Example sentences of "and [adj] [to-vb] [adv] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One whiff of a piece of clothing and the appropriate commands , and off goes Fido , nose to the ground , casting this way and that to pick up the same scent . |
| 2 | The employer , or the architect on his behalf , for certain sections of a contract may provide a list , in or attached to the contract bills , of at least three sub-contractors from which the builder must select one able and willing to carry out the respective work . |
| 3 | Most encouraging for the bookseller is the buoyant hardback market for genre titles : in part this is a result of the continuing proliferation of series which leave the poor punter desperate for the next instalment and willing to fork out the extra few bob for the hardcover . |
| 4 | Now it has emerged lean , fit and hungry to take on the best . |
| 5 | It was impossible to continue with the meeting and difficult to tell where the next outburst might come from . |
| 6 | I wonder just how easy this is when so many record companies are spreading their nets far and wide to find just the right location for an increasingly varied range of repertoire commitments . |
| 7 | At one time sharing the old Norn language , even there we had been forced to diverge , because while Shetland became absorbed into Scotland and obliged to take on the Scots/English language , the Faroese managed to retain and develop their own language , using that of their ‘ parent ’ country Denmark as the second tongue . |
| 8 | Assassination only works — I do n't really have to explain ? — when the victim 's people were sick of him anyway and ready to let in the new man without overmuch fuss . |
| 9 | I buy a harmonium — nearly an organ — and spend the rest of my life playing it , thickened with doleful dirges , vainly trying to lay the trauma , my only satisfaction the ashen faced , staring eyed audiences staggering out at the end of performances , primed , and ready to carry on the good work . |