Example sentences of "and [adj] [coord] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Feels like a hundred and fifty and get out of it . |
| 2 | The water was thick and brown and went down through the top end of Spaladale at a fearful rate . |
| 3 | The Woman loomed over the group , tall and brown and smiling down at the two mops of black hair — one over a quizzical smile and the other over a scowl . |
| 4 | He bounded over the thirteenth and fourteenth and set off for the Chair , that huge open ditch which forms the biggest obstacle on the course . |
| 5 | Some were sudden and burst out in a blaze , some were gradual and soundless and floated about in bits like tinsel blown and scattered , extinguishing one neither knew nor cared where . |
| 6 | On our side the bank was slow and grassy and sloped up to trees . |
| 7 | I thought you were supposed to be low and submissive and made out of Adam 's rib , and you were n't supposed to leave the house excessively . |
| 8 | Each school 's proposal is read by the DCSL , Divisional Librarian and the ACL:E&SS , and accepted or sent back for further refinement as required . |
| 9 | Now it is fallen upon and twisted and embellished out of all recognition . |
| 10 | Young and fit and keyed in to the processes of organisational power . |
| 11 | Riborg approved of the Iraquis because they wore clean shirts every day , but disapproved of the Welsh because they were dirty and noisy and went round in droves . |
| 12 | I watched Andy 's cock , huge and golden and purple and sticking out of his fly like a gently curved plant , some sweet exotic fruit growing into the sunlight . |
| 13 | I once saw this same beseeching looseness of eye and mouth in the face of a ragged little faggot on Sunset Boulevard , scorched and peed-on and limping back for more . |
| 14 | From here you go south-west to posts 41 and 42 and move out of the forest and follow the line of the wall to the summit of Grisedale Pike . |
| 15 | Looked at another way , The Possessed and the two remaining novels he had in him to write , A Raw Youth and The Brothers Karamazov , are all generation-gap stories , and for Dostoevsky the generation gap is only subordinately topical and tendentious and mixed up with Turgenev . |
| 16 | Meaby 's crucial thrust came in the decisive bottom match at the 13th after he and Davies had lost the 11th and 12th and fallen back to all-square . |
| 17 | Is it only two weeks since that bleak morning when I had nothing for a future and everything seemed too late , when I dragged myself about the house , alone and miserable and weighed down by self-pity ? |
| 18 | We got on the Circle Line with a bag of sulphate and went round and round and got off at Liverpool Street . |
| 19 | I suppose I thought she 'd either be fantastically frosty and sit on one of those little gilt chairs with a fancy gilt mirror behind her , or else be quite fat and red-faced and come in from the stove holding a wooden spoon and give me a huge embrace smelling of garlic and stockpot . |
| 20 | He was excited and overjoyed and turned out to be an enthusiastic and forgetful parent . |