Example sentences of "and [prep] [noun sg] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 And we used to catch them alive , take them out , put them in a bag together again , and off home again do you see .
2 It seems that ‘ munchkins ’ are going to push and pull the dresser on and off stage throughout .
3 Creatures that have neither clocks nor books are alive to all manner of knowledge about time and the weather ; and about direction too , as we know from their extraordinary migratory and homing journeys .
4 Tolkien after all put forward his theses about courage and about laughter fairly clearly .
5 It means helping counsellees to look closely at their attitudes and beliefs , about themselves , about other people , and about life generally as an ageing person , in order to determine the effect these have on their lives , and upon the people close to them .
6 It is nevertheless of interest to see from their reaction to the various issues raised in the questionnaire , just what it is about the scheme ( and about SSE generally ) , which they feel is threatening .
7 In order to reap the benefits that aerobic exercise can provide , you have to exercise regularly , and for art least half an hour each time .
8 I THINK his charisma and style of play have been fantastic for our tour and for golf in .
9 He became tremendously emotional and … compelling in his language … about the need to save Latin America , to save freedom , that these people were sacrificing for America and for freedom all over the world . ’
10 We hope that this booklet will be of interest to you both during your tour of the School and for perusal later at home .
11 The appropriate symbol for housework ( and for housework alone ) is not the interminable conveyor belt but a compulsive circle like a pet mouse in its cage spinning round on its exercise wheel , unable to get off …
12 The carrier is liable for the total of partial loss of the goods and for damage thereto from the time of taking over the goods and the time of delivery .
13 Differences for cardiovascular death were significant ( p<0.10 ) and for morbidity highly significant ( p<0.001 ) .
14 Colin diverges slightly from the McKenna party line that psychedelics should be taken on your own with the help of someone like a psychotherapist , and for illumination rather than recreation .
15 they worked out , and for example how you would organise a trip to er , Flamingo Land or something like that and and
16 For the last two years Hodder has run publicity for fiction and paperbacks and for non-fiction out of two units and under two managers , Beth MacDougall and Sally Randall .
17 But occasionally , and for reason not quite understood , the upwelling suddenly stops .
18 There are numerous offices to let and for sale already within Darlington do we really need another one ?
19 The study will have immediate relevance both in strengthening the capacity of the agencies dealing with the crisis and through transferability elsewhere .
20 The correlation coefficients for these plots were 0.94 ( 0.85–0.96 ) and 0.94 ( 0.88–0.99 ) before and after treatment respectively .
21 The ties of dependence that originated during the period of slavery became even more extensive in the period of the formal colonization of Africa , and after dependence too , creating economies substantially dependent on a limited range of cash crops and raw materials required by the metropolitan economies which retained control over major sectors of production , pricing and the flow of profits ( Brett , 1973 ; Leys , 1975 ; Howard , 1978 ; Rodney , 1972 ; Davidson , 1974 ) .
22 And after dinner sometimes he will sit down in that chair and go to sleep !
23 God 's Gift Mine , it was recognised , lay conveniently near to the Brigham smelters enabling ore deliveries to be maintained throughout the winter months whereas the other ores " further distant , can not be brought to the said smelting house , but in the sumer only … you may therefore consider how farr forth those Mynes soe farr distant may bee sett upon with good strength in sumer and what number of kibbles will weekly be gotten and towards winter when that will faile , to drive those pickmen from there to work in Gods gift , if the winter shall not hinder untill we may be furnished either out of Germainie or our own Nation with a sufficient number of pickmen to man all the works thoroughly & withall to consider whether the Myne of Gods Gift be not so plentifull as some other new Stolnes ( G. Stollen — tunnel , adit etc. ) or head ( possibly a forerunner of our word " heading " ) may be driven thereby to gitt the like weekly pportion ( proportion ) as hath formerly been gotten there . "
24 We scored ‘ strongly agree ’ as 5 for statements which expressed positive attitudes towards the Solihull booklet and towards SSE generally and as 1 for statements which expressed negative attitudes .
25 The mean attitude scale scores were used to present the attitudes of the Solihull secondary school teachers overall and the factor scores were used in a series of analyses of variance ( ANOVA ) to test the significance of differences between the attitudes of the various subgroups , towards the Solihull scheme and towards SSE generally .
26 We scored ‘ strongly agree ’ as 5 for statements which expressed positive attitudes towards the Oxfordshire scheme and towards SSE generally and as 1 for statements which expressed negative attitudes .
27 The same thing happens when , later in the essay , Eliot defines the limitation of Pound 's kind of criticism ( for ‘ any kind of criticism has its limitations ’ ) : ‘ The limitation of Pound 's kind is in its concentration upon the craft of letters , and of poetry especially ’ .
28 Trotsky attached great importance , at least in his criticisms of Stalin , to political control by the elected representatives of the mass membership of the party and of society generally over the party and state bureaucracies .
29 THE LORD JUSTICE GENERAL : My Lords , I apprehend that the question is one of construction and of construction only .
30 On the contrary , since the enterprise is an organization with a complex internal structure and of necessity relatively autonomous from political control , it is capable of developing its own internal interests and agenda ( cf. Levy 1987 ) .
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