Example sentences of "[adj] and [adj] [conj] i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and words are put clear and strong and I think I 'd use the word forceful |
| 2 | I was eventually given my clothes back , but they were all muddy and damp because I 'd been on gardens . |
| 3 | That was very brutal and hurtful when I felt down . |
| 4 | So I just waited for the contact , and hoped that my voice would sound calm and easy as I told Famlio my lies . |
| 5 | It was interesting and exciting and I began to forget the bad times in Hong Kong . |
| 6 | These jumpers dry in no time , no pressing is required and the fabric is so light and cosy that I wear them all year round ! |
| 7 | She looked so fresh and happy that I started grinning as soon as I waved to her , standing below me in the cockpit of the boat , where a servant from Faalifu was carrying some packages while Captain Baker looked down from the bridge . |
| 8 | It was wet and cold and I realised I was bleeding heavily . ’ |
| 9 | I have to dress in my sweaty , dirty clothes and go back down to the kitchen , grumbling while she makes me a coffee , and I complain about my wet boots and she gives me a fresh pair of William 's socks to wear and I put them on and drink my coffee and whine about never being allowed to spend the night and tell her how just once I 'd like to wake up here in the morning , and have a nice , civilised breakfast with her , sitting on the sunny balcony outside the bedroom windows , but she makes me sit down while she laces my boots up , then takes my coffee cup off me and sends me out the back door and says I 've got two minutes before she arms the alarm and puts the infrared lights on stand-by so I have to go back the way I came , over the estate wall and through the wood and down into the stream where I get both feet wet and cold and I fall going up the bank and get all muddy and eventually drag myself up and through the hedge , scratching my cheek and tearing my polo-neck and then trudging across the field through heavy rain and more mud and finally getting to the car and panicking when I ca n't find the car keys before remembering I put them in the button-down back pocket of the jeans for safety instead of the side pocket like I usually do , and then having to put some dead branches under the front wheels because the fucking car 's stuck and finally getting away and home and even in the street light I can see what a mess of the pale upholstery my muddy clothes have made . |
| 10 | I know some people might think the decision I made was unpleasant and monstrous but I want to tell how I came to make the decision and the reasons behind it . |
| 11 | Everything in bilingual Canada was written in both English and French and I realized that since my arrival I 'd been reading the French quite easily . |
| 12 | The bad news is that the good news made me feel so relieved and excited that I ran out to a bar and drank a bunch of big ones . |
| 13 | M.J. talked a lot , and Donald said I encouraged her too much , and that I.C.B. was on the point of being more personal and interesting if I had let her — but I was rather shy of it . |
| 14 | I found Naomi Wolf 's article Exploding The Beauty Myth in the November 1990 issue so eye-opening , thoughtful and powerful that I felt compelled to buy her book . |
| 15 | If you want to hang the decoration up , first make a hole through the ball with a knitting needle or metal skewer. then I like to spray the whole figure with gold or silver paint so that my added ‘ clothes ’ can be a delicate and fragile as I wish . |
| 16 | Quite right and proper but I did n't fancy trying to scrounge a lift from a back-bencher . ’ |
| 17 | It appears to have escaped Berkeley 's attention that not all imaginary things , for example a drunkard 's pink rats , are voluntary and lack the vivacity of the real thing , and also that , when I set myself to imagine something , I can make my ideas as orderly and coherent as I like . |
| 18 | A gust of wind throws rain against the window and shakes the frame ; it 's loud and surprising and I flinch but he just turns slowly and looks out into the darkness with what could almost be contempt before laughing and putting an arm round my shoulder and suggesting we have another drink . |
| 19 | She says I was very shy and scared and I did n't like the fact I had to sit quietly and could n't play with any of the toys . |
| 20 | I was tall and slim but I had an eating disorder and my weight fluctuated wildly according to how I ate . |
| 21 | The teaching is just as accurate and painstaking and thorough as I have found in previous years . |
| 22 | She stood , in her white dressing gown , looking as wan and bleary-eyed as I felt . |
| 23 | No , it 's permed and is prone to being dry and frizzy so I have to use a lot of conditioner on it . |
| 24 | More likely the net was carried away because the ground was bone dry and hard and I had n't been able to push the stakes deep enough into the soil . |
| 25 | It was false and manipulative and I admired it tremendously . |
| 26 | They are both fit and active but I find it very difficult to keep their weight up . |
| 27 | So it is on the basis of us all ( EVEN I ! ) being human and fallible that I have to announce that it is scientifically almost impossible not to shed surplus body fat when calorie intake is strictly limited to 1,000 a day . |
| 28 | At the East 15 Drama School I have taken audition technique sessions , which was all fine and large but I encouraged them to write their own material as well as having stock pieces to do . |
| 29 | I find love songs really soppy and sweet and I live in the city and … |
| 30 | ‘ I 'm untidy and careless and I forget the rules . |