Example sentences of "and [verb] [adv] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Old Mel returned to her corner and became once more a shapeless dark bundle . |
| 2 | She decided therefore that The Sun was never again to be offered ‘ Laura Ashley ’ publicity material and reinforced as tight a hold as possible on the Image . |
| 3 | In the interests of maintaining objectivity it is always helpful to keep these two kinds of information distinct and to indicate clearly how an interpretation is derived from the evidence presented . |
| 4 | The state railways pay a user charge to the track authority , which is broadly equivalent to the charges faced by road users and covers only about a third of total infrastructure costs . |
| 5 | The blast was in one of the most heavily fortified areas of Londonderry city centre and came just over an hour after security forces with specially-trained sniffer dogs combed the area for explosives . |
| 6 | Is there not a danger that modern cases go on too long and cover too wide an area ? |
| 7 | That 'll leave it wide open for the supermarket boys to market a ‘ free-range acorn-fed pork ’ — an intensively bred pig , fattened up in woods in half the time and costing well under an eighth of the price . ’ |
| 8 | We then left the tramway ( grid reference SH 822 113 ) , though I mean to explore it more fully on a future occasion , and turned right up a forest track past some quarry buildings . |
| 9 | It starts behind the Treib-haus and takes just under an hour for a climb of 370m ( 1,214ft ) altitude difference . |
| 10 | Packed away on dusty dark shelves weights and measures used by council trading standards officers , miniature fairground memorabilia made by a keen amateur craftsman from Oxford , and discovered only yesterday a crescent shaped match box . |
| 11 | With that I leave the door hanging open and disappear fast down a deceptively steep gradient , masked by oily green creeper with wide leaves like Southern fans . |
| 12 | Erm but I put the company into liquidation at that point , because of the problems we were all having in industry , and started again about a year , two years ago . |
| 13 | After an hour on the flat we stood on an old snow patch at the foot of the Plaret cascades and looked straight up a perfect glacier valley to the hut , and beyond the Promontoire hut , glinting in the afternoon light , high on a southerly arm of La Meije . |
| 14 | And when she was overcome with remorse and apologized so sweetly a few minutes later his admiration for her was boundless . |
| 15 | And here he is , ‘ duckering ’ his guv'nors and betters as only a plain-straight-talking Bristolian working man , with , erm , a huge sound system and a record deal , can . |
| 16 | In the early years of married life , a couple may try and establish as wide a social network as possible and , then , in later life if they feel that it is sufficient , they may ask relatives to be godparents , thus reaffirming existing kinship ties , rather than extending the network further . |
| 17 | The ORTF had become too big to be effectively controlled politically by the Information Minister or effectively managed by DGs ( three between 1958 and 1964 ) ; the latter , whether top civil servants , ‘ conseillers d'etat ’ or not , were not broadcasting professionals and had too short a ‘ run ’ to master the vast and complex , heavily unionized and bureaucratic juggernaut that the ORTF had become . |
| 18 | Despite the support of parents , of fellow teachers , of priests and even of two hon. Members , one from each side of the House , that teacher was refused a hearing before the school governors and had too short a period of service to seek the support of an industrial tribunal . |
| 19 | Immediately after a semi-derelict farmhouse we turned left through a gate and headed straight up a stony track to Rudland Rigg . |
| 20 | A school that loses sight of its values runs the risk that it ceases to be a school at all , and becomes instead just a learning centre , the sort of educational service station that the sub-text of the 1988 Act seems to envisage . |
| 21 | Not counting the number of times she put her fat face round the door & said , nodding and smiling as only a Frenchwoman can , with an air of delighted gaiety ( ! ) |