Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] [conj] [adv] in [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His body was up against hers , close and strong and totally in control . |
| 2 | This littleness is at once paltry and menacing and never in repose . |
| 3 | The aunts had sat half-veiled in the evening , talking in Arabic and French and sometimes in English for me , but I had n't listened . |
| 4 | Manucci , who was employed in Dara Shukoh 's artillery , portrays his patron as a flawed hero , brave and generous but constantly in danger of being outwitted by his wily opponents : |
| 5 | The days of the popularity of black and white etchings waned at the turn of this century : the demand was filled by photographic views , first in black and white and then in colour . |
| 6 | He had been dismayed , almost horrified , when she had opened the front door a crack and displayed herself pale and ill and obviously in need of cherishing . |
| 7 | ‘ She 's been my secretary for two years , is quiet and reserved and madly in love with the man she lives with . |
| 8 | So one fifteenth of three hundred and sixty is going to be three hundred and sixty and then in front of that you 'll want one fifteenth of and this times thing is quite handy when we 're multiplying fractions together we 'll just get three sixty over fifteen . |
| 9 | The old stonework was crumbling and eroded and badly in need of repair . |
| 10 | We had a flood of cases : buildings of all types and sizes , of all styles and ages , but with one thing in common — they were disused and decaying and evidently in need of a new owner or a new use , as their present owners were being decidedly neglectful . |
| 11 | Cranmer had no desire to make the Anglican Church national in doctrine and ritual but only in jurisdiction . |
| 12 | ‘ So my first thought was of a time-space machine ( thanks to H. G. Wells ) in which contemporary characters ( one of whom I wanted to be a 12–13 year old ) would be able to travel forward and backward in time , and inward and outward in space . |
| 13 | All records will be in their correct places and the file will be physically as well as logically in sequence . |