Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] a [adj] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It also seemed , from the feathers on the kitchen floor , that one of the pigeons had come down for a warm and had got too close . |
| 2 | AN EERIE silence will descend on the steel town of Motherwell next weekend when the big Ravenscraig strip mill winds down for a long and unwelcome seasonal break . |
| 3 | ‘ I went along as a 10-year-old and watched the shows four times a day . |
| 4 | She was just in for a fine and it was her first time . |
| 5 | It 's easier for you to experiment to see how it works than for me to go in for a detailed but boring explanation . |
| 6 | However , the watering down of a basic and principled commitment , within Labour or any other libertarian party , especially in response to intimidation by newspapers of such a spurious morality , could prove deeply discrediting . |
| 7 | During the following few days a number of people in the bus will go down with a cold and will likely blame the poor soul who was suffering on his journey home . |
| 8 | A broad staircase led down into a hushed and panelled hallway . |
| 9 | Steve came in with a danish and a cup of coffee and I 'm thinking |
| 10 | In the latter case , two ancient Christian principalities , Georgia and Armenia , had claims to distinct national identities , along with a Muslim and Shi-ite people in Azerbaijan ( which contained the economically vital oil city of Baku ) . |
| 11 | His activities had been known to some antislavery figures long before , but in 1814 his Mitigation of Slavery was published along with an extensive and favourable account by the Scots abolitionist William Dickson in the form of Letters to Thomas Clarkson . |
| 12 | With the scum being really lucky getting a draw from a good Norwich side , it seemed on the radio at least that Norwich had at least one decent penalty decision turned down from a spineless and gutless referee . |
| 13 | The pilot heard a bang from the engines , followed by the sound of the engines running down in a rough and abnormal manner . |
| 14 | There are even times when I enjoy it in a masochistic kind of way — those are the times when you are really running free , bouncing along in a relaxed and easy manner , with the mind and the body in tune . |
| 15 | John Walford 's fate spoke powerfully of life 's arbitrary horror , and of destruction brought down on a good and generous man who had done a terrible thing , but ‘ without fore-intending it ’ . |
| 16 | As the argument was refined in the course of the hearing , it emerged that the rival contentions came down to a narrow but difficult issue . |
| 17 | For Labour supporters , 1931 was the election when the party went down to a cataclysmic and catastrophic defeat , betrayed by MacDonald and deserted by its working class supporters … |
| 18 | Some years later , when Hellen and I had settled down to a busy and happily married life in China , we had a Chinese name worked out for her . |
| 19 | By the time they sat down to a light but elegant dinner , a warm rapport had grown between the two women . |
| 20 | ‘ Close to Eden is a good looking film let down by a convoluted and complex plot in which nothing really happens . |
| 21 | He went over to a flowerbed and felt around in the mud . |
| 22 | But though the relationship , when satisfactory , is relatively straightforward and works as would be expected when any large organization is taken over by a new and competent managing director , there are other cases where problems can arise . |
| 23 | The idea of curriculum review has been brought into the schools ' arena , though whether it will take off as a regular and meaningful exercise seems doubtful . |
| 24 | She was eighteen and had never been out of England , yet she unhesitatingly set off for a remote and savage country in Africa . |
| 25 | Ronni flew off with a heavy and tormented heart . |
| 26 | If he pleads guilty and begs for the mercy of the court , he may get off with a fine and deportation . |
| 27 | In the meantime , even a brief look confirms a familiar profile : the large ellipse of the rear bout pulling into the elongated narrow waist , the exaggerated offset of the upper and lower horns , the elegant necks topped off with a neat and compact headstock . |
| 28 | A scumble glaze will give an antique effect ; finish off with a matt or satin varnish . |
| 29 | Cameron remembered his dream , remembered the thickly-populated nightmare life he had led , trailing off into a bland and dusty future . |
| 30 | The sensible thing to do , having made the initial impact , was to walk off in a slow and menacing way , leaving Quigley to gibber . |