Example sentences of "and [adv prt] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Hopefully today we 'll get an answer because the first eleven samples it said that the conductivity up and down up and down |
| 4 | Up and down up and down all night . |
| 5 | I spent the brief stop at the small town of Kenora hanging out of the open doorway past George 's office , watching him , on the station side of the train , walk a good way up and down outside while he checked that all looked well . |
| 6 | Most insurance companies are in the risk of their prime business and they are in the risk of investment — which can go up and down dramatically as you well know . |
| 7 | Check that the bear 's arms and legs move up and down freely when pulling the cord . |
| 8 | I noticed that the plastic Seayak bobbed up , over and down rather than cutting through the swell . |
| 9 | Gambo began to jump up and down excitedly as he watched the projectile arc towards the massing foe . |
| 10 | He got up and down again and this was a real tough hole , 475 yards but still a par-4 . |
| 11 | I 'm having a good time walking up and down here and being astonished that anyone could be so ignorant . |
| 12 | She held him firmly , pumping his penis up and down slowly and rhythmically , twisting it slightly as she did so . |
| 13 | Jack did not realise that vertical lines are always straight up and down even when you are standing on a hillside . |
| 14 | For reasons best known to the fuel companies , the Gulf crisis never turned into an oil crisis , although petrol prices generally leap up and down quicker than a Tory backbencher during a Neil Kinnock speech if a dealer on the Amsterdam spot market so much as sneezes over his computer screen . |
| 15 | Wilcox led her up a twisted and worn steel staircase to a prefabricated office perched on stilts in the middle of the building , and introduced her to the general manager , Tom Rigby , who looked her up and down once and then ignored her . |
| 16 | He looked Amiss up and down appraisingly and said : ‘ Nice to see you again , Robert , but I 'm glad the Super tipped me off you were here . |
| 17 | I was a witness and so on you see and down below and the sergeant said to me , the sergeant came up and said to me , you 'll have to be careful because he said that boy , he was sitting there with his mother , poor woman , all in black and er the em the boy 's employer had got a solicitor on his behalf , you see , and I said well I can only speak through and say what happened , that 's all I can do and er , so of course when I went into the witness box this man came and er asked me all sorts of questions . |
| 18 | Been ogling her up and down ever since she 'd entered the room . |
| 19 | What she did like was a roundabout where you went up and down gradually as over waves , in a car that swung slightly but did n't turn . |
| 20 | They rolled up and down perfectly and their presence obviated the need for curtains . |
| 21 | If we moor a tiny toy boat at some fixed point in the pond , the boat will bob up and down rhythmically as the waves pass under it . |
| 22 | The elephant 's belly heaved up and down rhythmically and slow , and I floated up and down with it , and I could hear its great heart-beat like the heart-beat of a new and gentler world . |
| 23 | The ship was moving up and down uncomfortably and Daniel felt ill . |
| 24 | No no just just caught the boat at Stromness and old Hoy Head and down there and Took a bit |
| 25 | He said you go down here and down there and he said down |
| 26 | Although generally short- and long-term interest rates move up and down more or less in unison , this is not always the case . |
| 27 | Let me just , just show you a little thing here just enclosing , just linking it up there , there it is , it 's , it 's a well known little picture , it 's a picture of a wheel where there in the centre the hub is Christ , you see when the hub has got to be the centre otherwise the wheel does not run true and there with Christ is the hub , the centre of your life , the centre of my life , and you and I our lives our selves , there on the outside , were the rim and there 's those spokes that hold it together and make it run true the spoke of , of the bible , God 's word allowing him to speak to us , the spoke of prayer , our communion with God , our praying to him , the spoke of obedience following him obeying him , bringing our lives into , into line with what he says in his word , he says if you love me you will keep my commandments , that 's why we 've got to learn and get to know them from his word and then the spoke of fellowship somebody as likened them to prayer , being like air , our breath , the bible being like food , giving us nourishment and strength , fellowship , it 's the family situation and in just as in a nature family there is , that is the place for care , it 's the place for support it 's the place of sharing , it 's the place of love , where it should be , so God 's family , and then the final one their obedience like exercise , keeping fit , it 's the callisthenics , it 's keeping the muscles toned , obeying what he tells us in his word , well that 's what it means to be a Christian bringing ourselves into line with him and allowing him to re-fashion us in his image and it 's a process that 's going on all the time , Wesley and his hymn talks about us being used and the scripture being changed from glory into glory , till in heaven we take our place there , like him , John says when we see him , we shall be like him , but we shall see him as he is and that 's God 's purpose for you and for me , to be like him , and the moment we come to him and respond to him , the process starts and it goes on , day in , day out , night in , night out , week in , week out , over the years him changing and fashioning us into the image of his son , because that 's how he created us originally , he created to be like him and in this new creation , we were singing we are a new creation , it 's to be like him . |
| 28 | However , there were others , more distinctively local in their orientation : the gradual demise of the traditional two-tier model of primary school management and its replacement by three-tier and matrix models ; the desirability of building on the diversification of staff management roles which PNP has produced , avoiding any contraction of such roles as a consequence of LMS ; the need to acknowledge the pivotal role , for good or ill , played by primary heads , and to work with and through rather than round or against them ; the need to expand the focus of management training courses to encompass the roles and needs of all staff ( not just those of the ‘ managers ’ as conventionally defined ) , to locate management strategies in whole-school analysis , and generally to broaden the concept of ‘ management ’ which currently informs such courses ; the importance of training , support and INSET for heads , and of ensuring that these give close attention to the broader aspects of the expertise needed for headship , such as professional knowledge and personal relationships as well as the more obvious tasks , roles and strategies . |
| 29 | Make the analogy with stick-figure drawings : you take more care with something you are going to use over and over again than with something you are going to use in one lesson only . |
| 30 | For about 100 years Jewish and Christian scholars have demonstrated over and over again that the stereotype of the Pharisees found in the Gospels is a distortion which reflects the animosity of the Evangelists rather than the historical truth or even the attitude of Jesus himself . |