Example sentences of "and [adj] [prep] [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He moistened his dry lips , and held his tongue , his eyes enormous and apprehensive upon Isambard 's face . |
| 2 | ‘ One can only believe they had been sympathetic and supportive over Diana 's marriage problems . |
| 3 | He put an arm round Tug 's shoulders and the bare skin of his wrist lay warm and dry against Tug 's upper arm , the crisp hairs tickling slightly . |
| 4 | It was a smooth body , not bumpy and muscular like Gary 's , or soft like Peter 's , just rounded with muscle and firm . |
| 5 | Particularly strong and memorable in Davis 's cast was the Beatrice of Dame Janet Baker , so much so that listening to Susan Graham in the new recording one often heard , quite involuntarily , a kind of overlay of Dame Janet 's voice recalled from the older recording . |
| 6 | No doubt it would give Marguerite some comfort to be able to be warm and friendly with Russell 's daughter , but it was too big a price to pay . |
| 7 | The bronze versions are very recent and faithful to Ernst 's instructions : when he returned to France after the war , he had planned to work on the project but did not manage to reach agreement with the current owners . |
| 8 | And free from society 's normal constraints , comedy is also the perfect vehicle to tackle ordinarily taboo subjects . |
| 9 | Commentators claimed that Mubarak was enraged and embarrassed by Iraq 's invasion , after he had announced in late July [ see p. 37632 above ] that Saddam had assured him that Iraqi forces would not move into Kuwait . |
| 10 | While one takes into account the concern of Calvin and the reformers for the balance between the light of scripture and the inner light and direction given to individuals an experience vouchsafe for countless times in both the Old and New Testaments also remembering our lord 's own use of silence in prayer and I believe the increasing use of silence in modern worship and may I also say how very impressed I was by Dr 's prayer at the opening of this assembly in which he asked for the guidance of God and indeed your own equally eloquent prayer on Sunday evening Moderator open to the prompting and leading and guiding of God 's spirit . |
| 11 | Bryan Robson is still out with a groin strain and doubtful for Monday 's game against QPR . |
| 12 | During the years of anti-apartheid struggle , donor funded non-governmental organisations ( NGOs ) have tried to provide health services which are accountable to oppressed communities and responsive to people 's basic primary health care needs in the most deprived areas . |
| 13 | Johnny Rotten in particular was becoming increasingly estranged from McLaren 's view of what the group should be , and resentful of McLaren 's attempts to control them . |
| 14 | Christopher North , a great admirer and friend to Green , said he was ‘ the most sober and industrious of God 's creatures ’ . |
| 15 | ‘ I feel I 'm free-falling , Jay , ’ said Lucy , her hand light and warm in Jay 's . |
| 16 | A government statement said : ‘ Malta has acceded to a request for the two suspects to be tried in Malta , provided that all parties to the dispute are in agreement and consistent with Malta 's obligations under the UN Charter . ’ |
| 17 | That was stupid , and typical of North 's cowboy mentality . |
| 18 | We had some very , very moving speeches yesterday , as we had had at previous meetings , which made it quite clear that a few pounds were vital and crucial to people 's lives , so we thought it was a a gesture that was worth making , and I have to say that probably our group also includes people on , as members , as Councillors , who are themselves on income support , so it was a move which was n't without it 's personal difficulties for us either . |
| 19 | A theme and an image which will be apparent — and crucial for Leonard 's own novel Beautiful Losers . ) |
| 20 | This probe is immediately upstream of the first J α segment ( J α 1 ) and downstream of J α . |
| 21 | It was warm and smooth on Sarah 's tongue , nothing like the terrible gin Maggie had given her which she never wanted to taste again . |
| 22 | Modigliani was intensely unhappy and suspicious of Beatrice 's growing intimacy with Jacob and by extension Picasso . |
| 23 | They appeared the next Friday night at the Smiths ' poolside looking fashionably anonymous and sinister like Seb 's crowd , and jumped in eagerly , Hoomey obviously expecting his new look to do wonders for his crawl . |
| 24 | His connection with Mozart , which he seems to have exaggerated in later life , may have amounted to no more than that they were both Freemasons and involved with Schikaneder 's theatre company and that he played the role of a slave in The Magic Flute . |
| 25 | be actively concerned with and involved in children 's school work |
| 26 | TAYLOR Woodrow 's reputation as the most cautious and prudent of Britain 's major building contractors is in tatters . |
| 27 | Charlie turned to face his friend and his shadow was short and black against Jack 's long one . |
| 28 | This was humbling , and good for Lydia 's character , which stood in need of improvement . |
| 29 | They looked proud and mournful to Harry 's eye , burdened with too much memory . |
| 30 | The more valuable emergency aid was siphoned off by foreign ministry officials for their own use or re-sale ( just as many of the outpourings of Western sympathy for the orphans and destitute of Ceauşescu 's Romania were purloined by the same fat-cats in the ministries early in 1990 after the fall of their master ) . |