Example sentences of "[adj] and [verb] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She wondered whether Philippa had really outgrown her passion for partially disabled men but she seemed oblivious of all this and sat like a springtime sprig in a bed of roses , contemplating her coincidental twin . |
| 2 | Mandeville sensed this and closed like a hawk for the kill . |
| 3 | She was anxious , for no such thing has ever happened to her before , her memory was always clear and rounded as a bell-note and utterly reliable . |
| 4 | The input to a program should be clear and kept to a minimum ; the output on the screen should be clear and presented at a sensible speed ; and any ‘ special ’ or complex computer procedures should appear to the user as ordinary and easy to use . |
| 5 | The moon had set , but the sky was clear and lit by a sprinkling of stars . |
| 6 | Lucien , keeping close behind , noticed that Tavalouze 's robe was a little stained , and his hair was as unshaped and straggling as a beggar 's . |
| 7 | The data stored and manipulated within a GIS are of two specific kinds . |
| 8 | The house committee met weekly and dealt with a variety of matters . |
| 9 | 4 You can learn more about the vauDe range by ringing 0434 320744 and asking for a catalogue . |
| 10 | That temper was raised higher still when he was finally allowed through and found Matchsticks already waiting , idly smoking and flicking through a copy of Lui . |
| 11 | Mr John Cleese , the icon , has revealed that when his mother dies he intends to ‘ have her stuffed and put in a glass case in his front hall . ’ |
| 12 | Who stayed upstairs I never did find out , but the house is now well and truly Yuppified and owned by a couple of actresses from good families . |
| 13 | If an operation went wrong and resulted in a scandal because one of their agents had been caught in the act there was no one in Russia who would criticise . |
| 14 | Slice the eggs in half and arrange on a serving dish on a bed of torn frisee lettuce . |
| 15 | This castle , built c. 1130 , is of stone and is about 125 feet high and based on a plan 70 feet square . |
| 16 | They were hand in hand , about a yard apart , swinging their joined hands high and indulging in a tug-of-war every time they encountered a lamp-post or a tree . |
| 17 | I am thirteen years old and go to a girls ' school , predominantly working class , at the Elephant and Castle , London . |
| 18 | One hundred and ten people infected with HIV reported 119 children , of whom 60 were dependent — that is , less than 16 years old and living with a parent . |
| 19 | After all , it is about the conservation of the old and founded on a suspicion of the new . |
| 20 | As Derek Brown of Birchfield , who at 13 years old and speculating on a career in athletics , spending two evenings and a Sunday morning training , said : ‘ I do n't let it bother my school work 'cause I can get it all done in my other time , but this [ athletics ] is what I 'd really like to do ; I keep setting myself goals every year to get to the top . ’ |
| 21 | Fast , quick-witted and determined as a player , demanding and insistent as a manager , there was little doubt that he would snatch his career back from the brink of failure . |
| 22 | Thankfully , though , there still remained one stark difference between the two men ; because where Luther had a cruel and vicious streak in his character , David was a gentle soul , generous and accommodating to a fault . |
| 23 | And anytime they got in a fix , they called on the children to lift paper masks ( given out free and serving as a programme on the reverse ) to their faces and give a special Care Bear Stare at the stage to overcome Coldheart 's evil intent . |
| 24 | We would rather be free and live in a mess . |
| 25 | I must be free and stand as a Conservative ; I could not serve under L.G. again . |
| 26 | There is a tax difference as between private investors buying such gilts direct and buying via a fund , such as ours , in that the former strategy is exempt from capital gains tax . |
| 27 | He focused again on the patterns made by damp and mould on a patch of distempered mortar level with his eyes — a piece of coastline seen from a hill , headlands enclosing a bay with a wide curve . |
| 28 | Then it was back to Mick 's summer stamping ground at Henna Cliff , one which Mick dubiously claims is getting ‘ very popular ’ , and climbed Henna Fall ( grade III/IV and claimed as a three-star 95 foot classic ) . |
| 29 | She would lie for hours — days even , for she had lost all interest in time — in an abstraction of pain , her bruised mind slipping and struggling and relapsing into a slough . |
| 30 | Its symbolism may or may not be universal for all mankind , or for all within one culture , but enough dream material is common for others to be interested and gripped by a person who recounts his dreams . |