Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] and [adv] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Little Monaco , with their English Third Division crowds , could easily afford to tempt Glenn Hoddle from Tottenham ; Marseille , who paid £4.5m for Chris Waddle , were said to have earned that and more from television alone in the previous year . |
| 2 | A good example of Airdrie 's dogged persistence came when Alan Lawrence , looking far too frail to survive amid the Rangers defence , somehow wriggled clear of Oleg Kuznetsov on the right and flew the ball to the head of Owen Coyle , who headed high and away from Andy Goram as the goalkeeper twisted to his left . |
| 3 | Over generations secondary sexual characteristics caused males in general to differ more and more from females . |
| 4 | Like other reform-minded Communists in Warsaw , he finds he has less and less in common with the Party 's local base . |
| 5 | It was perhaps because of this , and because I tried to foster the whole idea of positive thinking , that I began to concentrate more and more on visualization . |
| 6 | A bargain makes me feel threatened and seriously in need of urgent hospital treatment : depressed and unsure of myself . |
| 7 | Jimmy was looking long and hard at Pearce , who had retained an expression of disdain and scorn throughout . |
| 8 | but I 'm trying to make you aware of the fact that at some stage we should be looking long and hard at closing , right we 'd ask the questions , you 're quite good at asking questions , some sale field do n't ask question , do n't ask questions , right see you want to have a |
| 9 | In any event , however , the number of branches says less and less about capacity in banking . |
| 10 | The boundaries came thick and fast for Lawrence 's side — but it was the number seven batsman the crowd wanted to see . |
| 11 | Many of them have never acted before and came thick and fast to auditions with high hopes for a moment 's glory on ’ Inspector Morse . ’ |
| 12 | We know already that in crucial ways children and adults can feel miserable and alone in families and communities , particularly when their needs are not recognised or when , even if recognised , they can not be met properly . |
| 13 | For as women delivered them from the sex obsession , men would become more and more like women . |
| 14 | In the West we have bigger , warmer homes , more amusement , more communications ; we travel more and further for work and pleasure than every before . |
| 15 | And it struck me straight away that although the twentieth century as it marched on made us look more and more like Americans , we are Europeans , we always have been Europeans , our roots are there , our culture 's there and of course in the late twentieth century our economic needs , and the geographical links , the electronic links mean that we are there whether we like it or not . |
| 16 | But the state 's shabby and dangerous schools look less and less like breeding grounds for the biotechnologists and virtual-reality scriptwriters of the future . |
| 17 | Let me just , just show you a little thing here just enclosing , just linking it up there , there it is , it 's , it 's a well known little picture , it 's a picture of a wheel where there in the centre the hub is Christ , you see when the hub has got to be the centre otherwise the wheel does not run true and there with Christ is the hub , the centre of your life , the centre of my life , and you and I our lives our selves , there on the outside , were the rim and there 's those spokes that hold it together and make it run true the spoke of , of the bible , God 's word allowing him to speak to us , the spoke of prayer , our communion with God , our praying to him , the spoke of obedience following him obeying him , bringing our lives into , into line with what he says in his word , he says if you love me you will keep my commandments , that 's why we 've got to learn and get to know them from his word and then the spoke of fellowship somebody as likened them to prayer , being like air , our breath , the bible being like food , giving us nourishment and strength , fellowship , it 's the family situation and in just as in a nature family there is , that is the place for care , it 's the place for support it 's the place of sharing , it 's the place of love , where it should be , so God 's family , and then the final one their obedience like exercise , keeping fit , it 's the callisthenics , it 's keeping the muscles toned , obeying what he tells us in his word , well that 's what it means to be a Christian bringing ourselves into line with him and allowing him to re-fashion us in his image and it 's a process that 's going on all the time , Wesley and his hymn talks about us being used and the scripture being changed from glory into glory , till in heaven we take our place there , like him , John says when we see him , we shall be like him , but we shall see him as he is and that 's God 's purpose for you and for me , to be like him , and the moment we come to him and respond to him , the process starts and it goes on , day in , day out , night in , night out , week in , week out , over the years him changing and fashioning us into the image of his son , because that 's how he created us originally , he created to be like him and in this new creation , we were singing we are a new creation , it 's to be like him . |
| 18 | I arrived bright and early at Brian the falconer 's house for day one of my course . |
| 19 | Consortium Developments Ltd , a company established by Bovis , Barratt , Wimpey and Beazer , was behind the spectre of Stone Bassett and fought long and hard for permission to develop an area of 12,000 acres and build 6,000 houses . |
| 20 | Searching for inspiration he had glanced to the north and seen the helicopter flying low and fast from Richborough Castle towards the area beyond the 17th green . |
| 21 | Two passengers were operating lap-top computers when a Boeing 747-400 started oscillating left and right during flight . |
| 22 | Whenever she did , I prayed long and hard for protection for Gary . |
| 23 | It has just won an additional franchise in Germany and according to Elstone , the company will move more and more into Europe as the UK market continues to mature . |
| 24 | In The Silmarillion we learn that water is the province of the Vala Ulmo , and that from it ( sea or river ) there often comes assistance ; the incident with Sam and Frodo begins to seem less and less like chance , more and more of a ‘ sending ’ . |
| 25 | The ability of modern technology to cope with the problem of soil erosion is summarised thus : ‘ Growing populations may in part have destroyed more land than they improved , but it makes little sense to project past trends into the future , since we know more and more about methods of land preservation and are able by means of modern methods , to reclaim much land , which our ancestors have made sterile . ’ |
| 26 | As the years passed , he was beginning to sound more and more like Matthew Arnold — although Arnold was never quite able to practise what he preached . |
| 27 | For my part , I feel elated and close to tears . |
| 28 | As time went by , Mr Utterson became calmer and more at peace with himself . |
| 29 | As David watches events that can never take place again , such as the Woodbrook dance , and observes the cloaked distress of the family at their growing impecuniousness , he falls deeper and deeper in love with Phoebe , his Venus rising up through adolescence into womanhood . |
| 30 | In the warmth at home we planned out possible routes and looked long and hard at Robin Collomb 's guide to the Ecrins Park ( West Col Productions 1986 ) and at IGN sheet No. 241 , Meije and Pelvoux . |