Example sentences of "[coord] [adj] [coord] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first possibility is that the cat in question is ill or senile and its whole behaviour routine is starting to collapse . |
| 2 | You become tiny or huge and your first VR journey begins . |
| 3 | He looked tired and travel-weary and his first words confirmed he had been riding hard . |
| 4 | I say to the hon. Member for Denton and Reddish and my hon. Friend the Minister that I do not see why British Rail , as ever , should be expected to bear the full cost . |
| 5 | The high , family cheek-bones stuck up gaunt and stark and her narrow shoulders jutted through the fabric of her sweater like bony wings . |
| 6 | His voice was croaked and hoarse and his shocked stare came to rest on David as if he instinctively knew he was a doctor . |
| 7 | She is weak and ill but her first prayer is not for herself but for her unborn child who is dedicated to Christ 's service . |
| 8 | For most of the evening she was tired and irritable and her ensuing behaviour caused considerable disruption to family life . |
| 9 | The handshake with which she had greeted him had been cool and firm and her brief smile was surprisingly attractive . |
| 10 | Both Dorothea 's discomforting sense of an almost impassable gulf dividing rich and poor and their peculiar confidence in the building of cottages are slight anachronisms in the early 1830s ; by the 1870s they are pervasive assumptions , indicating that , in the forty intervening years , attitudes to the poor and their houses had undergone a radical change . |
| 11 | Maybe Henry would have ended up warped and perverse but his unofficial education among the elite certainly helped him along the way . |
| 12 | At the moment though there are many indications that the South African government and military and their Namibian supporters will try to sabotage any semblance of ’ free and fair ’ elections . |
| 13 | This locates the vertex of both tractrix and catenary and their vertical axis of symmetry can be erected . |
| 14 | This is a means whereby analogue signals like guitar , vocals etc. can be converted to digital and inputted to computer storage , to be sequenced and looped or whatever digital hocus pocus takes your fancy . |
| 15 | By now the day was hot and bright and my first need was for lunch and a glass of wine . |
| 16 | She was sitting down at the table ; he thought she really was looking very ill and wretched but his tender pride kept him silent . |
| 17 | It was a great escape for a team so used to getting caught , but Rough and his fellow revellers chanced their luck and noisily ordered room-service when they got back to the hotel . |
| 18 | Relations with Law were cool but courteous and his tactical advice was always available on difficult issues , such as the question of the Army Act in 1914 . |