Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [verb] [adv] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It leaves me high and dry as far as the debt 's concerned . |
| 2 | For a while , Jem manages to restrict Scout who does n't realise how serious everything is and wants to run to Atticus , but eventually she breaks free and runs as fast as she can to him . |
| 3 | ‘ I am not myself convinced that the Government will be so foolish as to go so far as to privatise water . |
| 4 | Her ribs were clear , her hipbones stuck out like mountains on a desert relief map , her thighs were straight and looked even longer than usual . |
| 5 | The 10-month-old Italians were said to be ‘ stable and doing as well as can be expected ’ at London 's Great Ormond Street children 's hospital . |
| 6 | Facts were to do with the material conditions of life described as precisely as possible and counted as accurately as possible . |
| 7 | The lenses will be as small and thin as possible and fit as loosely as appropriate in order to maintain the health of the eyes . |
| 8 | The stress concentration at a crack tip was first calculated by Inglis in 1913 , as we have said , and his results are classic and correct as far as they go . |
| 9 | For various reasons the main one of which was a lack of understanding of our problems , our local administration were often unsympathetic and went so far as to accuse us of non co-operation at times , especially in the matter of rest days . |
| 10 | People fell sick and died more often than they committed offences against others ; in the overwhelming majority of cases lineages collected contributions , and larger entities were not involved . |
| 11 | These are all fairly high in protein , so once they have been accepted , growth will be pretty rapid if fed twice daily until your fish is about six inches ( 15cms ) . |
| 12 | But the bricks were soft and crumbled uselessly away when he removed the moulds . |
| 13 | Would you personally be more motivated and work more effectively if you were to receive a share of the profit at the year end ? |
| 14 | The women 's victory in 1918 was unspectacular and came about primarily because the government had to update the electoral register to include those serving in the armed forces . |
| 15 | I had never seen anything so fearsome and kept well back until he despatched the beast ; which seemed to take hours , and several hours later we were still trying to untangle Ian 's line . |
| 16 | Mossgara was hampered at halfway but stayed on well when second to Wizzard Artist at Plumpton on his debut and is bound to have derived considerable benefit from that experience . |
| 17 | Oozing , not bright red , but mixed , it 's mixed bleeding really you 've got from capillary and very often in any injury you 'll get mixed bleeding , but are you going to be too concerned and analyze too carefully whether it 's blood from a vein or blood from an artery if it 's pouring out ? |
| 18 | Partridge had got all angry and upset soon too because as he was struggling with Steven a magazine fell out of his trousers on to the towpath of the canal and the other men had picked it up and it had been a spanking magazine so all the other men who were n't laughing and shouting already started teasing partridge ; Partridge started trying to wrestle Steven to the ground but Steven had got free and clouted the other man with the shovel , which was still bloody from hacking the cat to bits , and after that , with the magazine coming apart as the other men grabbed at it and Partridge rolling about dazed on the towpath in the cat 's blood and almost falling into the canal , Dan Ashton had said soberly that enough was enough and they 'd better go and see Mr Smith the supervisor because they just could n't go on like this . |
| 19 | Both the girls were small and looked exceptionally so as they crossed the Bridge with their handcart . |
| 20 | I delighted to know that the Medau Society is flourishing and going more strongly than ever in its fortieth year . |
| 21 | They , you , are our inspiration , the reason we 've come as far and done as well as we have , the energy that drives us forward into the future . |
| 22 | Rye is very tolerant of poor , acid soils , is extremely frost-hardy and ripens much earlier than other cereals . |
| 23 | This chapter is relatively succinct and goes little further than identifying the major ideas concerning classification theory that have emerged during the twentieth century and before , and indicating their applications . |
| 24 | The next day , instead of being calm and gentle to ride , he was frightfully excited and pulling much harder than ever before . |
| 25 | Women wedded to men 's systems , arguing for resources and significance , have little alternative but to accept the context as given and learn as effectively as possible , to pitch in with the rest . |
| 26 | The ingratitude comes out into the open and sets as hard as marble . |
| 27 | Hood : the hood is big but closes down well when the drawcord is pulled in to give a comfortable fit around the head . |
| 28 | They become invisible and ignored too quickly if their needs are not constantly presented to the public and to politicians . |
| 29 | The streets curved and twisted as pleasantly as the river , but were shaded by fine lime trees , now breaking into delicate leaf , instead of the willows , soon to shimmer summer through , above the trout-ringed reaches of the River Pleshey . |
| 30 | And so it was as the " candidate " that he spoke to them , his accent so neutral by now that he could have come from anywhere and everywhere , his green broadcloth jacket still shabby but worn as jauntily as if it had been lined with ermine , his lean , dark face handsome enough to please the women and hard enough to reassure the men . |