Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] [conj] [adv] [art] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 But when I needed a breath of air , or wished to explore Reine , and was out of the attic for an hour or so , leaving him alone there , he became depressed and even a little disagreeable .
2 The majority of staff — 62 per cent — read all or most of Newsline while 38 per cent read some or just a little of the publication .
3 Jack Alderson appeared in every League fixture and his record of only conceding 34 goals in a full League season was to remain far and away the best by any Palace goalkeeper for over half a century .
4 But , back in England , The Smiths felt unsettled and just a little paranoid .
5 If he fails to do this , we can only ask him to take another and perhaps a more careful look at our experiment , and think again .
6 A stranger to the district , coming over a brow of the hill , would have stopped astonished and perhaps a little peeved to see Ploughman 's Lane lying beneath him .
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