Example sentences of "[adj] and [adv] [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Dark and relentless , feeding occasionally from a ‘ 303 ’ magic wand , it severs the veins of the other three tracks and stands powerfully over them , eerie and obsessively driving towards a finish line that seems will never appear . |
| 32 | Otis Ferguson was not entirely convinced by Black Legion as he thought it too gloomy ( with appeal only for the ‘ O'Neill audience ’ ) , too jerky in its action , ultimately too indecisive and somewhat lacking in political specifics . |
| 33 | There were high dark trees on every side with slanting shafts of late morning sunlight , with the lake beyond flat and faintly glittering like a slow moving mirror . |
| 34 | ‘ And even if they really are fakes — synthetic fur — ’ she was on a roll now' — it 's made from petrochemicals and they 're non-biodegradable and therefore damaging to the environment . ’ |
| 35 | A favourite cage bird , often escaping and occasionally breeding in the wild . |
| 36 | Plump , bespectacled and usually shining with perspiration , Paul de Levantiére would try very hard to be the Grand Couturier with Louise in the fitting room — but he was a gentle man and her firm independence always routed him . |
| 37 | Mothers tend to be less indulgent and more demanding with daughters at this age than with sons , and fathers to be similarly favourably inclined towards their daughters . |
| 38 | We should have broken up before but there is every prospect of a late and long hopping in which case we should have difficulty in making the necessary attendances . ’ |
| 39 | They say we all have our double , and it can be fascinating and sometimes puzzling by chance to see someone on TV , in the paper , or in the street who looks in every sense your mirror image , your stand-in should you ever become a star of stage and film . |
| 40 | So , that very simple view of the mind fits with this an idea of anxiety as forced back into the unconscious and then changing , sorry , as , as libido being forced back into the unconscious and then changing into anxiety . |
| 41 | ‘ Street violence and disorder are solidly entrenched features of the social landscape ’ , argues Pearson , at any rate in capitalist societies which necessarily generate a ‘ residuum ’ , an under-class of the underprivileged and unemployed , unintegrated and potentially threatening to the established and respectable . |
| 42 | Ben says I should n't feel guilty , that we 're doing nothing wrong , but lying is wrong and deceiving your mother is wrong , and feeling so happy and so loving with Ben is wrong . |
| 43 | Rachel was popular among the stall , always courteous and concerned and never asking for the impossible except with great charm and self-deprecation . |
| 44 | The deep voice sounded peremptory , softly persuasive and vaguely accusing at the same time . |
| 45 | ‘ I hoped you two silly dykes had realised Nirvana , but here you are , alone and palely loitering for the love of your Lucy-o ! |
| 46 | The man who 's been here for the past three weekends , always at the same table , always alone and always gazing at you with those incredible dark eyes of his . ’ |
| 47 | George 's insobriety was disturbing and even wounding to his friends . |
| 48 | But with half an hour gone the poor quality of United 's final ball had left Cantona stranded and still looking for a chance to put some flesh on Ferguson 's bold predictions . |
| 49 | Looking back I can now see that some of the happenings through which I lived professionally were destined to be profound and far reaching in their impact and to become milestones of educational change . |
| 50 | Traffic on the M twenty five is heavy and slow moving between junctions fifteen and sixteen , that 's between the M four and the M forty , that 's on the clockwise section , due to an earlier accident . |
| 51 | On the M twenty five clockwise the traffic is very heavy and slow moving from junction thirteen for Staines as far as junction eighteen for Chorleywood , that 's due to earlier accidents and the volume of traffic . |
| 52 | The M twenty five clockwise very heavy and slow moving from junctions thirteen for Staines to junction eighteen , that 's the turn off for Chorleywood . |
| 53 | The micellar structures are dynamic and constantly colliding with one another , exchanging contents . |
| 54 | Why did he feel as though he had just run his sword through the heart of something small and desperately struggling for survival ? |
| 55 | Mary Worty had a habit of getting drunk and then getting into fights and her face was criss-crossed with cuts and she would get in the window of her bedroom , start giving the history of people all the way down and then they 'd all get out in crowds . |
| 56 | Each such polarization invariably reflects the values of the writers who impose it , but there is a wide consensus among critics who have written about the literature of the period that the majority of it is unambitious , anti-experimental and somewhat lacking in originality . |
| 57 | What he does do , though , is present these foes as mysterious and indefinably threatening in a haunting manner : ‘ For though they bodies seeme , yet substance from them fades ’ ( II , IX , 15 ) . |
| 58 | Henry Livings describes the character of Valentine Brose as ‘ pale and totally lacking in human fire . |
| 59 | The black eyes were pouring through her , amused and oddly smouldering at the same time . |
| 60 | He had opted for the cynical , guarded approach , and now he could see that for all the safety it had brought him — here he was , in his second year , still solvent , heart intact , unmugged and even succeeding in his studies , despite all his mother 's fears — every defence had its price , and he had paid in a separating distance , incomprehension . |