Example sentences of "and [verb] [prep] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Backed by the army , the administration was generally able to keep a semblance of order , to crush peasant insubordination , and to gather at least a proportion of the taxes decreed . |
| 2 | As Bob looked at it , the hand performed a sudden evolution like a conjuring-trick , turning over and producing from nowhere a pack of American cigarettes , with one of the cigarettes extended towards Bob . |
| 3 | He took this work seriously and developed into quite a muscular specimen . |
| 4 | VMS also offers the best clustering facilities and host functionality , and has at least a measure of openness with the addition of VMS Posix compliance . |
| 5 | The basic DataEase is for 640Kb PCs with no Extended memory and will run on 8088/8086 machines ; DE16MB.EXE can use up to 16Mb of Extended memory and needs at least a 286 with 1 Mb of RAM . |
| 6 | She just wanted to collapse on to the bed she had spotted in the corner and sleep for about a week . |
| 7 | After incubation and the exertions of tending their young , adults require the rest of the summer to regain condition and undergo at least a partial moult , then to fatten again for their journey back to the wintering grounds . |
| 8 | Prior to the 1960s , Soviet economic relations with Latin America were highly sporadic , unstable and confined to only a few countries , principally Argentina and Uruguay . |
| 9 | He hummed and hawed for quite a while about it , but in the end I asked him if you were getting any visitors , and if not , I said , must n't you be feeling pretty lonely , and that did it . |
| 10 | This was news to me , although I knew Graham Fearnley , who was Jack Mason 's agent and looked after quite a big stable of European golfers . |
| 11 | Yet I tried and tried for over a week thinking I ought to for his sake . |
| 12 | There are some blacks who are born and die without even a decent roof over their heads or a job . |
| 13 | ‘ I have read and thought and practised and observed and written for over a quarter of a century , survived a world war , and still I have not been able to provide a home in which my children may be happy . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Now do stop fussing around , ’ his wife said to him after he had been tossing and turning for about an hour . |
| 15 | If automobile technology had advanced as fast as computer technology over the same period then the current equivalent BL car , the Metro , would now cost 45 pence to buy , and run for over a year on a gallon of petrol . |
| 16 | PENSIONER Olive Smith was run over by a train — and escaped with just a small head cut . |
| 17 | Yeah but if it 's going to be shown to ultimately thousands of people and to last at least a couple of years , we should invest in it . |
| 18 | It is common ground that in a majority of cases where an order may be made under section 18 for the payment by the Board to the unassisted party of the costs of appellate , as opposed to first instance , proceedings , the Court of Appeal or this House will be in a position at the conclusion of an appeal on the information then before it to decide under section 18(3) what , if any , order for costs should be made against the assisted party and to form at least a provisional view under section 18(4) ( c ) as to whether it would be ‘ just and equitable in all the circumstances of the case that provision for the costs should be made out of public funds . ’ |
| 19 | He comes to a similar conclusion to that of the classical theorists of the nineteenth century : face-to-face contacts are many and multifarious , but they are again secondary , fractionalised and based on only a very partial knowledge of a particular individual . |
| 20 | In the United States , parties are usually shorter and last for about an hour and a half . |
| 21 | Buddie had taken out his little silver tin and was in the process of rolling one of those thin straggly cigarettes that flared when lit and vanished after only a few puffs . |
| 22 | Overhauling an industry that consumes $100 billion a year and accounts for about a seventh of the national economy merits delay . |
| 23 | I got taken outside , thrown in a car and squashed between two men and driven for quite a while . |
| 24 | ( On most types of training glider it will be possible to get down to the pre-stall buffet and continue with either a slight rocking of the wings or a very gentle inner wingdrop . ) |
| 25 | Vega-built B–17G N3509G had undergone an intensive maintenance and restoration programme at World Jet Inc in Florida and looked at least a million dollars , but the bidding slowed at $900,000 . |
| 26 | However , these are limited in number and apply to only a small proportion of all Forestry Commission lands ( Hall 1974 ) . |
| 27 | After resting and lazing for nearly an hour , after the children had slid down enough dunes , chased enough birds , fallen in the water enough times , we returned in much the same way as we started out , except this time Maha leapt into the boat and would not move . |
| 28 | In the Scottish universities , students normally enter at 17 rather than 18 , after taking five ‘ highers ’ subjects rather than three A levels , belong initially to a faculty rather than a department , and proceed to either a three-year ordinary or a four-year honours degree . |
| 29 | She too should find suitable work , and start with just a few hours , perhaps one or two days a week , before building up towards full-time work if she wishes . |
| 30 | Turner from St Michael 's Mission to the Blind , who had been attacked by dacoits a few days earlier and left for dead a few miles out of Shwebo . |