Example sentences of "[adj] and [noun] [conj] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Weather or not : Crocus biflorus ‘ Parkinsonii ’ is shy of cold , damp and mist but opens up quickly in warmth |
| 2 | He was sort of evasive and fey and appeared relatively shy and my impression of him at the time was that he had little charisma , no star quality and not a lot of talent , and it came as a big surprise when he became as successful as he was . |
| 3 | Again two main dimensions emerged from parents ' answers , called love-hostility and control-autonomy but referring essentially to the same features as the dimensions described by Sears and his colleagues . |
| 4 | Once barren desert , this land of lakes is now home to flamingos , crocodiles and other faunal and flora that have quickly grown accustomed to their new habitat . |
| 5 | then you know why should it be seen as a disincentive for them to that and services that had n't been bothered to do that be given money . |
| 6 | He led her quickly up a staircase which began by being broad and stone and went on up to twist woodenly to the top of the tower . |
| 7 | So he took it , and played something soft and sad , something plaintive and melancholy that rose up every third line as if it was going to shake off its sorrow and fly forward and free ; but then in the fourth it curled back on itself and fell again : reluctantly , sometimes , but always resignedly , as if it knew it was going to fall ; as if it had been striving and falling back again for hundreds of years . |
| 8 | The body is made from four pieces of deeply figured maple , bookmatched both front and back and bonded together to form a sort of sandwich . |
| 9 | The overlords at Citroen say it 's just a show car , but with Peugeot and Citroen able endlessly to vary the mix of 605s and XMs that come off the shared line at Sochoux , a third model , an XM coupe , is not an impossibility . |