Example sentences of "[verb] and [adj] and [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One man just sat there in silence , looking at the camera , grinning and folding and refolding his six fivers . |
| 2 | The moment she saw Mungo , Mary Ann fussed and tut-tutted and made him have a bath . |
| 3 | Peacock clasped and unclasped and reclasped his hands in an embarrassment of humility and candour . |
| 4 | The barman was by now mellow and helpful and said we were rapidly running out of the ice that had come aboard in bags in Sudbury . |
| 5 | It was unspeakably horrid to know that a great , slithering , inchoate mass of effluence was crawling and creeping and smelling its way towards you . |
| 6 | He turned and glared at her and for a moment she thought the old Georg was going to start carping and nagging and telling her what she ought or ought not to do . |
| 7 | Their horses were saddled and waiting , their farewells to the prior and brothers already made , and Hugh just reaching for his bridle , when Nicol came trudging sturdily in at the gatehouse , soiled and bruised and hoisting himself along on a staff he had cut for himself in the forest . |
| 8 | It wants to be ruled and oppressed and to fear its masters . |
| 9 | We could all be happy , too , if we had audiences , if we had private tutors nodding and smiling and ticking our work . |
| 10 | In my most cherished memory of him , he is standing on his chair , at a table for twenty-eight in The Last Great Australian Fish Restaurant , bopping and twisting and bellowing his way through ‘ I Ca n't Get No Satisfaction ’ , with his walkabout phone precariously jammed in the back pocket of a pair of apparently descending blue jeans . |
| 11 | But Stephanie stood there calm and healthy and said he must speak to Mrs Marriott . |
| 12 | It was alleged by his widow that Thomas Flete , as agent of Clemens , ‘ … him feloniously slew and murdered and clove his head in four parties and gave him ten deadly wounds in his body and when he was dead they cut off one of his legs and one of his arms and his head from his body to make him sure ’ . |