Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | After some years of struggling anxiously with the knotty complexities of Catholic devotion before the reforms of the Second Vatican Council , I found The Cloud of Unknowing 's stark insistence on the one thing necessary deeply liberating and felt that a weight had fallen from my shoulders . |
| 32 | She absorbed influences around her indiscriminately , like blotting paper , and was so busy , strident and involved that she could never draw back to see things as they really were . |
| 33 | And she had looked so well since her marriage , so calm and composed and so Well , not matronly , at any rate , as wicked Lizzie Braithwaite had suggested . |
| 34 | Outwardly he was calm and composed as he walked in the warm evening sunshine towards the House , but like the swans gliding serenely across the water , he too was paddling like hell underneath . |
| 35 | Losing the desire for material things — in fact the total spurning of them — gives calm and release as long as that desire is not replaced by the desire for such mental delights as ecstasy . |
| 36 | I wanted to get on with the drop — the pilot had been in that freezing water for long enough ! i changed to a right-hand hold , then I talked to my passengers as much as possible to keep them calm and show that everything was under control . |
| 37 | Beneath a cocked hat somewhat too big for him his small face , pale despite the sun of a whole Mediterranean summer , was much more calm and composed than that of the man behind him . |
| 38 | He would be calm and unafraid and , because he had remembered to breathe deeply before starting , he would ask the question in an easy manner without stammering at all . |
| 39 | Both sides of the compartment were lined with machinery and metal boxes so crushed and mangled that their original function was incomprehensible . |
| 40 | There 's usually just enough rightness about them to make you feel guilty but not quite enough to stop one feeling resentful and baffled as well . |
| 41 | ‘ The Ministry would have been only too happy to hand you over stuffed and pickled if they 'd been asked in the proper way . |
| 42 | And I would have got it together if I 'd had time had gone out to work instead of for days on end being unemployed and sitting and telling me about Karen . |
| 43 | The CITES regulations state that ‘ Management Authorities of the Parties shall be satisfied that any living specimen will be so prepared and shipped as to minimise the risk of injury , damage to health or cruel treatment ’ . |
| 44 | I found your recent article ‘ A new discipline ’ on marketing in the Nineties ( MW December 6 ) extremely interesting and felt that it raised a number of important issues . |
| 45 | That Van Butchell was willing to pay the 100 guineas is interesting and suggests that there were no bounds to his eccentricities . |
| 46 | I found it very interesting and wonder if you can help me . |
| 47 | We all found it interesting and enlightening and are grateful to — head brewer and — brewing manager . |
| 48 | It 's easy to sit up here for hours , feeling fresh and invigorated and envying the local people their beautiful surroundings , but we were keen to press on and see a Stone Age burial chamber sited just off the path . |
| 49 | In its way , it was as funny and arresting as anything from television , but it lacks the scale and presence of a few hundred thousand pounds ' worth of television commercial . |
| 50 | Another anecdote on my brother 's wheelings and dealings , which struck me as really funny and proves that his initiative respected no boundaries . |
| 51 | You mean that was like funny and working and that ? |
| 52 | He was still convinced that there was something wrong and said that he had noticed some urethral discharge first thing in the morning and also a slight ‘ tingle ’ when he first passed urine in the day . |
| 53 | ‘ One firework somehow went wrong and exploded and a fragment hit the baby . |
| 54 | The Court of Appeal , however , thought the acquittals wrong and declared that it was not going to ‘ compound the error ’ by quashing the convictions . |
| 55 | Given the success in getting the Israelis and Palestinians round the table , would it not make more sense for the Government to right that wrong and ensure that , during our presidency from July onwards , we talk directly to the PLO ? |
| 56 | Mrs Bottomley wants to find out what went wrong and see if staff relations problems can be improved . |
| 57 | She stood up , and walked serenely down to the sea , holding her head high and thinking that she was n't sure she could endure another thirteen days in the company of this man . |
| 58 | They concluded that the level of violence was high and reported that , in a period of only one year , 59 per cent of women had experiences of violence . |
| 59 | It works through meanings , certainly , or not without meanings in the ordinary sense , and fuses the old and obliterated and the trite , the current , and the new and surprising , the most ancient and the most civilised mentality . |
| 60 | ‘ And if you did , ’ said Bodie tiredly , ‘ you 'd grow old and die before you told us . ’ |