Example sentences of "and [adj] [prep] [art] [noun] 's " in BNC.
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| 1 | He saw not Alina , but something with eyes of blazing green ; her hair a long mane strewn with weeds , her dress a dripping shroud , her teeth sharp , her skin pale and scaly as a snake 's . |
| 2 | United States efforts to broker a Middle East peace plan floundered in March when Israel 's national unity coalition collapsed under the pressure of differences between Likud and Labour over the country 's Palestinian policy . |
| 3 | At court he became associated with the faction led by George Digby , second Earl of Bristol , and Henry Bennett , first Earl of Arlington [ qq.v. ] , and friendly with the king 's mistress , Barbara Villiers , Countess of Castlemaine [ q.v . ] . |
| 4 | The landscape is as simple , naive and charming as a child 's painting . |
| 5 | Henrietta dived into the pool and her head emerged , neat and glossy as a seal 's . |
| 6 | TELEVISION viewers waiting for the result of the 3.10 race at Doncaster last Wednesday heard director Bob Gardam called Lord Howard d'Warden an ‘ Old Fart ’ after his lordship wandered in front of the camera and Mr Gardam thinking he was safe in the privacy of the TV scanner , for some reason came over loud and clear on the course 's PA system . |
| 7 | He was a big man of about forty , with dark hair flopping over his forehead ; his eyes were dark too , strangely wide and clear like a child 's ; and his face was as familiar to her as Adam 's . |
| 8 | Given the establishment of this joint working party , it would appear both reasonable and sensible for the APB 's Going Concern Task Force to work with it to establish the necessary guidance on what disclosures should be made , and then to incorporate it . |
| 9 | His parachute opened instantly and tangled in the aircraft 's wheels . |
| 10 | His contribution , which earned " loud applause " , was forceful and dismissive of the Commission 's recommendation . |
| 11 | Financial problems can be severe , with women finding themselves riddled with large legal bills and deprived of a partner 's income . |
| 12 | The Devil does not mind which of these attacks upon him we make , because taken on their own either one will leave us helpless and impotent in the Enemy 's territory . |
| 13 | The sun was not yet clear of the eastward banks of cloud , and the light was colourless and amorphous from the evening 's soft rain , but clear enough to show what had brought Tutilo to his knees in the darkness , and yet remained unseen . |
| 14 | The purchaser must be bona fide and unaware of the seller 's lack of title . |
| 15 | They give rise to behavioural responses to external stimuli that are enduring and consistent within a person 's psychological constitution . |
| 16 | A thin wedge of what looked like mud caked between the heel and the sole of the left shoe ; the pattern of blood stiffening the fine fawn cashmere of the sweater ; the half-open mouth fixed in a rictus between a smile and a sneer ; the dead eyes seeming as he watched to shrink into their sockets ; the left hand with its long pale fingers , curved and delicate as a girl 's ; the palm of the right hand thick with blood . |
| 17 | The paper claimed that the government had failed to make more progress in changing attitudes because so many beneficiaries of the tax state were opinionformers and hostile to the government 's goals and to free enterprise . |
| 18 | On May 23 the Moldavian Supreme Soviet passed a resolution dropping the adjectives Soviet and Socialist from the republic 's formal name , now the Moldavian Republic . |
| 19 | The need to develop management procedures which are understandable and credible to the institution 's environment . |
| 20 | Often there is no intention to frustrate the child ; the rejections — such as not listening to or fobbing off the child — may be the consequences of the parent 's being too busy with chores or being tired and irritable after a day 's work , and so forth . |
| 21 | Her mouth was clumsy and awkward like a child 's good night , and when she spoke the words vibrated inside my mouth . |
| 22 | The granite steps and the pillared doorcase were new and unmarked by the city 's dirty air . |
| 23 | It was a torture which was part of the school 's underground mythology , but something he assumed had died out at the same time as the belief that bullying was inevitable , harmless and good for the victim 's character . |
| 24 | ‘ Apart from that , all you need is to be passed fit and healthy for a doctor 's examination . ’ |
| 25 | His cheeks were round and innocent as a choir-boy 's . |
| 26 | Wise and loving training will help the growing child to foster tendencies and characteristics which are beneficial to society and helpful to the child 's development . |
| 27 | In The Old Curiosity Shop it is high summer , and Dickens himself does not mention a fire , but it is featured by one of his illustrators , within a chimneypiece much too solid and grand for a labourer 's ‘ hut ’ ( Fig. 39 ) . |
| 28 | Margaret gasped at the way the child suddenly became thin and feverish-looking under the woman 's gaze . |
| 29 | cold and stiff as the Devil 's penis . |
| 30 | Fearful of damnation , and angry at the priest 's reproof , she went out of her mind , and was ‘ wondrously vexed and laboured with spirits for half a year , eight weeks and odd days ’ . |