Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [adj -er] [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Words can not express the sadness of seeing a teenager who looks barely older than a young child suffering from severe malnutrition , but there are the wonderful moments such as a child who suffered tremendous burns after a candle fell and set fire to her night-dress ; after months of careful dressing and cleaning her wounds have virtually healed — without the clinic the little girl would almost certainly have died . |
| 2 | This whole fucking area is sewn up tighter than a nun 's crotch , ’ Gregson grunted . |
| 3 | If you 're going away , wear clear or pale nail varnish — it will look much better than a dark colour with a tan . |
| 4 | However , after the age of 65 , the chance of an accident with serious consequences does become much greater and a recovery often takes longer to achieve . |
| 5 | Half of the body moves along the ground on many little legs — the front half rears up taller than a man , with many little arms . |
| 6 | Paddington was beginning to loom slightly larger than a man 's hand on the horizon ; Paddington was where the murdered Kemp had stood and phoned The Randolph the previous day . |
| 7 | It is usual to grow on the cuttings for a year so that the stock stems become somewhat thicker than a pencil but rather less so than your little finger . |
| 8 | Even in the worst years of the Depression there were still people wealthy enough to give their cast-offs to the poor , and they did n't come much poorer than a Salvation Army officer 's family . |
| 9 | Now I would say to sa say that that is almost a bit like the story of the boy crying that he did n't have many holidays because he did n't go to school and that because Harrogate 's er unemployment is so low or has been historically so low compared with other areas , a relatively small increase in the number of unemployment has an enormous increase as compared with what it 's been in the past and so the same number of people living in Harrogate who lose their jobs has an impact on the unemployment figures as perceived locally greater than a similar number of people losing their jobs in Leeds or Selby or somewhere else , and so I think to some extent this the rhetoric has outrun the reality on that point . |
| 10 | It probably works out cheaper than a conventional carphone . |