Example sentences of "and [verb] [adj] and [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The pterosaurs , flying reptiles , also had their origins in the Triassic and became widespread and varied during the Jurassic and Cretaceous . |
| 2 | In the more remote localities Bolshevik officials , desperate for transport facilities , ‘ ignored NEP and all its works , and commandeered right and left as if military Communism [ War Communism ] was still pure and undefiled ’ , yet another indication that military methods did not go completely out of fashion with the advent of NEP . |
| 3 | Trent imagined Golden Girl picked up by the surf and flung tumbling and splintering into fragments . |
| 4 | The retired can squat , smoke , reminisce and grow old and die in familiar , comfortable surroundings . |
| 5 | Peter Mann , director of the charity 's veterinary services , said : ‘ The sheer noise of fireworks can shock a pet into running away and becoming lost and frightened in unfamiliar surroundings . ’ |
| 6 | They mostly think they 're marvellous and act lordly and gallop about being pillars of the community . ’ |
| 7 | It lacks tolerance , the spirit of live and let live and militates against Christian people , in particular Catholics . |
| 8 | ‘ Because I 'd shoot up drugs or have parties and get drunk and sleep with boys ? |
| 9 | He enjoyed handling Glic 's pups , that Luch , alone in the castle , was allowed to lift from their dam 's teats and set warm and wriggling in his hands while they were as blind as he was himself . |
| 10 | As I say , if you by the time you get home and then you got to exercise them erm and then you 've got to get back and feed them and then feed yourself and keep warm and think of you know , what you got to wear the next day the time 's gone ! |
| 11 | But it does need to be borne in mind that although this form of sudden death can create such instantaneous reactions there are also people who hide and keep quiet and suffer for a long time before finding the opportunity to talk to someone about their feelings or until another trigger sets them grieving . |
| 12 | Mountbatten missed Charles enormously when he went off on long trips and felt lonely and deprived without his increasingly regular visits . |
| 13 | Charles worried about the effect it was having on her ; and grew angry and frustrated on his own behalf , that no one seemed interested in the ills of the world . |
| 14 | These provisions had loopholes and proved technical and obscure with the result that enforcement was difficult . |
| 15 | Its exceptionally shaggy coat , almost yak-like , covers its face as well as its body , and becomes matted and felted after a long winter . |
| 16 | And when the bridal party came out into the church porch and stood blinking and smiling in the winter daylight , Sir Felix Lark , his wild eyes excessively unstable , was instantly at Linnet 's elbow , topping the suave invitations of Mr Adolphus Moon to meet his artistic friends with offers to mount her for the Far Flatley hunt . |
| 17 | While in detention he was ‘ shaken and poked ’ , deprived of sleep and held hooded and handcuffed in a freezing hallway . |