Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] [conj] [vb past] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Candles deep yellow , shades orange silk , place cards written in orange on a yellow background , ices coloured yellow with saffron or turmeric and served in paper baskets of a deep orange colour . |
| 2 | Many Japanese families today are sitting down to enjoy a meal of dolphin , perhaps eating it raw , or salted and pickled in miso , or dried with seasonings and made into sausage . |
| 3 | She was all pale green and chestnut , with an emerald blaze at her throat ; I roamed her face , from the bursting curve of her forehead to the plum-dent of her chin ; her cheeks , so often pallid , were brushed with the pink of a Tiepolo dawn , though whether the brush was external and garaged in her handbag or internal and wielded by ecstasy , I was unable or unwilling to guess ; her mouth was besieged by a half-smile which seemed to last and last ; her eyes were her lustrous dowry . |
| 4 | Daffodil with enthusiasm was telling a cool Bambi that she should try some face cream or other that helped with wrinkles . |
| 5 | They also take up an extraordinary amount of memory , the four together gobble up 91K which is more than double that required by SideKick and a quarter as much again as Spotlight . |
| 6 | The chapel at St Mary 's Priory of the Little Sisters of Pity was cold and damp and smelled of candlegrease and incense . |
| 7 | They stood there , still and dark and hatted in rows . |
| 8 | oh , if you want to meet that fellow he 's scientifically timed and twisted and listed in order of ? ability in the pages you most likely to find them . |
| 9 | There was brawn , a meat boiled with sugar and cloves , thickened with cinnamon and ginger and garnished with boar ribs . |
| 10 | Harbury was young and ambitious and went at things with a daunting eagerness . |
| 11 | The beer is then filtered and pasteurised and served under gas pressure and heavily chilled . |
| 12 | The floor of the barn was cold stone and slimy and smelled of engine oil and damp cereals . |
| 13 | Dimly lit , permanently blacked out , they had become dirty and dingy and smelled of neglect . |
| 14 | She was lost and alone and lived in fear of her parents ever finding out she had a baby . ’ |
| 15 | The moon was full and round and pale and spoke of duplicity and peacefulness . |
| 16 | While sodden and sopped in lanes , road , and streets , |
| 17 | Father and son , he reported , kissed each other as usual and went to sleep in their separate bivouacs . |
| 18 | Strathclyde police described the attack as callous and appealed for information . |