Example sentences of "[adj] and [noun pl] [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fresh and crispies went on to receive a great deal more acclaim than The Chorus who were hardly noticed , even within their hometown . |
| 2 | With passions running high and reporters running down corridors in search of statements , the sequence of events and their meaning became confused . |
| 3 | Fearon reappeared holding a towel , his black hair glistening wet and rivulets running down his swarthy skin . |
| 4 | In the U S the Dow Jones opened sharply lower and dealers marking down stop , stocks on the back of widening def , the widening deficit figure . |
| 5 | Her was like that , rolled at the back , like that and curls coming out , yeah ? |
| 6 | A front leg-stretching exercise : from a walking stance throw up the leg , keeping the knee joint locked and toes pulled back into a high position . |
| 7 | ECONOMIC indicators threw a rosy tint on the prospects for recovery today with polls showing businessmen more confident and consumers taking on more credit , while a leading pundit predicts a further 1pc interest rate cut this year . |
| 8 | Despite an expansion in access to education in the 1970s and reforms carried out in the 1960s and again in the late 1970s , the fundamental patterns of inequality have remained and have been accentuated by the war . |
| 9 | French actress Juliette Binoche plays Michele , an artist from a wealthy family who is going blind and lives rough out of choice . |
| 10 | The Chinese cosmology based on li and ch'i goes back only to the Neo-Confucian movement of the Sung dynasty ( AD 960–1279 ) , a conceptual revolution which can itself be understood in Kuhnian terms as a response to the breakdown of an older paradigm . |
| 11 | I mean there are a lot of people who will say that no longer applies to modern poetry because it is so complex and difficult and needs brooding on very carefully . |
| 12 | This is getting a bit dilapidated and needs straightening up . |
| 13 | Yon Balberith is reet big orrid ruffy beast wi gurt black beard full o rats and green teeth gnashing and a grinding and flames coming out o bum that 'd take wallpaper off front parlor . |
| 14 | A wave of weeping and travail hit the hundred and men fell down and groaned , moved to intercede , as I understood it , by the Holy Spirit . |
| 15 | As the fighting gets wilder and feet jab out |
| 16 | ‘ They were initially very polite , but when they saw three of the South African players walk in , the situation turned nasty and scuffles broke out . |
| 17 | Major alterations in the seventeenth and eighteenth-centuries covered up the marble and we have to be grateful to renovations in 1904 for the fact that it is now visible again . |
| 18 | The pilot stage was concluded early in 1988 and evaluations carried out by the Centre of Applied Research in education ( CARE ) at the University of Essex , indicated , in general terms , that the project justified further development in interactive video resources . |
| 19 | Moving , funny , silly and things go up in the air and come down . |
| 20 | Her tone was bitter and tears streamed down her face . |
| 21 | Although University and College graduates are grouped together in this data , men dominate university places 4:1 and women make up 90 per cent of Junior College students which further accentuates the status of men . |