should see you as a sympathetic helper who wants him to learn , and not as an examiner who only tells him he 's wrong . |
| 30 | Sale agreements commonly provide for the value of the pension rights to be calculated according to a formula set out in the agreement and for the detailed calculations to be agreed between the parties ' actuaries , or , if they do not agree , to be determined by another actuary acting as an expert and not as an arbitrator . |