Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] and [verb] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I wonder what that did to you , especially the daily nagging and complaining until you got it right . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Only because I could n't work out how you were doing it , ’ I said , and she laughed some more and asked if I wanted to join her friends . |
| 3 | There was some pointing and explaining as Bessie indicated the cluster of stars she meant . |
| 4 | The one who was still conscious snarled and swore as she tightened the rope about his ankles , and she shook her head reprovingly . |
| 5 | We wear nurses ' uniforms , perform basic nursing tasks and are still called ‘ nurse ’ by most patients , so sometimes I feel a bit confused by all this and wonder whether we undervalue ourselves a little . |
| 6 | This lovely supple rubber here is exactly the same supple rubber here at one time but now it 's gone all hard and denatured because of the chemicals . |
| 7 | Damien was all queer and twisted because he had thought she liked him when she did n't . |
| 8 | Mrs Hunt , who lives next door to Mrs Whalen 's home , said : ‘ People were all running and phoning because they took that long in coming . |
| 9 | Yep , yeah all the mothers are very good as well , they , they , they alter them and get the uniform altered and fit so they look very smart they really do with er with the standard uniform with a little bit of embellishment on the shoulders and so on but erm otherwise it 's the standard uniform . |
| 10 | A and this time this this just this time just raise it to the one third and see if you get the same answer , to check it is the cube root . |
| 11 | after fighting one another for months in the House of Commons , were ready to meet together under the roof of the Sovereign and sink their own differences for a common good and arrange as they had done this morning for a National Government to meet one of the gravest crises that the British Empire had yet been asked to face . |
| 12 | Well , let's just do let's just do two more and see if the As can can catch up and then we 'll carry it on I have n't finished yet , we 'll carry the game on and remember the score . |
| 13 | Last October he was sentenced to 18 months ' jail — 12 months suspended — for reckless driving and driving while banned . |
| 14 | He admitted two offences of taking a car without consent , reckless driving and driving while disqualified . |