Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] and [verb] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both Betty and Lydia found this odd and wanted to know how they 'd managed . |
| 2 | He was half unconscious and trying to stop himself crying . |
| 3 | He gets real humiliated and has to leave . |
| 4 | She doubted she would ever sleep again while fitzAlan was in the immediate vicinity , but the prospect of remaining awake and having to keep her mask of aloof composure in place was daunting indeed . |
| 5 | The mist changed to a warm pink and began to disperse as the sun rose above the horizon . |
| 6 | 1.14 It is not yet clear how courts would treat the combined effects of , say , negligent driving and failing to wear a seat belt . |
| 7 | Mark Whereat , who 's 26 and from Gloucester , was charged with causing death by dangerous driving and failing to stop and report an accident . |
| 8 | Bingham , in charge of his 116th international and scheduled to retire in December , said : ‘ I 'm going all out for a win . |
| 9 | These separated and came to rest on the head of each of them . |
| 10 | Sometimes they go to the opposite extreme and seem to have a very lax superego because they relied on their parents to punish them , and subsequently have no internalization . |
| 11 | There 's nothing like a little twisting and twiddling to encourage them to remember things . |
| 12 | The aim of these and other schemes is to provide flexible cost-effective services responsive to the needs of the frail elderly and designed to keep them as long as possible in their own homes rather than an institutional environment . |
| 13 | The authorities reported 11 dead and 70 injured and claimed to have found explosives in one of the town 's mosques . |
| 14 | By the time the interview was over the dogs were all asleep and refused to wake up . |
| 15 | All very fine for them , Hoomey thought , all fat and run to seed , rejoicing in the dreadful honour that had befallen their sons . |
| 16 | The part of the city through which they were walking reminded Zen of Venice , but a Venice brutally fractured , as though each canal were a geological fault and the houses to either side had taken a plunge or been wrenched up all askew and left to tumble back on themselves , throwing out buttresses and retaining walls for support as best they could . |
| 17 | What do we gain from clinging to our rough abstract and refusing to start work on another canvas ? |
| 18 | Many tried and failed to introduce legislation to remedy the situation . |
| 19 | Sometimes when I was drunk and I 'd see him standing there looking all quiet and black and white and gorgeous , waiting for someone to take him home , I 'd get all teary and want to go up and slap him and shout in his face : How can you possibly understand what it means ! |
| 20 | Against ample evidence for the prosecution the accused offered no real defence and were all condemned and sentenced to hang . |
| 21 | Flora Strachan , the ecology-conscious pensioner , had chased after him , waving a copy of her pamphlet An Uncommon Common and threatening to report him to the police . |
| 22 | ‘ All he had to do was follow them back to the agency , come in as though wanting to book a holiday , and there was gullible little Hilary all ready and waiting to fall in love . |
| 23 | Well , go on , do n't stop there , I 'm sure the rest is just as fascinating — presumably that , yes , you knew Ryan , but when you flew over to find out why the hell he could n't get something so simple as planning permission you decided to do something about it yourself , and there was gullible little Hilary , all ready and waiting to fall into your arms . |
| 24 | The others were all ready and waiting to start again . |
| 25 | The bones are first modified and altered to conform to the skeletal dimensions of the body , which is then built up from the inside outwards using organic substitute flesh . |
| 26 | Waller , armed with a wood-cutting chisel , grabbed one 16-year-old and threatened to cut his ear if the youth did not say who had damaged the car . |
| 27 | ‘ Oh , he 's heard you 're chasing the five grand and wants to make sure you do n't know something he does n't . ’ |
| 28 | Living alone and trying to bring up a small daughter is no easy task , and taking extra time to learn a new skill is just an added burden . ’ |
| 29 | Perhaps he just got fed up acting normal and decided to act crazy instead , and they locked him up because he went too far . ’ |
| 30 | He took conservative ideas on privatisation and land reform , gave them a populist anti-government bent and managed to woo over many poorer voters - especially in northern Mexico — who previously feared that the PAN represented only business interests . |