Example sentences of "[adj] and [verb] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The black and white pictures are clear and relate well to the text . |
| 2 | John says government has promoted the message that people should become more self-sufficient and rely less on the community . |
| 3 | Instead of taking attitudes as relatively straightforward guides to behaviour and expressed as opinions , they sought to measure attitudes more as dispositional and rooted deeper in the personality . |
| 4 | The effect of evacuation was to flood the dark places with light and bring home to the national consciousness that the ‘ submerged tenth ’ described by Charles Booth still exists in our towns like a hidden sore , poor , dirty and crude in its habits , an intolerable and degrading burden to decent people forced by poverty to neighbour with it . |
| 5 | Whether Darrel McHargue would have won on Commanche Run is irrelevant , for this was vintage Lester Piggott — the jockey completely at one with his horse , pushing it just enough to achieve maximum effort but always keeping it balanced , willing and galloping straight for the line . |
| 6 | The water was thick and brown and went down through the top end of Spaladale at a fearful rate . |
| 7 | The Woman loomed over the group , tall and brown and smiling down at the two mops of black hair — one over a quizzical smile and the other over a scowl . |
| 8 | When I had finished , her abdomen was lifted high and nipped in like a wasp-waisted Victorian lady of fashion . |
| 9 | The number of items prescribed differed across the age bands ( table I ) with a small peak in patients under 5 years old and rising rapidly from the 5–16 to 75–84 age groups . |
| 10 | ‘ It must be awful being old and put away in a home because no one will have you at home and look after you . ’ |
| 11 | Did you know it 's a replica of one of the charms said to be over a thousand years old and dug up on the island of Bornholm ? ’ |
| 12 | He decided to be generous and went in to the shop . |
| 13 | Carson ran up the brick steps to the courtyard 's wooden side-door , rattling the bolt free and stepping out into the narrow alley that ran down the side of the house . |
| 14 | And in a second he was under the Man 's arm and out through the cage door , free and gliding over towards the fence by the benches . |
| 15 | She tucked in her brown silk blouse , tossed her red hair free and strode off towards the editor 's office , Mitch behind her admiring her slender figure and keeping his thoughts strictly to himself . |
| 16 | The trailing lead got snarled up in a bramble bush but , just before Gazzer reached him , the dog yanked it free and raced away through the dunes , to the thin strip of beach left uncovered by the tide . |
| 17 | As soon as his hold slackened a shade she pulled free and set off down the stairs . |
| 18 | When you are nervous and anxious to please it is too easy to only half-listen and to leap in with an answer which is not quite relevant . |
| 19 | She rose and plunged and rolled and staggered and behaved generally in a most frisky fashion . |
| 20 | They were very , very popular and went all over the world . |
| 21 | It 's charming and runs neatly into the songs from ‘ A Dead Horse ’ , which broaden the brief into richer territory . |
| 22 | In that case the universe could he self-contained and determined completely by the laws of science . |
| 23 | Under certain circumstances , these fluctuations in the rate of exchange could become very unstable and contribute further to the discouraging of international trade . |
| 24 | The Soviet statistics were terribly messy and scattered all over the place but Davies and Barker finally succeeded in teasing them out and knocking them into some sort of shape . |
| 25 | Now the interior lighting is not adequate and comes mainly from the west and transept windows and the small apse and aisle windows . |
| 26 | After his death his " rock band " disappeared and was last seen , rumour says , broken and tumbled together in an old wash-house . |
| 27 | Nail clippers might also be required to prevent dew-claws from becoming overgrown and curling round into the dog 's flesh . |
| 28 | The carriageway was empty and sealed off from the world by chipped grey railings down the centre and either side . |
| 29 | I cut off the path proper and charged up over a dune and down its other side to where the service pipe carrying the water and electricity to the house appears out of the sand and crosses the creek . |
| 30 | Each and every pot is different and contrasts richly with the mass produced product . |