Example sentences of "and [adv] [verb] [pron] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In view of the long list of orders that Harland and Wolff has procured — I welcome that , and wholly endorse what the Minister has said — the recent large pay-offs in the island are alarming . |
| 2 | The relief sought by the applicant was , inter alia , ( 1 ) an order of certiorari to quash the section 2(2) notice dated 24 June 1991 issued by the Director ; and ( 2 ) an order prohibiting her from requiring or further requiring him to attend and comply with the requirements of a notice issued pursuant to section 2 of the Act of 1987 without ( a ) affording him a reasonable opportunity for his application for legal aid to be processed and thereby affording him the opportunity to be legally advised on such requirements and to be legally represented at such time as he was required to comply with them and ( b ) causing him to be cautioned in accordance with Code C , paragraph 16.5 before being required to comply with those requirements . |
| 3 | ‘ I think it 's time we left , ’ she muttered , standing up and thereby giving him no opportunity to deliver another of his pointed snubs . |
| 4 | HAVING finished second to France , and thereby won what the footballers used to call the Home International championship , Scotland can hardly be grudged the eight players they have in the British Isles task force for the invasion of New Zealand this summer under captain Gavin Hastings . |
| 5 | Less than a year later we got married and I moved down here and eventually found myself a job . |
| 6 | Music became the voice of opposition to the war and its senseless waste of life , and effectively found itself a conscience . |
| 7 | Music became the voice of opposition to the war and its senseless waste of life , and effectively found itself a conscience . |
| 8 | The Abbey National was the first society to allow borrowers to see valuations and duly sent her a copy . |
| 9 | Going around listening to the fat and the rich of the land confessing their secret sins , and secretly mocking us every time we reach a stone wall and can go no further ? |
| 10 | Saint Simon describes how Louis XIV 's adored granddaughter-in-law , the Duchesse de Bourgogne , was standing in conversation with the King , while a maid lifted her skirt from behind and discreetly gave her an enema . |
| 11 | ‘ I guessed , ’ he replied , and suddenly gave her a lop-sided grin — and all at once Leith discovered she was feeling most unexpectedly lighthearted . |
| 12 | But friends assured me there was more to this grand range of mountains than my experience had suggested , and so to give it a chance I went back to climb Cairn Gorm properly , giving the bridies as wide a body swerve as possible . |
| 13 | Whitaker , a committed and active Guild member , recognised in Coburn a considerable talent and so offered him the not insubstantial opportunity to shape a BBC drama series from grass roots , by writing its pilot . |
| 14 | His family knew nothing of education and so gave him no support or encouragement , still less active aid . |
| 15 | Mr Major must also be wondering why , if the recession is so bad , so many firms never bother to finish the job and so give themselves a chance of being paid . |
| 16 | We have already emphasized the value of coins as evidence ; among other things they sometimes reveal the number of minters at work in a city , and so give us a hazy but valuable indication of the relative size of the towns of a kingdom . |
| 17 | There are several simple repairs you can carry out to keep your existing windows in good working order , and so save yourself a massive bill for replacements for at least another year or so . |
| 18 | This project aims to analyse the business and social composition of London at that crucial stage of its development , and so to make it a substantial contribution towards our understanding of the emergence of the modern British state and its economy . |
| 19 | Incomes policies aim to persuade workers to accept lower money wage increases ; deflation aims to weaken their bargaining position , and so offer them no choice . |
| 20 | On such whimsical criteria , and perhaps thinking them a good omen , did we decide our preference . |
| 21 | To come back on something that Mr said and perhaps take it a stage further . |
| 22 | Now why do n't you introduce her to the office routine — and perhaps show her the chalets ? ’ |
| 23 | It is hoped to have another polo match here next year and perhaps make it an annual event . |
| 24 | ‘ You 've ruined my Gnome costume and perhaps lost me a lovely bicycle . ’ |
| 25 | Thus , to make the whole hard disk open for others to read , the owner would publish the root directory ( C : \ ) and perhaps give it a name ( eg. |
| 26 | Does the horse come to the stable door to investigate you , and perhaps give you a friendly nuzzle ? |
| 27 | I was just gon na say , I I think we should possibly stop blaming the media or whatever actually happens and perhaps echo what the the lady earlier said , I think that it 's in our hands , we 're the women that could make this happen ! |
| 28 | Spotting a hatch in the far wall , she walked across and gingerly opened it a crack . |
| 29 | Give me the leave to make the best of my fortune and only pardon me the abuse of your house . |
| 30 | It may be full of microbes and rotting vegetation , but these are natural and organic and only give it an attractive flavour . |