Example sentences of "and [adj] [conj] [v-ing] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | She would lie for hours — days even , for she had lost all interest in time — in an abstraction of pain , her bruised mind slipping and struggling and relapsing into a slough . |
| 2 | Must be handsome , intelligent and witty and looking for a fun-to-be-with female student . |
| 3 | The work ethic is alive and well and living in a town where the official male unemployment figure is 15 per cent . |
| 4 | They wavered and moved uncannily , glinting and shifting and burning in a heavy , solid way no thing should in the air . |
| 5 | Comedy produced ‘ hearty laughter ’ , what James Agee was later to describe as ‘ laughter as violent and steady and deafening as standing under a waterfall ’ , and it was the sound of this laughter drifting through open doors that was always the best advertisement for the movies . |
| 6 | At one , and ten , twenty one thirty at a hundred and thirty pounds standing , at one thirty , all done , at one hundred and thirty and selling for a hundred and thirty pounds thank you sir , the same buyer , one hundred and thirty pounds for eight five four . |