Example sentences of "[adj] and [adv] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On one of them , the leather sole had been built up fairly high and yet by the sheer elegance of the design the modification scarcely showed . |
| 2 | But the lifts of the pen came regularly at every fourth letter — Middlemass had never found a forger who remembered to vary the interval at which he lifted pen from paper — and the dot above the i , high and slightly to the left , and the over-emphatic apostrophe were almost a trade-mark . |
| 3 | With Ruggles and Parkinson hitting high and hard in the third , Partners held a 14–11 advantage but again failed to capitalise , although a couple of refereeing decisions left them puzzled . |
| 4 | The curtains were drawn but they were thin and unlined and even in the subdued light he could see that the room was spectacularly untidy . |
| 5 | Most of the time it was rigid and still under the hot sky but on the occasions when it swayed , though no one noticed a breeze , there was a tiny ticking noise of brittle head against dry stalk . |
| 6 | He grasped her around the waist , his hands warm and hard through the thin silk of her dress as he steadied her , and Fran felt her heart run wild . |
| 7 | To the player it is all too real and even from the prime position in the middle of the fairway he can barely pick out the top of the flag amid the brightly-coloured hues of the spectators . |
| 8 | Perhaps she reserves her fondest memories for Sergeant Barry Mannakee who became her bodyguard at a time when she felt lost and alone in the royal world . |
| 9 | Staying cloudy in most places although a few bright intervals at possible and apart from the odd chance of a light shower it should stay dry milder than of late top temperature eleven celsius fifty two fahrenheit mist and patchy fog will form tonight and drizzle is likely in places too the overnight low eight celsius forty six fahrenheit mist and fog clearing slowly tomorrow a dull start it should brighten up later on though sunny intervals developing the high tomorrow thirteen degrees . |
| 10 | A meeting of Leaders and Trustees was held in the Carleton Cafe the following Friday evening , 18 December — they wasted no time — and after a prolonged discussion the decision was taken to build a new church as soon as possible and certainly within the following five years . |
| 11 | Although most of our Nursery pupils do go on to the Junior and subsequently to the Senior School at Heriot 's , transfer is not automatic . |
| 12 | ‘ The inspectors were perfectly pleasant and apart from the odd query you 'd hardly know they were there , ’ said Mr Dicketts . |
| 13 | The greatest danger to the West may be a USSR militarily strong and politically on the defensive : ‘ politics ’ , as Lenin said , ‘ is the reason , war only the tool ’ . |
| 14 | Now fully recovered from a hairline crack of the shin , Robson spoke to the England manager , Bobby Robson , this morning to tell him that he had suffered no reaction from the Portsmouth game and was fit and well for the Polish trip . |
| 15 | I ran hard and fast along the wet sand where it was good and firm , making a jet noise with my mouth and holding my binoculars and bag down tight to my sides . |
| 16 | The chairman thanked all those who had worked hard and tirelessly over the last year for the benefit of the club and its members . |
| 17 | When she thought about them , she saw devils as small creatures with hooves and a tail , horned and two-legged and yet at the same time resembling tadpoles . |
| 18 | He must be sagacious and have good judgement , be patient and yet at the same time firm in maintaining the interests of the ruler he represented . |
| 19 | The protuberance under her fingers felt soft and hard at the same time , an iron fist in a velvet glove . |
| 20 | Apart from whether the weak transmissions from a pair of £25-sets operating on the American Citizens ' Band FM frequency could have penetrated the thick walls of Blake 's cell , which were reinforced with cast-iron segments , with no external aerial and close to the 17 feet-high perimeter wall , there is also the question of how Blake managed to keep a radio in his cell without it once being noticed over six months during which he and his cell were regularly searched . |
| 21 | ‘ I keep the subject constantly before me , and wait till the first dawnings open slowly by little and little into the full and clear light . ’ |
| 22 | The conversion was from the left and well to the left , but kicker Missimo Bonomi waited until the charging Irish seven were almost on top of him before sending a high , curling attempt just wide of the posts . |
| 23 | Yet more men were coming from the crossroads and deploying left and right beyond the first two units . |
| 24 | Opinion polls predict that the Green alliance could win at least 15-17 per cent of the vote in the elections ; an 18 per cent share would give it a chance of holding the balance of power between left and right in the national assembly . |
| 25 | In the New World metallurgy developed comparatively late and then in the main , as we have seen ( p. 3 ) , to satisfy symbolic rather than utilitarian needs . |
| 26 | So we all know that Benn is black and yet at the same time the Guardian can maintain the implicit position : ‘ Black ? |
| 27 | Her heart was hammering hard but she knew that if she breathed slowly and deeply and looked long and intently at the comforting ritual of man and beast before her , the thudding would subside . |
| 28 | Backstage at Leeds Grand Theatre , a few days after Swan Lake 's royal premiere elicited a five-minute standing ovation from the audience , Gable talks long and intelligently about the controversial production . |
| 29 | He looked long and hard at the younger executive as if trying to sum him up . |
| 30 | It would be nice to say that the tiny frogs thought long and hard about the new flower , about life in the old flower , about the need to explore , about the possibility that the world was bigger than a pool with petals around the edge . |