Example sentences of "[vb past] [adj] and [adv] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | MI5 never replied , GCHQ expressed polite and emphatically arm 's length interest , and the CIA offered help , exhibits and the information that the only other museum of spying they know of is in Havana . |
| 2 | Abundance of it represented laughter and joy ; scarcity represented suffering and even death . |
| 3 | Her heart had been beating fast and her hands were shaking , but as he kissed her and his body pressed close against hers , the length of his body hard against hers , those signs of fear gradually ceased and she grew weak and curiously fluid in his arms . |
| 4 | Lovejoy and Latimer would not accept that curved phalanges ( toes and fingers ) necessarily meant grasping and hence arboreality . |
| 5 | Rosenberg could sense the counter-accusations ringing across the Atlantic , the worst of them perhaps unspoken : Americans had idealist and somewhat puritan expectations of how Dr Aveling should have behaved , Americans are a simple people , literal-minded and dependent on secondary sources of information . |