Example sentences of "and [verb] [adv] [prep] an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A delicately ludicrous picture comes into Howard 's mind of an enthusiastic little hiker with a rucksack on his back , trying to walk up the side of the Matterhorn , and tumbling back with an astonished look on his face . |
| 2 | However , as the Democratic nominees left their convention and plunged immediately into an eight-state overland campaign tour through the Midwest , Clinton was recording opinion poll ratings of up to 30 percentage points ahead of Bush . |
| 3 | After his death his " rock band " disappeared and was last seen , rumour says , broken and tumbled together in an old wash-house . |
| 4 | If I should cry , trying to express the inexpressible , that I had walked the wind with archangels , she would have been worried and annoyed ; and if I had gone on to say that I had forfeited those heights and lived now in an unremitting shadowless glare of exposure in a runnel of Hell , she would have feared for my mental health . |
| 5 | Then he crouched over it and squared up to an imaginary ball . |
| 6 | That may be half of what Darren paid for it , but in absolute terms it 's incredibly low depreciation over 40,000 and adds up to an excellent value motoring package . |
| 7 | It was remarkably brief , but encompassed a great deal and was consciously planned and carried through as an ecumenical Council , the first of its kind . |
| 8 | It was clear that the Great Casterton defences had been planned and carried out in an unhurried manner and with military precision . |
| 9 | Interested nurses may be invited to an informal gathering over coffee , or to a structured recruitment day addressed by speakers and rounding off with an open session devoted to local job vacancies . |
| 10 | After we got over the shock we asked around for other quotes and came up with an initial estimate of £1,000 plus parts , subject to what is found when the engine is taken out , from John Cutler Marine Engineers who were recommended by Sigma Yachts . |
| 11 | In 1991 , they went to face Real Madrid in The Bernabeu Stadium after a goalless first leg in Moscow , and came away with an outstanding 3-1 win . |
| 12 | In 1991 , they went to face Real Madrid in The Bernabeu Stadium after a goal-less first leg in Moscow , and came away with an outstanding 3-1 win . |
| 13 | We worked our way around the central tier , hands in pockets , and came out in an ornamental garden open to the stars . |
| 14 | Having negotiated the pitch with difficulty in the wet , I was at first relieved at having passed beneath the boulder and looking forward to an easy scramble to the top when I came across another difficult pitch . |
| 15 | SIX years ago , in the introduction to a collection of his plays , Howard Brenton was still trumpeting his adherence to Marxism and looking forward to an unstoppable ‘ British Revolution ’ . |
| 16 | I ran towards it and flopped on to an old bench . |
| 17 | We passed by and opted instead for an easy final passage . |
| 18 | Whatever they were called , the duties of all these officials must have been much the same , acting as leaders of their communities , settling minor infractions and disputes , approving corporate actions of the inhabitants , especially in religious dedications , and acting generally as an essential link between government and people . |
| 19 | Brought up at a cultivated and tolerant court and doted on as an only child , she became a catch on the German dynastic marriage market . |
| 20 | As the summer came I could take the pram along the Hastings promenade , and meet up with an old form mate of mine from school days . |
| 21 | Football League President Gordon McKeag is set to resign his post and stand again as an independent candidate . |
| 22 | Bolton , unbeaten before Saturday 's match , fell behind in the opening minute when right-winger Ryan Hill drifted into the penalty area , met a cross from the left , and fired in from an acute angle . |
| 23 | During these attacks she would scream and run about in an agitated state . |
| 24 | As with all the best competitions the rules are entirely arbitrary and drawn up by an impartial judging commmittee consisting of the proprietor of this column and nobody else . |
| 25 | It covered the whole of her face , shaping to its contours and jutting out with an exaggerated jawline . |
| 26 | In The Games , he was cast as British milkman Harry Hayes , who takes up athletics for a joke , is spotted by a former champion runner and ends up in an Olympic Marathon . |
| 27 | Phil got up from the bed abruptly and turned away with an awkward gesture — his usual response when he felt insulted . |
| 28 | If I stand at the window ( which I am not going to do ) I can see a small fat man with a trilby hat , a British warm and what looks like a binocular case , standing down below on the other side of the road and peering up with an anxious concentration at this battered , paint-peeling semi-circle of so-called Mansion Flats . |
| 29 | The object of the book being to bring about the release of Cooper and McMahon as soon as possible , I also decided to forgo a hardback publisher , whom I knew could not publish in under ten months , and contracted instead for an original paperback . |
| 30 | They strung a net between two palm trees and bobbed about in an energetic game of four-a-side volleyball . |