Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [adv] [verb] [conj] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suddenly Harry felt the narrow cell so filled and overfilled with his own dread and hatred that he could hardly breathe . |
| 2 | She sat in front of her turfed teepee like a re-located squaw — the mass of brown hair loosely braided and heaped on her head like a parcel carelessly tied with twine , her forget-me-not blue eyes looking at Mary only when she thought she was unobserved , at all other times intent on the middle distance , her small , slight , quick body quivering as she enjoyed the rare comfort of proper sat-down company and felt the physical , close interest of another human being . |
| 3 | The old lady only smiled and leaned over to show me what to do . |
| 4 | Eleanor Thorne would not eat , she felt sick , her breakfast , a carefully boiled egg , the brown toast thinly cut and allowed to cool before buttering , all was left for Alida to clear away and waste . |
| 5 | It is quite well known that at Christmas British and German troops briefly fraternized and drank together in no-man's-land . |
| 6 | There they could be near to RSSPCC centres where interviewing could take place ; and in those centres the Society 's social workers repeatedly interviewed and questioned the nine children they had taken away . |
| 7 | Much so-called ‘ atonal ’ music is only music with a tonal foundation so obscured or disrupted that it is not easily perceived . |
| 8 | When Fred came back to the table , the two old friends suddenly fused and started to laugh , while Daisy had to wait upon them as their natural audience . |
| 9 | [ Article 16 concerned the preservation of cultural assets of the other party on their territory and the return of those cultural treasures illegally removed or misappropriated , which are on their territory . |
| 10 | Giles tried to refuse this gift , but the old man only laughed and smiled . |
| 11 | Removing the barrel and leaving just the pistol made the Light Rifle easier to handle but reduced the accuracy substantially . |
| 12 | Mixing theatrical flourish and cinematic panache ( with battles filmed in Hungary ) , CYRANO is a prodigious spectacle superbly mounted and designed . |
| 13 | A LOYALIST gunman yesterday shot and wounded a Catholic man who had been disabled in an earlier murder attempt . |
| 14 | The rudimentary nature of sanitary provision both justified and necessitated the separation of the races . |
| 15 | Maggie stared at John 's bare back , his creamy white skin punctuated by large freckles both fascinated and repelled her . |
| 16 | He was almost unique in that the ruthless and suspicious King genuinely liked and trusted him . |
| 17 | It seemed quite natural for us to end up slumped together on the ground , leaning unsteadily against each other , watching the children play while the more resilient dancers still staggered and turned in the firelight . |
| 18 | Memories would be revived , drinks bought , present circumstances either voiced or avoided , according to how well he knew — or could trust — his chance acquaintance . |
| 19 | Miller only credited Bartram with a few plants in the Dictionary : Lilium philadelphum , ‘ at present very rare in English gardens ’ , Toxicodendron serratum , ‘ not yet flowered ’ and Veratrum americanum , another rarity which had in a good season both flowered and seeded in this country . |
| 20 | As the train was departing , an elderly man hurriedly boarded and entered the compartment where the solitary occupant was studying his documents . |
| 21 | Inspection of Table 4.2 shows that those techniques already practised by local farmers , which the colonial government also encouraged and wished to extend , were accepted . |
| 22 | In their remarkable study , Stallybrass and White argue that ‘ the bourgeois subject continuously defined and re-defined itself through the exclusion of what it marked out as ‘ low' ’ — as dirty , repulsive , noisy , contaminating . |
| 23 | ‘ We went out on the cricket pitch one night , and this poor fellow just ran and ran . |
| 24 | We found the poor animal securely tethered and hobbled in a small , dank stable . |
| 25 | Large areas of conventional medicine thus represent particular aspects of traditional medicine systematically developed and extended . |
| 26 | The heavy mist rarely lifted but closed in like a cold , clinging cloud around us . |
| 27 | Because the sons of the primal father both loved and hated him the possibility arose that those of them who by luck or design chanced on their actual fathers in their hunt for women and killed him or drove him off ( most probably the former , the latter seems insufficiently traumatic ) would have gratified one side of their ambivalent feelings , but would by the same action have frustrated the other . |
| 28 | The inestimable book deliberately prohibited and discouraged . |
| 29 | They reached the outer air a moment before the octagonal arch finally broke and smashed into the flags . |
| 30 | When Doctor Staples came , he examined Arty and listened patiently to his self-diagnosis.The doctor neither confirmed nor denied that he was suffering from smallpox — which pleased Arty immensely . |