Example sentences of "[verb] [coord] [verb] [conj] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | consulted or asked or involved or anything like that |
| 2 | He ca n't behave or think or speak or do anything else better than I can — nearly as well as I can — so he 's going to be the Old Man of the Sea until I shake him off somehow . |
| 3 | The message I draw from this is that the gay movement is not ultimately about the liberation of any particular sexuality but actually about the liberation of a whole set of relationships ; an affirmation of relationships which are sexual or non-sexual , relationships through which sexuality can be realized or transformed or denied or changed or just lived . |
| 4 | You must ensure that any loads carried or towed or secured and do check and see , do not overload your vehicle or trailer , when on a motor cycle , scooter or moped you must wear a safety helmet or designed which maybe fastened securely , you also must wear sturdy boots and gloves , tell other seen , wear something bright coloured or bright , reflect the material , open the door , brighten materials help in daylight as do and sheen . |
| 5 | And it bounced and bounced and bounced and I thought it was going on for ages but it did n't . |
| 6 | George had to coax and nag and beg and borrow and almost steal to get most of it ! |
| 7 | She rose and plunged and rolled and staggered and behaved generally in a most frisky fashion . |
| 8 | Well , he would just chop and chop and chop and chop |
| 9 | In a bedroom , its walls lined with posters of death and blue-eyed warriors , a hand begins to scratch and flick and swat and scratch and scratch . |
| 10 | It began to seem that the entire storehouse was made up of substances which looked harmless and beautiful on the surface , but which changed and blurred and coalesced as you approached them . |
| 11 | He used his hands flirtatiously , slowly , not flapping or pointing but caressing and floating , as if wiping his flat hand inches from the surface of a painting . |
| 12 | Talk , talk as though you can tell each other everything you 've ever done or seen or said or thought . |
| 13 | The kite just kept snapping and flapping and flapping and snapping and it hauled the girl off the earth and into the air , winch and all . |
| 14 | True , he had to make distracting , bread-winning forays away from it but then , with glad and hastening steps , he returned to the true centre of his life , the children whom he helped to feed and bath and dress and play with , even cook for , in domestic servantless days like these . |
| 15 | The playing throughout the evening was truly superb , every instrumentalist bowing and blowing and thumping as though for dear life . |
| 16 | The birds and it 's so peaceful , I mean you can go out the villa and walk and walk and walk and walk |
| 17 | Of what we 've done and seen and thought and read , |
| 18 | There was much pushing and shoving and shouting and waving as the passengers at last began to disembark . |
| 19 | People moved and pushed and laughed and shouted ; he was vaguely aware of them . |
| 20 | Cameron slept instantly , and woke and dreamed and woke and dreamed for hours — the river , the cold shock of the water between his legs , the glimmer of light on the far shore , the current filling his mouth , he swam against it , it helped him , he struck out as smoothly as a seal , skimming effortlessly , he could power onwards forever , the water buoying him , his hand stroking it easily backwards without a splash … |
| 21 | then going over this sea blue and I was , so beautiful , you know Catholic used to say , when you di died in paradise , always want to go up the somewhere else paradise and it 's in here and look what happened they ruin and ruin and ruin and so be |
| 22 | In a bedroom , its walls lined with posters of death and blue-eyed warriors , a hand begins to scratch and flick and swat and scratch and scratch . |
| 23 | The kite just kept snapping and flapping and flapping and snapping and it hauled the girl off the earth and into the air , winch and all . |
| 24 | I was rabbiting and rabbiting and rabbiting as we drank our tea . |
| 25 | And that started a landslide of children scrambling and shoving and pushing and pressing all round Miss Harker , almost knocking her over in their haste for a sweet or a pat on the head . |
| 26 | ‘ They were quite nice really , ’ she told her mother as they strolled and paused and looked and mused , ‘ but they were really good tennis players . |
| 27 | My dolls were never babies to be fed and bathed and kissed but the protagonists of enormous adventures . |
| 28 | I could swim and run and walk and fight . |
| 29 | She 's grown up in an atmosphere of decadence and disgustingness where her mother 's with her uncle and her uncle 's this lech , and people are being beheaded and crucified and tortured and murdered all around her . ’ |
| 30 | There they laboured and ate and prayed and slept and raised their kids , and treasured their stockpile of bolt guns and heavy stub weapons with which they must defend their domicile and livelihood against families not allied to them nor owing fealty to Lord Spinoza . |