Example sentences of "[adj] and [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 The water was thick and brown and went down through the top end of Spaladale at a fearful rate .
2 The Woman loomed over the group , tall and brown and smiling down at the two mops of black hair — one over a quizzical smile and the other over a scowl .
3 When I had finished , her abdomen was lifted high and nipped in like a wasp-waisted Victorian lady of fashion .
4 Did you know it 's a replica of one of the charms said to be over a thousand years old and dug up on the island of Bornholm ? ’
5 He decided to be generous and went in to the shop .
6 Carson ran up the brick steps to the courtyard 's wooden side-door , rattling the bolt free and stepping out into the narrow alley that ran down the side of the house .
7 And in a second he was under the Man 's arm and out through the cage door , free and gliding over towards the fence by the benches .
8 She tucked in her brown silk blouse , tossed her red hair free and strode off towards the editor 's office , Mitch behind her admiring her slender figure and keeping his thoughts strictly to himself .
9 As soon as his hold slackened a shade she pulled free and set off down the stairs .
10 When you are nervous and anxious to please it is too easy to only half-listen and to leap in with an answer which is not quite relevant .
11 Nail clippers might also be required to prevent dew-claws from becoming overgrown and curling round into the dog 's flesh .
12 The carriageway was empty and sealed off from the world by chipped grey railings down the centre and either side .
13 I cut off the path proper and charged up over a dune and down its other side to where the service pipe carrying the water and electricity to the house appears out of the sand and crosses the creek .
14 He went over to a flowerbed and felt around in the mud .
15 The second Lady Deverill , also riding side-saddle and turned out in a quite immaculate habit , pulled up alongside Artemis on a bay Artemis had n't seen before .
16 Although at first it may prove excitable and run off around the garden , the puppy should soon return to you .
17 Gabby , who , with her husband , was preparing to run a guest house and had quite enough to do at home , cooked and brought down to the new house a hearty and beautifully cooked meal each evening , and filthy and exhausted the three of us would wolf it down .
18 Under the old community the harvest was the climax of the rural year , not merely an incident in the more mechanical and depersonalized round on the farm as it has become today .
19 The data can then be analysed or altered and placed back in the database .
20 Sweden is the latest country to suffer from criminals fiddling with mobile phones to re-direct bills — thousands of phones were stolen , altered and sold back to the market as ‘ no charge phones ’ : 10 people have been arrested so far for the crime , which came to light when some subscribers reported bills of $70,000 more than they were expecting ; police said that some of the men arrested were associated with the the Swedish state phone company Televerket and L M Ericsson Telefon AB , Reuter reports from Stockholm .
21 ‘ And if one man did just what you say is impossible and slipped in on the darkside ? ’
22 The school librarian can produce a library bulletin or newspaper in an attractive format and pupils can be encouraged to use the library as an information base in the truest sense — where information about the school is gathered , classified and presented back to the school in a readable and attractive form .
23 If we were to construct a ‘ ladder ’ of non-fatal offences , starting with the most serious and moving down to the least serious , the offence of attempted murder should be placed at the top .
24 We rose early and sailed back among the flying fish to Kalkan .
25 Standing stork-like and hanging on to the various bathroom fittings , she cleaned her teeth and made a reasonable toilet .
26 Sean ( Being really sad and coming in to the library on a sunday to do some work )
27 The nice young man could n't argue with that ; I paid the £25 extra and hurried out of the shop before he found a cheap white one .
28 ‘ If you are feeling bored and fed up with the daily routine , give the WI a try .
29 Our exercise periods were indeed much longer now and I padded around the room as much as I could , but Brian would often get bored and go back to a book .
30 I became bored and wandered back to the library .
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