Example sentences of "[adj] and [adj] and [verb] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | Regular use of a good cream helps keep hands soft and smooth and protects them from the onslaught of cold weather . |
| 2 | When the flowers had been made , she dyed them yellow , pink , orange and scarlet and mounted them among evergreen twigs of laurel . |
| 3 | The reason why caterwauling is associated with rutting is because it is most common then , the scent of the female on heat attracting males from far and wide and bringing them uncomfortably close together , so that they feel unusually inclined to vent their feelings of hostility towards one another . |
| 4 | I like railway stations — you know , how big and noisy and busy they are . |
| 5 | He [ or she ] has to decide whether it is more in his pupils ' interests for him to accept the existence of the present social structure and to give them help to advance within it , or for him to have rejected it , on their behalf , as stifling , competitive and exploitative and to encourage them to find fulfilment within themselves and their environment . |