Example sentences of "[adj] and [verb] [adv prt] [art] " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | Next time , stay calm and pick up the pace when you can . |
| 4 | 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 ? |
| 5 | There was nothing left now , but to grow old , but to grow old and take on the burden of her mother growing even older . |
| 6 | On the pavement , Jo shook herself free and smoothed down the front of her leather mini-skirt . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The insect jerks itself free and hangs on the empty pupa case , its body trembling . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The company told the news agency that it has sold more than 200,000 of the 95LX model and will continue to sell both models — but ‘ We expect the 100LX to be even more popular and open up a whole new market . ’ |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The Soviet parliament voted the address unconstitutional and set up a special committee , dominated by Communist hardliners , to send a formal appeal to the Russian parliament . |
| 14 | I went out into the fresh damp morning , walking quickly to keep warm and get round the island before any rain started . |
| 15 | Kidnapping the whole cage was impossible and knocking out the Headmaster and all the teachers would be difficult . |
| 16 | He would attempt the impossible and set up an airline from scratch in three months . |
| 17 | He walked all over Lyne picking up blocks of red sandstone ashlar and pointing out the old grooves and cramp-holes . |
| 18 | And it must be appropriate and sum up the style of the development and its location . ’ |
| 19 | I roll a joint and turn off the bright neon , leaving us with the sultry lilac glow of a smaller and older lamp , the first I ever bought . |
| 20 | Do n't buy silver-top and skim off the cream yourself , because this does n't provide an equivalent calorie saving . |
| 21 | But Mrs Porter 's back was turned as she unplugged and packed up the vacuum cleaner , and the very private smile Tom telegraphed across the room to Belinda told her more than the most sweetly worded compliment could have done . |
| 22 | ‘ Be a dear and put out the cat ’ , ‘ This train timetable may help you ’ and so on . |
| 23 | From the start , pick up a crate and kill the policeman , continue right , dodging the dog on the way , climb the ladder to where the mugger prowls , dodge him and grab the ‘ ? ’ ( 50 points ) and the records , climb upwards , collecting records on the way , kill the workman with the crate and thus gain access to the roof of the building , avoid climbing the crane ( there 's nothing of interest there ) , climb up the ladder and kill the policeman , run right and jump off the edge to the end of the building . |
| 24 | No more being shy and going up the high one . |
| 25 | She wandered back to the dressing-table and stood fiddling and picking over every little object on it . |
| 26 | However , if it was too weak and watered down a version of Presbyterianism for the Scots , it none the less proved far too rigid and alien for the majority of the English laity . |
| 27 | His attitude was childlike and brought out the full force of her anger against the vultures waiting beyond the door . |
| 28 | Improv provides business an professional users with a unique set of capabilities for dynamic viewing and analysis , and , for building spreadsheets that can be easily reused , modified and shared over a long lifecycle . |
| 29 | I 'd better let her take you home or she 'll eat me alive and spit out the bones . ’ |
| 30 | Bouncing and bucking down the rough , uneven scrubland of the sloping ground beyond , it finally fetched up hard when it smashed head-on into a rocky outcrop . |