Example sentences of "and [adj] and [adj] with " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm going to be very firm and straightforward and businesslike with Oliver from now on . |
| 2 | Everyone was so sweet and warm and natural with me , and I felt a deep glow of affection and thankfulness for my friends . |
| 3 | The kitchen wallpaper was old and brown and shiny and streaky with grease . |
| 4 | The skin of his face and neck was like dark ancient leather , creased and hard and glossy with wear . |
| 5 | She was peachy and downy and sweet with baby sleep , a blue ribbon in her hair , which was dark and curly . |
| 6 | She had forced him to live against the grain of his own nature which was weak and pleasure-loving and stubborn with it , so that when she beat him for laziness or lying , he became more determinedly idle and sullen . |
| 7 | Heartsore and vulnerable and sick with misery . |
| 8 | Kurt Forster was an impressive man , tall and tanned and wiry with fierce green eyes and shaggy blond hair . |
| 9 | The dish contained something shiny and wobbly and pink with a cherry on it , and in some strange way it managed to look like something you would n't eat even if it was pushed on to your plate after a week 's starvation diet . |
| 10 | Besides , ghastly people the French , so stiff and arrogant and vain with it . ’ |
| 11 | She swung her legs over the bed ; they were long and plump and white with a narrow blue vein running round the back of one of them . |
| 12 | I hoped there was somewhere to sit down , it was nearly half-past eleven and I was worn out and hot and sticky with all this wandering . |
| 13 | His face was old and ugly and yellow with disease . |
| 14 | ‘ Oh , no , you ai n't , ’ I mutter , turning and twisting and thrusting with my right boot . |
| 15 | She was hot and dirty and damp with perspiration , but the fire was being checked . |
| 16 | and stale and bored with the job |