Example sentences of "and [adj] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An investigation has started into an attack on a pony which was left dead and mutilated in a field . |
| 2 | Amuni was subjected to the burlap sack torture : handcuffed and hooded in a sack , she was bound in a standing position to an iron bar for hours . |
| 3 | He saw not Alina , but something with eyes of blazing green ; her hair a long mane strewn with weeds , her dress a dripping shroud , her teeth sharp , her skin pale and scaly as a snake 's . |
| 4 | This kind of erm usage of nuclear physics is often of a lot of interest and understandable to a child in the third form . |
| 5 | Private care can be flexible and innovative in a way that statutory services often find difficult . |
| 6 | The southern islands became known mostly during the 17th to 19th centuries ; Antarctica itself remained unvisited until the late 18th century , and unrecognized as a continent before the start of the 20th century . |
| 7 | That was when Kleiber had given up the struggle and collapsed , limp and helpless as a rag doll . |
| 8 | He woke at three with a recurrence of the old nightmare-drowning and helpless in a deluge of glutinous liquid in which paradoxically there was also a ball of fire . |
| 9 | Despenser , made chamberlain of the king 's household in the autumn of 1318 , was son of an old servant of the king who was also called Hugh , but the young man was greedy and tactless on a scale which surpassed Gaveston and alarmed and alienated particularly the lords of the Welsh Marches ( where he laid claim to extensive lands ) and drove them into uneasy alliance with Lancaster . |
| 10 | Below Growth and budding of a graptolite colony , enlarged about 20 times |
| 11 | It was rock-hard and dry as a biscuit . |
| 12 | It was a couple of weeks before and I was left high and dry without a partner . |
| 13 | Of the wines produced in Alsace , 95 per cent are white and dry with a smattering of rosés , a few ( delicious ) reds , a handful of sweet whites ( identified on the label as being vendange tardive or late picked ) and a little sparkling , known as Cremant d'Alsace ) . |
| 14 | Some of the locks were ready long before the canal which serves them , and were literally high and dry for a time . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Drain the sample and dry in a stream of warm air . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Poor as a church mouse by her standards , and weak as a kitten ! ’ |
| 19 | Anthea sighed and leafed through a reference book . |
| 20 | Feeling unusually low and depressed from a bout of hay fever , Johnson did the natural thing and reached for a couple of Reactivins . |
| 21 | He was a man who had started out in his career simple and full of hope , but his life had been so marked by violent and terrible happenings that his character was now seamed and rocky like a mountain face which had been opened up by movements of the earth , then partly sealed by lava flows . |
| 22 | You 're generous and selfless in a way I could never be . ’ |
| 23 | However , in Coca-Cola Co. of Canada Ltd. v Pepsi-Cola Co. of Canada Ltd. ( 1942 ) , it was held that PEPSI-COLA was not too close to COCA-COLA because the suffix COLA was a word that had become common and descriptive of a type of beverage ; that is , a generic word . |
| 24 | All the male terms in the following list are relatively neutral and descriptive of a job or a position — master/mistress , host/hostess , fisherman/fishwife , prince/princess , bachelor/spinster . |
| 25 | At the bottom of the hill he doglegs left and vaults the creek , his right arm held stiffly out to snap back the neck of any tackler , the ball tucked professionally low into his stomach , hard and muscular as a wash board . |
| 26 | The baby clawed to be free of his mother and pressed to the brooches that studded Alexandra 's bosom and Robert , commonly bright-eyed with aggression , stood scarlet and speechless in a stupor of admiration and wonder . |
| 27 | Her startled eyes absorbed the thick , short , golden-streaked hair swept back from a broad forehead , ears long and narrow as a satyr 's which grew close to a beautifully formed skull , a mouth of unutterable sweetness countered by a long jaw carved out of golden teak faintly blurred by a light stubble , and a chin that jutted in a formidable challenge . |
| 28 | Though his thought may have been in some respects dry and narrow as a result , he set the agenda for modern philosophy and theology . |
| 29 | And Nan would be twenty next month and due for a rise , and she was hoping her father would stretch a point and make it ten shillings , for no matter what he said , Nan was a good assistant . |
| 30 | She had worked like hell at getting people to like her , believing herself gross and hideous as a child . |