Example sentences of "and [verb] [adv prt] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , it is then often necessary to read a whole bucket into primary storage at a time ; it is not possible to search the bucket and read in only the required record , but this does not apply if a device such as ICL 's CAFS-ISP is available to speed up the search . |
| 2 | On sites rich in fossils , collectors often become bored with the commoner animals and pick up only the rarer ones . |
| 3 | I can escape other troubles and concentrate on just the one problem — how to make that damn ball go where I want . |
| 4 | As for the police , they seem to think and behave in much the same way . |
| 5 | For each photograph , they worked out a complicated formula to get their own cameras and tripods in exactly the same positions as the ones adopted by their predecessor a century earlier . |
| 6 | Another rifleman had bartered some of his Red Cross parcel for a loaf of bread ; ‘ The conditions of living and surviving had made us all as cunning as foxes ’ , so this rifleman that night slept with it under his neck , but someone crept up and cut off both the ends . |
| 7 | The front door slammed shut , and cut off abruptly the babble of the family 's voices . |
| 8 | He could munch his tuna fish sandwich , lapse into reverie and cut out both the music of Soul II Soul wafting through the window and the endless , fragmented tales of classroom woes exchanged obsessively between the other staff . |
| 9 | Rose Hilaire had a waking dream , one which followed her into sleep and came out again the other side to stay with her all day , going with her into Belmodes side by side like a fellow worker . |
| 10 | There were some valid defences , particularly the poor state of most of the pitches and the injuries to Gatting ( having returned from getting his nose repaired he promptly had a thumb broken and played in only the final Test ) , but some of the criticisms were very valid , too . |
| 11 | Many short breaks are not affected by the Directive , but the Trust account is essential at Christmas and New Year when deposits are taken , lodged in the account , and paid out once the holiday ends . |
| 12 | The upvc comes in planks , in sizes similar to timber , and can be cut , nailed and screwed in much the same way . |
| 13 | In Mainz , the same perceptive man offered to go back to Tehran with news of what ‘ the real motivation ’ was , and clear up both the confusion among the |
| 14 | Incidentally , this cream cheese mixture , spread on little fingers of bread and cooked in just the same way , is extremely good for a cocktail party as a change from those eternal sausages . |
| 15 | The same general advice holds good : concentrate on following the flow of the argument and jot down just the key points within a coherent structure . |
| 16 | Instead the trial proceeds on the basis of oral evidence given by witnesses who are called by the parties and examined in much the same fashion as in England . |
| 17 | Each bale has to be packed in plastic in case of rain and tied up so the runners can take hold of it . |
| 18 | Tolkien would have liked that , for it would make ‘ luck ’ a close modern equivalent of the Old English word usually translated ‘ fate ’ and derived in exactly the same way from the verb ( ge ) weorþan , ‘ to become , to happen ’ . |
| 19 | For many men it implied that women would be introduced to freedoms and pleasures previously enjoyed only by themselves , and conceived in exactly the same terms . |
| 20 | They therefore issued their own form and sent back both the buyer 's form and their own form . |
| 21 | The neo-classical period of the 1920s and 1930s had as one of its ideals a return to the past , avoiding Romantic expressions ( which were held in contempt ) and taking up mainly the styles of the Baroque era . |
| 22 | I was most willingly rescued and brought down manually the four flights of stairs . |
| 23 | He decided he was n't going to get anywhere along those lines , or not yet , and went over again the details of when Hawick had last seen his fiancée . |
| 24 | He came out with a fantastic shot , but it screwed off to the right of the green , and went down oft the mound instead of falling in towards the flag . |
| 25 | No rudder , no turn , it 's as simple as that , and in the approach phase this can be particularly disconcerting , as an aileron deflection into a cross wind will in fact produce a yaw and turn in entirely the opposite direction unless rudder is used . |
| 26 | WHILE the rest of the country is still trying to grapple with the effects of the recession , Las Vegas , the desert oasis created by gambling , continues to boom and prosper in much the same way as it has always done . |
| 27 | Some employers introduced ‘ speed-up ’ for their factory hands , resulting in less work for homeworkers , while others gave the best paying work to their indoor hands and gave out only the inferior grades of work which required the most time spent on it to houses where the inspectors were unlikely to penetrate . |
| 28 | For those of us who are spared having to wear a uniform to work , the notion of getting out of bed and putting on exactly the same clothes , every day , is simply too boring to contemplate . |
| 29 | For the independent pusher , it can be frustrating when you wheel yourself around a likely ‘ circular ’ route , only to discover some steps have not been marked on the map so you have to turn round and come back exactly the same way . |
| 30 | They are still much the same in appearance as they were then , and farmed in much the same way , although tractors have now replaced teams of oxen . |