Example sentences of "[adj] and [verb] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the girls ' establishment where she had been sent at huge expense to learn music and French and to carry out the ornate disciplines conceived by the headmistress — including communal teeth-washing in the gardens , winter and summer , and then communal gargling into the rosebeds , which the headmistress regarded as a form of manure-spreading — the pain was put down to growing too fast . |
| 2 | I watched her do this and bring about the destruction of one of England 's greatest noblemen but that 's another story . |
| 3 | So maybe the Indians understood this and tipped up the raft because they were trying to kill Father Firmin ( me ! ) so that Father Antonio would survive and baptise them . |
| 4 | You accomplish this and set up the cups again . |
| 5 | I hope that Belgian Ministers involved in the fate of this airfield will read this and consider seriously the disadvantages of closure of Grimbergen , and they should also bear in mind the forthcoming elections ! |
| 6 | Despite warnings of impenetrable ice , the crew of Knox-Johnston 's boat , the Suhaili , found the fjord clear and continued up the more problematic Watkins Fjord , dodging icebergs to reach the starting point for the climbing section of the expedition . |
| 7 | Next time , stay calm and pick up the pace when you can . |
| 8 | Virginia fixed him with a patient , expectant gaze across the desk , marvelling at her ability to stay calm and poised whenever the name of Guy Sterne entered the conversation these days . |
| 9 | By a respondent 's notice the bank notified its intention of contending that the judge 's decision should be affirmed on the additional ground that he should in any event have exercised his discretion under rule 12.12 and set aside the registrar 's order on the ground that it was not a proper case for service of the originating application out of the jurisdiction ; and in particular because ( i ) the bank had at all relevant times no presence in , and/or sufficient connection with , England and Wales ; and/or ( ii ) the judge should have applied and/or had regard to the provisions of R.S.C. , Ord. 11 and , had he done so , should have concluded that the claims raised did not fall within the ambit of the order and that leave to serve out should thus be refused . |
| 10 | The flight panel was designed in the days when American firms used to write the names of the instruments on bits of paper , put them in a hat , draw them out one-by-one and fill in the holes . |
| 11 | The ample panel ‘ was designed in the days when American firms used to write the name of the instruments on bits of paper , uput them in a hat , draw them out one-by-one and fill in the holes ’ . |
| 12 | For the truth of God in the power of the Spirit can shed light and liberate where the simple recognition of fault or personal deficiency lacks power for transformation . |
| 13 | I know they can be affected by wind and frost and it turns the leaves brown and kills off the buds , but why is only one affected ? |
| 14 | Cut the melon in half and scoop out the seeds , which are slippery and stringy . |
| 15 | Cut the melon in half and scoop out the seeds . |
| 16 | Cut a Galia melon in half and scoop out the flesh with a melon baller , or cut into cubes . |
| 17 | There was nothing left now , but to grow old , but to grow old and take on the burden of her mother growing even older . |
| 18 | On the pavement , Jo shook herself free and smoothed down the front of her leather mini-skirt . |
| 19 | During the countless terrifying minutes before she managed to wriggle free and scramble off the bench , Isabel neither knew nor cared whether it was she or his fever that had caused fitzAlan 's loss of consciousness . |
| 20 | The insect jerks itself free and hangs on the empty pupa case , its body trembling . |
| 21 | In a thousand remote little farmhouses and cottages , islanded beneath wind-shriven willows or leaning poplars , the racing floods covered the black fields , overflowed the straight dykes … and leaping upon those lonely homes with all the relentless force of wind and gales , burst open the doors , shattered the ground floor windows … and rushed gurgling and swirling up the narrow staircase . |
| 22 | Both country 's leaders were from the same generation Clinton is 46 , Major 49 and came up the hard way , she added . |
| 23 | He must have been crouched behind a bank of snow watching him all the time as he came struggling and panting up the long slope . |
| 24 | There are county players who average 35–40 and do exactly the same in Tests . |
| 25 | Stephen Galway grabbed a superbly crafted winner with 11 minutes on the clock after a bizarre own-goal and cancelled out the Scot 's opener . |
| 26 | Finally , art and design have increasingly been a part of proposals for courses leading to the award of Bachelor of Education degrees and Diplomas in Higher Education , a development which has posed the CNAA with some problems in guiding and assessing both the content and standard of such courses . |
| 27 | No , I know what it is , it 's all our knitting machines sending their radio messages to one another and clogging up the air waves . |
| 28 | That probably means it will offend the few and rip off the many . |
| 29 | It is difficult to define accurately what it was like for , although it still exists , it has been damaged , altered and restored so the original design has been obscured . |
| 30 | I went out into the fresh damp morning , walking quickly to keep warm and get round the island before any rain started . |