Example sentences of "and in [adj] [adj] [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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1 | Over the next few days he was never out of the press and in one emotional moment he confided to a journalist that he felt betrayed by Scotland . |
2 | Simon McBurney brings a fidgety , sweaty intensity to the role of the troubled king , and in one superb scene he is discovered standing on top of a wardrobe , gazing miserably down on the happy innocents beneath him as his heart is gnawed by destructive jealousy . |
3 | His performance was pitiful , five goals flew past him from a bewildering array of angles , and in one pathetic ritual he ended up wrapped round the goal-post , in a knot of utter hopelessness . |
4 | Her face grimly determined , she lunged , and in one swift movement he tossed his shield aside , grabbed the pitchfork , and pulled . |
5 | She felt as though she could n't get enough of him , and in that split instant she made her decision . |
6 | Timothy looked straight into Topaz 's eyes and in that split second she knew without doubt that he was aware of her love for Andrew . |
7 | There was clearly a close friendship between them , and the Office gives a moving account of his efficacy in curing her of some kind of fit : He came and found her mute , but when he had seated himself at her window and they had eaten together , it chanced that at the end of the dinner the recluse wished to sleep , and oppressed by slumber her head drooped towards the window where God 's saint , Richard , was reclining , and as she was leaning a litle on that same Richard , suddenly , with a vehement onslaught , such a grave vexation took her in her sleep that she seemed to wish to break the window of her house , and in that strong vexation she awoke , her speech was restored , and with great devotion she broke out into the words " Gloria tibi Domine " , and the blessed Richard completed the verse which she had begun . |
8 | Shakily Fernando eased away from her and in that terrible second she hesitated , fearing the rejection he had once threatened her with . |
9 | I laced my arms round his back , under his own arms , letting his face fall on mine , and in that awkward position I blew my own breath into him , not in the accepted way with him lying flat with most things in control , but into his open nostrils , into his flaccid mouth , into either or both at once , as fast as I could , trying to pump his chest in unison , to do what his own intercostal muscles had stopped doing , pulling his ribcage open for air to flow in . |
10 | I mean I 've only got some figures here up to the twenty fourth of February , and in that particular week we sold about thirteen and a half thousand U K holidays , as against the week last year of about five and a half , so we 've obviously seen a fairly major growth in U K holidays , but , as I said , we spent about a hundred thousand pounds on promotion , so we 're very pleased with the uptake of business coming in . |
11 | And in that little book it said , If the firm provided space for bicycles or what have you they were responsible for them . |
12 | Their eyes met for a split second , bleak green against ice-blue , and in that fleeting moment she wanted to tell him the truth , she wanted to explain , repaint the picture that had been mistakenly built up . |
13 | Except the life has gone out of me and in some curious way I hardly care . ’ |
14 | The dish contained something shiny and wobbly and pink with a cherry on it , and in some strange way it managed to look like something you would n't eat even if it was pushed on to your plate after a week 's starvation diet . |
15 | Once it disappeared altogether , and although a fair degree of brightness remained in the sky , the land became very dark and in this pathless place it was not easy for Stephen to find his way . |
16 | ‘ The British have a long history of being inventive and in this current climate we are being inundated with new ideas , ’ says Richard Paine , marketing director of Inventalink , one of Britain 's biggest agencies which sells the ideas to commercial companies . |
17 | Nonetheless , it is always useful to have some general guidelines , and in this final chapter I have gathered together many of the points that , from my personal experience , are worth bearing in mind when embarking on such a project . |
18 | All I can say is that I failed , and in this particular case I regret that failure . ’ |
19 | But Herschel 's equipment was not sensitive enough , and in this particular investigation he failed . |
20 | Porter has undoubtedly had a considerable impact upon corporate strategic thinking , and in this brief discussion it has been possible to present only the barest outlines of his ideas developed in two sizable books . |
21 | For some languages of expressions it will be possible in general to decide these facts ( though perhaps not very efficiently ) , and in any reasonable language thee should be wide classes of pairs of expressions whose equivalence is decidable . |