Example sentences of "and [verb] [conj] [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | To walk and think and live like a puppet . |
| 2 | Before the storm broke he fell into a sleep so peaceful and deep that he heard nothing of the thunder crashing overhead or of the rush of waters as the lake filled and spread and crept and grew like a living thing . |
| 3 | I was astonished , and a little dismayed , by the ease with which Dana entered into the spirit of things , giving Indian war-whoops and clowning and laughing in a way I thought was rather contemptible . |
| 4 | He hemmed and hawed and rambled through a number of subjects before making a sideways approach to what he really seemed to need , which was any useful or memorable detail that would be worth noting about the previous night 's client . |
| 5 | The feeling that England stifles and smothers and crushes like a steamroller over everything fresh and green and original . |
| 6 | Nor was it some stranger come to drink and dance and lie with a man in a borrowed bed . |
| 7 | He grunted , they said , and weaved and ducked like a prize fighter when asked questions . |
| 8 | You will look after the fast buck merchants who are waiting to come in to steal and cheat and to deal in a shoddy , grasping way with bus companies that have been made successful by the local authorities . " |
| 9 | It would n't last , because it never did , and the end of October might even bring the first tentative snows of winter — but until then people would continue to be caught out , and to shiver and sweat as a penance for their gullibility . |
| 10 | Despite the hype , Switchboard is very special ; not because of its size , or its range , or its particular achievements but because of the way in which it has endured and grown and responded to a perceived constituency . |
| 11 | Once he and his family and animals are ritually stoned to death and burned and buried under a great heap of stones , then God 's anger evaporates , and the people are able to attack Ai again , and deliver up its inhabitants , men , women , and children , to the same fate as met those of Jericho ( 8.1–29 ) . |
| 12 | For example , it is suggested that : " The rooms should be grouped in a simple manner , easy for patients and visitors to find their way around ; the whole building should be on one level and should look as far as is possible both externally and internally like a house not a hospital : there should be a clearly defined main entry/exit point for patients , staff , visitors and supplies which should have a ramped approach and in which the main door should be lockable : WC and washing compartment should be shared between pairs of single bed rooms and should be readily accessible to the sitting and dining rooms ; the bathroom should be readily accessible to both day and night areas ; the WC and the bathroom should be equipped for wheelchairs and standing users : the sitting and dining rooms and the external enclosure should be accessible by wheelchair : rooms should be differentiated in colour and finish while remaining domestic in scale and character : an informal , welcoming and comfortable reception/waiting area is required at the entrance to provide shelter and waiting spaces for visitors : the area between main entrance and sub-section entrances is likely to be an extensive area of circulation and will be the hub of the building but it could also be , spaciously , rather than an enlarged corridor , a positive amenity and focus if designed as a conservatory , for example , to contain plants or even birds and fish providing a stimulus to patients ' visitors and staff , and , finally : the safe external enclosure ( to which I referred earlier , ) should take the form of a walled garden matching the materials of parent buildings , suitably softened with appropriate planting . |
| 13 | It goes on to say and it came about that in thy journeying eastward they eventually discovered a valid plain and a land of Shinar and they took up growing there and they began to say each one to the other come on let us make bricks and bake and bake with a burning process , so bricks served as stone for them and |
| 14 | When the salient vicinity includes another moving object , particularly a flying insect twisting and turning and diving in a desperate attempt to shake off its pursuer , the extra benefit to the bat of increasing its sample rate more than justifies the increased cost . |
| 15 | It would erode the precious British freedom , gained at considerable cost over several centuries , to shock and insult and to ridicule as a way of testing the faiths of our forefathers . |
| 16 | In his defence of Rushdie 's right to publish , Mr Torode argues we should be allowed to ‘ shock and insult and to ridicule as a way of testing the faith of our forefathers ’ . |
| 17 | He saw them and halted , standing at gaze for a moment open-mouthed and great-eyed , and then he whooped like a huntsman hot after game , and turned and ran like a hare for the hall , bounding as he ran . |
| 18 | Idly she unravelled the muddle of paths , wandering past low , stunted railings , and dwarf ‘ Keep off the grass ’ signs sprouting from the balding turf ; past desolate putting greens ; past tightly-shuttered refreshment kiosks ; past the narrow lanes marked ‘ Men ’ and Women' that commenced at a modest distance from each other and wound through dark shrubbery to merge in a single , dripping tomb , divided by a wall . |
| 19 | A variety of isolated fractions or tissues from post-implantation mouse embryos will continue to grow and differentiate if placed in a well vascularized site in an immunologically compatible adult host ( 2 ) . |
| 20 | It is the comparison of the size of the cloud with the dust veils from eruptions such as Krakatoa and Agung that leads to a prediction of a cooling of the northern hemisphere by about 0.5 °C , with the biggest effect late in 1983 or in 1984 . |
| 21 | Battered , worn ; battered and worn and pitted into a bit of a mask , so that I never quite believe whatever expression it 's got on . |
| 22 | In September they travelled to Scafell in the Lake District and followed that walk with a trip to Carneddeu in North Wales . |
| 23 | They may seem inexpensive , but a will is a legal document and should be drawn up carefully and signed and witnessed in a particular way . |
| 24 | Michael Hardman edited a monthly newsletter called What 's Brewing , produced on a typewriter and edited and pasted on a kitchen table . |
| 25 | Canada Tenn courts are constructed from a natural rock occurring in the USA and laid and bound on a dynamic or engineered base . |
| 26 | For me and for many , a personal relationship with Jesus started on a Venture ( they were called ‘ camps ’ in my day ! ) and attending and serving on a venture were valuable stepping stones towards greater Christian maturity . |
| 27 | So keep out of arguments with other canines , stop your grousing and growling and behave in a mature manner . |
| 28 | But we have kept the Sixties colour and feel while appealing to a younger market . ’ |
| 29 | I need to grow and change and develop as a person in my own terms . |
| 30 | ‘ It 's just not possible for me to pack a briefcase and go and stay in a Hilton somewhere looking for business and agents . |