Example sentences of "a [noun] [adj] [conj] [vb base] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The growth spurt in boys and girls often begins with the hands and feet , which is why they sometimes look a bit clumsy and act rather awkwardly , until the rest of the body catches up . |
| 2 | So if you did n't get serial correlation and you estimated a model like this you 'd be a bit curious and wonder why right . |
| 3 | ‘ We 've had some quite interesting encounters between men and women who are a bit confused but have n't lost their desires . |
| 4 | He wrote to his mother : ‘ I am not a bit excited and do n't realize it in the least . ’ |
| 5 | I cradled the gun in my arms and set off at Emergency Speed , hurtling down the path back to the island at maximum , trusting to luck and adrenalin that I would n't put a foot wrong and end up lying gasping in the grass with a multiple fracture of the femur . |
| 6 | Divertimento still tells the story of the French painter ( Michel Piccoli ) who is distracted by the appearance of a young artist and his girlfriend ( Emmanuelle Béart ) from his determination to leave a portrait unfinished and live quietly with his wife in the country . |
| 7 | They now take home just £50 a week each and have also given up their company cars . |
| 8 | Looking around the bedroom , she saw that it was almost exactly as it had been in the photograph , although now there was a book open and face downwards on the patchwork quilt . |
| 9 | ‘ Then you are a trifle short-sighted and do not see the general for the particular . |