Example sentences of "[coord] [adj] [coord] [art] [noun sg] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 The impression I got was that Leeds started off REALLY well with a totally dominant mid-field , that West Ham started to make a game of it but that the weather got worse & worse and the game just degenerated .
2 The corners of the mouth may be cracked and sore and the tongue unusually red .
3 When any seeds arrive from him I will take the first opportunity of sending you a share and in return shall trouble you for some Northern and Welsh plants which I hope we shall make proper conveniency to receive into our Garden in a short time ; for several of those which you were so good as to furnish me with a few years since are lost for want of proper soil and situation , the natural earth of our Garden being too light and dry and the bottom too warm .
4 So in he went , bravely enough , thinking all the time of the thickness of rock and peat and earth over his head , and the air in that place was chill and damp and the ground underfoot was moist and sodden .
5 Relations continued to be close and cooperative but the district now identified more with its " champion of the people " role , less with the protection of its own units .
6 Some of the backs were dilapidated but the two premises belonging to the Glynns stood out in good repair : the wall had been recently pointed and colour-washed and the door freshly painted .
7 In the lower glacial sea levels the straits in this region would have been narrower and shallower and the water comparatively warm even for this latitude .
8 The colours changed back to the traditional , the ball from white to red , the pads and clothing from kaleidoscopic to white , there were no floodlights , the pitches and outfield were hard and bare and the temperature consistently in the low 30s celsius .
9 To watch the ceaseless spinning for too long made you feel sick and dizzy and a bit out of step with everything else .
10 Hart 's approach is down to earth and realistic and the tone throughout is overwhelmingly encouraging .
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