Example sentences of "and [adv] [conj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All presidents must move carefully and skilfully if they are to be effective leaders . |
| 2 | He drove grimly and skilfully and he drove very fast as if he could not wait to get her on the plane to England and out of his sight . |
| 3 | The offences were committed over six years at the society 's museum at Comrie , initially when the accused was a trustee of the society and latterly when he was curator . |
| 4 | No , it 's confidential and properly cos she 'll want some of it back . |
| 5 | This , in effect , ensures that all ferrets are ready and willing to work fully and properly and there will be no unnecessary delays or complications that could have been prevented . |
| 6 | You are far more likely to use a method regularly and properly if you feel it is the right one for you . |
| 7 | His lips clamped together and he raised one corner of his thin mouth in a spiteful leer , his large bald head nodding deliberately to and fro while he waited for the younger man 's response . |
| 8 | Betty , suspect , generates a larger than average amount of her own static electricity aggravated by pushing the carriage to and fro and she has begun to discharge herself through the machine . |
| 9 | Their heads were the size of flies and moved to and fro as they presumably spoke to one another . |
| 10 | Gaining the tar-sweated hill with my mother 's lean legs pumping swiftly , the willowy sight of streaky high dunes on the horizon awaited us , waving to and fro as they did , sheltering an occasional beige box of a house , a modern cube . |
| 11 | The Fourth Fairy is a songbird bringing the gift of Language and flutters to and fro as she sings . |
| 12 | A spinner with a great ( or walking ) wheel could perhaps work here , space being required for the spinner to walk to and fro as she worked , though the height of the canopy would be a determining factor . |
| 13 | She gently rocked the chair to and fro as she started to work on the head of a unicorn in white embroidery cotton . |
| 14 | He glanced to and fro as he walked back across the road , but no-one was there . |
| 15 | Very soon he stopped , juggled the engines to and fro until he reckoned the bows were a hundred yards distant from the buoy , had the anchor dropped , then moved just as slowly astern , the anchor chain being paid out as he went . |
| 16 | ‘ Let me tell you , ’ she yelled , ‘ Boyd and I are somebodies in this town , and mostly because I was smart enough to set to and cultivate the right people . ’ |
| 17 | Israel 's neighbours attacked her and eventually after lots of fighting Israel gained control of the West Bank . |
| 18 | He 'd just give me a look , the way the French do and eventually when I was thoroughly humiliated , he would repeat it properly . |
| 19 | And , the more you put in a spreadsheet , the more and more of the conventional memory you are using up , and eventually when you fill up your conventional memory , you get a memory fault . |
| 20 | I often wonder whether these pilots would react safely and effectively if they suddenly got their aircraft into a stalling situation . |
| 21 | But he had been there at the right time , he had acted swiftly and effectively and she was alive . |
| 22 | so , so you are , you are encouraging that and presumably if anybody sets anything up they 're going to be able to keep it . |
| 23 | But , but in writing historical erm , analysis and , and biography , presumably people , I mean , people ca n't help er writing , writing history , and trying to answer questions , like , why did Woodrow Wilson erm , not the fourteen points through , and presumably , one possible explanation is the kind of Freud Bullett approach , and presumably if you can find erm , relevant data and if you convince , and if you can convince that that 's plausible , it 's a legitimate thing to attempt to do . |
| 24 | And presumably if you wanted to revise a book at all , and you had the book on your floppy disk or in your computer in some for , you could again use your word processor to bring it up to date in a revised version . |
| 25 | And presumably if you wanted to revise a book at all and you had the book on your floppy disk or in your computer in some form , you could again use your word processor to bring it up to date in a revised version ? |
| 26 | The night before , and through the morning into the afternoon , the Wolverines had rampaged from level to level , always moving as quickly and confusingly as they could . |
| 27 | There is an inherent danger in all this for our clothing industry which is that , unless manufacturers wake up , there will continue to be far more opportunity for European merchandise to come here , and little for ours to get elsewhere . |
| 28 | Naughty girl , always makes fun she was absolutely a very intelligent woman but she spoke soft and slowly so everybody just sort of , who knew her superficially , she was not a very intelligent woman , she really was I can assure you . |
| 29 | I know they do Jed but but I mean what I 'm saying if priority states other forces have probably been waiting and rather than us sort of trying |
| 30 | I 'm a boody man , ’ he made playful sallies to left and right while everybody pretended to back away , shouting and laughing . |