Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [verb] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But everyone knew , even then , about unsatisfied or sublimated or postponed desires : the final step must be action . |
| 2 | Even so , there is a note of baleful realism in his injunction that : none of our own sons should in any circumstances cause any [ of our grandsons ] accused before him to be put to death , or corporally mutilated or blinded or tonsured against his will , without lawful trial and inquiry . |
| 3 | He must select and contrast the strong and weak or tensed and relaxed movements in order to give them tempo , rhythm and expressive quality . |
| 4 | As a generalisation this is all too true : however there are areas where the gap is narrow or narrowing and others where it hardly exists . |
| 5 | 24 quails ' eggs , fresh or smoked or a mixture of both 25g/1oz softened butter 240g/8oz/carton strained Greek-style yogurt 2 × 15ml/tbsp freshly chopped chives 2 × 15ml/tbsp freshly chopped dill 50g/2oz pine kernels salt and pepper freshly grated Parmesan cheese to serve |
| 6 | Is it sharp and clear or blurred and ill-defined ? |
| 7 | It is English or nodding but their own sort of Spanish . |
| 8 | Griffiths made it clear that care and support could be provided from a variety of sources . |
| 9 | They were the same , of course , that rich shade of brown that lightened and darkened as his mood changed . |
| 10 | Rousseau ( 1762 , p.54 ) wrote in Émile : ‘ Childhood has its own ways of seeing , thinking and feeling ; nothing is more foolish than to try and substitute our ways ’ . |
| 11 | A two year study is to take place which will include the consideration of methods of killing that are more acceptable than stabbing or clubbing . |
| 12 | The 1937 sound as transferred is clear and welldetailed but rather lacks tonal depth . |
| 13 | The river was clear and rushing and fringed by trees . |
| 14 | The panic was absorbed by his warmth , the hard resilient muscles of his body , absorbed and drawn and sucked out of her . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | We all found it interesting and enlightening and are grateful to — head brewer and — brewing manager . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | You mean that was like funny and working and that ? |
| 21 | ‘ One firework somehow went wrong and exploded and a fragment hit the baby . |
| 22 | In June too , after an attempt to repel the rebels had failed , and the leaders of the royal force , Sir Humphrey Stafford and William Stafford , had been killed at Sevenoaks , the government had tried to placate the Kentishmen by arresting Crowmer and Say and sending them to the Tower , and when Cade 's men entered London in July , those two were among their earliest victims ( 16 , p.192 ) . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | But even in a dense garden , plants grow old and die and cuttings need to be taken . |
| 25 | She said in a muffled voice , ‘ It seems so awful that people grow old and die and no one remembers what they were like . |
| 26 | Her coat , old and worn but once good , was also black . |
| 27 | He peered under his ancient hat at Jill , who noticed that his eyes were blue and very bright , although his face was old and seamed and wrinkled . |
| 28 | There is one pointed apical papilla flanked on each side by 3 oral papillae , the distalmost of which is long with its free and widened and squared off . |
| 29 | Be brave and try and complete all the sections . |
| 30 | It is through common sense , fair dealing and strength of will that he dominates the men he now has to command , first for days in an open boat with scant food and water and then in the Bird of Dawning , a rival grain-clipper found deserted and drifting and brought once more into the final and victorious stages of the race . |