Example sentences of "[adv] and [adv] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 We may not want it but the government is going to demand it and we as custodians of the services on the part of the people of Cambridge , are going to have to do as sensibly and sensitively as possible .
2 If a horse stops pulling once he has settled down and works sensibly and correctly after say , 20 minutes of ‘ whoopee ’ then it is a matter of working through the exuberance stage with as many exercises in the form of transitions and ‘ things to do ’ as possible to occupy the horse 's mind and so try to make him concentrate on his work rather than other exciting stimuli .
3 If customers preferred more choice , as most do today , IBM 's existing subsidiaries could compete for their business more fiercely and profitably than they ever can as part of Big Blue .
4 The freephone number is open between 8.00am and 5.00pm and your call is free .
5 ‘ I advise our dear people and all Muslim nations to hold the international Qods Day ceremonies this year more warmly and enthusiastically than in previous years , ’ he said in the broadcast monitored in Nicosia .
6 Despite the pain , he rode better and harder than ever and in the last five races stood on the podium four times and came within 12 seconds of his first GP win .
7 That 's got you better and better and better .
8 From a wilderness of heathery undulations and turbulent streams , peaty quagmires and innumerable inland lochs in this strangest of Scottish landscapes , there rise the mountains of west Assynt , springing up suddenly and steeply and assuming weird and fantastic shapes .
9 His fortune changed suddenly and dramatically when all America watched his acceptance speech on TV .
10 Now , suddenly and violently and ridiculously , he did so .
11 And when she spoke it was so suddenly and decisively that Charlotte felt her heart pound at her words .
12 ‘ A team of counsellors has been on duty over the weekend between 8am and 8pm and the helpline will remain live between these hours daily until 5pm on Friday , February 26 .
13 Services at 8am and 10am as usual .
14 It snowed for three days without stopping , great cotton wool flakes , falling from a dark sky and swirling so thickly and blindingly that Mr Evans actually said the children need not use the privy in the yard in the daytime but could go up to the bathroom whenever they needed to .
15 Oh yes , erm I think it was generally , er , they had to match the colouring of the rooms that they 'd got , the furniture they 'd got really because as far as the room was concerned er when , when the , new houses came onto the erm , ready for occupation , er they were all cream coloured inside and anyway and pale cream so they , they 'd got er any choice they wanted there it , really it was just to match their curtains , match their carpets , all their furnishings and erm , of course I suppose they , the rose coloured ones er went better than say the lemon coloured one and that because er people just er liked the idea of moving into a place that 's got a nice cosy glow in it , place sort of thing , but we never sell any at all , there 's , none of that type of fitting in , sold now .
16 1 Wash the fish thoroughly inside and out and pat dry with kitchen paper .
17 The Byzantine influence is seen in the mosaic decoration inside and out and in the marble facing patterns while the Romanesque provides the general constructional layout .
18 The wind grabbed him under the arms and flipped him outwards and back as it had the torn raven banner already .
19 She had fallen in love with it so slowly and gently and sweetly that she had never noticed it had happened .
20 Skin-smoothing Neutrogena Rainbath not only cleanses gently and effectively but also rinses off completely to leave your skin feeling softer and smoother !
21 If you must interrupt , do so as gently and courteously as possible .
22 She had taken to her marriage-bed , therefore , a certain natural innocence and all the ignorance considered essential to her station , of which Tristan had relieved her as gently and pleasantly as he had been able , his passion lacking the intensity which might , on those honeymoon nights , have alarmed her ; being , instead , a lighthearted matter , full of the nonchalant reflections of the man himself .
23 He started the engine as gently and quietly as possible .
24 Liberation does not mean slaying the dragon , but rising above it , growing beyond it , seeing through its tricks and laughing gently and lovingly when it snorts fire at us .
25 The morning stirred in the trees and interrupted the sleep of stem and leaf and fruit and blossom as gently and efficiently as a mother lifting the cover from her child 's bed and blowing on her face in play to wake her .
26 After all , some people confronted with the same issue might smile quietly and respond gently and constructively until the issue blew over .
27 She closed the door after her no less gently and purposefully than he had done , and snatching off her shoes , ran silently up the two flights of stairs to her own room .
28 — Mr. Eames seems to imagine that the fox population will regulate its numbers naturally and painlessly if hunting stops .
29 All the actors interviewed seemed to feel , and state quite naturally and simply that there was really nothing else for them to do but act .
30 Curiously enough , once Don was on , he took over so naturally and hilariously that I forgot to be frightened , had a thoroughly rumbustious time and breezed through the remainder of the show .
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