Example sentences of "and [verb] and [vb pp] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 'd lived and learned and lived and learned but then |
| 2 | And some people that 's where you 'll probably get mugged anyway , if you 're safe from well from one road cutting through the flats where all the empty flats are that is the point where they 'd probably get mugged and assaulted and raped and God knows what . |
| 3 | Of what we 've done and seen and thought and read , |
| 4 | She read and read and read while her aunt mended the socks of her husband and brothers or sewed innumerable buttons on their shirts . |
| 5 | And Rory , throughout his teens , had thought about the struggle sometimes , and determined vaguely one day to be part of the broom that swept the Brits out of his country , and drank and screwed and spent and had terrific crack , and bought the three-eight Webley once , upon a whim . |
| 6 | Over the ensuring months each item has been carefully checked over and repaired and painted as necessary . |
| 7 | and fed and clothed and safe and free . |
| 8 | ‘ Well , he got sculpted and frescoed and painted and even woven into the bloody Bayeux tapestry dressed as a Norman soldier . |
| 9 | My friends , we will be dead and gone and forgotten and generation after generation will come , and there will still be the search for the Holy Grail by knights like Keir Hardie . |
| 10 | People arrested late in 1991 were beaten at the time of their arrest and tortured and beaten while in detention . |
| 11 | My dolls were never babies to be fed and bathed and kissed but the protagonists of enormous adventures . |
| 12 | He was down and refuelled and re-armed when I got back . ’ |
| 13 | She stared in anger at the old man 's face , at his eyes which goggled anxiously at hers , then roved off when she met his look , his lips which caved in on his gums and mumbled and tightened as though he was always eating . |
| 14 | Nor had the later overlapping visitation of hippies of the Sixties taken place , who had followed the gipsy processions , of which Alexander now told Frederica , and stayed and sung and smoked and loved and sat on the white beaches , so that the pale sand came to resemble road-dirt anywhere . |