Example sentences of "and [adj] [conj] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As his last , and most understanding wife , Jacinta Mulcahy , looked neat and supportive and sang with tremendous conviction as Oona . |
| 2 | At this time of year , with the flood still some weeks off , the Nile had shrunk back into its bed , uncovering a wide strip of mud , now baked hard and dry and cracked like crazy paving . |
| 3 | A window is a screen display stored in the computer which can be created , recalled , modified , scaled , repositioned and combined or overlapped with other windows by user messages . |
| 4 | The rooms , painted green , were dark and damp and smelled of alien growths . |
| 5 | Reports are commonly prosaic , dull , pompous and patronising and written with selfish disregard for the reader . |
| 6 | Answer guide : This information tends to be more up to date and detailed as compared to published accounting information . |
| 7 | They walked on : the grass beneath their bare feet was smooth and wet and dotted with pink-and-white mountain flowers . |
| 8 | They are , with few exceptions , very kind and generous and come from far and near , even from overseas . |
| 9 | It was long and straight and surrounded by bleak-looking moor . |
| 10 | His lips were warm and firm and tasted of smoky coffee , and they brushed hers lightly , tormentingly . |
| 11 | He stood , looking , and there was the movement again ; the blurring of shapes and silhouettes that were like nothing Floy had ever imagined ; inHuman and ancient and filled with wild woodland enchantment … |
| 12 | Armour-plated like giant turtles , humped and unruly and gashed with ferocious battle scars , yet in other places so biscuit-thin that it is possible to look at distant landscapes or clouds through the pierced form of a perforation in the ridge ( rather like one of Henry Moore 's outdoor sculptures ) . |
| 13 | The nightclub was dark and exclusive and filled with beautiful people . |
| 14 | The unitary , all embracing , concept of man which is postulated by such expressions as " Anthropology is the science of man " is really a by-product of the post-Cartesian attempt to objectify everything in the world , to view human relationships as commodities , to see everything as quantifiable and predictable and governed by simple laws of cause and effect . |
| 15 | Until then , he was seen in every glossy place around the coasts of Europe , gambling , sailing his expensive yacht , entertaining the rich and famous and surrounded by beautiful women . ’ |
| 16 | Julian Le Bas Landscapes Bede Gallery , Springwell Park , Jarrow , until March 20 I AM delighted to discover that Newcastle Polytechnic 's long-time art historian Alf Corlett is alive and well and living in well-earned retirement in East Sussex , where he has been on the look-out as a talent spotter for the Bede Gallery . |
| 17 | They were people , beings , half-formed creatures who might have been strange and beautiful and filled with wild , woodland magic . |
| 18 | A couple were necking and smiling and glowing with blue reflected light from the TV . |
| 19 | This neatly explains why the curriculum proposals appear so simplistic and old-fashioned and constructed in apparent disregard of the professional approach of teachers , inspectors and academics , for they read the sequence in a forwards direction , each step being derived logically from the one before . |
| 20 | It is customarily acknowledged that this model was first developed by Bobbitt ( 1918 , 1924 ) , clarified by Tyler ( 1949 ) and refined and elaborated by numerous others ( e.g. Taba , 1962 , Bloom , 1956 , Block , 1971 ) . |
| 21 | These buds become enlarged and folded or invaginated in various ways , sometimes forming pocket.like sacs , or peripodial cavities ( Fig. 32 ) , from the bottom of which the thickened portion of the bud ultimately becomes evaginated . |
| 22 | The main opposition alliance , the 14-party Nicaraguan Opposition Union ( UNO ) , is portrayed as opportunist and divided and infiltrated by pro-contra , Somoza-era hangovers . |
| 23 | The main opposition alliance , the 14-party Nicaraguan Opposition Union ( UNO ) , is portrayed as opportunist and divided and infiltrated by pro-contra , Somoza-era hangovers . |
| 24 | Boswell does not say which of them raised the question of biography , and somewhat out of context he leads into a comment from Johnson : ‘ Nobody can write the life of a man , but those who have eat and drunk and lived in social intercourse with him . ’ |
| 25 | It was long and sausage-shaped and coated with fine , black hairs . |
| 26 | In an adjacent glass case is an 8-foot length of preserved intestine , luridly green and red and covered in prominent blood vessels , which acts as an Enchanted Rope . |
| 27 | Squatting toad-like in a blue and white china soap-dish with a Greek key design was a worn cake of common household soap , coarse-textured and yellow and marked with dirty thumbprints from careless usage , which stung her face and probably corroded it . |
| 28 | Restaurants : Dutch cuisine is rich and creamy and comes in large portions ; pork does not dominate as it does in West Germany . |
| 29 | An institution , which is recognized by commentators from Bagehot to Shils and Young as appealing to irrational sentiments , is given a rational justification . |
| 30 | By 10am , the potatoes have been boiled and roasted and stored in insulated containers . |