Example sentences of "and [adj] [coord] [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 | She was feeling vulnerable and neglected , he was fun and rich and she clearly enjoyed his company . |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | They had experienced the uncertainties of the 1960s and 1970s and they now wanted stability . |
| 10 | She is an eagle of a special kind , strong and powerful and she still has enough power to put her strength in my wings . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The photograph he wanted was all crushed and curled but he soon healed it with a squeeze of his fist … |
| 14 | 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 ) . |
| 15 | And er until it became the time when the thing got smaller and smaller and we finally had to do away with that place . |
| 16 | He had n't come prepared , he was cold , wet and hungry and he just wanted to go home , go to sleep and forget about everything , hoping it will all have disappeared in the morning . |
| 17 | He told magistrates to Aztecs the dog is sacred and ceremonial and he simply did n't know he needed a licence . |
| 18 | After I had styled my hair it felt very soft and silky and it also seemed much thicker and more glossy . |
| 19 | It was very pleasant and peaceful and he almost forgot about the boy . |
| 20 | When newly formed along mid-oceanic ridges it is hot and thin and it probably has a slightly lower density . |
| 21 | So a third of this should be a hundred and twenty and we just measure that and see . |
| 22 | ‘ If he does n't eat he 'll just get thinner and thinner and who ever heard of a small , thin dinosaur ? ’ |
| 23 | She found him uncouth and dirty and he often smelt of abattoirs and of the chicken carcases or sides of beef he had been painting . |
| 24 | The air was rarefied and invigorating and one almost forgot the heat . |
| 25 | Every year when the mares come to stud , there are always a few who we initially think are quite sensible and intelligent but who then surprise us by behaving as if they are totally brainless ! |