Example sentences of "[adj] and [adj] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | This student had at one time worked in catering until her love for learning foreign languages prompted her to tackle French and Spanish as a mature student . |
| 2 | It had stopped snowing now and the sky was clear and black with a few stars . |
| 3 | It would incorporate a variety of forms of enterprise , including individual , family and cooperative as well as state productive units , which would be economically self-sufficient and interrelated through a market . |
| 4 | ‘ Aye , ’ replied another , slim and small as a child but with a face centuries old . |
| 5 | The Wren who introduced herself was slim and smart in a uniform which fitted her perfectly . |
| 6 | What you want is to find yourself slim and attractive after a time on an easy , satisfying diet . |
| 7 | ‘ Ultra Violet ( Light My Way ) ’ was one of the highlights , ‘ Even Better Than The Real Thing ’ kicked hard , ‘ One ’ was scintillating and ‘ Love Is Blindness ’ hypnotic and powerful against a backdrop of city lights in black and white on the video screens . |
| 8 | Now she knew it was true , Alice 's face looked different to her : set , calm and holy as a nun 's . |
| 9 | They made love all afternoon , and sometimes she was creamy and calm and slow as a cat being stroked , and sometimes the cat arched her back and revealed claws . |
| 10 | Other fathers were often unemployed and jealous of a child bringing home a weekly wage : understandable if they had a daughter like Dolly Ashby : |
| 11 | When he sees the film fluttering on the gate , suggesting something light and insubstantial in a physical sense he thinks |
| 12 | I felt very much the wallflower as I crept out of the room without speaking to anyone , my books held tightly against my chest in a way which , I was to learn , was feminine and wrong for a man . |
| 13 | It is easier when you are feeling fresh and alert after a good night 's sleep than at the end of a busy day , easier for short periods than for long periods . |
| 14 | He looked very fresh and smart in a crisp white shirt open at the throat and charcoal-grey trousers , exquisitely cut . |
| 15 | they 're really funny and finicky about a lot of things , you know ? |
| 16 | This mixing of linguistic and cultural codes is frequently linked to the sexual act : ‘ as if words fraternised silently beneath the syntax , finding each other funny and delicious in a Misch-Masch of tender fornication ’ ( 53/447 ) . |
| 17 | Unmistakable , even though I had never seen one before ; a big bird , brown and grey with a red throat , low in the water , where the wind-rippled surface managed to camouflage it in the most extraordinary way . |
| 18 | It was a couple of weeks before and I was left high and dry without a partner . |
| 19 | ‘ Many of us felt he should have had the courage to admit that the job was n't working out instead of using his reputation as England manager to negotiate a lucrative overseas contract and then leaving everyone high and dry without a second thought . |
| 20 | Some of the locks were ready long before the canal which serves them , and were literally high and dry for a time . |
| 21 | Cambridge were left high and dry for a time this afternoon as Oxford followed in the footsteps of many a champion boxer and left the opposition waiting at the official weigh-in . |
| 22 | Soon after it was built , it was left high and dry by a storm and thereafter was used as a signalling tower by Blandy 's . |
| 23 | The blue sea and bright sun belied the occasional grim reminder of the other side of the picture ; the broken , rusting hull of a merchantman or trawler , perched high and dry in a rocky grave . |
| 24 | After that I searched high and low for a new teacher , and when I found one I had to start from scratch . |
| 25 | His is high and proud to a degree , vet he was originally a drawing master in Manchester , and his wife a player . |
| 26 | You do n't want a firm whose work of good , but who may leave you high and not-so-dry for a few weeks . |
| 27 | And it can seem quite ghostly and atmospheric on a misty November afternoon , but I 've never seen any ghosts there . |
| 28 | Is there any hope that the Veterans News could do a feature on the old and new for a future issue of the Veterans News and wangle an invite for several of the veterans to the opening of the new branch at Lyons farm , perhaps on the day the dignitaries attend . |
| 29 | Both these factors ( interference and low associability ) may hinder the formation of the association required during conditioning but this new association , when it is eventually formed , will not totally obliterate those formed during pre-exposure and there will be competition between old and new during a retrieval test . |
| 30 | Princes Square mixes old and new in a fashion reminiscent of a film set , while the Italian Centre has elements of real Glasgow buildings jumbled freely with neo-classical replication and a sparse metallic modernism that the critic is lost for words . |