Example sentences of "and [prep] [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 'd been turning on and off roads all along , dodging checkpoints I guessed . |
| 2 | And we used to catch them alive , take them out , put them in a bag together again , and off home again do you see . |
| 3 | It seems that ‘ munchkins ’ are going to push and pull the dresser on and off stage throughout . |
| 4 | And , in describing the consequences of what he defines as literacy , he distinguishes between societies which employ the notion of ‘ logic ’ and those which do not , between societies with ‘ historical sensibility ’ and those with only myth , and between societies where ‘ scepticism ’ is present involving ‘ deliberate rejection and reinterpretation of social dogma and those limited to ‘ semi-automatic readjustment of belief . |
| 5 | Julian took her companion by the hand , and wormed her way round elbows and between shoulders as far down the street as she could , drawing Brother John after her ; but before she was close enough to the gatehouse to see what was happening there she was brought to a halt , and could move no farther . |
| 6 | While there is some inconsistency within and between classrooms where subject labels and subject relationships are concerned , there is rather less inconsistency in this ‘ alternative curriculum ’ , and for children it has a much more profound impact than the labels teachers use . |
| 7 | And about geriatrics never again being isolated from general medicine and surgery . |
| 8 | Creatures that have neither clocks nor books are alive to all manner of knowledge about time and the weather ; and about direction too , as we know from their extraordinary migratory and homing journeys . |
| 9 | Tolkien after all put forward his theses about courage and about laughter fairly clearly . |
| 10 | It means helping counsellees to look closely at their attitudes and beliefs , about themselves , about other people , and about life generally as an ageing person , in order to determine the effect these have on their lives , and upon the people close to them . |
| 11 | No but Lisa says enough bad things about me and about Billy so I want Billy to hear , so hear er ah . |
| 12 | It is nevertheless of interest to see from their reaction to the various issues raised in the questionnaire , just what it is about the scheme ( and about SSE generally ) , which they feel is threatening . |
| 13 | In order to reap the benefits that aerobic exercise can provide , you have to exercise regularly , and for art least half an hour each time . |
| 14 | I THINK his charisma and style of play have been fantastic for our tour and for golf in . |
| 15 | He became tremendously emotional and … compelling in his language … about the need to save Latin America , to save freedom , that these people were sacrificing for America and for freedom all over the world . ’ |
| 16 | You are fined you are heavily fined in Germany and for decades already . |
| 17 | They have a wide range of units — the smallest suitable for indoor use on a tank and for ponds as small as 500 gallons . |
| 18 | Demands to redress such insufficiencies have led to calls for school-based staff development schemes for all serving teachers as an integral part of a special needs related properly co-ordinated unified in-service structure ( cf Hegarty 1987 , Sayer 1987 , Wolfendale 1987 ) ; and for staffs within and across schools and the school services to meet and pool their expertise , share and deepen their understanding systematically in school-based discussion and workshops . |
| 19 | My hon. Friend is a powerful advocate for his constituency and for Kent generally . |
| 20 | One study has shown that for women aged 25–34 on the pill the relative risk of death from circulatory disease was 1.6 for nonsmokers but 3.4 for smokers ; for women aged 35–44 the risks were 3.3 and 4.2 respectively and for women over 45 , 4.6 and 7.4. ( 9 ) There is also a considerably increased risk for women on the pill who smoke and who have one or more known risk factor for coronary heart disease . |
| 21 | Much better as women to put our energies elsewhere and to think in terms of guerilla action — to redistribute resources to women wherever possible ; to asset-strip men 's buildings of their space and facilities and resources on behalf of women ; to expose male hypocrisy , corruption and oppression wherever it appears ; to reserve loyalty for principles and for women not for institutions ; and to concentrate on the subversion of men 's ideas about themselves and about women by behaving badly and with irreverence to their rules . |
| 22 | Getting older may be ‘ less profoundly wounding for a man ’ , because throughout life being physically attractive counts more in a woman 's life than in a man 's , and for women especially beauty is identified with youthfulness . |
| 23 | Many of these workshops were run by and for women only . |
| 24 | In particular the notion that nurse training is for the young and for women only must be dispelled ; no mean task . |
| 25 | To print a penis is one thing ; to print an erect penis is to invite legal action , and For Women certainly wo n't be doing it . |
| 26 | The local gentry were prevailed upon to be such things as president , and vice president ; membership fees for ‘ farmers and tradesmen ’ were 3 shillings , for ‘ labourers ’ 2 shillings , and for youths under 16 years one shilling . |
| 27 | We hope that this booklet will be of interest to you both during your tour of the School and for perusal later at home . |
| 28 | The appropriate symbol for housework ( and for housework alone ) is not the interminable conveyor belt but a compulsive circle like a pet mouse in its cage spinning round on its exercise wheel , unable to get off … |
| 29 | And for teachers already using ( or wanting to adopt ) the approach described here , it acknowledges and reflects their wider concerns , offering a framework which allows for the possibility of building in collaboration as an integral feature of teaching and learning across the whole range of classroom activity . |
| 30 | The carrier is liable for the total of partial loss of the goods and for damage thereto from the time of taking over the goods and the time of delivery . |