Example sentences of "[adj] and [verb] [adv] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the girls ' establishment where she had been sent at huge expense to learn music and French and to carry out the ornate disciplines conceived by the headmistress — including communal teeth-washing in the gardens , winter and summer , and then communal gargling into the rosebeds , which the headmistress regarded as a form of manure-spreading — the pain was put down to growing too fast . |
| 2 | For the truth of God in the power of the Spirit can shed light and liberate where the simple recognition of fault or personal deficiency lacks power for transformation . |
| 3 | The insect jerks itself free and hangs on the empty pupa case , its body trembling . |
| 4 | In a thousand remote little farmhouses and cottages , islanded beneath wind-shriven willows or leaning poplars , the racing floods covered the black fields , overflowed the straight dykes … and leaping upon those lonely homes with all the relentless force of wind and gales , burst open the doors , shattered the ground floor windows … and rushed gurgling and swirling up the narrow staircase . |
| 5 | Both country 's leaders were from the same generation Clinton is 46 , Major 49 and came up the hard way , she added . |
| 6 | He must have been crouched behind a bank of snow watching him all the time as he came struggling and panting up the long slope . |
| 7 | There are county players who average 35–40 and do exactly the same in Tests . |
| 8 | That probably means it will offend the few and rip off the many . |
| 9 | It is difficult to define accurately what it was like for , although it still exists , it has been damaged , altered and restored so the original design has been obscured . |
| 10 | He walked all over Lyne picking up blocks of red sandstone ashlar and pointing out the old grooves and cramp-holes . |
| 11 | I roll a joint and turn off the bright neon , leaving us with the sultry lilac glow of a smaller and older lamp , the first I ever bought . |
| 12 | If a bank receives a new cash deposit of £ 100 , it will retain £ 10 and lend out the remaining £90 . |
| 13 | Copy the sales invoice on page 112 and fill in the following information : |
| 14 | He came to Europe in 1948 and returned again the following year when his familiar blue and yellow Maserati was a regular sight at Grand Prix on the continent . |
| 15 | No more being shy and going up the high one . |
| 16 | His attitude was childlike and brought out the full force of her anger against the vultures waiting beyond the door . |
| 17 | The interior is in a poor state but much of the four tiers of the exterior arcade walling is intact and illustrates clearly the Roman building method of using arch and order , with the entablatures continuing in unbroken horizontal bands round the whole amphitheatre and the columns lined up one above the other . |
| 18 | Rain lifted each and saw how the dark blobs of their shadows stretched to magnified shapes as she held and turned them . |
| 19 | Bouncing and bucking down the rough , uneven scrubland of the sloping ground beyond , it finally fetched up hard when it smashed head-on into a rocky outcrop . |
| 20 | However , the Government 's approach , conditioned by the sole objective of reducing expenditure , was far too narrow and attacked only the soft underbelly without reaching the heart of the problem . |
| 21 | It will inevitably take some time before the full benefits of our strategy are realised and , whilst we expect our production and cash flow to remain strong and rise over the next few years , profitability in the short term is likely to remain depressed , even with contributions from disposals . |
| 22 | The main restoration of the Norman stone-built church was done in 1893 and remains much the same to this day except for modernisation of lighting and heating , addition of carpets , kneelers etc . |
| 23 | She did not even realize her hair had come down and that she had lost her hat until she found herself leaning against a wall somewhere on the other side of St Jude 's Passage , her lungs bursting , her temples and her pulses hammering out their distress , her whole appearance wild and dishevelled and attracting not the least attention in that place which-no matter what might have befallen her — had seen it all before . |
| 24 | She never moved as I nipped hard and winkled out the offending obstruction . |
| 25 | She claims her alleged victim was confused and made up the whole story . |
| 26 | She claims her alleged victim was confused and made up the whole story . |
| 27 | I mean when we 're walking we are actually falling the whole time , but insects are not like that , they do n't stand on three and pick up the other three . |
| 28 | Hence ‘ Inspiringly Titled ’ , the live LP recorded at Kilburn National and featuring roughly the same set they toured with in the spring , from the opening ‘ Start ’ to the closing Hüsker Dü cover , ‘ Do n't Want To Know If You 're Lonely ’ . |
| 29 | The true goal is a summit to the right of the col , but the climber may begin a bit too far to the left and go up the other way . |
| 30 | Firstly , jump up and collect the shield , then go left , jump on the platform to your left and then the platform on your right , grab the weight , climb the right wall and throw the weight on the switch , jump/fly up onto the block on the wall , go left and cross the gap on the swing , fly up two platforms and run right , go under the guillotine , jump up the pipe and collect a weight , walk left and fall off the last platform , throw the weight on the switch , go left and use the fly to climb up the platform , take the weight and throw it on the switch above you . |