Example sentences of "and [adj] [conj] [verb] in a " in BNC.
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| 1 | You can pick the work up and do a bit of it whenever you have a few minutes to spare and the final result is really splendid , whether it is all bejewelled and decorated or made in a simple plain yarn . |
| 2 | The work ethic is alive and well and living in a town where the official male unemployment figure is 15 per cent . |
| 3 | That picture ‘ turned life a little under his very eye … all , through Frances ‘ s eyes , could be made static and beautiful and set in a pattern ’ . |
| 4 | I order a vodka and orange and sit in a corner beneath peeling mauve and silver flock wallpaper . |
| 5 | They wavered and moved uncannily , glinting and shifting and burning in a heavy , solid way no thing should in the air . |
| 6 | Fei Yen had dressed quite simply , in a peach ch'i p'ao , over which she wore a long embroidered cloak of white silk , decorated with stylised bamboo leaves of blue and green and edged in a soft pink brocade that matched the tiny pink ribbons in her hair and set the whole thing off quite perfectly . |
| 7 | ‘ I feel shame , ’ said Herluin tightly , ‘ for myself and for my abbey , that we have nourished and sheltered and trusted in a very false aspirant to brotherhood . |
| 8 | An oval-shaped wreath can look very effective if it follows the lines of its oval frame , and you can make a similar style of garland in a heart-shaped design , whether small ( see p. 85 ) or much bigger and bolder and enclosed in a square frame . |