Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] and [verb] [adv] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Visit your nearest Clinique counter for a personal skin analysis on the famous Clinique Computer and find out which three products are right for your 3 Step skincare programme . |
| 2 | Their protest ended when on Sept. 30 the People 's Assembly passed an amnesty law providing for rehabilitation of former political prisoners and setting out their economic rights . |
| 3 | Cardiff looked back to see that the other man had opened one of the metallic cases and taken out what seemed to be earphones , which he was now wearing . |
| 4 | Just make three-quarter swings and see how your strikes improve . |
| 5 | Now , as every year , Mary , back to the pews , bottom upended , fumbled in Mrs Ellenby 's old wooden crib and brought out her best and largest doll , smiling , pouting , celluloid , with hard eyes on a metal hinge that clattered open and shut , open and shut as the wavering child righted herself , thrust it up briefly and apologetically before the congregation and pushed it back under the blankets . |
| 6 | Sergeant King 's widow Monica sat clutching a handkerchief in the public gallery and heard how her husband died last November of four stab wounds to the head and neck and four wounds to the chest , one of which hit his heart . |
| 7 | Luke did n't answer her immediately , but the grey eyes were eloquent as they dropped to the tiny champagne-coloured skirt the slenderness of her legs made permissible , then travelled upwards again in slow appraisal of her strapless matching bustier , encrusted with transparent beads and revealing both her smooth olive-toned midriff and the upper swell of her high , proud breasts beneath the single fine circle of gold she wore about her neck . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'm afraid they 'll just move onto the public pavement and keep up their din . |
| 9 | Why not try to follow their carefree example and shrug off your worries and woes ? |
| 10 | Why not try to follow their carefree example and shrug off your worries and woes ? |
| 11 | Slowly , with some satisfaction , she peeled off her hand-knitted gloves and dragged off her sensible hat . |
| 12 | Newman raised his own right hand in a diversionary gesture and whipped up his right foot . |
| 13 | You will need to give the electoral registration officer a detailed reason and explain where you will be on polling day , and why . |
| 14 | The left wing of General von Bulow 's Second Army mounted a bayonet attack on Foch 's forces at dawn on 5 September , capturing the French outposts and driving back their advance units . |
| 15 | We eventually found the car by good luck more than good management ; I wished we 'd had time to start from the top end and find how we 'd gone wrong . |
| 16 | Not knowing what else to do , Theda first found a fresh cap and tucked away her dangerous locks , and then began to lay out her clothes , retrieving her portmanteau from under the bed . |
| 17 | By which time the sexual revolution was also wearing a bit thin and became more to do with increasing women 's availability to men than the sexual autonomy and control over our own bodies we had all been promised . |
| 18 | Introduction — which places the work in a historical context and explains why it was thought important and worthwhile . |
| 19 | But the playmaster himself came to look him over and turn him about and about , examining him through narrowed eyes and hearing over his lines . |
| 20 | However , there is undoubtedly a mystique attached to certain groups that transcends the quality of their individual rugs and boosts both their initial price and resale value . |
| 21 | What our children need from us is reassurance , so that they can live safely , knowing the real risks and knowing where they can go if they are worried . |
| 22 | The scapegoat and the remaining members of the group had no fixed seat and sat wherever they could . |
| 23 | Express the vector potential of the previous example in terms of elliptic integrals and work out its value when R = a = 0.1 m , I = 1A , z = a /12 ( use Tables , e.g. Jahnke-Emde-Losch ) . |
| 24 | Clara gave a little , silvery laugh and stretched out her hand again until it was about an inch from the old lady 's permanent wave . |
| 25 | Perhaps if I just start with that simple question and see how it develops . |
| 26 | She walked past him into the tiny hallway and picked up her bags , noticing with relief that he was n't around when she fled up the narrow wooden stairs to one of the three bedrooms , the one furthest away from his . |
| 27 | One thinks back to Morrissey in the early days and wonders why it has to be this way . |
| 28 | This is a subject to which I shall return , but for the moment I prefer to confine myself to the typical picture and to show where my own circumstances coincided with it or diverged from it . |
| 29 | Meanwhile , she dabbed her handkerchief at her eye , ate a soft-centred peppermint and wondered where her son had gone . |
| 30 | If , for example , I am engaged in reading a text on a subject in which I am well versed ( where the ideational or content schema is familiar ) , which has been written in a manner conventionally associated with writing on this subject ( where the interpersonal or formal schema is familiar ) , then I shall only need to pay attention to the linguistic signs to the extent that they key in this schematic knowledge and indicate how it is to be extended . |