Example sentences of "[coord] [adj] and [adv] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The statues ( a late example , fig. 72 ) seem always to have been undifferentiated kouroi or korai , but the stelai , perhaps because low relief belongs essentially to narrative art , show the dead man bearded or beardless and often as warrior or athlete . |
| 2 | They looked what they were : creatures , Spirits of Trees , that had emerged from the ancient Wolfwood from a long , long sleep and who were alive and alert and completely without pity towards their enemies … |
| 3 | His body was up against hers , close and strong and totally in control . |
| 4 | This littleness is at once paltry and menacing and never in repose . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ She 's been my secretary for two years , is quiet and reserved and madly in love with the man she lives with . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The old stonework was crumbling and eroded and badly in need of repair . |
| 11 | Everything is overblown and inflated and out of control in the film business . ’ |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Doth prowl , and round and round from door to door |
| 14 | They won because Gloucester , brave and energetic and often on top in the second half , took too long to close down on the former Eire winger Jeff Chandler . |
| 15 | ‘ 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 . |
| 16 | The potentially unifying effects of their different but complementary experiences of racism are dismissed , while the inclusive and openly politicized definitions of ‘ race ’ which were a notable feature of the late seventies have been fragmented into their ethnic components , first into Afro-Caribbean and Asian and then into Pakistani , Bangladeshi , Bajan , Jamaican and Guyanese in a spiral . |