Example sentences of "[adj] and [vb base] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am thirteen years old and go to a girls ' school , predominantly working class , at the Elephant and Castle , London . |
| 2 | We would rather be free and live in a mess . |
| 3 | I must be free and stand as a Conservative ; I could not serve under L.G. again . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | For the remaining junctions the transitions will be staggered and result in a B II phosphate facing a B I phosphate . |
| 6 | And , like a little child , he stopped being careful and tense for a moment and said what was in his head , quite simply . |
| 7 | It was Welsh rugby at its best and it proved to be much too quick , clever and alert for a Baa-Baas side boasting five current Springbok squad members , three Namibian internationals and a host of top Provincial players from the Republic . |
| 8 | Arrange the tomatoes and melon wedges decoratively on the couscous and accompany with a lemon wedge . |
| 9 | ‘ Oliver , Oliver … ‘ , creeping along delicate and tense as a stalking cat . |
| 10 | ‘ Let's not be too hasty and come to a conclusion before we 've got all the facts . ’ |
| 11 | There was a real fear that an amendment which satisfied developers would seriously weaken or even wreck the planning machine ; the scheme was part of a complex of planning controls which might easily be upset and result in a return to the very problems which the 1947 Act was designed to solve . |
| 12 | ( 'She was very tall and lean as a post … |
| 13 | Pat skin dry and moisturise with a body lotion . |
| 14 | This requires careful measurement and joining to keep the two elbow bends aligned — assemble them dry and mark with a pencil . |
| 15 | As we have already seen , the results of experiments comparing the effects of mere observation of the stimuli with those produced by explicit discrimination training have turned out to be inconsistent and open to a range of interpretations . |
| 16 | These propositions are large and open to a variety of possible objections . |
| 17 | Pass a small shed on your left and go through a gate until you reach the Larriston Burn . |
| 18 | Go along the path , keeping the farmhouse on your left and pass through a metal gate . |
| 19 | Take the green gate on the left and continue to a tarmac road . |
| 20 | Those of a pike have become elegant filmy sculls , rotating slowly back and forth from a joint within the body , so that the fish can compensate for the tiniest variation of current and hang above a rock as though it were suspended from an invisible wire . |
| 21 | ‘ Joking , damn you , stand still and fight like a man . ' , |
| 22 | He kissed her again , almost shyly , as though they had not so recently been as intimate and close as a man and woman could be . |
| 23 | Like lots of other music mad teeangers Sam , Jim and Ben Turner get together after school , and dream that one day they 'll be famous and play in a rock band . |
| 24 | The easiest approach is to plan the gore as one half only on a folded sheet of paper , then to cut out the pattern through the two leaves , open out flat and transfer to a piece of stout card or hardboard , With an average of 14 to cut , did you remember to include the hem width ? |
| 25 | They fall asleep late and wake with a headache . |
| 26 | You have to be black and live in a place like Deptford : then it sounds believable . |
| 27 | I order a vodka and orange and sit in a corner beneath peeling mauve and silver flock wallpaper . |
| 28 | The exceptions relating to this section are very important and refer to a number of activities usually carried out whilst on holiday . |
| 29 | He argued that inventions have two parts : the product itself , which must be ‘ startling , unexpected and come to a world which is not prepared ’ , and the ‘ gestalt ’ in which the product is embedded : |
| 30 | His boat was small and open with a minute wheelhouse that would dangerously wedge his bulk . |