Example sentences of "[adj] and [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The works , in whatever medium , must be self-sufficient and stand up for themselves . |
| 2 | He vehemently dislikes smoking and while they were together she stopped smoking and cut down on drinking . |
| 3 | Stop smoking and cut down on sugary snacks . |
| 4 | The windscreen in front of the ‘ cabin' looks just like glass , but is in fact edible and made out of melted glacier mint — a clever and original idea you could adapt for other cakes , for example for windows . |
| 5 | Some were sudden and burst out in a blaze , some were gradual and soundless and floated about in bits like tinsel blown and scattered , extinguishing one neither knew nor cared where . |
| 6 | Eye colours should be rich and dark with lips outlined in soft brown and filled in with nearly nude shades of coffee and cream . |
| 7 | The water was thick and brown and went down through the top end of Spaladale at a fearful rate . |
| 8 | His hair was dark brown and slicked back with Brylcreem . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | " I do dislike them when all the petals turn brown and flap about in that untidy way . " |
| 11 | You know , telling us everything about the Tories , what they 've done wrong and to go on from that , not telling us anything about how you 're gon na put it right . |
| 12 | Another is that some guesses were quickly proved to have been wrong and ended up in bankruptcy . |
| 13 | When I had finished , her abdomen was lifted high and nipped in like a wasp-waisted Victorian lady of fashion . |
| 14 | Margaret herself was dressed in a tight-fitting , damson-coloured gown which emphasised her full , rounded figure whilst her golden hair was unbraided and hung down to her shoulders . |
| 15 | 1 sliced white loaf ( day old and kept out of its wrapping ) |
| 16 | Potential staff have to be at least 18 years old and qualified up to GCSE level , including maths and English . |
| 17 | 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 ? ’ |
| 18 | He decided to be generous and went in to the shop . |
| 19 | What I most relish is the thought of me , eight hours through the treatment , rushing blindly to a meeting at the BBC , hair sodden , stinky and moving around of its own accord . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Nails and Hoomey wriggled free and made off like hares and by the time the opposition had refocussed on Seb as main aggressor rather than Jazz a police car was cruising to a standstill alongside and a new element was introduced . |
| 24 | As soon as his hold slackened a shade she pulled free and set off down the stairs . |
| 25 | Some are direct and made up of straight lines , others meander around ; in some the electron moves fast , in others it dawdles . |
| 26 | Perhaps Flaubert 's interest was encouraged by the discovery ( or indeed the memory ) that in 1837 the king 's sarcophagus had been excavated by the British and shipped back to London . |
| 27 | No , not at all , and then , even in her confused state , her mind shied away from the reasons for her distaste , and she found herself saying even through her pain and shock , ‘ I will not think about that , I will not , ’ and so saying she stopped struggling and sank back into oblivion once more . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | He was found later on one of the rugby pitches soaking wet and scrambling around for his bag of tools . |
| 30 | Maggie comes into the pub , her hair wet and pulled back from her face . |