Example sentences of "[verb] and [adj] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE jump in retail sales last month of 1.6 per cent was roughly twice what the City had expected and more than made good the disappointing fall of 1 per cent in December . |
| 2 | Far from experiencing simple gratitude , such children will most likely feel terribly torn and anxious when faced with their foster parents ' offer of affection . |
| 3 | Torn and stained and ripped . |
| 4 | You finish your work and you want to relax , but you ca n't , because you have to queue for tomatoes or meat and you ca n't find it in this shop , or that , and you have to walk around and spend hours on shopping , then cook and clean and wash clothes and look after the children . |
| 5 | And there was that strange smell again which Dot recognized from the darkness of the night before of things dying and rotting and growing again . |
| 6 | We particularly urge that children should be encouraged to write fiction , poetry , plays , diaries , book reviews and so on , in response to the literature they have enjoyed and shared and discussed with their teacher and classmates . |
| 7 | They should also be encouraged to write fiction , poetry , plays , diaries , book reviews and so on , in response to the literature they have enjoyed and shared and discussed with their teacher and classmates . |
| 8 | Since that time I have come to know him and his wife and I can vouch that together they will be first class first citizens of and the office of the Lord Mayorality will continue to be respected and dignified and enhanced by their terms of office . |
| 9 | It lay on him like water on a tin roof , rusting and rotting and corroding day after day . |
| 10 | You can see it in our trade obviously in the way in which companies have amalgamated and merged and grown . |
| 11 | They looked phoney , but only because they looked new ; once they had cracked and weathered and slumped a little , nobody would ever credit that they might just as well have been built as concrete and glass shoe-boxes . |
| 12 | And so we have and it 's now that the war 's over , we 'll now see the press pressing and probing and trying to erm undermine John Major in the way they 've erm |
| 13 | A couple were necking and smiling and glowing with blue reflected light from the TV . |
| 14 | The monster had been named and tamed and destroyed all in an afternoon . |
| 15 | She would go no further , but just pulled up under the trees , shivering and sweating and blowing . |
| 16 | They wavered and moved uncannily , glinting and shifting and burning in a heavy , solid way no thing should in the air . |
| 17 | I kept trying to remember what a good time Sugar and Spite had been — and Goodstyle , a history of art revue I 'd written and pinched and compiled for Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art , Dundee , when I 'd been writer in residence . |
| 18 | They were off running the travel business and having affairs with all those couriers and secretaries and people while the wives prayed and cooked and had babies . ’ |
| 19 | The inside door was chained , bolted and locked and had not been opened since old Mr Stott , the caretaker , had been buried with the key . |
| 20 | Strong stop cDNA was prepared and isolated as described in methods . |
| 21 | Lexandro 's eyes were dark and lustrous , his teeth pearly , his dusky hair crimped and curled and pomaded . |
| 22 | The dark fine-grained rocks lie not in horizontal layers like all those above , but are twisted and buckled and riven with veins of pink granite . |
| 23 | But now , after three years , they are accepted and respected and relied upon . |
| 24 | What they looked for often — correctly I think — was a different type of sexuality , perhaps more libertine and less guilt-ridden ; but even that quest , if repeated by enough people , could ( and did ) become as regulated and uniform as learning itself . |
| 25 | A small but important part of Middlesbrough 's Vistorian heritage is to be saved and restored and used as an education centre . |
| 26 | Project sponsors are instructed to indicate what information would be required to conduct a thorough post-audit , whether the existing information systems provide this data , and if not , what steps should be taken to ensure that the required information is collected and available when required . |
| 27 | finance ministers and central bankers will be more concerned than generals and defence ministers to keep the cow healthy , well fed and growing than to extract more milk in the form of taxation from the wretched animal . |
| 28 | One man just sat there in silence , looking at the camera , grinning and folding and refolding his six fivers . |
| 29 | The Institute also recommends that the Financial Reporting Council use its annual review to draw attention to those aspects of the OFR that have been adopted and those that have not . |
| 30 | His cigarette gIowed and faded and glowed again . |