Example sentences of "the [adj] and [adv] [v-ing] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Relatives of the Guildford 4 and Birmingham 6 described the brutal and systematically degrading treatment the prisoners receive in jail . |
2 | The driver said nothing , but we were in Broadway and the seventies and still heading north . |
3 | In spite of the reduced and indeed reducing turnover that we have had in the past 12 months , 1992 provided a better financial result than the previous year . |
4 | Slowly they worked their way up the wide and gently rising river-valley until they were black sticks bent against their baskets of provisions . |
5 | He slowly and deliberately offers his most vulnerable , visible , and precious possession to A Big Black Bull ; placing the actual in direct conflict with the symbolic , time after time ; tempting the forces of the primeval with the swirling deep pink petals and folds of the gaping and potentially enveloping cape . |