Example sentences of "[adv] and [adv] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our thanks are also , of course , extended to , who has so professionally , purposefully and cheerfully dealt with hiccups such as the extra numbers at the first seminar and so on . |
| 2 | The pragmatist might acknowledge this point but would offer the further thought that , under normal circumstances , it is unlikely that a flea 's stray garment could be mistaken for anything else , and that the flea. its garments and any other intimately associated paraphernalia would be more sensibly and helpfully handled as a single record . |
| 3 | It came under her classification of Faye being ‘ temperamental ’ , but she found the dress for Belinda easily enough and then returned to her canapés . |
| 4 | Fleet Street journalists require a modest range of incentives to make them feel agreeably disposed towards something , and the maiden flight ( on a plane which had been named the Maiden Voyager ) was warmly and comprehensively reported in almost every national daily and Sunday newspaper . |
| 5 | In fact , Byrne knew better and eventually resigned without making another move because he realised that he was due to be mated within four moves ! |
| 6 | It seems to follow from Darwin 's ideas that as the generations pass , so the organisms in a particular line of descent ( lineage ) must become better and better adapted to the prevailing conditions . |
| 7 | When the horse reared as Ana 's had done it seemed to grow in stature , holding the stance endlessly and then leaping into that strange jump , its forelegs not touching the ground . |
| 8 | Though his contact with Mary had been brief , formal and in no public way at all suggestive , disgust at the thought of Miss Skelton and her world suddenly and urgently spilled into his mind and he excused himself rather roughly — so abruptly , in fact , that a careful inquest was held among the company to uncover what possible offence he might have taken . |
| 9 | There , in the early days of contact with whites , young men and minor chiefs excluded from positions of authority in the traditional establishment were suddenly and unaccountably seized by capricious water-spirits . |
| 10 | The Goblin King , Grom the Paunch of Misty Mountain , infamous old Goblin Warlord and Lord of the Crags , was suddenly and unexpectedly struck by what could have been a big rock were it not for the sploshy red stuff that exploded from it , showering the goblin horde . |
| 11 | These are often known as ‘ snap ’ rings as they will suddenly and obviously snap into place as the pipe is pushed into the sleeve . |
| 12 | It is almost as if all the punishment , admonishment and educative pressure which the aboriginal child has been spared up to this moment is suddenly and simultaneously inflicted on him ( here , for once , the masculine pronoun does not embrace the feminine because initiation is an exclusively masculine affair ) . |
| 13 | In fact , they were not joints of meat at all , but pagan gods and goddesses , grotesquely and beautifully carved from roughly-cut haunches of woodland trees . |
| 14 | He found Catherine Crane competently and tactfully assisting with operations , and as he came to stand beside her realized she was so cold that she was almost shuddering . |
| 15 | She moved on gently and presently disappeared with disconsolate-looking shoulders down the corridor beside the kitchen . |
| 16 | ‘ But you have n't any , ’ she mimicked , and gently and competently dealt with the wound . |
| 17 | Answer the three questions below and then look at the photograph on the right . |
| 18 | Three hundred and thirty thousand Germans have been senselessly and irresponsibly led to death and destruction through the cunning strategy of a corporal from World War 1 . |
| 19 | A further difference is that the other language , English , is not learned naturally and probably has to be ‘ taught ’ rather than simply acquired through access . |
| 20 | Now that the hand was not naturally and exactly adapted for one specific task it became generally adaptable for just about everything and hence the agency which ultimately controlled the hand was now called on to give it the directions which automatic instinct and locomotive reflexes no longer could . |
| 21 | This concept , brilliantly and amusingly elucidated in book of that name published the previous year by Professor C. Northcote Parkinson , stated : ‘ Work expands to fill the time available for its completion . ’ |
| 22 | They each feature a huge female smile hemmed in and otherwise cropped by a gigantic soda bottle in one instance and a medley of hands and legs in the other . |
| 23 | But McLean told the jury that she had joined in and also stamped on Mrs McMullen 's stomach and throat . |
| 24 | I 'll bring my things in and just have to , to keep wandering about for a minute |
| 25 | Right , we , we , we did actually draw , or we not draw , we , we adopted a constitution during the year and the officers that are erm elected are the Chair , the Secretary and the Treasurer , erm and other , together with other such officers , yeah to determine by general meeting , erm , so it 's really only those three , er and we have sometimes had Advice Chair if there 's only been one Chairman have n't we , one Chair person erm so I think people need to say if they do n't wish to carry on the jobs they 're doing and if anybody wishes to nominate anyone in a particular post then slip at the bottom of the minutes could be filled in and either brought to meeting or sent back to the Secretary . |
| 26 | The renegade comes slinking in and simperingly confides to the general his ability to lead his security forces to Sister Chiang . |
| 27 | And they poured the water and that held the heat in and then bent to the shape . |
| 28 | about being tired and the same thing happened , waiting on them coming in and then going to bed and I could n't get over |
| 29 | So now , unless you go in and actually bang on the counter , they 'll give you the advice of their tied erm agency . |
| 30 | Sometimes if it 's completely wrong you start over , or you have to get in and actually wade into the paper and do some design work on it , but the other thing is allowing a certain sense of experimentation . |