Example sentences of "and [adj] [conj] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | A police officer said his corpse was so charred and mutilated that it took more than an hour to identify it . |
| 2 | A police officer said his corpse was so charred and mutilated that it took more than an hour to identify it . |
| 3 | Be careful that you do not continue to reject fields at the same time as getting lower and lower until it is too late either to have any selection or to achieve a good approach . |
| 4 | It would droop lower and lower until it rested on her knees , then she would clasp her knees with both hands and rock herself , backwards and forwards , backwards and forwards , moaning , her face hidden in her skid . |
| 5 | But this annual nerve-shredder , as remorseless and cruel as it is exhilarating , had already struck . |
| 6 | The picture which emerges from this study is one where assistance between more distant kin is of relatively minor importance to the total picture ( although of course it may be very important in particular cases ) , and that whether it is likely to be significant is rather idiosyncratic and unpredictable . |
| 7 | This , however , can not be correct since section 36A , inserted by the 1989 Act , provides that a company need not have a common seal and that whether it has or not ‘ a document signed by a director and the secretary of the company or by two directors and expressed ( in whatever form of words ) to be executed by the company has the same effect as if executed under the common seal of the company . ’ |
| 8 | The manager can say this and that and it looks good on paper and there may be great reasoning behind it . |
| 9 | Calgary , took a train over the Rockies to Vancouver and then a cruise ship up to Alaska and , and back via Vancouver and you saw the erm ice floes er dropping off and er er seals and that , dolphins and that and it looked pretty good . |
| 10 | and it said about tin cans and aluminium and that and it was costing them less excuse me to use recycled you know er used aluminium |
| 11 | Oh well , I do n't know then , but I know she used to live in Spotter 's Wood cos erm they showed that , you see , she showed her this thing , a dog license and that and it said like , the dog and it had the dog 's history on it . |
| 12 | Well it 's always going to be hard because we 're , you know , near the bottom and that and it 's very tight , you know just a win or a loss like , it puts you either three places up or right near the bottom . |
| 13 | Its head twisted this way and that as it tried to reach my fingers with its chopping teeth . |
| 14 | It may be one that is large and far-reaching or it may appear relatively small and trivial but … ( of ) special significance for the person who makes it is that his choice will help to determine the pattern of his unique development over time . |
| 15 | In my opinion that simply involves that the payment was voluntary if no improper pressure was brought to bear , and involuntary if it was . |
| 16 | The water seemed peaceful and inviting and it was hard to believe there might be something lurking beneath its surface . |
| 17 | The players are very down and upset and it will be difficult to lift them for Tranmere . |
| 18 | If somebody beats you up and you feel hurt and upset and it 's enormously painful then you need to go to casualty afterwards erm that sort of fits the scripts y'know that 's w that 's that 's understandable . |
| 19 | And unbelievable as it may seem the champions have a meagre nine points to show for their labours following trouncings by Willowfield and Ballymena . |
| 20 | ‘ I 'm glad you are coming with me to Chapel Street , Letty , I know it 's only lodgings but it 's clean and respectable and it wo n't be for long , I promise you . ’ |
| 21 | His body was not as solid and stable as it should be and he was frequently off-line by a few degrees . |
| 22 | The champagne tasted sharp and dry and it had lost its fizz . |
| 23 | The gesture was both intimate and impersonal and it reminded her of Maggie 's physical friendship that never grew into love . |
| 24 | The initial hypothesis suggested above about baptism being more a social than a religious ceremony is so general and broad that it obviously can not be tested without being broken down into its constituent parts . |
| 25 | But whether Rider Haggard wanted to move his mysterious veiled woman somewhat further from the realm of allegory near which she certainly appeared to reside in She and Ayesha , or whether he was merely exercising the husbandry of a writer who had created in Quatermain a remarkably useful narrator and wanted to make the fullest use of him , the fact remains that the ‘ She ’ of She and Allan is more shrewdly realised as a woman than in the two preceding books , even if her self- centred mysticism is still as grandiose and woolly as it was . |
| 26 | This process can be painful and revealing but it leads to greater self-awareness — the first step to unambiguous communication . |
| 27 | Or is this a counsel of despair which makes the culture of racism seem more entrenched and unchangeable than it really is ? |
| 28 | We were pleased when the news was good and depressed when it was bad , but first things came first and I suppose we all felt we were doing our bit and that our personal lives were at that moment of secondary importance . |
| 29 | The second area of the report which I would want to draw your attention to is that area concerned with growth and savings and a number have put forward in sections seven , eight , nine and ten of the report , that on pages six , seven and eight and it 's got within those growth and savings that we can work to the target set by the policy committee . |
| 30 | The Government could have ignored the outcry from the unions and Labour but it could not ignore the unexpected media attack . |