Example sentences of "and [adj] [conj] [noun sg] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The boy — Anton knew him by sight but not his name — twitched and rolled and jerked and strained and foam bubbled from his mouth . |
| 2 | 2.3 In the case of deaths occurring before 1 January 1983 , damages recoverable under the 1934 Act include damages for pain and suffering and loss sustained by the deceased before his death , damages for loss of expectation of life , damages for loss of future earnings during the " lost years " and funeral expenses . |
| 3 | Title was acquired by terrestrial airline and used as inflight reading under editorship of William Davies . |
| 4 | As soon as the first ring sounded he knew she was not there , that the sound of the telephone was reverberating through empty rooms , as lost and desolate as wind crying across a salt marsh , as hopeless as he felt his own heart to be . |
| 5 | Then on the fifth day , mid-morning , a pool of light as pale and clear as moonstone appeared on the horizon . |
| 6 | ‘ And why ca n't you do gym today , Miss Isabella ? ’ said the teacher , her voice sweet and dangerous as honey spiked with arsenic . |
| 7 | Add the oil and ginger and stir fry for 10 seconds . |
| 8 | A sighted person can make predictions about the future course of tangible experience — falling over a precipice or hitting a wall — which to a blind man ‘ seem as strange and unaccountable as prophecy doth to others ’ . |
| 9 | Men , as he tried to pull himself to his feet , something big and heavy and square cannoned into him out of the dark and plunged off after the wizard . |
| 10 | Soon , my breasts are hard and lumpy and lactose dribbles from them . |
| 11 | ‘ Well , look what we have here ! ’ he said , his voice as cold and sharp as ice hanging from rock . |