Example sentences of "and [adj] and [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She felt hot and sticky and changed her clothes and put on a housecoat . |
| 2 | The candle flame threw shadows , like paper-ash , thought Conrad , on to Lee 's face which was tired and childlike and rested its cheek on the pale-lemon linen of the pillow-slip . |
| 3 | His voice was immensely rich and strong and suited his heavy features and bearing . |
| 4 | We retrieved the dented , cracked , chipped and broken and repaired what we could and used it ourselves . |
| 5 | Peacock clasped and unclasped and reclasped his hands in an embarrassment of humility and candour . |
| 6 | It was alleged by his widow that Thomas Flete , as agent of Clemens , ‘ … him feloniously slew and murdered and clove his head in four parties and gave him ten deadly wounds in his body and when he was dead they cut off one of his legs and one of his arms and his head from his body to make him sure ’ . |
| 7 | It was old-fashioned and comfortable and suited me fine . |
| 8 | So the bedrooms and they 're not too bad because he has n't been able to do anything in the bedrooms the bedrooms are alright except that over the lintels in most of the bedrooms the plaster is is not right , it 's it 's flaking in great lumps and rippling and cracked something to do with the |
| 9 | He was courteous and considerate and treated her like someone so very special . |
| 10 | She felt cold and sick and wished she could crawl away and lie down . |
| 11 | But Stephanie stood there calm and healthy and said he must speak to Mrs Marriott . |
| 12 | If , on the other hand , you judged the conversation you heard to be trivial and inconsequential and found yourself only selecting certain parts of it : if you changed it , rewrote it , rethought it completely so that it accorded with your own notion of how that conversation should have proceeded , then you are another sort of writer . |
| 13 | The barman was by now mellow and helpful and said we were rapidly running out of the ice that had come aboard in bags in Sudbury . |
| 14 | She felt numb and tired and surprised herself by managing to sleep deeply and well . |
| 15 | Robyn closed her eyes and swallowed and dug her nails deep into her palms . |
| 16 | Those of Canon John 's professional musical friends who took part in the concert came from far and wide and gave their services as a gift to him in gratitude for being the leading light in all the musical ventures for the Third World while he was parish priest of St Joseph 's , Sale . |
| 17 | The opposition Fiji Labour National Federation Parties , led by Adi Kuini Bavadra ( the widow of the ousted Prime Minister who had taken over the party leadership after her husband 's death from cancer in 1989 ) , denounced the Constitution as racist and anti-democratic and announced its refusal to participate in elections held under its auspices . |
| 18 | She saw that I was looking pale and vacant and told me to sit down . |
| 19 | It was nice and positive and suited me fine . |
| 20 | The faces of all , of men more than women , and of dark men particularly , puzzled and fascinated and alarmed me . |
| 21 | Appearances were deceptive and her own mother looked handsome and smart and had what people called a very sweet expression . |
| 22 | For Dr Neil the feel of her , so soft , the scent of her hair , and of McAllister herself , was so wild and sweet and struck him with such force that his breathing grew a little ragged and his body reminded him of how long it had been since he had satisfied it . |
| 23 | When the flowers had been made , she dyed them yellow , pink , orange and scarlet and mounted them among evergreen twigs of laurel . |
| 24 | The moment she saw Mungo , Mary Ann fussed and tut-tutted and made him have a bath . |
| 25 | My favourite was Ivy who was blonde , buxom and fun and took me — oh what delight — to see Roy Rogers in Son of a Pale Face . |