Example sentences of "and [adj] [conj] [pron] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It all washed down and that and we never had any trouble . |
| 2 | I did go out with one of me mates once and he was going burgling and I needed to do one 'cos I had no money or nothing , strung out , and he went to the Old Hall Estate and broke into a house and I got in through the window with him and I just looked around and saw all these photographs of , y'know like , the family that lived there with the kids and that and I just got this horrible feeling , so I just got out the window and walked away , even though I was strung out and I did n't pick nothing up , I just left him to it ‘ cos , like , though all the burglaries I 'd done , they 'd all been shops . |
| 3 | His brother Carl , who also lives in Italy , said : ‘ We are all shocked and upset but we just hope nothing precious has been stolen . |
| 4 | In fact it is so fluent , precise and subtle that we often fail to notice it . |
| 5 | Once the winter rains have passed , Delhi experiences two months of weather so perfect and blissful that they almost compensate for the climatic extremes of the other ten months of the year . |
| 6 | She was feeling vulnerable and neglected , he was fun and rich and she clearly enjoyed his company . |
| 7 | He was so big and strong that I always felt hopelessly trapped in that chair with his bulk over me and the wheel grinding and the pedal thumping . |
| 8 | He obtained 103,244 votes ( 55.08 per cent ) in the second round , against 84,178 votes ( almost 45 per cent ) for Mohammed Taki , who had been Speaker of the National Assembly between 1980 and 1985 but who now represented the Union nationale pour la démocratie aux Comores ( UNDC ) . |
| 9 | The tow rope snapped twice on the way and was getting shorter and shorter before we eventually got to Darlington . |
| 10 | How the whole process is cheaper and easier than your probably imagine , and with our state of the art equipment there 'll be no danger of having to replace it in years to come . |
| 11 | She , the guide , may seem to be several steps removed from the hurly-burly of normal life , living in another dimension , having a clearer vision of past and future than we normally attain . |
| 12 | ‘ I do n't know if it should be that important if everything we do is based on good sound scientific principles , because if people perhaps in the same industry are situated in different places in the estuary , y'know , if one was to point the finger at the other and say ‘ But you allow him to discharge such and such and you only let us do this ’ , then we should be able to turn round and say , ‘ Ah yes , but you 're discharging in a different place and the river quality in this different place needs different treatment . ’ |
| 13 | By the time the first sharp feelings of his loss had begun to wear off - it would be very many years before all of it did so , and arguable that it ever did — other voices were beckoning . |
| 14 | This signal is so established and conventional that it hardly has to be noticed . |
| 15 | He was so tall and masculine that he probably went for the dainty feminine types . |
| 16 | And these because you always wanted to be able to adapt rooms for different purposes and this folded back against the wall . |
| 17 | The result looks unstable and inelegant but it greatly increases the chance of the arrangement satisfying one of the two top priorities : that the tip of the peg should make contact with the socket . |
| 18 | Today it is modern and comfortable whilst it still retains an ‘ old world ’ character . |
| 19 | The movie progresses in nine yearly stages from 1981 through to 1989 , with AIDS gradually looming larger and larger until it finally seems to dominate everything else . |
| 20 | During the Sixties and Seventies the systems gradually improved , the computer parts got more powerful and cheaper and it even became possible to get some sort of an idea as to what the page might look like . |
| 21 | They had experienced the uncertainties of the 1960s and 1970s and they now wanted stability . |
| 22 | She is an eagle of a special kind , strong and powerful and she still has enough power to put her strength in my wings . |
| 23 | The Scottish Borders Enterprise chief executive , David Douglas , said : ‘ There were an estimated 1,000 redundancies in Hawick during 1991 and 1992 and we certainly have not had 1,000 new jobs to replace them . |
| 24 | As authorities in Spain and Kuwait try to unravel how billions of dollars slipped through the fingers of the Kuwait Investment Office ( KIO ) , the foreign-investment arm of the Kuwaiti government , they claim to have exposed dealings as murky and complex as anything now pinned on 1991 's most notorious crooks . |
| 25 | In the result I have not been persuaded that any doubt has been cast upon principles which are soundly directed as being both desirable and reasonable and which furthermore have for long been firmly established by authority . |
| 26 | Yes , yes , but erm , you know , I have had to say to the chaps , one of them came in and he said he 'd been spoiled down at the cedar and I said oh well , I , I 've been cooking a breakfast for Neil of course by the operation of sods law , Neil suddenly goes off the idea of having breakfast , so I find myself cooking breakfast for this other lump , who is as idol and selfish as anybody ever met in all the born days , and I said to him just recently , I said , I , I ca n't get up and do breakfast 's in the morning any more , well he says he come 's down and does he 's own , you see they can when they feel that they want too . |
| 27 | I thought he looked so lost and unhappy that I just wanted to comfort him at first , and Chris says he just thought I was kind . |
| 28 | The photograph he wanted was all crushed and curled but he soon healed it with a squeeze of his fist … |
| 29 | ‘ You can learn all the moves and practise until you 're silly , ’ he warns , ‘ but in the end you need to put those moves together in a manner that is more efficient and effective than anybody else has done before . ’ |
| 30 | The machair landforms have been described by Mather and Ritchie ( 1977 ) and Ritchie ( 1979 ) as hilly , hillocky , undulating and plain and they also state that 87 per cent lie below 50 metres and 18 per cent below 10 metres O.D. Gneiss hills with smooth slopes facing the prevailing winds occur in some localities and blown sand has accumulated up to 100 metres on Eoligarry Hill ( Barra ) and to 150 metres on Pabbay ( Sound of Harris ) . |