Example sentences of "[adj] [coord] [adj] for a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I felt very much the wallflower as I crept out of the room without speaking to anyone , my books held tightly against my chest in a way which , I was to learn , was feminine and wrong for a man . |
| 2 | Some of the locks were ready long before the canal which serves them , and were literally high and dry for a time . |
| 3 | Cambridge were left high and dry for a time this afternoon as Oxford followed in the footsteps of many a champion boxer and left the opposition waiting at the official weigh-in . |
| 4 | The Council will collect refuse from your side way , or from your ‘ back door ’ ( if that 's at ground level ) but the distance must be no more than 25 paces from the kerb and access must be adequate and safe for a refuse collector carrying a bin or sack . |
| 5 | And four and a quarter hours later , when it actually was four , and the bedclothes both above and below were a mere conglomerate heap , and Tessa 's strapping behind had pushed right across the bed , and Bob was cold and stiff from head to foot , and had been neither asleep nor awake for a moment , it felt as though the solar system had finally run down and stopped , and closed off the ever-renewing spring of pure , fresh time for good and all . |
| 6 | Water the plant well and keep warm and shaded for a day or two while it settles down . |
| 7 | There are numerous walks on the ancient Malvern Hills ( the oldest rock in england ) , and many are fairly easy and suitable for a family outing , yet yield superb panoramic views . |
| 8 | At once he would sense my withdrawal , and was sad and silent for a while . |
| 9 | He had taken far more interest in their efforts than his father had thought was right and proper for a boy and when Leonie , his eldest sister , had been apprenticed to a dressmaker his fascination had grown . |
| 10 | She shivered , suddenly feeling ridiculously shy and uncertain for a moment as he swiftly unknotted his tie and quickly removed his shirt with tense movements . |
| 11 | This would be a useful feature if it were not for the fact that a certain amount of vaginal discharge is perfectly normal and natural for a woman in her reproductive years ; and what is more , this natural discharge is subject to a fair amount of variation depending on the stage of the menstrual cycle . |
| 12 | An argument over the restaurant bill or at the cinema box office is humiliating and undignified for a man , and her good manners must save him from being put in such a situation . |
| 13 | Above Lechlade , nearer Inglesham , the River Thames becomes too narrow and shallow for a rowing boat to navigate . |
| 14 | In The Old Curiosity Shop it is high summer , and Dickens himself does not mention a fire , but it is featured by one of his illustrators , within a chimneypiece much too solid and grand for a labourer 's ‘ hut ’ ( Fig. 39 ) . |
| 15 | This is the best bit of all it 's dry and warm for a start . |
| 16 | ‘ Apart from that , all you need is to be passed fit and healthy for a doctor 's examination . ’ |
| 17 | It 's very hard and painful for a kid to face that . |
| 18 | He knew that by-and-by , when they were ripe , they would drop down into the ground ; there they would keep soft and warm for a while , then they would grow into more plants , with seeds , so there would always be plants on the earth … |
| 19 | Her stare was cold and unreadable for a moment before she broke into a smile . |
| 20 | When Beth finished reading , she sat still and silent for a moment , her heart aching , and her mind alive with memories of her old friend . |
| 21 | Revamped and ready for a ram raid . |
| 22 | The sexual irregularities of which biographers have made so much were not in themselves important or unusual for a ruler of that age . |
| 23 | Both Hayman 's suggestions were too loose and half-baked for a man of his devious cunning to consider seriously for a moment . |
| 24 | Cloudy and unfocused for a moment , his eyes quickly regained their normal piercing clarity . |
| 25 | But I am sure your own good sense will tell you that it is hardly practical nor proper for a girl as young as you still are to run a house alone without a companion of any sort . |
| 26 | The first two years of education were to be the academic years , and there were proposals for these two years also to be seen as discrete and eligible for a Diploma of Higher Education . |
| 27 | Dr. Kerr had said that they had not done so — but he was ‘ too wordy and declamatory for a witness ’ . |
| 28 | I felt nauseous and rotten for a week . |
| 29 | It was the first time they had mentioned the third who was there in the room with them , though they had both felt his presence , and she , indeed , had lived with it close and uncomforted for a year . |
| 30 | Consequently , we should not attempt to frame our legal rules with the precision of a logician 's statement of the conditions necessary and sufficient for a determination . |