Example sentences of "and [noun pl] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In recent years , some newspapers have become vehicles for the pursuit of certain positions and ideologies and consequently less open to their ideological opponents . |
| 2 | Plans agreed on by the first meeting included a shopping trip to Holland to visit a shop which sells outsize jeans and sweat-shirts and another to Germany to a shop which claims to sell the biggest size shoes in the world . |
| 3 | Life in the guise of the crime-and-punishment process snatches up hunter and hunted into the contradictions and cruelties and deceits and frailties which are , in a word , life — not the whole of life of course , but life . |
| 4 | ‘ Do n't repeat yourself ’ is an injunction placed upon us when we assemble our first stories and essays and make our first public utterances . |
| 5 | It begins to get very cold and hats and pogies appear but we press on and soon after midnight portage Marlow ; a hundred yards downstream we find the campsite and land . |
| 6 | One hundred and twenty outfits , not to mention all the shoes and hats and gloves . |
| 7 | How smart and glamorous they looked when they went off to London in the evenings , Dad in his suits and Eva with shawls and hats and expensive shoes and handbags . |
| 8 | Beyond the Swedes was an impersonal sea of heads and hats and magazines and knuckles on hanging-straps . |
| 9 | The next visitor was made more alarming by bringing with her two daughters , perhaps a little younger than Alexandra , who both seemed to have no trouble at all in managing their skirts and hats and gloves . |
| 10 | In other words man 's life was not really affected except for the possible lack of sex which I have mentioned whereas woman was reduced to eating and sleeping and also probably knitting little woolly jumpers and hats and gloves and scarfs and trousers . |
| 11 | There are , and apparently they are still counting , 13 of them ready to descend with their bells and hats and shoes and pretty bogus folklore . |
| 12 | These are all the old erm armed forces ' old shells and hats and things you see . |
| 13 | Umm horses and hats and guns . |
| 14 | Bigger hooks and baits and heavier indicators brought more success than anything else I had tried . |
| 15 | In the case of an over-large meal this would mean that the slim people would put down their knives and forks and leave some food . |
| 16 | They were the sort of things too which the parent generation owned , those old people that Adam , until Rufus laughed at him , had inadvertently called the grown-ups : sheets and blankets and knives and forks and pots and pans and more complicated appurtenances of living that if one ever thought about at all one supposed one would have to get together for oneself eventually . |
| 17 | Get the knives and forks and some bread and a few plates and take them next door ! 1 ’ |
| 18 | Encouraged , Willis offered to fetch the mussels at once , and some plates and forks and vinegar , and switch on the radio while he was gone , to give them a bit of music . |
| 19 | Why did she collect the knives and forks and clear the table ? |
| 20 | Alone in the dining room — for Twomey had stopped softly jangling spoons and forks and fitting plates each to each , and gone , quietly as his shadow — Nicandra 's mind became a perfect blank . |
| 21 | They ate up all the knives and forks and then they asked for more . |
| 22 | And there 's a like a white plastic thing that a yo the knife and forks and are in there , now . |
| 23 | Gwrych Castle was offered rent-free by Lord Dundonald — who also made a grant towards rates and taxes and paid half the cost of repairs — a necessarily generous offer since the castle had been uninhabited for over fifteen years . |
| 24 | Death and taxes and childbirth ! |
| 25 | They beat us down with duties and taxes and pitilessly steal the fruits of our labours . |
| 26 | Meanwhile , parliament voted on Nov. 12 to grant the government special powers over the next six months to implement the economic reform programme , including the authority to change prices and taxes and to negotiate foreign credits . |
| 27 | Wealth-producing assets are assumed to be infinitely divisible and taxes and transactions costs are both zero . |
| 28 | ‘ Just a lot of stuff about his house and taxes and kids . ’ |
| 29 | Slumps and sickness and tithes and taxes and the Milk Board and the Marketing Board , and working one 's fingers to the bone and trying to bring up children … |
| 30 | Ai n't it four fifty an hour chauffeuring , and he puts petrol in , and taxes and insures car . |