Example sentences of "a [adj] [adj] and [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is recorded of a Bishop , who was a strong Sabbatarian and disapproved of Sunday trains , that he was puzzled by statistics showing that train accidents were no more frequent on Sundays than on weekdays . |
| 2 | It was cleaned by Gorton shed prior to taking out a southbound express and adorned with wreaths , it would enter Victoria just after the service had begun . |
| 3 | Mr Tapie is by no means a doctrinaire socialist and sits as an independent in the National Assembly . |
| 4 | We had a fight for 15 minutes , then we had a quick five-a-side and worked on our set pieces for a couple of minutes . |
| 5 | Robins slightly endeared herself to me by going a little pink and gazing at the ceiling . |
| 6 | Again the patina is a deep black and contrasts with brightly polished silver , brass and gold inlay decoration . |
| 7 | There was a great bubbling and frothing on the surface of the water . |
| 8 | He was in for three hours 40 minutes all told , an hour longer than any other West Indian managed , and gave only one chance , a difficult caught and bowled to Meyrick Pringle when 59 . |
| 9 | ‘ Some pheasant or quail , cooked to a golden brown and stuffed with spices . |
| 10 | Rolle died at the height of the plague , but his reputation as a loved spiritual counsellor survived him — probably furthered by his disciple William Stopes who seems to have been a young religious and acted as Rolle 's literary executor after his death . |
| 11 | Each one is a potential hypnotic and competes for the attention . |
| 12 | Children who were at least 6 months old entered the trials at the first dosing round or at a subsequent round and left at the last dosing round , or when they moved out of the study area , died , or were withdrawn from the trial . |
| 13 | This is a suite of six programs , all with an artistic bent and designed for ages 5+ . |
| 14 | I was an incurable romantic and yearned for a romantic friendship before it would be too late , for I believed in those days that romantic friendship was possible only in youth . |