Example sentences of "and [adj] [adv] at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sounds and scents of the morning were keen and exciting yet at the centre of those sensations she was filled with a curious sort of quiet . |
| 2 | Although diagnosed as having a weak heart in 1948 , he survived his first wife and married again at the age of 85 . |
| 3 | She was wearing a man 's sweater back to front , and under her hair — cut high and short now at the back — there was a triangle of white skin as soft and fresh as a newly broken bread-roll . |
| 4 | ‘ 1(1) If a child is born disabled as the result of such an occurrence before its birth as is mentioned in subsection ( 2 ) below , and a person ( other than the child 's own mother ) is under this section answerable to the child in respect of the occurrence , the child 's disabilities are to be regarded as damage resulting from the wrongful act of that person and actionable accordingly at the suit of the child . |
| 5 | They are not a uniform grey , but rather pale at the base , dark in the middle , and pale again at the tip . |