Example sentences of "[vb infin] [conj] [verb] and [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Crowds of hundreds would stand and watch and listen and many people made commitments to the Lord . |
| 2 | We must build and restore and this is possible even now , if only it were understood that the former dependence of museums on the resources of a criminal state was an abomination which there would be no shame in abandoning . |
| 3 | She spent the greater part of her working life trying to understand people 's needs , but the need for a God who would comfort and console and right wrongs — in the next life if not in this — although she might understand it , was something she could not uphold . |
| 4 | You want to make their lives secure and warm and loving . |
| 5 | One last shattering figure is that 700 million adults can not read or write and 250 million children under 14 do not attend school . |
| 6 | I goes , can you go and get and some beers , yeah cos otherwise , I should , you know you said lend us a pound , he goes yeah , I goes well you can yo he goes not a pound , one pound four P ! |
| 7 | Moreover , in keeping with my earlier remarks , I would argue that racialized and ethnic discourses and encounters have a tendency to be contradictory and ambivalent in character . |