Example sentences of "[adv] and [adj] [conj] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He imagined she would have been charm personified if she wanted something from him , but offhand and dismissive if she had not . |
| 2 | perhaps it was burnt down and re-built or something did n't seem at all tudorish did it ? |
| 3 | Therefore it would seem on this approach that the court first has to decide whether the covenant is intrinsically just and reasonable before it applies the object and intent test . |
| 4 | It is , however , right and proper that we do report to this sub- committee on the activities of the staff commission , and that I do in the paper before you . |
| 5 | The cost of educating our children is below the national recoupment figure , and that I think is good , right and proper and it reflects the many years of excellent Conservative administration that Oxfordshire has enjoyed . |
| 6 | We turn right and left and I check the route , just in case . |
| 7 | Dixie lies so still and bloody that I do n't need to touch him . |
| 8 | The nun was screaming now at the top of her voice ; then for a moment she became still and silent as she looked at a trickle of blood flowing down over her fingers ; and she now screeched again . |
| 9 | Fascination held her still and silent as she watched the slow , deliberate passage of the hand that moved across and down , over her stomach , the snowy whiteness of her skirt emphasising the rich coppery depth of his tan . |
| 10 | I think basically , if you 've got good colour sense you 're home and dry as I have said many times , it does n't matter how you put it together , but if the colours are superb , it 's going to look good . |
| 11 | The author Jeanette Winterson provides a maxim for female artists past and present when she says : ‘ We do n't want men to package us but we must have the freedom to describe ourselves ’ . |
| 12 | But of course it is important that the box is er in operational use before such a photograph is taken , so I will endeavour tomorrow to er to resolve the situation of actually putting the phones in the box so that er by the time Wednesday comes , and our photograph , then it is up and running as they say . |
| 13 | You are so incredibly screwed up and lonely that you feel the need to scapegoat and stereotype your neighbours . |
| 14 | All well and good until he extends his ideas to the god Uranus , which he enthusiastically does . |
| 15 | By and large so it proved . |
| 16 | Mm , that 's right , I mean the fact that agriculture tends to be perfectly com right , why there tends to be a lot of independent small producers is because there are no economies of scale , you know , apart from beyond , you know , a certain size of farm , you know , stud studies in the U K show that once you get , get beyond about two thousand hectares there are , there are significant dis-economies of scale , and although there are economies of scale up to that point , and that 's only in the case of very specialist types of production , by and large once you 've got a farm in excess of five hundred hectares , erm , you start to run into dis-economy , and mostly managerial dis-economies of scale . |
| 17 | But by and large when we take out these very unusual or exceptional years , agricultural prices do seem to have fallen . |
| 18 | The expression on his face had grown hard and grim as he 'd scanned the paper in his hands , before angrily crunching it up into a ball and hurling it into a nearby waste-paper basket . |
| 19 | Your mouth goes hard and ugly as you try to choke back the tears , but it is honest . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ I go round and round till I fall down . |
| 21 | I had to keep walking round and round and I wanted to go to sleep . |