Example sentences of "[adj] and [pron] [noun] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When they came up the grassy track that led to the headland , out of the wood that clothed the side of the valley where the village was , the girl was delighted and her mother relieved that she liked it . |
| 2 | She had soaked the leather to bend and shape it into the form of a small shoe , but her hands were sore and her back ached and she wondered briefly if there might be an easier way of making a living than the trade her father had chosen for her . |
| 3 | He was very weak and his body trembled and broke into sweats whenever he tried to sleep . |
| 4 | We 're near the summit of the hill , deep in the bushes under the thin cover of trees ; the smell is very strong and my knees feel like the bones are gone . |
| 5 | He could not keep still and his eyes reddened as though at any moment he might burst into tears . |
| 6 | Genius is the bust of Beethoven and Keats dying and Shelley dying and the size of War and Peace and poor old Sartre banging away at his trilogy and Hemingway paring it down to its essence and Monet unable to distinguish colours any more and Picasso staring out at the camera with his chest bare and his eyes blazing and Cézanne snarling like a dog and then walking out of Aix with his canvas and paints on his back to paint that mountain and Byron dying and Pushkin dying and all the rest of it . |
| 7 | His heart felt heavy and his legs wobbled when he saw the Bookman still sitting inside , looking very depressed . |
| 8 | Old Donald looked at her , shocked and her son straightened as though lashed and flung out of the house . |
| 9 | He was pale and his voice trembled as though he was at breaking point . |
| 10 | Emily noticed that he was drinking excessive amounts of brandy , his cheeks became red and his eyes glazed and when the meal was over , he rose from his chair unsteadily . |
| 11 | I fought it open and my feet crunched as I went through . |
| 12 | Twenty minutes later , George Leeming lay as they had first seen him , except that his eyes were now open and his back arched as the doctor had placed a pillow under him to make him more comfortable . |
| 13 | Amid criticism that the government 's reactions to the troubles had been slow and their position confused and biased , Deputy Prime Minister Gelu Voican-Voiculescu , who was leading compromise talks between the HDUR and the UVR on March 22 , assured crowds in Tirgu Mures that the government 's commission of inquiry would be objective but would seek the " resolute " punishment of those found guilty of instigating the unrest . |
| 14 | Are your eyes crooked and your legs crossed that you zig-zag like a snipe ? |