Example sentences of "[adj] [to-vb] and [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No , it was n't transport related , I knew that my , my group , because everybody was placed in a certain group by age and , er I knew that I was due to go and I thought oh well this is hanging around you sort of wanted to get on with it . |
| 2 | The massacres would not be right from his viewpoint and wrong from theirs , he would be objectively right to kill and they to resist being killed ; the parallel would be to two contenders for a job both being right to apply in the eyes of all , not to each thinking himself right to apply and the other wrong . |
| 3 | when she was due to come and she 's still got a very bad chest |
| 4 | So we got everyone together here the bank manager , was Mr then , Barclays Bank we got two or three of the industrialists all of the members that were prepared to help and we started from there . |
| 5 | For the person who appreciates the beauty of poetry , the path through ecstasy and the peak experience is easy to see and it leads directly to the highest mysticism , ending in release and beyond . |
| 6 | I asked my neighbour to turn down her records as I found it impossible to concentrate and she said the only way she could cope with the stress of her reality was to blast her music . |
| 7 | Hair removal can be a messy business , but Inverness now do a clever Roll-On Depilatory which is easy to apply and it does n't drip . |
| 8 | It 's chip resistant , it 's easy to apply and it comes in a choice of twelve brilliant shades . |
| 9 | It was agreed this was not easy to do and it illustrated that deciding whether pupils had attained a long list of criteria would be a very considerable task . |
| 10 | The University is small , easy to manage and I think it 's providing all of the managerial challenges . |
| 11 | This was my favourite song as it was quite easy to sing and it had a stirring , catching rhythm . |
| 12 | GROUND cover plants help make a garden easy to maintain and they curb weeds . |
| 13 | His skin was very pink and felt warm to touch and he complained of " feeling hot and sweaty " . |
| 14 | They are easy to make and we have three designs to for you to choose from |
| 15 | It was hard to see and he touched the stones as he walked along by the wall . |
| 16 | But jobs were hard to find and he decided not to resign then but to wait a few weeks until he found another job . |
| 17 | It would be hard to bear and she dreaded such a letter because it might disturb her wonderful composure . |
| 18 | Mrs Browning handed her Ellen 's missive as though it were hardly fit to handle and she took it with equal reluctance . |
| 19 | It was not trying too hard to follow and they knew that there was much sympathy for the strike inside the police force . |
| 20 | I a lot , cos I remember erm when Claire was I got a really formal invitation to something and I asked Claire how you were supposed to reply and she told me the exact wording of how you should reply and I just looked at her I looked at her and I said I 'm not bloody writing that . |
| 21 | So er that was good to remember and she 's got another wedding cake in August I do n't know where she 's got it on the production line . |
| 22 | It is well-built , great to play and it sounds good , too . |
| 23 | Tumbleweed had vanished leaving a bundle of pondweed under his chair but everybody else seemed reluctant to go and we stood about in groups while Aunt Bedelia and the ladies of the WI handed round cups of tea . |
| 24 | Yep and and he does n't seem to be able to concentrate and I said , but Neil you can drive , when you go out with me you drive beautifully yes but yours is an automatic car , I said , it 's not that I said you 've got road sense you know what you 're doing , I said your good . |
| 25 | Soon she was barely able to walk and she had oxygen cylinders fitted in her bedroom . |
| 26 | They may not be able to fly and one does n't like to enquire too deeply into how elegant they look below the waterline , but steamer ducks — their wings gyrating through the water like paddle-wheels — can make 12 knots , and more in a following wind . |
| 27 | It was not too far to jump and I know every inch of the lake . |
| 28 | In the worst of conditions , Gloucester were desperate to win and they made sure of victory in the first half , when Martin Roberts kicked them into a 6-0 lead with 2 penalties . |
| 29 | I think and I think well I 've got this one practical to do and I 've got erm |
| 30 | Voting for Maastricht and hoping that the Tories can be beaten at a later date on the Social Chapter was a decision I found difficult to accept and I have done my homework on this issue . |