Example sentences of "and [vb -s] [adv] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Well really when I had the same thing , you know , and goes back for a little bit this morning and er same sort of thing . |
| 2 | He deals , breaks and rides out for a local National Hunt trainer to keep in the sport and would be delighted with any financial help — large or small . |
| 3 | Wild Ethiopian coffee is spicy and blends well with a rich coffee such as Colombian or Javanese . |
| 4 | An editorial in The Lancet ( November 10 , 1990 ) entitled ‘ Who 's for tennis ? ’ but which could have just as easily been entitled ‘ Who 's for running ? ’ sums up the present state of the art and looks particularly at a new piece of research carried out on civil servants . |
| 5 | It has good head-retention characteristics and looks well in a straight-sided glass . |
| 6 | The meticulously clean rooms are of medium size , nicely furnished and decorated with telephone and T.V. The breakfast room is of a good size and looks out onto a small garden . |
| 7 | Each session lasts approximately one hour and twenty minutes , and occurs initially on a weekly basis at the same time and place . |
| 8 | At one point , at some point , very late , the old man breaks away from his partner , and spins easily on a shiny patch of yellow floor , his long arms folded to his sides , not dancing at all now but simply spinning , spinning , for quite a while . |
| 9 | The spacious lounge has a bar for a relaxing drink and leads out onto a surrounding , shaded terrace . |
| 10 | Broomfield gets under everyone 's feet , but soldiers on and ends up with a revealing , funny film about the petty power plays and outsize egos of showbiz . |
| 11 | Broomfield gets under everyone 's feet , but soldiers on and ends up with a revealing , funny film about the petty power plays and outsize egos of showbiz . |
| 12 | Director Atom Egoyan weaves sex , censorship and second-hand experience into his theme , and ends up with a reflective movie that 's also both faltering and uncertain |
| 13 | He starts by being a nice little clerk and ends up as a drooling horror-film monster . |
| 14 | Doug Sherry , the proprietor of Doug 's and the car-wash that camouflages its entrance , winces and puffs philosophically on a fat cigar . |
| 15 | Although the path at this stage is packed solid with shuffling picnickers , it 's a beautiful little track , especially when it emerges from the gorge and opens up into a wide glen where the Allt Coire a' Mhail tumbles to the Water of Nevis via a narrow and dramatic waterfall . |
| 16 | The old eight-valve , four-cylinder 115 bhp engine still retains a quiet refinement , revs willingly and pulls away with a clean pick-up . |
| 17 | Eventually the blue shift declines to zero and changes over to a red shift . |
| 18 | Vertical Technologies Inc released Scan-One , a device driver that decodes bar-code types and plugs directly into a serial port for SCO Unix . |
| 19 | The effect of the energy loss will be to change the orbit of the earth so that gradually it gets nearer and nearer to the sun , eventually collides with it , and settles down to a stationary state . |
| 20 | It might be explained by the fact that the toxin is effective from the luminal side and binds irreversibly to a particular membrane receptor . |
| 21 | Fortnightly [ Review ] hashed up ’ ; the third was a minister who ‘ dresses himself as much as a Church … parson as possible , as much as possible copies the ritual of the Establishment , and poses almost as a full-blown priest ’ . |
| 22 | Mustard , whether black , brown or white , is grown from seed sown outdoors in spring , and does best in a sunny place and fertile moist soil , when the black mustard is likely to reach it maximum height . |
| 23 | This study shows that in humans APGPR rapidly appears in the circulation in response to a satiating meal and does so in a biphasic manner . |
| 24 | And zips out for a quick change into a respectable blazer ( one of Aunt Rebecca 's unused presents , a recent salvo in the family campaign to smarten up the recalcitrant niece ) and an unrumpled pair of cords . |
| 25 | Here , a fast , sparkling fresh stream springs into existence , fords a lane and runs parallel to a wooden pathway . |
| 26 | GREG CAMPBELL casts an eye over the principal contenders and comes up with a Victorian prop . |
| 27 | ‘ 2 Hell With Common Sense ’ does just what its title urges and comes up with a startling , confident clutch of songs . |
| 28 | However , he is quickly conquered by Tamburlaine 's rhetoric and comes across as a weak and easily influenced man , not to say disloyal to King Mycetes . |
| 29 | The saucer drops between the towers , flies low over strangely deserted streets and comes suddenly to a grinding halt . |