Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] and [verb] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Finally , colour the desiccated coconut blue or green and scatter over the cake drum . |
| 2 | At the girls ' establishment where she had been sent at huge expense to learn music and French and to carry out the ornate disciplines conceived by the headmistress — including communal teeth-washing in the gardens , winter and summer , and then communal gargling into the rosebeds , which the headmistress regarded as a form of manure-spreading — the pain was put down to growing too fast . |
| 3 | At 3.00pm we staggered onto the summit after endless moves of II and III and guzzled down the orange juice . |
| 4 | Those days she walked slowly , crying already and biting and snuffing back the tears . |
| 5 | First , it legitimized retrospectively the grant penalties associated with targets set in 1981/2 and 1982/3 and set out the context in which expenditure guidance or targets could be issued in future years . |
| 6 | Every other station has , you even have advertising on radio , why ca n't you have it now on B B C One and Two and cut down the eighty pounds ? |
| 7 | For years Pakistan 's opponents have made snide remarks about their bowlers getting away with such trickery as seam-picking and scuffing up the ball , ploys which make the ball swerve off the pitch or swing further in the air . |